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The Launch of Mamonet • Warwickshire Dormice • Ohdeer! MAMMALwww.mammal.org.uk NEWSSummer 2013 • Issue 166 THE LAUNCH OF MaMoNet • WarWickshire Dormice • ohDeer! Mammal Newscamera Summer 2013 •traps www.mammal.org.uk • Diverse Whale anD Dolphin populations Contents Mammal 03 Small mammals on ELS field margins 04 Mammal Atlas Survey News – The Launch 05 MattersFollowing on from a successful spring conference Whatever you do, remember your records of of MaMoNet (p.10) and looking through this latest edition of mammal sightings are vital to us, so whenever you Mammal News it struck me that mammalogists are see a mammal be it the ever-present rat, rabbit or 06 Farewell to Derek Yalden a busy bunch of people. We can draw inspiration grey squirrel or the excitement of a pine marten or from mammalogists of the past such as Derek dormouse, please take a few moments to send Regional Seminar Yalden (p.6) and John Clevedon Brown (p.21) your record in to either The Mammal Society or your 07 and build on the work they did with all the new Local Record Centre. technology available to us. Why not try your hand You’ll also see that we’ve got a number of new Trying to find 08 at camera trapping (pp.16 & 20), using bait pots people to introduce, from our new Treasurer, Gary Warwickshire’s Dormice! to find harvest mice (p.22), develop or download Roberts, to our new Training & Events Co-ordinator, a recording app (p.17) or try out a footprint tunnel Lexie Munro (below) and an exciting new project in 10 Spring Conference 2013 (p.5). Alternately grab your camera and get out Wales run by Becky Clews-Roberts, (more about there to catch inspirational pictures of mammals; this on p.5). It looks like it’s going to be a busy 11 Kate MacRae, AKA: our photographic competition (p.12) produced summer for all of us! WildlifeKate some stunning images and generated press interest in mammals across the world. We look forward to what next year’s competition will reveal so get 12 Mammal Photographer of snapping. The Mammal Society would like to give the Year 2013 special thanks to Amanda Wilson from the Student Committee who took on the co-ordination of the Marina Pacheco 16 Are camera traps suitable photography competition and managed to fit the CEO, The Mammal Society, for the study of small massive amount of organising this took around her [email protected] mammals? ongoing studies. 17 OhDeer! Help map deer road casualties using NEW MAMMAL SOCIETY STAFF your phone Gary Roberts – Treasurer With a keen interest in the natural world, My career began 25 years ago restoring an Diverse Whale and 18 conservation and charity management – I am operational chalk quarry in the Chilterns to a Dolphin populations delighted to be the Society’s new Treasurer and wetland nature reserve where I would often enjoy hope my knowledge and experience will prove watching the quite numerous water voles paddling 20 Mammal Training of benefit to the Society’s CEO, Marina, and along the dykes and crunching the sweet, red her team. Currently, I am ORCA’s Fundraising apples I kindly provided them. Nearly 2 years at the 21 Membership Matters Manager and Director of Verde – an environmental Bat Conservation Trust afforded me some great communications consultancy – designed to bat-watching with horseshoe bats being particular Farewell to John Brown deliver charity management, media development, favourites. A passion for butterflies and moths 21 fundraising, marketing, design, conservation led to a decade of managing the media office and project management. With comprehensive and fundraising for Butterfly Conservation. With 22 A novel non-invasive experience working for a diversity of organisations, an interesting career primarily in the conservation method for detecting the including as a charity CEO and for over a decade charity sector, to relax I enjoy exploring Portugal – Harvest Mouse managing a business, I look forward to joining The its history, cultural and natural heritage. To contact Mammal Society’s committee. Gary email: [email protected] 23 Book Reviews 23 Mammal Encounters Lexie Munro, Training & Events Co-ordinator After completing a Marine Biology degree at I trained as an environmental St Andrews University, I spent 7 years working in science teacher, spending 8 years marine ecological research. Starting as a volunteer working in secondary schools and survey diver for Devon Wildlife Trust, I went on to sixth form colleges teaching biology, set up a small not-for-profit organisation, aiming ecology and environmental science. to provide robust scientific data on the ecological I am very excited to join The status of protected reefs in Lyme Bay and Skomer Mammal Society in a role where I to Natural England and Natural Resources Wales. I can draw on my training expertise to develop and particularly enjoyed training volunteer teams in dive enhance our existing training provision. I am keen to survey skills, marine identification and data analysis, introduce a more interactive element to our training and decided to focus my career on providing courses and to develop more training opportunities environmental training and education. to engage younger mammal enthusiasts. Officers of The Mammal Society MAMMAL NEWS is published by: Chairman: Dr Johnny Birks The Mammal Society, 3 The Carronades, New Road, Southampton SO14 0AA Vice Chair: Adam Grogan t: 02380 237874 e: [email protected] www.mammal.org.uk Chief Executive: Marina Pacheco Registered Charity No. 278918 Hon Secretary: Kate Williamson Editor: Hilary Conlan. Contributions to the next issue of Mammal News Hon Treasurer: Gary Roberts should be sent to the above address or email: [email protected] Conference Secretary: Dr Elizabeth Chadwick Print & Design: Impress 01536 462888 Cover image: Leaping dolphin, photograph by Andy Brough The opinions and points of view expressed in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect those of The Mammal Society or the Editor. Advertisements for services, products and other organisations in this journal are accepted in good faith. However, The Mammal Society gives no guarantees or endorsements of the services, products and other organisations nor that the advertisers will fulfil their obligations or claims. All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reprinted or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. While every effort is made to ensure that Mammal News is published on the stated date and all advertisements and advertising matter appear correctly and in the issue requested, The Mammal Society cannot guarantee this and bookings are therefore accepted on this understanding. The Mammal Society cannot accept responsibility for transparencies or other contributions submitted on a speculative basis. 2 Mammal News Summer 2013 • www.mammal.org.uk Small mammals on ELS field margins HOW DO THEY RESPOND TO AGRI-ENVIRONMENT SCHEMES? Dr Richard K Broughton, Ecologist & GIS Specialist Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford. Email: [email protected] Since 2005 NERC’s Centre for Ecology & Between 2005 and 2011 CEH compared Hydrology (CEH) has been evaluating how small mammal communities on field margins farmland biodiversity may be enhanced by across the 1,000 ha Hillesden estate, a typical habitat management options available under lowland arable farm in Buckinghamshire. Environmental Stewardship, the English agri- A randomised block experiment was environmental scheme. Under the Common established, with five replicate blocks of Agricultural Policy UK farmers adopt basic farmland (43–70 ha) each containing three ‘cross compliance’ environmental standards, areas of management: (1) standard ‘cross including leaving 1–2 m wide un-cropped compliance’ with conventional 1–2 m field margins around arable fields Fig.1( ). margins; (2) a typical ELS regime where 1% Bank vole. Photograph by Ben Andrew of farmland was taken out of production and 6 m-wide grassy field margins were installed; greater abundance of bank and field voles. and (3) a trial ‘ELS-Extra’ treatment that took The average number of animals of all species 5% of land out of production and installed in autumn was generally greater on the ELS/ 6 m-wide grassy field margins and flower- ELS-Extra margins (Fig.3), but this was not rich plots. Using Longworth live trapping, statistically significant and overall abundance we compared small mammal communities also increased on cross compliance margins. on conventional and grassy field margins Across the estate, the overall number between these treatments. Trapping was of animals detected in autumn carried out on five morning and evening quadrupled within 3 years before sessions over 3 days in autumn and spring, Fig.1. A conventional ‘cross compliance’ margin on stabilising at this higher level. arable farmland, measuring 2 m from the centre of in 4 years of the 6 year period. the boundary hedge. The modelling indicated a more complicated We used two trap-lines totalling 22 Under the Entry Level Scheme (ELS) tier pattern in spring, with an increase in species traps on each treatment replicate, of Environmental Stewardship, farmers richness across all treatments over time, and to see how the small mammal can gain additional subsidy for installing 6 an increase in overall abundance on ELS/ communities developed after margin m-wide field margins of rough grasses to ELS-Extra margins but no change on cross installation. In total 13,200 traps were provide habitat for,e h for example, small compliance (Fig.4). This pattern was driven checked during the study. mammals (Fig.2). However, few studies have by declining numbers of wood mice that examined how small mammals respond to The results were very encouraging (Broughton were largely replaced by bank and field voles, agri-environment schemes in Britain (reviewed et al., in prep.).
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