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Mixed impacts of protected areas and a cash crop boom on human well-being in North-Eastern Madagascar.

Published online: 16 Mar 2024

Authors: Llopis, J. C. & Diebold, C. L. & Schneider, F. & Harimalala, P. C. & Andriamihaja, O. R. & Messerli, P. & Zaehringer, J. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Tropical forest frontier areas support the well-being of local populations in myriad ways. Not only do they provide the material basis for people's li...

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Land use and elevation interact to shape bird functional and phylogenetic diversity and structure: implications for designing optimal agriculture landscapes.

Published online: 11 Oct 2021

Authors: Sreekar, R. & Si XingFeng & Sam, K. & Liu JiaJia & Dayananda, S. & Goodale, U. & Kotagama, S. & Goodale, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The conversion of rainforests into agriculture resulted in massive changes in species diversity and community structure. Although the conservation of ...

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Understanding the biodiversity consequences of habitat change: the value of secondary and plantation forests for neotropical dung beetles.

Published online: 04 Jun 2008

Authors: Gardner, T. A. & Hernández, M. I. M. & Barlow, J. & Peres, C. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Secondary and plantation forests are becoming increasingly widespread in the tropics. A recent meta-analysis on the impacts of land-use change on trop...

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Predicting locations of moose-vehicle collisions in Sweden.

Published online: 25 May 2005

Authors: Seiler, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Animal-vehicle collisions are a serious problem for road planners and biologists concerned with traffic safety, species conservation and animal welfar...

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Setting a foundation for indigenous knowledge systems-guided boreal caribou (todzı) conservation planning in the western boreal region of Canada: a systematic map protocol.

Published online: 16 May 2023

Authors: Saturno, J. & Boeckner, M. & Haché, S. & Hodson, J. & McAuley, E. & McIntire, E. & Micheletti, T. & Polfus, J. & Sliwa, S. & Teed, T. & Westwood, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

In recent years, researchers have increasingly recognized the need to bridge Western and Indigenous knowledge systems to strengthen research in wildli...

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Grassland nature reserves safeguard a high species richness and biomass of grasshoppers.

Published online: 01 Dec 2024

Authors: Poniatowski, D. & Weißgräber, V. & Drung, M. & Freienstein, F. M. & Kettermann, M. & Scherer, G. & Fartmann, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In the course of land-use change, especially since the mid-20th century, the area of semi-natural (unimproved) grasslands has dramatically decreased. ...

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Spatial modelling and estimation of mammals' mortalities by Pantanal 2020 megafires.

Published online: 02 Dec 2024

Authors: Brack, I. V. & Cordeiro, J. L. P. & Kindel, A. & Rangel, B. Z. & Crawshaw, D. & Heiermann, D. & Berto, D. O. & Sicuro, F. L. & Oliveira, G. S. de & Gonçalves, G. S. & Franceschi, I. C. & Lermen, I. S. & Oliveira, M. B. de & Thomas, P. A. & Oliveira, R. A. A. de & Conceição, T. F. & Oliveira, L. F. B. de

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Extreme wildfire events, such as the Pantanal 2020 megafires, are expected to become more common. Assessing the impacts of such extreme events on wild...

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birds and insects respond differently to combinations of semi-natural features in farm landscapes.

Published online: 05 Nov 2022

Authors: Hall, M. A. & Nimmo, D. G. & Bennett, A. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Semi-natural features among farmland have a key role in maintaining wildlife in rural landscapes. Practical conservation requires knowledge of which c...

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Phylogenetic diversity reveals hidden patterns related to population source and species pools during restoration.

Published online: 12 Apr 2017

Authors: Khalil, M. I. & Gibson, D. J. & Baer, S. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A phylogenetic perspective of community assembly can reveal new insights into how variation within dominant species interacts with the local species p...

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Extinction risk of North American seed plants elevated by climate and land-use change.

Published online: 12 Apr 2017

Authors: Zhang Jian & Nielsen, S. E. & Chen YouHua & Georges, D. & Qin YuChu & Wang SiShuo & Svenning, J. C. & Thuiller, W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate and land-use change are expected to substantially alter future plant species distributions leading to higher extinction rates. However, little...

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