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The effect of management for red grouse shooting on the population density of breeding birds on heather-dominated moorland.

Published online: 22 Aug 2001

Authors: Tharme, A. P. & Green, R. E. & Baines, D. & Bainbridge, I. P. & O'Brien, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Breeding birds, vegetation and moorland management were surveyed in 320 1-km squares on 122 estates in upland areas of eastern Scotland and northern E...

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Individual study: use of grazing and mowing to reduce the dominance of soft rush Juncus effusus in fen meadows in Scotland.

Published online: 12 Mar 2020

Authors: Shellswell, C. H. & Humpidge, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Three years of differing management regimes to reduce the dominance of soft rush Juncus effusus were undertaken at Moss Town Fen on the north-east Abe...

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Red flag for green spray: adverse trophic effects of Bti on breeding birds.

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Poulin, B. & Lefebvre, G. & Paz, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The expanding use of selective pest-control agents provides a unique opportunity to study food web interactions in the field while addressing major en...

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Revised Disease Risk Analysis for the Conservation Translocation of the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) to England.

Published online: 12 Apr 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Common, S. & Sainsbury, A. W. & Donald, H.

Content type: Reports

In a disease risk analysis (DRA) on the conservation translocation of free-living beavers from either Norway or Great Britain, or those housed in eith...

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Scientifically framed gene drive communication perceived as credible but riskier.

Published online: 29 Oct 2021

Authors: MacDonald, E. A. & Edwards, E. D. & Balanovic, J. & Medvecky, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Humans have caused a catastrophic decline to animal species and look to emerging technologies to stop the decline. Gene drive is a potential tool that...

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Nitrogen cycling in conventional and no-tillage agro-ecosystems: analysis of pathways and processes.

Published online: 09 Apr 1985

Authors: House, G. J. & Stinner, B. R. & Crossley, D. A. Jr. & Odum, E. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sorghum cv. Funk's 522 was grown in 1978 followed by rye cv. Abruzzi under conventional tillage (CT) (disc ploughing) or no tillage (NT). Soyabean cv....

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Multistate capture-recapture analysis under imperfect state observation: an application to disease models.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Conn, P. B. & Cooch, E. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Multistate capture-recapture models are frequently used to estimate the survival and state transition parameters needed to parameterize stage-structur...

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Preliminary estimates of fallen dead wood and standing dead trees in managed and unmanaged forests in Britain.

Published online: 01 May 1998

Authors: Kirby, K. J. & Reid, C. M. & Thomas, R. C. & Goldsmith, F. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The amount of dead wood, particularly as fallen dead wood and standing dead trees, in British forests is attracting attention from forest managers as ...

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Deep learning object detection to estimate the nectar sugar mass of flowering vegetation.

Published online: 27 Oct 2021

Authors: Hicks, D. & Baude, M. & Kratz, C. & Ouvrard, P. & Stone, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Floral resources are a key driver of pollinator abundance and diversity, yet their quantification in the field and laboratory is laborious and require...

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The effects of late cutting on threatened bumblebees Bombus spp. in sea wall grassland at Goldhanger creek, Essex, England.

Published online: 10 May 2020

Authors: Gardiner, T. & Fargeaud, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Sea wall flood defences provide important grassland habitats for bumblebees in the UK but cutting in July and August could be deleterious for declinin...

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