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NBN Atlas Citations

2023

Briggs, J. (2023). Freshwater sponges: our native species and their inhabitants. British Wildlife, 35.2, 105-114. https://www.britishwildlife.com/article/article-volume-35-number-2-page-105-114/

Data Study Group Team. (2023). Data Study Group Final Report: National Biodiversity Network Trust – Spatiotemporal analysis of priority species records across England (Version 1). The Alan Turing Institute. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10063986

Madden, J.R., Buckley, R., Ratcliffe, S. (2023). Large‐scale correlations between gamebird release and management and animal biodiversity metrics in lowland Great Britain. Ecology and Evolution.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10059

Lim, D.Y.H., Starnes, T., Plumptre, A.J. (2023). Global priorities for biodiversity conservation in the United Kingdom. Biological Conservation, Volume 277, 109798. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109798

2022

Brocklehurst, S. (2022). An investigation into the relationship between urbanisation and the species richness of vascular plants in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. A report for the examined component of the Project Module SXE390-22B, BSc Open (Environmental Science), the Open University, UK. https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.00015115

Pakeman, R.J., O’Brien, D., Genney, D. & Brooker, R.W. (2022). Identifying drivers of change in bryophyte and lichen species occupancy in Scotland. Ecological Indicators 139.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108889

Balfour, N.J., Castellanos, M.C., Goulson, D., Philippides, A., & Johnson, C. (2022) DoPI: The Database of Pollinator Interactions. Ecology e3801. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3801

2021

Allain, S.J. & Lynn, V. (2021). Distribution of the alpine newt Ichthyosaura alpestris in Great Britain updated using social media. The Herpetological Bulletin 158, 28-31 https://doi.org/10.33256/hb158.2831

Esh, M., Oxbrough, A. (2021). Macrohabitat associations and phenology of carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae, Leiodidae: Cholevinae). J Insect Conserv 25, 123–136 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-020-00278-4

Edwards, T., Jones, C.B., Perkins, S.E., Corcoran, P. (2021). Passive citizen science: The role of social media in wildlife observations, PLoS ONE, 16, 8 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255416

Kent, E., Schwartz, A., Perkins, S. (2021). Life in the fast lane: roadkill risk along an urban–rural gradient, Journal of Urban Ecology, 7, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juaa039

Rodríguez-Rey, M., Consuegra, S., Börger, L. et al. Boat ramps facilitate the dispersal of the highly invasive zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha). Biol Invasions 23, 1487–1496 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02453-9

Leivesley, J.A., Stewart, R.A., Paterson, V. et al. (2021). Potential importance of urban areas for water voles: Arvicola amphibius. Eur J Wildl Res 67, 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-021-01467-5

Falk, S. (2021). A review of the pollinators associated with decaying wood, old trees and tree wounds in Great Britain. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31078.14408

2020

Harrington, L.A., Birks, J., Chanin, P. and Tansley, D. (2020), Current status of American mink Neovison vison in Great Britain: a review of the evidence for a population decline. Mam Rev, 50: 157-169. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12184

Raye, L. (2020) ‘The wild plants of Scotia Illustrata (1684)’, British and Irish Botany, 2(3), pp. 240–258. https://doi.org/10.33928/bib.2020.02.240

Brighton, P. (2020). The Diptera of Lancashire and Cheshire: Muscoidea, Part I. https://www.northwestinvertebrates.org.uk/document/the-diptera-of-lancashire-and-cheshire-muscoidea-part-i/

Heald, O.J.N., Fraticelli, C., Cox, S.E., Stevens, M.C.A., Faulkner, S.C., Blackburn, T.M. and Le Comber, S.C. (2020), Understanding the origins of the ring?necked parakeet in the UK. J Zool, 312: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12753

Patterson, C., Slater, M., Early, R. et al. The status of Clibanarius erythropus after a recent range expansion to Great Britain, with the highest latitude recording of a gravid individual. Mar Biodivers Rec 13, 3 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-020-00186-1

Petrovan, S.O., Vale, C.G. & Sillero, N. Using citizen science in road surveys for large-scale amphibian monitoring: are biased data representative for species distribution?. Biodivers Conserv 29, 1767–1781 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-01956-0

Harrington, L.A., Birks, J., Chanin, P. and Tansley, D. (2020), Current status of American mink Neovison vison in Great Britain: a review of the evidence for a population decline. Mam Rev, 50: 157-169. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12184

English, HM, Caravaggi, A. (2020) Where’s wallaby? Using public records and media reports to describe the status of red?necked wallabies in Britain. Ecol Evol; 10: 12949– 12959. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6877

Duchenne, F., Thébault, E., Michez, D. et al. (2020). Phenological shifts alter the seasonal structure of pollinator assemblages in Europe. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 115–121. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1062-4

2019

Chetcuti, J., Kunin, W.E. and Bullock, J.M. (2019), A weighting method to improve habitat association analysis: tested on British carabids. Ecography, 42: 1395-1404. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04295

Baker, E., Jeger, M.J., Mumford, J.D. et al. Enhancing plant biosecurity with citizen science monitoring: comparing methodologies using reports of acute oak decline. J Geogr Syst 21, 111–131 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10109-018-0285-2

Legg, G. (2019). Changes in the British pseudoscorpion fauna over the last 50 years. Arachnology. 18. 189. https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.189

2018

Beebee, T. & Ratcliffe, S. (2018), Inferring status changes of three widespread British reptiles from NBN Atlas records. Herpetological Bulletin. 18-22.

Manzoor, S.A., Griffiths, G. & Lukac, M. Species distribution model transferability and model grain size – finer may not always be better. Sci Rep 8, 7168 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25437-1

Foster, Christopher & Holloway, Graham. (2018). Dicranocephalus agilis (Scopoli) (Hemiptera, Heteroptera) at Slapton Sands. Field Studies. 2018. 1-4.

Doherty?Bone, TM, Dunn, AM, Brittain, J, Brown, LE. (2018). Invasive alien shredders clear up invasive alien leaf litter. Ecol Evol. 8: 10049– 10056. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4430

Broome, A., Rattey, A. & Bellamy, C. (2018) Niches for species: a multi-species model to guide woodland management. Forestry Commission. Research Note