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James Pearce-Higgins is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, and serves as the Director of Science at the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). His research focuses on animal population dynamics, particularly in birds, within a conservation science framework. As a member of BTO's Senior Leadership Team, he provides strategic oversight for the organization's science initiatives, including volunteer-based surveys, population change analysis, and sustainable habitat management.
- Education: BSc in Zoology (University of Nottingham, 1994), PhD in Environmental Biology (University of Manchester, 2000)
James leads BTO's climate change research, documenting biodiversity impacts, projecting species distribution shifts, and developing adaptation strategies. He has spearheaded five multi-organizational climate change research consortia funded by Defra, Natural England, and CCI, and co-authored the book Birds and Climate Change: Impacts and Conservation Responses (2014). His work also addresses renewable energy impacts on biodiversity, particularly wind farms, and spans extensive research on UK upland birds and shorebirds.
His recent publications emphasize climate change effects on seabirds, avian influenza impacts on wild bird populations, and renewable energy policy. James chairs the Breeding Bird Survey Steering Group and contributes to initiatives like the HPAI Steering Group and the Climate Change Ecology Special Interest Group of the British Ecological Society.
