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Evaluating the legacy of landscape history: extinction debt and species credit in bird and small mammal assemblages in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

Published online: 19 Dec 2012

Authors: Lira, P. K. & Ewers, R. M. & Banks-Leite, C. & Pardini, R. & Metzger, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There is now an extensive literature on extinction debt following deforestation. However, the potential for species credit in landscapes that have exp...

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Moths, lichens and air pollution along a transect from Manchester to north Wales.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Bishop, J. A. & Cook, L. M. & Muggleton, J. & Seaward, M. R. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The light reflectance, type of epiphyte cover, and lichen flora of samples of oak trees at fifty-three sites along the transect were recorded. The cor...

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Species accumulation curves and the measure of sampling effort.

Published online: 22 Aug 2001

Authors: Willott, S. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

This article discusses a recent paper [Moreno and Halffter, Journal of Applied Ecology (2000) 37, 149-158] that described the problems associated with...

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Conservation and biological monitoring of tropical forests: the role of parataxonomists.

Published online: 24 Mar 2004

Authors: Basset, Y. & Novotny, V. & Miller, S. E. & Weiblen, G. D. & Missa, O. & Stewart, A. J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The demise of tropical rain forests will lead to a large-scale extinction of genetic diversity, particularly of arthropods. Curtailing these trends mi...

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Assessing the impact of forest disturbance on tropical invertebrates: some comments.

Published online: 08 Oct 1998

Authors: Basset, Y. & Novotny, V. & Miller, S. E. & Springate, N. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The possible use of tropical insects as indicators for monitoring forest disturbance and regeneration is discussed with reference to whether species-a...

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Lands End and Cape Bank Special Area of Conservation: Condition Monitoring Survey 2018.

Published online: 11 Apr 2024

Published by: Natural England

Content type: Reports

This report is an assessment of the environmental and ecological conditions within the Lands End and Cape Bank Special Area of Conservation (SAC), par...

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Using subsets of species in biodiversity surveys.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Vellend, M. & Lilley, P. L. & Starzomski, B. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In many biodiversity surveys, a small proportion of species require a disproportionate amount of a researcher's time and effort to detect or identify....

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Experimental verification of suction sampler capture efficiency in grasslands of differing vegetation height and structure.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Brook, A. J. & Woodcock, B. A. & Sinka, M. & Vanbergen, A. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Suction sampling is a popular method for the collection of quantitative data on grassland invertebrate populations, although there have been no detail...

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The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure.

Published online: 08 Oct 2024

Authors: Clark-Wolf, T. J. & Holt, K. A. & Johansson, E. & Nisi, A. C. & Rafiq, K. & West, L. & Boersma, P. D. & Hazen, E. L. & Moore, S. E. & Abrahms, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A major obstacle to preventing and reversing biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene lies in the scarcity of tools and data for monitoring the health an...

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Addressing tagging location bias to assess space use by marine animals.

Published online: 22 Nov 2020

Authors: Hays, G. C. & Rattray, A. & Esteban, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Estimates of space use derived from animal tracking studies are often biased by where animals are tagged, with areas distant to the tagging site, in b...

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