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Root and shoot interactions between barley and field beans when intercropped.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Martin, M. P. L. D. & Snaydon, R. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Barley and Vicia faba were grown alone and with either their roots or their shoots, or both roots and shoots, intermixed. The N supply, total plant de...

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Soil microbial legacy drives crop diversity advantage: linking ecological plant-soil feedback with agricultural intercropping.

Published online: 24 Mar 2021

Authors: Wang GuangZhou & Bei ShuiKuan & Li JianPeng & Bao XingGuo & Zhang JiuDong & Schultz, P. A. & Li HaiGang & Li Long & Zhang FuSuo & Bever, J. D. & Zhang JunLing

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although the importance of the soil microbiome in mediating plant community structures and functions has been increasingly emphasized in ecological st...

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The effects of elevated host-plant cadmium and copper on the performance of the aphid Aphis fabae (Homoptera: Aphididae).

Published online: 05 Oct 1995

Authors: Crawford, L. A. & Hodkinson, I. D. & Lepp, N. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The uptake patterns of cadmium and copper by Aphis fabae from its food plant, Vicia faba, grown under control and elevated metal treatments, were comp...

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The effects of periods of low intensity illumination at night on flowering and seed production in S48 timothy (Phleumpratense).

Published online: 18 Jan 1965

Authors: Bean, E. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

See H.A. 34: 1759.

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Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of semi-natural habitat, but not crop diversity, is correlated with landscape pollinator richness.

Published online: 24 Jun 2022

Authors: Martínez-Núñez, C. & Kleijn, D. & Ganuza, C. & Heupink, D. & Raemakers, I. & Vertommen, W. & Fijen, T. P. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Enhancing the diversity of mass-flowering crops (i.e. crop diversity) in agricultural landscapes is often proposed as a measure to favour pollinators ...

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Effects of total solar radiation and temperature on vegetative growth in the East of Scotland.

Published online: 01 Jan 1974

Authors: Hegarty, T. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effects of total solar radiation and temperature on the early vegetative growth of Helianthus annuus cv. Polestar and Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Canadian ...

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The effects of temperature upon seed germination in Festuca pratensis var. apennina.

Published online: 01 Jan 1980

Authors: Linnington, S. & Bean, E. W. & Tyler, B. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of temp. on seed dormancy and germination were studied in 11 populations of tetraploid F. pratensis var. apennina from the Italian Alps an...

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Optimizing coffee production: increased floral visitation and bean quality at plantation edges with wild pollinators and natural vegetation.

Published online: 15 Jun 2024

Authors: Machado, A. C. P. & Baronio, G. J. & Novaes, C. S. & Ollerton, J. & Torres, M. W. & Lopes, D. N. S. & Rech, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Animal pollination is important for more than 75% of agricultural crops, including coffee, whose productivity can increase with adequate pollination. ...

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Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass-flowering crops in rotational systems.

Published online: 02 Nov 2021

Authors: Gardner, E. & Breeze, T. D. & Clough, Y. & Smith, H. G. & Baldock, K. C. R. & Campbell, A. & Garratt, M. P. D. & Gillespie, M. A. K. & Kunin, W. E. & McKerchar, M. & Potts, S. G. & Senapathi, D. & Stone, G. N. & Wäckers, F. & Westbury, D. B. & Wilby, A. & Oliver, T. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pollinators experience large spatiotemporal fluctuations in resource availability when mass-flowering crops are rotated with resource-poor cereal crop...

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The distribution of flying insects in and near a tall hedgerow.

Published online: 01 Jan 1977

Authors: Bowden, J. & Dean, G. J. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In a further study on the distribution of cereal aphids and their predators and parasites in southern England [see RAE/A 62, 500, 3133], the distribut...

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