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Natural Capital Indicators: for defining and measuring change in natural capital.

Published online: 19 Jan 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Lusardi, J. & Rice, P. & Waters, R. & Craven, J.

Content type: Reports

All aspects of human well-being depend on the essential services that are provided by a healthy natural environment. These services include food, clea...

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Nature networks evidence handbook.

Published online: 19 Jan 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Crick, H. & Crosher, I. & Mainstone, C. & Taylor, S. & Wharton, A. & Langford, P. & Larwood, J. & Lusardi, J. & Appleton, D. & Brotherton, P. & Duffield, S. & Macgregor, N.

Content type: Reports

The overarching ambition of the Defra 25 Year Environmental Plan is to 'leave our environment in a better state than we found it and to pass on to the...

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Numerical top-down effects on red deer (Cervus elaphus) are mainly shaped by humans rather than large carnivores across Europe.

Published online: 01 Jul 2024

Authors: Beeck Calkoen, S. T. S. van & Kuijper, D. P. J. & Apollonio, M. & Blondel, L. & Dormann, C. F. & Storch, I. & Heurich, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Terrestrial ecosystems are shaped by interacting top-down and bottom-up processes, with the magnitude of top-down control by large carnivores largely ...

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Control of bracken and the restoration of heathland. V. Effects of bracken control treatments on the rhizome and its relationship with frond performance.

Published online: 12 Jan 1995

Authors: Marrs, R. H. & Pakeman, R. J. & Lowday, J. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effect of three weed control treatments on the rhizome system of bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) was assessed in field trials at Cavenham and Weetin...

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Is invasion success explained by enemy release?

Published online: 07 Nov 2020

Authors: Roznik, E.

Content type: Blog

Identifying the mechanisms underlying biological invasions can inform the management of invasive species. The enemy release hypothesis (ERH) suggests ...

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Higher dung seedling density increases livestock dung greenhouse gas emissions in an alpine meadow.

Published online: 19 Feb 2024

Authors: Wang ShuLin & Hou, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The dung seed bank (i.e. vegetation renewal) and greenhouse gas (GHG, e.g. carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), which contribu...

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Direct and indirect effects of a fishing ban on lacustrine fish community do not result in a full recovery.

Published online: 15 Feb 2024

Authors: Feng Kai & Deng WenBo & Li HaoXuan & Guo QianQian & Tao Kun & Yuan Jing & Liu JiaShou & Li ZhongJie & Lek, S. & Hugueny, B. & Wang QiDong

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Protected areas are increasingly being promoted as an important means of protecting freshwater biological diversity and ecological processes. A robust...

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Long term monitoring reveals the importance of large, long unburnt areas and smaller fires in moderating mammal declines in fire-prone savanna of northern Australia.

Published online: 18 Feb 2024

Authors: Einoder, L. D. & Fisher, A. & Hill, B. M. & Buckley, K. & Laive, A. H. de & Woinarski, J. C. Z. & Gillespie, G. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity loss is often attributable to multiple interacting pressures that are moderated across environmental gradients. These processes contribut...

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Survival of seeds of tropical grassland species subjected to bovine digestion.

Published online: 20 Mar 1993

Authors: Gardener, C. J. & McIvor, J. G. & Jansen, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The survival and digestion of seeds of 47 tropical and subtropical legume and grass species were studied by placing the seeds in nylon bags in the rum...

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Matrix quality determines the strength of habitat loss filtering on bird communities at the landscape scale.

Published online: 13 Mar 2023

Authors: Souza Leite, M. de & Boesing, A. L. & Metzger, J. P. & Prado, P. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat loss represents a major threat to biodiversity, however, the modulation of its effects by the nonhabitat matrix surrounding habitat patches is...

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