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Richard B. Bradbury is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in global and planetary change, ecology, economics and econometrics, management, monitoring, policy and law, and social psychology.

Bradbury's scholarly contributions address a variety of topics within environmental science, including economic and environmental valuation, environmental education and sustainability, animal and plant science education, forest management and policy, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, land use and ecosystem services, and behavioral health and interventions.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Bradbury are:

  • Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • The potential contribution of terrestrial nature-based solutions to a national 'net zero' climate target, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • The economic consequences of conserving or restoring sites for nature, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • The relative importance of COVID-19 pandemic impacts on biodiversity conservation globally, 2021, Conservation Biology

Bradbury frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Rob H. Field, Tom Finch, Rosie Trevelyan, Andrew Balmford, and Graeme M. Buchanan.

Research work by Bradbury has appeared repeatedly in journals such as Biological Conservation and Conservation Biology, with additional publications in Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Nature Sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Why do we still use stepwise modelling in ecology and behaviour

    Mark J. Whittingham;Philip A. Stephens;Richard B. Bradbury;Robert P. Freckleton

  • The second Silent Spring

    John R. Krebs;Jeremy D. Wilson;Richard B. Bradbury;Gavin M. Siriwardena

  • A review of the abundance and diversity of invertebrate and plant foods of granivorous birds in northern europe in relation to agricultural change

    Jeremy D Wilson;Jeremy D Wilson;Antony J Morris;Beatriz E Arroyo;Stéphanie C Clark

  • The role of agri-environment schemes and farm management practices in reversing the decline of farmland birds in England

    Juliet A Vickery;Richard B Bradbury;Ian G Henderson;Mark A Eaton

  • UK National Ecosystem Assessment:understanding nature's value to society. Synthesis of key findings

    R. Watson;S. Albon;R. Aspinall;M. Austen

  • 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 selection of stubble fields by wintering granivorous birds reflects vegetation cover and food abundance

    D. Moorcroft;D. Moorcroft;M. J. Whittingham;R. B. Bradbury;R. B. Bradbury;J. D. Wilson;J. D. Wilson

  • UK National Ecosystem Assessment:Technical report

    R Watson;S Albon;R Aspinall;M Austen

  • The management of crop structure: a general approach to reversing the impacts of agricultural intensification on birds?

    Jeremy D. Wilson;Mark J. Whittingham;Richard B. Bradbury

  • Protected areas facilitate species’ range expansions

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

  • TESSA: A toolkit for rapid assessment of ecosystem services at sites of biodiversity conservation importance

    Kelvin S.-H. Peh;Andrew Balmford;Richard B. Bradbury;Claire Brown

  • Modelling relationships between birds and vegetation structure using airborne LiDAR data: a review with case studies from agricultural and woodland environments

    Richard B. Bradbury;Ross A. Hill;David C. Mason;Shelley A. Hinsley

  • Habitat associations and breeding success of yellowhammers on lowland farmland.

    Richard B. Bradbury;Antonios Kyrkos;Antony J. Morris;Stéphanie C. Clark

  • Brain size and resource specialization predict long-term population trends in British birds

    Susanne Shultz;Richard B. Bradbury;Karl L. Evans;Richard D. Gregory

  • Habitat characteristics affecting use of lowland agricultural grassland by birds in winter

    Allan J Perkins;Mark J Whittingham;Richard B Bradbury;Jeremy D Wilson;Jeremy D Wilson

  • Widespread local house-sparrow extinctions

    David G. Hole;Mark J. Whittingham;Richard B. Bradbury;Guy Q. A. Anderson

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

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

  • Diet, maternal condition, and offspring sex ratio in the zebra finch, Poephila guttata.

    R. B. Bradbury;J. K. Blakey

  • Seeing Community for the Trees: The Links among Contact with Natural Environments, Community Cohesion, and Crime

    Netta Weinstein;Andrew Balmford;Cody R. DeHaan;Valerie Gladwell

  • A framework for assessing threats and benefits to species responding to climate change

    Chris D. Thomas;Jane K. Hill;Barbara J. Anderson;Sallie Bailey

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy D. Wilson
Jeremy D. Wilson Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Mark J. Whittingham
Mark J. Whittingham Newcastle University
Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford University of Cambridge
James W. Pearce-Higgins
James W. Pearce-Higgins British Trust for Ornithology
Kelvin S.-H. Peh
Kelvin S.-H. Peh University of Southampton
Chris D. Thomas
Chris D. Thomas University of York
Stuart H. M. Butchart
Stuart H. M. Butchart BirdLife international, UK
Matt Walpole
Matt Walpole Cambridge Conservation Initative
Tom H. Oliver
Tom H. Oliver University of Reading
James M. Bullock
James M. Bullock UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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