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Quantifying variance components in ecological models based on expert opinion.

Published online: 15 Jun 2011

Authors: Czembor, C. A. & Morris, W. K. & Wintle, B. A. & Vesk, P. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Expert opinion is often relied on to build ecological models when empirical data are absent. Despite widespread use, expert models often ignore uncert...

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Assessment of faecal output in geese.

Published online: 29 Oct 1986

Authors: Bédard, J. & Gauthier, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The faecal output of geese (Anseriformes) is often measured in the course of bioenergetic or flock management studies. The first objective of this inv...

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Forest planning and productivity-risk trade-off through the Markowitz mean-variance model.

Published online: 02 Sep 2015

Authors: Lobianco, A. & Dragicevic, A. & Leblois, A.

Content type: Bulletin

Using the Markowitz mean-value (M-V) portfolio model, we study forest planning looking at arbitration between productivity and risk. By weighting the ...

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Related plant species respond similarly to chronic anthropogenic disturbance: implications for conservation decision-making.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Martínez-Blancas, A. & Paz, H. & Salazar, G. A. & Martorell, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many developing countries harbour large numbers of species that face little-understood, gradual changes in their environment, including chronic anthro...

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Effect of water stress on stem diameter changes of peach trees growing in the field.

Published online: 13 May 1986

Authors: Garnier, E. & Berger, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Daily stem diameter changes were recorded continuously from June to September on peach trees (cv. Springcrest on GF 305 rootstock) irrigated at 50 and...

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Herbage intake in relation to availability and sward structure: grazing processes and optimal foraging.

Published online: 11 Apr 1989

Authors: Ungar, E. D. & Noy-Meir, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The relationship between grazing intake, herbage availability and sward structure was investigated using grazing process models. The general model exp...

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Increasing spatial dispersion in ecosystem restoration mitigates risk in disturbance-driven environments.

Published online: 13 Jun 2022

Authors: Fivash, G. S. & Belzen, J. van & Temmink, R. J. M. & Didderen, K. & Lengkeek, W. & Heide, T. van der & Bouma, T. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many vegetated ecosystems, including drylands, coastal dunes, salt marshes and seagrass meadows, inhabit environments frequently disturbed by the eros...

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Discrepancies between estimates of tsetse fly populations using mark-recapture and removal trapping techniques.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Hargrove, J. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A population of Glossina morsitans Westw. and G. pallidipes Aust. in Zimbabwe that was studied by R. J. Phelps & G. A. Vale [see RAE/B 67, 1901] w...

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Integral projection models perform better for small demographic data sets than matrix population models: a case study of two perennial herbs.

Published online: 04 Nov 2009

Authors: Ramula, S. & Rees, M. & Buckley, Y. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Matrix population models are widely used to describe population dynamics, conduct population viability analyses and derive management recommendations ...

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Models for the herbicidal control of the seed bank of Avena sterilis: the effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity and of dispersal.

Published online: 29 Oct 1995

Authors: González-Andujar, J. L. & Perry, J. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A metapopulation neighbourhood model of the seed bank of an annual plant, that included the effects of heterogeneity in space and time, of stochastic ...

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