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State of nature 2023 terrestrial and freshwater animal dataset for the United Kingdom and its constituent countries Open

Fiona Burns, Simone Mordue, Nida Al‐Fulaij, Philipp Boersh-Supan, Katherine L. Boughey , et al. · 2025

This article describes the terrestrial and freshwater animal trend data used in creating the 2023 State of Nature reports for the UK and its constituent countries. Trend data for long- (1970-2020/21) and short-term (2010-2020) periods have…

Biodiversity–food trade‐offs when agricultural land is spared from production Open

Charles Palmer, Ben Groom, Lorenzo Sileci, Steve Langton · 2025

Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes, the world's predominant land use, could involve sparing, or setting aside, agricultural land from production, implying biodiversity–food trade‐offs. Employing bird species and agricultu…

A family of process-based models to simulate landscape use by multiple taxa Open

Emma Gardner, Robert A. Robinson, Angela Julian, Katherine L. Boughey, Steve Langham , et al. · 2024

Biodiversity-food trade-offs when agricultural land is spared from production Open

Charles Palmer, Ben Groom, Lorenzo Sileci, Steve Langton · 2023

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework proposes to address biodiversity decline by expanding areas under conservation. Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes, the world’s predominant land use, could involve sparin…

Shifting baselines for species in chronic decline and assessment of conservation status. Are hazel dormice <i>Muscardinus avellanarius</i> Endangered? Open

Eleanor R. Scopes, Cecily Goodwin, Nida Al‐Fulaij, Ian White, Steve Langton , et al. · 2023

Long‐term data are beneficial for monitoring the conservation status of species. Assessments of population change over recent periods of fixed duration will, however, be subject to ‘shifting baselines’, where the accepted norm for the popu…

Biodiversity-food trade-offs when agricultural land is spared from production Open

Charles Palmer, Ben Groom, Steve Langton · 2022

The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework proposes to address biodiversity decline by expanding areas under conservation. Biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes, the world's predominant land use, could involve sparing, or s…

Biodiversity-food trade-offs when agricultural land is spared from production Open

Charles Palmer, Ben Groom, Steve Langton · 2022

To stem biodiversity loss, the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework proposes a substantial expansion of area-based conservation measures. However, half of the earth's land is under agriculture. The expansion of area-based measures in ag…

When is a dormouse ‘Endangered’? Continued population decline of Hazel Dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) in Great Britain. (Poster) Open

Eleanor R. Scopes, Cecily Goodwin, Nida Al‐Fulaij, I.H. White, Steve Langton , et al. · 2022

It is important to monitor species populations to identify changes in Red List assessment, whether increases from conservation or continued declines. This can be more difficult when there are multiple modelling options available. Using dat…

Visual search performance in ‘CCTV’ and mobile phone-like video footage Open

Viktoria R. Mileva, Peter Hancock, Steve Langton · 2021

Detecting hazel dormice Muscardinus avellanarius with nest tubes and tracking tunnels: maximising the probability of success. Open

Simone Bullion, K Burrough, Paul Chanin, Steve Langton, Alison Looser · 2021

Hazel dormice Muscardinus avellanarius are elusive, arboreal small mammals that are difficult to detect in a systematic manner. The fact that they are willing to construct their nests in artificial sites has led to the use of small plastic…

A cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces Open

Samantha Gregory, Steve Langton, Sakiko Yoshikawa, Margaret C. Jackson · 2020

Previous long-term memory (LTM) research found that angry faces were more poorly recognised when encoded with averted vs. direct gaze, while memory for happy faces was unaffected by gaze. Contrastingly, working memory (WM) accuracy for ang…

Registered Replication Report on Fischer, Castel, Dodd, and Pratt (2003) Open

Lincoln Colling, Dénes Szűcs, Damiano De Marco, Krzysztof Cipora, Rolf Ulrich , et al. · 2020

The attentional spatial-numerical association of response codes (Att-SNARC) effect (Fischer, Castel, Dodd, & Pratt, 2003)—the finding that participants are quicker to detect left-side targets when the targets are preceded by small numbers …

A cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces. Open

Samantha Gregory, Steve Langton, Sakiko Yoshikawa, Margaret Jackson · 2019

Previous long-term memory (LTM) research found that angry faces were more poorly recognised when encoded with averted vs. direct gaze, while memory for happy faces was unaffected by gaze. Contrastingly, working memory (WM) accuracy for ang…

The Irish Bat Monitoring Programme 2015-2017 Open

Tina Aughney, Niamh Roche, Steve Langton · 2018

The Irish Bat Monitoring Programme is comprised of four schemes currently under the management of Bat Conservation Ireland. This report provides the results from these schemes from 2018-2021 along with long term trends in bat populations, …

I Don’t See It Your Way: The Dot Perspective Task Does Not Gauge Spontaneous Perspective Taking Open

Steve Langton · 2018

Data from studies employing the dot-perspective task have been used to support the theory that humans are capable of automatically computing the visual perspective of other individuals. Recent work has challenged this interpretation, claim…

Saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements trigger equivalent gaze-cued orienting effects Open

Steve Langton, Alex H. McIntyre, Peter Hancock, Helmut Leder · 2017

Research has established that a perceived eye gaze produces a concomitant shift in a viewer’s spatial attention in the direction of that gaze. The two experiments reported here investigate the extent to which the nature of the eye movement…

Holistic face processing can inhibit recognition of forensic facial composites. Open

Alex H. McIntyre, Peter Hancock, Charlie D. Frowd, Steve Langton · 2015

Facial composite systems help eyewitnesses to show the appearance of criminals. However, likenesses created by unfamiliar witnesses will not be completely accurate, and people familiar with the target can find them difficult to identify. F…

Working memory load disrupts gaze-cued orienting of attention Open

Anna K. Bobak, Steve Langton · 2015

A large body of work has shown that a perceived gaze shift produces a shift in a viewer's spatial attention in the direction of the seen gaze. A controversial issue surrounds the extent to which this gaze-cued orienting effect is stimulus-…

Barriers and benefits: implications of artificial night-lighting for the distribution of common bats in Britain and Ireland Open

Fiona Mathews, Niamh Roche, Tina Aughney, Nicholas Jones, Julie Day , et al. · 2015

Artificial lighting is a particular problem for animals active at night. Approximately 69% of mammal species are nocturnal, and one-third of these are bats. Due to their extensive movements—both on a nightly basis to exploit ephemeral food…

Developmentally distinct gaze processing systems: Luminance versus geometric cues Open

Martin Doherty, Alex H. McIntyre, Steve Langton · 2015

Two experiments examined how the different cues to gaze direction contribute to children's abilities to follow and make explicit judgements about gaze. In each study participants were shown blurred images of faces containing only luminance…

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