Research & Analysis


Team members of Wild Frontier Ecology have research experience throughout the UK and internationally, including the management of large research projects.  We are able to design, execute, analyse and report surveys or experiments for a specific objective or ecological question. These services are being used to assist government agencies, NGOs and conservation charities.

  

 

Research and Analysis Services

Our expertise includes:

  • Spatial analysis including home range estimation
  • Mark-recapture analysis
  • Programming, graphics and statistical analyses

Project Examples

Examples of team members’ publications:

K. Moyes, D. H. Nussey, M. N. Clements, F. E. Guinness, A. Morris , S. Morris, J. M . Pemberton, L. E. B. Kruuk and T. H. Clutton-Brock (2011) Advancing breeding phenology in response to environmental change in a wild red deer population, Global Change Biology. Early View. Coverage by BBC News and The Guardian.

K. Moyes, B. J. T. Morgan, A. Morris, S. Morris, T. H. Clutton-Brock and T. Coulson (2011) Individual differences in reproductive costs examined using multi-state methods, Journal of Animal Ecology 80 (2), 456-465.

K. Moyes, B. J. T. Morgan, A. Morris, S. J. Morris, T. H. Clutton-Brock, T. Coulson (2009) Exploring individual quality in a wild population of red deer, Journal of Animal Ecology 78(2), 406-413.

K. Moyes, T. Coulson, B. J. T. Morgan, A. Donald, S. J. Morris and T. H. Clutton-Brock (2006) Cumulative reproduction and survival costs in female red deer, Oikos 115(2), 241-252.

D.L. Buckingham, A.D. Evans, A. J. Morris, C.J. Orsman & R. Yaxley (1999) Use of set-aside land in winter by declining farmland bird species in the UK, Bird Study 46(2), 157-169.

K. Norris, E. Brindley, T. Cook, S. Babbs, C. Forster Brown & R. Yaxley (1998) Is the density of redshank Tringa totanus nesting on saltmarshes in Great Britain declining due to changes in grazing management? Journal of Applied Ecology 35 (5) 621-634.


General Interest Publications:

National Centre for Statistical Ecology (2007) Newsletter 1(2)