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A functional diversity approach of crop sequences reveals that weed diversity and abundance show different responses to environmental variability.

Published online: 01 Sep 2020

Authors: Mahaut, L. & Gaba, S. & Fried, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Combining several crop species and associated agricultural practices in a crop sequence has the potential to control weed abundance while promoting we...

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Date of sowing and nursery growth of provenances of Pseudotsuga menziesii given two fertilizer regimes.

Published online: 01 Jan 1978

Authors: Sorensen, F. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seed collected from natural stands of P. menziesii growing at (a) 250, (b) 520 and (c) 880 m alt. in Oregon, and from a cross between trees in (a) and...

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Seed shed in the making of hay from mesotrophic grassland in a field in Northern England: effects of hay cut date, grazing and fertilizer in a split-split-plot experiment.

Published online: 13 Nov 1996

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Pullan, S. & Shiel, R. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A hay crop was cut at three different dates in 1990 from a mesotrophic (meadow) grassland in Upper Teesdale, under various fertilizer, grazing and cut...

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The phenology of mesotrophic grassland in the Pennine dales, northern England: historic hay cutting dates, vegetation variation and plant species phenologies.

Published online: 31 Aug 1991

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Jones, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The relevance to conservation of a restriction on the start of haymaking in species-rich meadows is included in the management prescription for the Pe...

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Soil microbial community, fertility, vegetation and diversity as targets in the restoration management of a meadow grassland.

Published online: 14 May 2003

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Shiel, R. S. & Bardgett, R. D. & Millward, D. & Corkhill, P. & Rolph, G. & Hobbs, P. J. & Peacock, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The enhancement of biodiversity in meadow grassland, an environmental aim of European agricultural policy, requires definition of appropriate manageme...

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The interactive effects of management on the productivity and plant community structure of an upland meadow: an 8-year field trial.

Published online: 26 Feb 2001

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Shiel, R. S. & Millward, D. & Corkhill, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural policy in the Pennine Dales Environmentally Sensitive Area in northern England aims to enhance plant species diversity in agriculturally ...

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Comparative phenologies of two migrant cereal aphid species.

Published online: 24 Mar 1995

Authors: Clark, S. J. & Tatchell, G. M. & Perry, J. N. & Woiwod, I. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The flight phenologies of Sitobion avenae and Metopolophium dirhodum, as indicated by suction trap catches at 18 sites throughout the UK between 1975 ...

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The harvest time method as a means of avoiding quelea damage to irrigated rice in Chad/Cameroun.

Published online: 01 Jan 1980

Authors: Elliott, C. C. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Studies on bird damage to irrigated rice were carried out in 1975-7 on 2 irrigated farms at Bongor, Chad and Yagoua, Cameroun. The level of damage in ...

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Thermal time, chill days and prediction of budburst in Picea sitchensis.

Published online: 05 Jun 1984

Authors: Cannell, M. G. R. & Smith, R. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Published and unpublished records of dates of budburst of lateral shoots on 2- to 10-yr-old trees collected on 14 occasions at sites near meteorologic...

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Spring Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) predicts annual variation in timing of peak faecal crude protein in mountain ungulates.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Hamel, S. & Garel, M. & Festa-Bianchet, M. & Gaillard, J. M. & Côté, S. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In recent years, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) has been used to assess the relationships between habitat quality and animal life-h...

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