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Control of the toxic plant Colchicum autumnale in semi-natural grasslands: effects of cutting treatments on demography and diversity.

Published online: 02 Apr 2014

Authors: Winter, S. & Jung, L. S. & Eckstein, R. L. & Otte, A. & Donath, T. W. & Kriechbaum, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Semi-natural grasslands are important habitats for the conservation of biodiversity in Europe. High population densities of toxic Colchicum autumnale ...

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Modest enhancements to conventional grassland diversity improve the provision of pollination services.

Published online: 01 Jun 2016

Authors: Orford, K. A. & Murray, P. J. & Vaughan, I. P. & Memmott, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grassland for livestock production is a major form of land use throughout Europe and its intensive management threatens biodiversity and ecosystem fun...

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Special Profile: Functional diversity.

Published online: 12 Oct 2011

Authors: Cadotte, M. W.

Content type: Journal issue

This special issue includes six papers that examine how management activities or policy could benefit from consideration of the functional contributio...

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Restoration of wet features for breeding waders on lowland grassland.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Eglington, S. M. & Gill, J. A. & Bolton, M. & Smart, M. A. & Sutherland, W. J. & Watkinson, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Over the last century, the loss of around half of the world's wetlands, principally through drainage and conversion to agriculture, has been one of th...

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Interactive effects of landscape context constrain the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management.

Published online: 20 Jun 2012

Authors: Concepción, E. D. & Díaz, M. & Kleijn, D. & Báldi, A. & Batáry, P. & Clough, Y. & Gabriel, D. & Herzog, F. & Holzschuh, A. & Knop, E. & Marshall, E. J. P. & Tscharntke, T. & Verhulst, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecological theory predicts that the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management to enhance species richness at field scales will be the highe...

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Past and present management influences the seed bank and seed rain in a rural landscape mosaic.

Published online: 12 Oct 2011

Authors: Auffret, A. G. & Cousins, S. A. O.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seed bank and seed rain represent dispersal in time and space. They can be important sources of diversity in the rural landscape, where fragmented hab...

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Influence of land use on plant community composition and diversity in Highland Sourveld grassland in the southern Drakensberg, South Africa.

Published online: 02 Nov 2005

Authors: O'Connor, T. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity conservation of grasslands in the face of transformation and global climate change will depend mainly on rangelands because of insufficie...

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Short-term effects of chemical and mechanical cover management and decomposition processes in a grassland soil.

Published online: 22 May 1971

Authors: Malone, C. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In a randomized plot experiment on Festuca arundinacea grassland on alluvial loam soil during 1968, plots were mowed and raked bi-weekly, mowed and sp...

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Demographic processes limiting seedling recruitment in arid grassland restoration.

Published online: 03 Aug 2011

Authors: James, J. J. & Svejcar, T. J. & Rinella, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seeding is an important management tool in aridland restoration, but seeded species often fail to establish. Previous research has largely focused on ...

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Responses of grassland invertebrates to management by cutting. III. Adverse effects on Auchenorhyncha.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Morris, M. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The responses of Auchenorhyncha to management by cutting of calcareous Arrhenatherum-dominated grassland were examined in a field experiment in easter...

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