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Roadside diversity in relation to age and surrounding source habitat: evidence for long time lags in valuable green infrastructure.

Published online: 15 Sep 2020

Authors: Auffret, A. G. & Lindgren, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The severe and ongoing decline in semi-natural grassland habitat during the past two centuries means that it is important to consider how other, margi...

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Factors determining the abundance of vespertilionid bats in Britain: geographical, land class and local habitat relationships.

Published online: 21 Oct 1996

Authors: Walsh, A. L. & Harris, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Transect surveys of foraging bats in a stratified sample of 1030 1-km squares in Britain were used to compare bat abundance in different land classes....

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Desertification alters the response of vegetation to changes in precipitation.

Published online: 01 Dec 2010

Authors: Verón, S. R. & Paruelo, J. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Desertification is of critical concern because it may affect 40% of the global land area inhabited by more than 1 billion people. During the process o...

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An assessment of impacts from shrimp aquaculture in Bangladesh and prospects for improvement.

Published online: 14 Feb 2019

Authors: Hossain, M. A. R. & Hasan, M. R.

Content type: Bulletin

Aquaculture has become one of the fastest-growing economic subsectors of the Bangladesh economy, providing protein-rich food, source of employment and...

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The effects of tropical secondary forest regeneration on avian phylogenetic diversity.

Published online: 22 Nov 2020

Authors: Hughes, E. C. & Edwards, D. P. & Sayer, C. A. & Martin, P. A. & Thomas, G. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The conversion of tropical forests to farmland is a key driver of the current extinction crisis. With the present rate of deforestation unlikely to su...

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Woody riparian buffers have indirect effects on macroinvertebrate assemblages of French rivers, but land use effects are much stronger.

Published online: 19 Feb 2022

Authors: Gall, M. le & Palt, M. & Kail, J. & Hering, D. & Piffady, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Woody riparian buffers (hereafter, 'woody buffers') are frequently considered as important to mitigate the effects of stressors on streams and rivers....

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Land resilience and tail dependence among crop yield distributions.

Published online: 24 Jun 2015

Authors: Du, X. D. & Hennessy, D. A. & Feng, H. L.

Content type: Bulletin

Rate setting procedures for United States crop yield and revenue insurance contracts employ methods that presume correlations to be state invariant. W...

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How many broadleaved trees are enough in conifer plantations? The economy of land sharing, land sparing and quantitative targets.

Published online: 03 Aug 2016

Authors: Yamaura, Y. & Shoji, Y. & Mitsuda, Y. & Utsugi, H. & Tsuge, T. & Kuriyama, K. & Nakamura, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

For biodiversity conservation to be an effective and significant social investment, non-marketed values of biodiversity conservation and its associate...

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Long-term impacts of changed grazing regimes on the vegetation of heterogeneous upland grasslands.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Pakeman, R. J. & Fielding, D. A. & Everts, L. & Littlewood, N. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Marginal agricultural land, which in the UK refers to upland grazings in particular, is going to see changes in management driven by markets, subsidie...

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Retrospective analysis of a classical biological control programme.

Published online: 07 Nov 2018

Authors: Naranjo, S. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Classical biological control has been a key technology in the management of invasive arthropod pests globally for over 120 years, yet rigorous quantit...

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