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Ecology and Conservation Studies Society, Birkbeck Free Lecture series
Spring 2017: six Friday evenings, 10th February to 17th March, 18:30 to 20:00.
Birkbeck, University of London, venue to be confirmed:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/geds/our-research/ecss/free-public-lectures.
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Assessment for Further Onshore Oil and Gas Licensing, Environmental Report.
Department of Energy & Climate Change.
Batic, F. (2002) Bioindication of sulphur dioxide pollution with lichens. In Kranner,
I.C. et al. (eds) protocols in lichenology. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Bellamy, P.E. et al. (2009) The impact of growing miscanthus for biomass on
farmland bird populations. Biomass and Bioenergy 33:163-336.
Bignal, K.L., Ashmore, M.R. & Power, S.A. 2004. The ecological effects of diffuse air
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Boldogh, S. et al. (2007) The effects of the illumination of buildings on housedwelling bats and its conservation consequences. Acta Chiropterologica, 9(2):527–
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Bradbury, R.B. et al. (2011) The influence of climate and topography in patterns of
territory establishment in a range-expanding bird. Ibis 153(2), 336–344.
Carroll, M.J. et al. (2015) Effects of sea temperature and stratification changes on
seabird breeding success. Climate Research 66, 75–89.
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Delebarre, J., Ares, E. & Smith, L. (2017) Shale gas and fracking. House of
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Deryabina, T.G., Kuchmel, S.V.1, Nagorskaya, L.L., Hinton, T.G., Beasley J.C.,
Lerebours, A. & Smith, J.T. (2014) Long-term census data reveal abundant wildlife
populations at Chernobyl. Current Biology 25, R811—R826.
Dierschke, V., Furness, R.W. & Garthe, S. (2016) Seabirds and offshore wind farms
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Drewitt, A.L. & Langston, R.H.W. (2008) Collision Effects of Wind-power Generators
and Other Obstacles on Birds. Annals of New York Academy of Sciences
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Dyer, R.J. et al. (2016) Developing a biodiversity-based indicator for large-scale
environmental assessment: a case study of proposed shale gas extraction sites in
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climate change and fishing over a century-long scale. Global Change Biology 16:
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Hawkins, S.J., Gibbs, P.E., Pope, N.D., Burt, G.R., Chesman, B.S., Bray, S., Proud,
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Hawksworth, D.L. & McManus, P.M. (1989) Lichen recolonization in London under
conditions of rapidly falling sulphur dioxide levels, and the concept of zone skipping.
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Farms on Breeding and Wintering Hen Harriers. Draft Report to Scottish Natural
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Heinrich, G. & Remele, K. (2002) Biomonitoring radionuclide deposition with lichens.
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Howard, D.C., Wadsworth, R.A., Whitaker, J.W., Hughes, N. & Bunce, R.G.H.
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Howarth, R.W., Santoro, R. & Ingraffea, A. (2011) Methane and the greenhouse-gas
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Kendall, M.A. et al. (2004) Prediction the effects of marine climate change on the
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LaGreca, S. & Stutzman, B. W. (2006) Distribution and ecology of Lecanora
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Langston, R.H.W. (2013) Birds and wind projects across the pond: A UK
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Magain et al. (2014). Further photomorphs in the lichen family Lobariaceae from
Reunion (Mascarene archipelago) with notes on the phylogeny of Dendriscocaulon
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McGlade, C. & Ekins, P. (2015) The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused
when limiting global warming to 2 °C. Nature 517:187-190.
Mieszkowska, N., Burrows M., Pannacciulli, F. & Hawkins, S.J. (2014) Multidecadal
signals within co-occuring intertidal barnacles Semibalanus balanoides and
Chthamalus spp. linked to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. Journal of Marine
Systems 133: 70-76.
Mieszkowska, N., Sugden, H. Firth, L. & Hawkins, S.J. (2014) The role of sustained
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Moore, V. et. al. (2014) Hydraulic fracturing for shale gas in the UK: Examining the
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Myers, R.A. & Worm, B. (2003) Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish
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Norton, L. R.; Maskell, L. C.; Smart, S. S.; Dunbar, M. J.; Emmett, B. A.; Carey, P.
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Measuring stock and change in the GB countryside for policy : key findings and
developments from the Countryside Survey 2007 field survey. Journal of
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Oliver, T. et al. (2015) Interacting effects of climate change and habitat
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Sansom, A., Pearce-Higgins, J.W. & Douglas, D.J.T. (2016) Negative impact of wind
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