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56
Citations
11147
World Ranking
2850
National Ranking
323

Overview

James W. Pearce-Higgins is affiliated with the British Trust for Ornithology in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on ecology and related subfields. These subfields include ecology, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics.

Their main research topics cover a range of ecological and environmental themes such as species distribution and climate change, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, avian ecology and behavior, fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, and plant and animal studies.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Disentangling the relative roles of climate and land cover change in driving the long-term population trends of European migratory birds (2020, Diversity and Distributions)
  • A framework for climate change adaptation indicators for the natural environment (2022, Ecological Indicators)
  • Landscape fires disproportionally affect high conservation value temperate peatlands, meadows, and deciduous forests, but only under low moisture conditions (2023, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Multi-taxa spatial conservation planning reveals similar priorities between taxa and improved protected area representation with climate change (2022, Biodiversity and Conservation)

Pearce-Higgins frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Philip W. Atkinson, Stephen R. Baillie, Stephen G. Willis, Dario Massimino, and Christine Howard.

The scholar regularly publishes in venues such as Bird Study, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biological Conservation, Ibis, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Best Publications

  • Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels

    Stephen J. Thackeray;Peter A. Henrys;Deborah Hemming;James R. Bell

  • Climate change vulnerability assessment of species

    Wendy B. Foden;Wendy B. Foden;Bruce E. Young;Bruce E. Young;H. Resit Akçakaya;H. Resit Akçakaya;Raquel A. Garcia;Raquel A. Garcia

  • Mechanisms underpinning climatic impacts on natural populations: altered species interactions are more important than direct effects.

    Nancy Ockendon;David J. Baker;David J. Baker;Jamie A. Carr;Elizabeth C. White

  • The distribution of breeding birds around upland wind farms

    James W. Pearce-Higgins;Leigh Stephen;Rowena H. W. Langston;Ian P. Bainbridge;Ian P. Bainbridge

  • Protected areas facilitate species’ range expansions

    Chris D. Thomas;Phillipa K. Gillingham;Richard B. Bradbury;David B. Roy

  • Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment

    Chris B. Thaxter;Graeme M. Buchanan;Jamie Carr;Stuart H. M. Butchart;Stuart H. M. Butchart

  • Drivers of climate change impacts on bird communities.

    James W. Pearce-Higgins;Sarah M. Eglington;Blaise Martay;Dan E. Chamberlain

  • Greater impacts of wind farms on bird populations during construction than subsequent operation: results of a multi-site and multi-species analysis

    James W. Pearce-Higgins;Leigh Stephen;Andy Douse;Rowena H. W. Langston

  • Improving species distribution models: the value of data on abundance

    Christine Howard;Philip A. Stephens;James W. Pearce‐Higgins;Richard D. Gregory

  • Population decline is linked to migration route in the Common Cuckoo.

    Chris M. Hewson;Kasper Thorup;James W. Pearce-Higgins;Philip W. Atkinson

  • Birds and Climate Change: Impacts and Conservation Responses

    James W. Pearce-Higgins;Rhys E. Green

  • More and more generalists: two decades of changes in the European avifauna.

    Isabelle Le Viol;Frédéric Jiguet;Lluis Brotons;Sergi Herrando

  • Observed and predicted effects of climate change on species abundance in protected areas

    Alison Johnston;Malcolm Ausden;Andrew M. Dodd;Richard B. Bradbury

  • Impacts of climate on prey abundance account for fluctuations in a population of a northern wader at the southern edge of its range

    James W. Pearce-Higgins;Peter Dennis;Mark J. Whittingham;Derek W. Yalden

  • Measuring the success of climate change adaptation and mitigation in terrestrial ecosystems

    Michael D. Morecroft;Michael D. Morecroft;Simon Duffield;Mike Harley;James W. Pearce-Higgins;James W. Pearce-Higgins

  • Map of bird sensitivities to wind farms in Scotland: A tool to aid planning and conservation

    Jenny Bright;Rowena Langston;Rhys Bullman;Richard Evans

  • Disentangling the Relative Importance of Changes in Climate and Land-Use Intensity in Driving Recent Bird Population Trends

    Sarah M. Eglington;James W. Pearce-Higgins

  • A 2017 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity

    William J. Sutherland;Phoebe Barnard;Steven Broad;Mick Clout

  • The effect of recreational disturbance on an upland breeding bird, the golden plover Pluvialis apricaria

    S.K Finney;J.W Pearce-Higgins;D.W Yalden

  • A 2018 Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biological Diversity.

    William J. Sutherland;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Stuart H.M. Butchart;Ben Connor;Caroline Culshaw

  • Warmer springs advance the breeding phenology of golden plovers Pluvialis apricaria and their prey (Tipulidae)

    J. W. Pearce-Higgins;D. W. Yalden;M. J. Whittingham

  • Relationships between bird abundance and the composition and structure of moorland vegetation

    James W. Pearce-Higgins;Murray C. Grant

Frequent Co-Authors

Rhys E. Green
Rhys E. Green University of Cambridge
Richard B. Bradbury
Richard B. Bradbury University of Cambridge
Alison Johnston
Alison Johnston Cornell University
Chris D. Thomas
Chris D. Thomas University of York
Stuart E. Newson
Stuart E. Newson British Trust for Ornithology
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Tom Brereton
Tom Brereton Butterfly Conservation
Michael D. Morecroft
Michael D. Morecroft Natural England
Colin M. Beale
Colin M. Beale University of York
Graeme M. Buchanan
Graeme M. Buchanan Cambridge Conservation Initative

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