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A tale of two studies: detection and attribution of the impacts of invasive plants in observational surveys.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Mueller, K. E. & Lodge, A. G. & Roth, A. M. & Whitfeld, T. J. S. & Hobbie, S. E. & Reich, P. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Short-term experiments cannot characterize how long-lived, invasive shrubs influence ecological properties that can be slow to change, including nativ...

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A double-observer method for reducing bias in faecal pellet surveys of forest ungulates.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Jenkins, K. J. & Manly, B. F. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Faecal surveys are used widely to study variations in abundance and distribution of forest-dwelling mammals when direct enumeration is not feasible. T...

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Resilience and regime shifts: do novel communities impede ecological recovery in a historically metal-contaminated stream?

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Wolff, B. A. & Duggan, S. B. & Clements, W. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Novel communities that result from exposure to contaminants and other anthropogenic stressors often persist in ecosystems that have experienced regime...

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How do different types and characteristics of green space impact mental health? A scoping review.

Published online: 16 Mar 2024

Authors: Beute, F. & Marselle, M. R. & Olszewska-Guizzo, A. & Andreucci, M. B. & Lammel, A. & Davies, Z. G. & Glanville, J. & Keune, H. & O'Brien, L. & Remmen, R. & Russo, A. & Vries, S. de

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Green space matters for mental health but is under constant pressure in an increasingly urbanising world. Often there is little space available in cit...

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The problems of prediction and scale in applied ecology: the example of fire as a management tool.

Published online: 15 Sep 2004

Authors: Freckleton, R. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

This paper serves as a brief introduction to a set of four papers on the large-scale effects of fires as management tools. Two papers in this profile ...

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Improving the value of field margins as foraging habitat for farmland birds.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Douglas, D. J. T. & Vickery, J. A. & Benton, T. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Uncropped field margins are important foraging habitats on farmland for many declining bird species and are a key component of Agri-Environment Scheme...

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Exploratory and confirmatory research in the open science era.

Published online: 23 Nov 2020

Authors: Nilsen, E. B. & Bowler, D. E. & Linnell, J. D. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Applied ecological research is increasingly inspired by the open science movement. However, new challenges about how we define our science when biodiv...

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Identifying social behaviours related to disease transmission in banded mongoose from accelerometer data.

Published online: 26 Sep 2023

Authors: Vuurst, P. van de & Alexander, K. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Current methods for identifying and predicting infectious disease dynamics in wildlife populations are limited. Pathogen transmission dynamics can be ...

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Nutrient enrichment undermines invasion resistance to Spartina alterniflora in a saltmarsh: insights from modern coexistence theory.

Published online: 22 Feb 2024

Authors: Qiu ShiYun & Huang JingXin & Lu Meng & Xu Xiao & Li XinCheng & Zhang Qun & Xin FengFei & Zhou ChenHao & Zhang Xi & Nie Ming & Wu JiHua & Li Bo

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The ability of native communities to maintain invasion resistance in the face of environmental changes is crucial for biodiversity conservation. Howev...

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Demography and management of the invasive plant species Hypericum perforatum. I. Using multi-level mixed-effects models for characterizing growth, survival and fecundity in a long-term data set.

Published online: 27 Aug 2003

Authors: Buckley, Y. M. & Briese, D. T. & Rees, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Hypericum perforatum, St John's wort, is an invasive perennial herb that is especially problematic on waste ground, roadsides, pastures and open woodl...

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