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Spatial targeting of woodland creation can reduce the colonisation credit of woodland plants.

Published online: 02 Oct 2023

Authors: Hughes, S. & Kunin, W. & Ziv, G. & Watts, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Colonisation credit refers to the temporal lag between positive conservation actions and species' responses and may be one of the reasons we fail to m...

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Time budgets and foraging of breeding golden plover Pluvialis apricaria.

Published online: 22 Sep 2000

Authors: Whittingham, M. J. & Percival, S. M. & Brown, A. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The golden plover Pluvialis apricaria is of high conservation concern in Europe. Previous studies have concentrated on how birds utilize moorland. We ...

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Stable isotopes (δD) delineate the origins and migratory connectivity of harvested animals: the case of European woodpigeons.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Hobson, K. A. & Lormée, H. & Wilgenburg, S. L. van & Wassenaar, L. I. & Boutin, J. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Quantifying connectivity between breeding, stopover, and wintering locations is critical to the management and conservation of migratory animals. Mark...

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A hierarchical Bayesian approach to multi-state mark-recapture: simulations and applications.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Calvert, A. M. & Bonner, S. J. & Jonsen, I. D. & Flemming, J. M. & Walde, S. J. & Taylor, P. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Mark-recapture models are valuable for assessing diverse demographic and behavioural parameters, yet the precision of traditional estimates is often c...

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Evidence that dingoes limit abundance of a mesopredator in eastern Australian forests.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Johnson, C. N. & VanDerwal, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Aggressive behaviour of top predators may have strong effects on the distribution and abundance of mesopredator species. Such interactions between pre...

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Nestboxes augment seabird breeding performance in a high-density colony: insight from 15 years of monitoring data.

Published online: 25 Oct 2022

Authors: Burke, B. & O'Connell, D. P. & Kinchin-Smith, D. & Sealy, S. & Newton, S. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. The provision of artificial nest structures is used in the conservation of a broad range of bird groups including raptors, owls, ducks, passerines ...

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Long-term changes in the flora of the cereal ecosystem on the Sussex Downs, England, focusing on the years 1968-2005.

Published online: 10 Mar 2010

Authors: Potts, G. R. & Ewald, J. A. & Aebischer, N. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There has been a surge of interest in the effects of modern agriculture on biodiversity but studies of farmland flora have lacked continuity and histo...

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Changes in the vegetation of hay meadows under an agri-environment scheme in south Belgium.

Published online: 08 Nov 2017

Authors: Piqueray, J. & Rouxhet, S. & Hendrickx, S. & Mahy, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

We monitored five-year changes in the vegetation of 31 hay meadows under an agri-environment scheme in Wallonia, Southern Belgium. Management included...

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Burning for biodiversity: highly resilient ant communities respond only to strongly contrasting fire regimes in Australia's seasonal tropics.

Published online: 08 Oct 2014

Authors: Andersen, A. N. & Ribbons, R. R. & Pettit, M. & Parr, C. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

According to the pyrodiversity paradigm, a wide range of fire regimes is required to maintain biodiversity in fire-prone landscapes. However, the requ...

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Predicting soil properties from floristic composition in western Amazonian rain forests: performance of k-nearest neighbour estimation and weighted averaging calibration.

Published online: 04 Dec 2013

Authors: Suominen, L. & Ruokolainen, K. & Tuomisto, H. & Llerena, N. & Higgins, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soil quality is an important determinant of primary productivity and species occurrence patterns. Therefore, plant species composition can be used as ...

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