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James M. Bullock is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in subfields including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecological modeling, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

Their publication record features frequent contributions to journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Landscape Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Science Advances.

Main research topics covered by Bullock include land use and ecosystem services, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, plant and animal studies, urban green space and health, and environmental philosophy and ethics.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Bullock illustrate the thematic range and venues of their work:

  • Combatting global grassland degradation (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people (2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)
  • Spatial variation in biodiversity loss across China under multiple environmental stressors (2020, Science Advances)
  • Enhancing road verges to aid pollinator conservation: A review (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity (2023, Nature Sustainability)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bullock include Richard F. Pywell, John W. Redhead, Felix Eigenbrod, Danny A. P. Hooftman, and Lucy E. Ridding.

Best Publications

  • Enhancement of biodiversity and ecosystem services by ecological restoration: a meta-analysis.

    José M. Rey Benayas;Adrian C. Newton;Anita Diaz;James M. Bullock

  • Biodiversity and resilience of ecosystem functions

    Tom H. Oliver;Matthew S. Heard;Nick J.B. Isaac;David B. Roy

  • Costs of dispersal

    Dries Bonte;Hans Van Dyck;James M Bullock;Aurélie Coulon

  • Combatting global grassland degradation.

    Richard D. Bardgett;James M. Bullock;Sandra Lavorel;Peter Manning

  • Restoration of ecosystem services and biodiversity: conflicts and opportunities

    James M. Bullock;James Aronson;James Aronson;Adrian C. Newton;Richard F. Pywell

  • Dispersal Ecology and Evolution

    Jean Clobert;Michel Baguette;Tim G. Benton;James M. Bullock

  • Grasslands—more important for ecosystem services than you might think

    J. Bengtsson;J. Bengtsson;J. M. Bullock;B. Egoh;B. Egoh;C. Everson

  • Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees.

    B. A. Woodcock;J. M. Bullock;R. F. Shore;M. S. Heard

  • The impacts of non-native species on UK biodiversity and the effectiveness of control.

    Sarah J. Manchester;James M. Bullock

  • Plant traits as predictors of performance in ecological restoration

    Richard F. Pywell;James M. Bullock;David B. Roy;Liz Warman

  • Rewilding complex ecosystems.

    Andrea Perino;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Laetitia M. Navarro;Néstor Fernández

  • Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England.

    Ben A. Woodcock;Nicholas J. B. Isaac;James M. Bullock;David B. Roy

  • Restoration of species‐rich grassland on arable land: assessing the limiting processes using a multi‐site experiment

    Richard F. Pywell;James M. Bullock;Alan Hopkins;Kevin J. Walker

  • Long distance seed dispersal by wind: measuring and modelling the tail of the curve.

    James M. Bullock;Ralph T. Clarke

  • Dispersal and species’ responses to climate change

    Justin M. J. Travis;Maria del Mar Delgado;Greta Bocedi;Michel Baguette

  • Creating woodland islets to reconcile ecological restoration, conservation, and agricultural land use

    José María Rey Benayas;James M. Bullock;Adrian C. Newton

  • Wildlife-friendly farming increases crop yield: evidence for ecological intensification.

    Richard F. Pywell;Matthew S. Heard;Ben A. Woodcock;Shelley Hinsley

  • Declining resilience of ecosystem functions under biodiversity loss

    Tom H. Oliver;Nick J. B. Isaac;Tom A. August;Ben A. Woodcock

  • Empirical validation of the InVEST water yield ecosystem service model at a national scale

    J.W. Redhead;C. Stratford;K. Sharps;L. Jones

  • Restoration of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services on Agricultural Land

    José María Rey Benayas;James M. Bullock

  • Nitrogen deposition causes widespread loss of species richness in British habitats

    Lindsay C. Maskell;Simon M. Smart;James M. Bullock;Ken Thompson

  • GLIM for Ecologists.

    James Bullock;Michael J. Crawley

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard F. Pywell
Richard F. Pywell Natural Environment Research Council
Adrian C. Newton
Adrian C. Newton James Hutton Institute
Ben A. Woodcock
Ben A. Woodcock UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Matthew S. Heard
Matthew S. Heard Rothamsted Research
Kevin J. Walker
Kevin J. Walker Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
Richard B. Bradbury
Richard B. Bradbury University of Cambridge
Tom H. Oliver
Tom H. Oliver University of Reading
Juliet L. Osborne
Juliet L. Osborne University of Exeter
Felix Eigenbrod
Felix Eigenbrod University of Southampton
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University

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