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David Baker
My research focuses on the impacts of climate and landuse changes on populations and implications of these impacts for conservation and policy. I have worked across multiple spatial scales, including behavioural responses of individuals to variations in fine scale habitat structure and population responses to agri-environment management at a national scale. Currently, I am working on a multi-national project to assess the vulnerability of fauna in West African protected areas to projected climate change impacts.



Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Supervised by: Dr. Stephen Willis
Membership: Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Research (BEER) Centre

Contact Details: School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences,
                          Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE.
                          Phone: +44 (0)1910041266
                          Email: d.j.baker@durham.ac.uk


Education

2010-2012 Postdoctoral Research Ecologist, British Trust for Ornithology
2007-2010 PhD, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology / Bournemouth University (NERC funded)
2005-2006 MSc, University of Exeter
2002-2005 BSc, University of Warwick

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Publications

Ockendon, N., Baker, D.J., Carr, J., White, E., Almond, R.E.A., Amano, T., Bertram, E., Bradbury, R.B., Bradley, C., Butchart, S.H.M., Doswald, N., Foden, W., Gill, D., Green, R.E., Sutherland, W.J. , Tanner, E.V.J.& Pearce-Higgins, J.W. (In Press) Mechanisms underpinning the impact of climate change on global biodiversity: altered species interactions are more important than direct effect. Global Change Biology

Calladine, J., Critchley, N., Baker, D.J., Towers, J. & Theil, A. (2014) Conservation management of moorland: a case study of the effectiveness of management prescriptions that aim to enhance breeding bird population. Bird Study, 1-17.

D.J., Baker, D.J., Freeman, S.N., Grice, P.V. & Siriwardena, G.M. (2012) Landscape scale responses of birds to agri-environment management: a test of the English Environmental Stewardship scheme. Journal of Applied Ecology. 49, 871-882.

Britton, J.R., Pegg, J., Baker, D.J. & Williams, C.F. (2012) Do lower feeding rates results in reduced growth of a cyprinid fish infected with the Asian tapeworm? Ecology of Freshwater Fish, 21, 172-175.

Oyugi, D.O., Cucherousset, J., Baker, D.J. & Britton, J.R. (2012) Ecological indicators of the thermal niche of an introduced fish and their implications for an invaded temperate region with a warming climate. Journal of Thermal Biology, 37, 89-94.

Baker, D.J., Stillman, R.A., Smart, S., Bullock, J.M. & Norris, K. (2011) Are the costs of routine vigilance avoided by granivorous foragers? Functional Ecology, 25, 617-627.

Baker, D.J., Stillman, R.A., Smith, B.M., Bullock, J.M. & Norris, K. (2010) Vigilance and the functional response of granivorous foragers. Functional Ecology, 24,1281-1290.

Baker, D.J., Stillman, R.A. & Bullock, J.M. (2009) The effect of habitat complexity on the functional response of a seed-eating passerine. Ibis, 151, 547-558.

Sloman, K.A., Baker, D.J., Winberg, S. & Wilson, R.W. (2008) Are there physiological correlates of dominance in natural trout populations? Animal Behaviour, 76, 1279-1287.


Additional Skills

BTO Ringing Permit
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