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Overview

Will Cresswell is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular focus on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Developmental Biology.

The researcher's work explores several main topics, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Avian Ecology and Behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Plant and Animal Studies

Notable recent papers authored by Will Cresswell include:

  • Training future generations to deliver evidence-based conservation and ecosystem management, 2021, Ecological Solutions and Evidence
  • Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems, 2023, Nature Communications
  • The conservation of Afro-Palaearctic migrants: What we are learning and what we need to know?, 2023, Ibis
  • Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Pest-removal services provided by birds on subsistence farms in south-eastern Nigeria, 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Will Cresswell include:

  • Robert Patchett
  • Patrick Styles
  • Joanna Robins King
  • Bukola D. A. Braimoh-Azaki
  • Alexander N. G. Kirschel

The researcher has published regularly in several academic venues, with notable frequent publication outlets being:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal für Ornithologie
  • Journal of Avian Biology
  • Ibis
  • Ostrich

Best Publications

  • Flocking is an effective anti-predation strategy in redshanks, Tringa totanus

    Will Cresswell

  • Non‐lethal effects of predation in birds

    Will Cresswell

  • Determining the fitness consequences of antipredation behavior

    Johan Lind;Will Cresswell

  • Predation in bird populations

    Will Cresswell

  • The phenology mismatch hypothesis: are declines of migrant birds linked to uneven global climate change?

    Tim Jones;Will Cresswell

  • Noise, predation risk compensation and vigilance in the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

    John L. Quinn;Mark J. Whittingham;Simon J. Butler;Will Cresswell

  • How great tits maintain synchronization of their hatch date with food supply in response to long-term variability in temperature

    Will Cresswell;Robin Mccleery

  • Age-Dependent Choice of Redshank (Tringa totanus) Feeding Location: Profitability or Risk?

    Will Cresswell

  • Personality, anti-predation behaviour and behavioural plasticity in the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs

    John L. Quinn;Will Cresswell

  • Nest predation: the relative effects of nest characteristics, clutch size and parental behaviour ☆

    Will Cresswell

  • Migratory connectivity of Palaearctic–African migratory birds and their responses to environmental change: the serial residency hypothesis

    Will Cresswell

  • Predator hunting behaviour and prey vulnerability

    J. L. Quinn;Will Cresswell

  • Low migratory connectivity is common in long-distance migrant birds.

    Tom Finch;Simon J. Butler;Aldina M. A. Franco;Will Cresswell

  • The effect of limited visibility on vigilance behaviour and speed of predator detection: implications for the conservation of granivorous passerines

    M.J. Whittingham;Simon James Butler;J.L. Quinn;W. Cresswell

  • Surprise as a winter hunting strategy in Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus, Peregrines Falco peregrinus and Merlins F. columbarius

    Will Cresswell

  • Intraflock variation in the speed of escape-flight response on attack by an avian predator

    Geoff M. Hilton;Will Cresswell;Graeme D. Ruxton

  • Song as a pursuit-deterrent signal, and its occurrence relative to other anti-predation behaviours of skylark (Alauda arvensis) on attack by merlins (Falco columbarius)

    Will Cresswell

  • Personality predicts individual responsiveness to the risks of starvation and predation

    J. L. Quinn;E. F. Cole;J. Bates;R. W. Payne

  • Escape responses by redshanks, Tringa totanus, on attack by avian predators

    Will Cresswell

  • Choice of Foraging Area with Respect to Predation Risk in Redshanks: The Effects of Weather and Predator Activity

    Geoff M. Hilton;Graeme D. Ruxton;Will Cresswell

  • The effects of raptor predation on wintering wader populations at the Tyningharne estuary, southeast Scotland

    Will Cresswell;D. Philip Whitfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark J. Whittingham
Mark J. Whittingham Newcastle University
Graeme D. Ruxton
Graeme D. Ruxton University of St Andrews
B. Irene Tieleman
B. Irene Tieleman University of Groningen
Jane M. Reid
Jane M. Reid University of Aberdeen
Juliet A. Vickery
Juliet A. Vickery Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Christoph F. J. Meyer
Christoph F. J. Meyer University of Salford
Christopher M. Perrins
Christopher M. Perrins University of Oxford
Nick Hanley
Nick Hanley University of Glasgow
Ioan Fazey
Ioan Fazey University of York
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge

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