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Overview

Stuart E. Newson is a researcher affiliated with the British Trust for Ornithology in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant concentration in ecology and related subfields.

Newson's research spans several subfields, including ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, developmental biology, ecological modeling, and signal processing. Their contributions cover a wide range of topics related to wildlife and environmental interactions.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Music and Audio Processing

Newson has published scientific articles in several respected journals, including Forest Ecology and Management, Nature Communications, Journal of Applied Ecology, Landscape and Urban Planning, and Ecological Informatics. The publications provide insights into their research interests with specific emphasis on wildlife ecology and conservation.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Newson include:

  • Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Variation in abundances of common bird species associated with roads, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Irregular silviculture positively influences multiple bat species in a lowland temperate broadleaf woodland, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Can citizen science provide a solution for bat friendly planning?, 2022, Landscape and Urban Planning
  • Improving acoustic species identification using data augmentation within a deep learning framework, 2024, Ecological Informatics

Among frequent collaborators, Newson has worked with several researchers multiple times, including Sophia C. Cooke, Andrew Balmford, Paul F. Donald, Alison Johnston, and Daniel Alder.

Best Publications

  • Habitat influences on urban avian assemblages

    Karl L. Evans;Stuart E. Newson;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Climate envelope, life history traits and the resilience of birds facing global change

    Frédéric Jiguet;Anne-Sophie Gadot;Romain Julliard;Stuart E. Newson;Stuart E. Newson

  • Bat detective—Deep learning tools for bat acoustic signal detection

    Oisin Mac Aodha;Rory Gibb;Kate E. Barlow;Ella Browning;Ella Browning

  • Avian assemblage structure and domestic cat densities in urban environments

    Victoria Sims;Karl L. Evans;Stuart E. Newson;Jamie A. Tratalos

  • Rise of the generalists: evidence for climate driven homogenization in avian communities

    Catherine M. Davey;Dan E. Chamberlain;Stuart E. Newson;David G. Noble

  • Bird densities are associated with household densities

    Jamie Tratalos;Richard A. Fuller;Karl L. Evans;Richard G. Davies

  • Thermal range predicts bird population resilience to extreme high temperatures

    Frédéric Jiguet;Romain Julliard;Chris D. Thomas;Olivier Dehorter

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

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

  • Winter availability of cereal stubbles attracts declining farmland birds and positively influences breeding population trends

    Simon Gillings;Stuart E Newson;David G Noble;Juliet A Vickery

  • Eye size in birds and the timing of song at dawn

    Robert J Thomas;Tamás Székely;Innes C Cuthill;David G C Harper

  • Population estimates of birds in Great Britain and the United Kingdom

    Andy Musgrove;Nicholas Aebischer;Mark Eaton;Richard Hearn

  • Indicators of the impact of climate change on migratory species

    Stuart E. Newson;Sonia Mendes;Humphrey Q. P. Crick;Nicholas K. Dulvy

  • Use of distance sampling to improve estimates of national population sizes for common and widespread breeding birds in the UK

    Stuart E. Newson;Karl L. Evans;David G. Noble;Jeremy J. D. Greenwood

  • Evaluating the Breeding Bird Survey for producing national population size and density estimates

    Stuart E. Newson;Rick J.W. Woodburn;David G. Noble;Stephen R. Baillie

  • Modelling changes in species’ abundance in response to projected climate change

    Anna R. Renwick;Dario Massimino;Stuart E. Newson;Dan E. Chamberlain

  • Long-term changes in the migration phenology of UK breeding birds detected by large-scale citizen science recording schemes

    Stuart E. Newson;Nick J. Moran;Andy J. Musgrove;James W. Pearce-Higgins

  • Modelling population changes using data from different surveys: the Common Birds Census and the Breeding Bird Survey

    Stephen N. Freeman;David G. Noble;Stuart E. Newson;Stephen R. Baillie

  • The geometric mean of relative abundance indices : a biodiversity measure with a difference

    Stephen Terrence Buckland;Angelika Caroline Studeny;Anne Magurran;Janine Baerbel Illian

  • A novel citizen science approach for large-scale standardised monitoring of bat activity and distribution, evaluated in eastern England

    Stuart E. Newson;Hazel E. Evans;Simon Gillings

  • Modelling large‐scale relationships between changes in woodland deer and bird populations

    Stuart E. Newson;Alison Johnston;Anna R. Renwick;Stephen R. Baillie

  • Species traits explain variation in detectability of UK birds

    Alison Johnston;Stuart E. Newson;Kate Risely;Andy J. Musgrove

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison Johnston
Alison Johnston Cornell University
David G. Noble
David G. Noble British Trust for Ornithology
James W. Pearce-Higgins
James W. Pearce-Higgins British Trust for Ornithology
Simon Gillings
Simon Gillings British Trust for Ornithology
Stephen R. Baillie
Stephen R. Baillie British Trust for Ornithology
Paul F. Donald
Paul F. Donald University of Cambridge
Dan E. Chamberlain
Dan E. Chamberlain University of Turin
Kevin J. Gaston
Kevin J. Gaston University of Exeter
Karl L. Evans
Karl L. Evans University of Sheffield
Stephen T. Buckland
Stephen T. Buckland University of St Andrews

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