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Towards environmentally friendly finfish farming: a potential for mussel farms to compensate fish farm effluents.

Published online: 23 Dec 2023

Authors: Kotta, J. & Stechele, B. & Barboza, F. R. & Kaasik, A. & Lavaud, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Aquaculture is seen as a possible solution to meet the rising demand for fish but only if the sector reduces its use of wild fish in feed as well as i...

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Improving the effectiveness of riparian management for aquatic invertebrates in a degraded agricultural landscape: stream size and land-use legacies.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Greenwood, M. J. & Harding, J. S. & Niyogi, D. K. & McIntosh, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Riparian management has been embraced by water and land managers globally to offset the deleterious effects of intensive agricultural land use on aqua...

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Evidence-based restoration of freshwater biodiversity after mining: experience from Central European spoil heaps.

Published online: 23 Oct 2021

Authors: Kolar, V. & Tichanek, F. & Tropek, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Post-mining freshwater habitats can serve as secondary habitats for threatened species. Being globally plentiful, their efficient restoration should b...

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Winter management of Californian rice fields for waterbirds.

Published online: 01 May 1998

Authors: Elphick, C. S. & Oring, L. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Recent legislation designed to reduce air pollution has restricted Californian rice-farmers from burning rice stubble after harvest. Intentional flood...

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Pollutants affect development in nestling starlings Sturnus vulgaris.

Published online: 13 Apr 2011

Authors: Markman, S. & Müller, C. T. & Pascoe, D. & Dawson, A. & Buchanan, K. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pollutants as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are of worldwide concern, due to their detrimental effects on the physiology and behaviour of wild...

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Lake restoration: successes, failures and long-term effects.

Published online: 19 Dec 2007

Authors: Søndergaard, M. & Jeppesen, E. & Lauridsen, T. L. & Skov, C. & Nes, E. H. van & Roijackers, R. & Lammens, E. & Portielje, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Eutrophication constitutes a serious threat to many European lakes and many approaches have been used during the past 20-30 years to improve lake wate...

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Water body temperature model for assessing climate change impacts on thermal cooling.

Published online: 19 Oct 2016

Authors: Strzepek, K. & Fant, C. & Gebretsadik, Y. & Lickley, M. & Boehlert, B. & Chapra, S. & Adams, E. & Strzepek, A. & Schlosser, C. A.

Content type: Bulletin

We develop and test a physically based semi-Lagrangian water body temperature model to apply climatological data and thermal pollution from river-base...

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Temperature- and latitude-specific individual growth rates shape the vulnerability of damselfly larvae to a widespread pesticide.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Khuong Dinh Van & Janssens, L. & Debecker, S. & Stoks, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Freshwater ecosystems are especially vulnerable to climate change and pollution. One key challenge for aquatic toxicology is to determine and manage t...

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Negative effects of pesticides under global warming can be counteracted by a higher degradation rate and thermal adaptation.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Beeck, L. O. de & Verheyen, J. & Olsen, K. & Stoks, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

An alarming finding for biodiversity is that global warming and pesticides often interact synergistically. Yet, this synergism may not capture the ful...

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Recent changes in the rural environment in China.

Published online: 01 Sep 1990

Authors: Han, C. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The great changes in Chinese agriculture during the past 10 years have been accompanied by significant deterioration of the rural environment. Among t...

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