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Biodiversity in landscape mosaics: the roles of local land use and the surrounding landscape on dung beetle assemblages.

Published online: 03 Jan 2024

Authors: Carvalho, R. L. & Andresen, E. & Arroyo-Rodríguez, V. & Anjos, D. V. & Resende, A. F. & Mello, F. V. de & Vasconcelos, H. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biotic communities in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes can be shaped by both the land use of local patches and the structure of surrounding lands...

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Quality Assurance of Peak District National Park Wildfire Management and Planning Document 2022.

Published online: 26 May 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Hadden, R. M.

Content type: Reports

This work describes the design and development the Peak District National Park Wildfire Risk Assessment 2022 to evaluate the risk of wildfire across a...

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Adaptation and development pathways for different types of farmers.

Published online: 16 Oct 2019

Authors: Stringer, L. C. & Fraser, E. D. G. & Harris, D. & Lyon, C. & Pereira, L. & Ward, C. F. M. & Simelton, E.

Content type: Bulletin

One of the greatest challenges humanity faces is feeding the world's human population in a sustainable, nutritious, equitable and ethical way under a ...

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Spatial and temporal patterns of Best Management Practice implementation in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 1985-2014.

Published online: 25 Sep 2019

Authors: Sekellick, A. J. & Devereux, O. H. & Keisman, J. L. D. & Sweeney, J. S. & Blomquist, J. D.

Content type: Bulletin

Efforts to restore water quality in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries often include extensive Best Management Practice (BMP) implementation on agricu...

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Improving private land conservation with outcome-based biodiversity payments.

Published online: 21 Nov 2018

Authors: McDonald, J. A. & Helmstedt, K. J. & Bode, M. & Coutts, S. & McDonald-Madden, E. & Possingham, H. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Payments to private landholders for providing biodiversity land can improve conservation outside protected areas. Input-based payments are widely used...

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Integrating indigenous and scientific perspectives on environmental changes: insights from boreal landscapes.

Published online: 05 Jan 2023

Authors: Bélisle, A. C. & Gauthier, S. & Asselin, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Major environmental changes affect the health and capacity of ecosystems to sustain Indigenous people's well-being in boreal landscapes. Collaboration...

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Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine chaco.

Published online: 04 Jan 2021

Authors: Barral, M. P. & Villarino, S. & Levers, C. & Baumann, M. & Kuemmerle, T. & Mastrangelo, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Where agriculture expands into tropical and subtropical forests, social-ecological impacts are typically strong. However, where and how frontier devel...

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The mechanisms affecting seedling establishment in restored savanna understories are seasonally dependent.

Published online: 23 Jul 2020

Authors: Sorenson, Q. M. & Damschen, E. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural land is being increasingly abandoned on a global scale, with over 200 million hectares recovering from agricultural use. Plant community ...

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The potential contribution of terrestrial nature-based solutions to a national 'net zero' climate target.

Published online: 24 Dec 2021

Authors: Bradfer-Lawrence, T. & Finch, T. & Bradbury, R. B. & Buchanan, G. M. & Midgley, A. & Field, R. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many national governments have incorporated nature-based solutions (NbS) in their plans to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions. However, uncertainties...

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Increased habitat connectivity homogenizes freshwater communities: historical and landscape perspectives.

Published online: 22 Nov 2017

Authors: Strecker, A. L. & Brittain, J. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Increases in habitat connectivity can have consequences for taxonomic, functional, and genetic diversity of communities. Previously isolated aquatic h...

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