William J. Sutherland

William James Sutherland (* 1956 ) is a conservation biologist and professor of zoology at the University of Cambridge .

Research priorities

Sutherland is concerned with distribution and habitat models of animals that relate to behavioral aspects. Particularly applied questions of nature conservation in connection with birds occupy him in his research. He holds the Miriam Rothschild Chair for the Protection of Biodiversity.

Sutherland is on the editorial team of the ESA magazine Conservation Letters and is involved in the initiative for the open access publication Conservation Evidence .

Publications (selection)

Books

• with David A Hill: Managing habitats for conservation . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1995, ISBN 978-0521447768
• Sutherland (edt.): Ecological Census Techniques. A handbook. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 1996, ISBN 978-0521478151
• with Ian Newton and Rhys Green: Bird ecology and conservation: a handbook of techniques . Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2004, ISBN 978-0198520863

items

• Amano, T., Okamura, H., Carrizo, SF and Sutherland, WJ (2012): Hierarchical models for smoothed population indices: the importance of considering variations in trends of count. Ecological Indicators, 13, 243-252.
• William J. Sutherland, Sarah Bardsley, Leon Bennun, Mick Clout, Isabelle M. Côté, Michael H. Depledge, Lynn V. Dicks, Andrew P. Dobson, Liz Fellman, Erica Fleishman, David W. Gibbons, Andrew J. Impey ( 2011): Horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2011. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 10-16, 2011. doi : 10.1016 / j.tree.2010.11.002

Web links

• Sutherland on the Cambridge University Department of Zoology website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sutherland at the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge