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Quantifying the grazing impacts associated with different herbivores on rangelands.

Published online: 19 Dec 2007

Authors: Albon, S. D. & Brewer, M. J. & O'Brien, S. & Nolan, A. J. & Cope, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rangelands, produced by grazing herbivores, are important for a variety of agricultural, hunting, recreation and conservation objectives world-wide. T...

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A global review demonstrating the importance of nocturnal pollinators for crop plants.

Published online: 14 Apr 2023

Authors: Buxton, M. N. & Gaskett, A. C. & Lord, J. M. & Pattemore, D. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pollinating insects are critical to ecosystem stability and food security. Concerns about the impact of insect declines have therefore seen increased ...

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Examining disease prevalence for species of conservation concern using non-invasive spatial capture-recapture techniques.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Muneza, A. B. & Linden, D. W. & Montgomery, R. A. & Dickman, A. J. & Roloff, G. J. & Macdonald, D. W. & Fennessy, J. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Non-invasive techniques have long been used to estimate wildlife population abundance and density. However, recent technological breakthroughs have fa...

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Eradicating abundant invasive prey could cause unexpected and varied biodiversity outcomes: the importance of multispecies interactions.

Published online: 07 Nov 2018

Authors: Lurgi, M. & Ritchie, E. G. & Fordham, D. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Abundant and widely distributed invasive prey can negatively affect co-occurring native species by competing for food and/or shelter, removing vegetat...

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Benchmarking eleven biodiversity indicators based on environmental DNA surveys: more diverse functional traits and evolutionary lineages inside marine reserves.

Published online: 13 Mar 2023

Authors: Dalongeville, A. & Boulanger, E. & Marques, V. & Charbonnel, E. & Hartmann, V. & Santoni, M. C. & Deter, J. & Valentini, A. & Lenfant, P. & Boissery, P. & Dejean, T. & Velez, L. & Pichot, F. & Sanchez, L. & Arnal, V. & Bockel, T. & Delaruelle, G. & Holon, F. & Milhau, T. & Romant, L. & Manel, S. & Mouillot, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

To mitigate the ongoing threats to coastal ecosystems, and the biodiversity erosion they are causing, marine-protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as po...

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Changes in breeding success and abundance of ground-nesting moorland birds in relation to the experimental deployment of legal predator control.

Published online: 07 Apr 2010

Authors: Fletcher, K. & Aebischer, N. J. & Baines, D. & Foster, R. & Hoodless, A. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

An 8-year-field experiment on moorland in northern England manipulated the abundance of legally controllable predators whilst maintaining consistent h...

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Leveraging the strengths of citizen science and structured surveys to achieve scalable inference on population size.

Published online: 05 Mar 2024

Authors: Stillman, A. N. & Howell, P. E. & Zimmerman, G. S. & Bjerre, E. R. & Millsap, B. A. & Robinson, O. J. & Fink, D. & Stuber, E. F. & Ruiz-Gutierrez, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Population size is a key metric for management and policy decisions, yet wildlife monitoring programmes are often limited by the spatial and temporal ...

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Local ecological knowledge and education drive farmers' contrasting perceptions of scavengers and their function in Nepal.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Aishwarya Bhattacharjee & Sadadev, B. M. & Karmacharya, D. K. & Rishi Baral & Pérez-García, J. M. & Giménez Casalduero, A. & Sánchez-Zapata, J. A. & Anadón, J. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

There is a long-standing relationship between humans and vertebrate scavengers, as scavengers' contributions take on regulating (e.g. nutrient recycli...

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Medicine, black magic and supernatural beings: cultural rituals as a significant threat to slender lorises in India.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Gnanaolivu, S. D. & Campera, M. & Nekaris, K. A. I. & Nijman, V. & Roopa Satish & Sharath Babu & Mewa Singh

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Trade of wildlife for use in traditional medicines, rituals, magical spells and cultural practices occurs globally and has been studied mostly in Afri...

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Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Pettorelli, N. & Laurance, W. F. & O'Brien, T. G. & Wegmann, M. & Nagendra, H. & Turner, W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat loss and degradation, overexploitation, climate change and the spread of invasive species are drastically depleting the Earth's biological div...

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