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Special Profile: Challenges and prospects for applied ecology in China.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Memmott, J. & Milner-Gulland, E. J. & Hulme, P. & Thirgood, S. & Cadotte, M.

Content type: Journal issue

This special section includes six papers entitled: (1) Price of prosperity: economic development and biological conservation in China; (2) Grazers on ...

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Special Profile: New perspectives on managing wildlife diseases.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Thirgood, S.

Content type: Journal issue

A series of papers on the various novel concepts in the management of wildlife diseases, including the use of Bayesian clustering techniques and captu...

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Do habitat characteristics influence predation on red grouse?

Published online: 12 Aug 2002

Authors: Thirgood, S. J. & Redpath, S. M. & Campbell, S. & Smith, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Predation is not only an important ecological process in the population dynamics of red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus, but also has conservation imp...

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Hen harriers and red grouse: science, politics and human-wildlife conflict.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Thirgood, S. & Redpath, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Human-wildlife conflict is an emerging issue in global conservation. The expansion of human activities throughout the world, combined with restoration...

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Hen harriers and red grouse: moving towards consensus?

Published online: 04 Nov 2009

Authors: Redpath, S. & Thirgood, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The presence of predators may lead to conflict between different stakeholders. Finding ways to resolve such conflicts is a challenge to all involved. ...

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Hen harriers and red grouse: economic aspects of red grouse shooting and the implications for moorland conservation.

Published online: 04 Nov 2009

Authors: Sotherton, N. & Tapper, S. & Smith, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Thirgood & Redpath (2008) propose ways in which red grouse:hen harrier conflicts could be resolved. It has also been suggested that grouse managem...

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Price of prosperity: economic development and biological conservation in China.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: He FangLiang

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In the past three decades China has experienced fundamental changes to its economy, which have transformed it from one of the poorest countries in the...

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Grazers on the plains: challenges and prospects for large herbivores in Central Asia.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Mallon, D. P. & Jiang ZhiGang

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Twelve species of large herbivores dwell on the steppes of Central Asia and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Three of these species once occurred in vast he...

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Applying ecology for cave management in China and neighbouring countries.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Whitten, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Caves are arguably the hottest of the biodiversity hotspots as measured by endemism and threat, yet they receive very little attention or appropriate ...

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Galliformes - barometers of the state of applied ecology and wildlife conservation in China.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: McGowan, P. J. K. & Zhang YanYun & Zhang ZhengWang

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Human population pressure is placing huge demands on China's environment. In recent years, the Chinese government has established a suite of programme...

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