Woodland management: The contrasting fortunes of two sympatric thrush species.

<p>Abstract.<br>The song thrush has undergone a significant national decline over recent years whilst the sympatric blackbird has not fared so badly. Woodland is an important habitat for both species and woodland management offers the opportunity to engineer habitats to be optimal for threatened or declining species.<br>This study compared habitat occupancy in both species at Treswell Wood, Nottinghamshire, where a range of coppiced (i.e. managed) and semi-natural woodland habitats were available. BTO Common Bird Census data spanning 33 years were analysed to compare the number and size of breeding territories held by each species in different regions of the wood, and the percentage of each available habitat occupied by the birds. Compared with blackbirds, song thrushes showed no temporal recovery in population size after a significant decline, and remaining birds had fewer and larger territories. Crucially, song thrushes occupied less of the woodland as the coppiced area increased. By contrast, blackbird occupation was positively correlated to coppiced area in ash woodland and negatively correlated in semi natural woodland. These data suggest that coppicing mature woodland can reduce its suitability for some bird species.</p> <p> </p

Article title: Measuring young people&apos;s participation in decision making: What young people say

Measuring young people&apos;s participation in decision making: What young people say Key words: Participation Decision Making Qualitative methods Measurement development Abstract: Young people are frequently exhorted to participate &apos;more&apos; in decision making, both formally and informally. Paradoxically, no standard or comprehensively used measurement tool through which young people&apos;s right to participate in decision making exists. However, a range of participation scales have been developed and these mainly adult generated tools feature prominently in literature, impacting upon, and informing policy and participative practice. Yet, despite the emphasis on young people&apos;s right to participate in those things which affect them, including how their participation is measured, examples of young person-generated approaches to understanding the extent of their decision making are somewhat elusive. Drawing upon research undertaken in Swansea to explore how young people thought their participation in decision making should be measured, this article focuses and reflects upon the development of an appropriate, participative methodology, the views which young people offered through the enquiry, and the construction of a new participation measurement scale

From security to mobility : generalized investments in human assets and agent commitment

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Reconfiguring firm resources : architectural innovation and corporate structure

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The evolution of intracorporate domains : divisional charter losses in high-technology, multidivisional corporations

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