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Fuzzy cognitive mapping for predicting hydromorphological responses to multiple pressures in rivers.

Published online: 09 Mar 2016

Authors: Lorenz, S. & Martinez-Fernández, V. & Alonso, C. & Mosselman, E. & García de Jalón, D. & González del Tánago, M. & Belletti, B. & Hendriks, D. & Wolter, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Different pressures often co-occur in rivers and act simultaneously on important processes and variables. This complicates the diagnosis of hydromorph...

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Conservation triage in action: planning, governance and knowledge co-production for biodiversity protection.

Published online: 07 Dec 2024

Authors: Martínez-Harms, M. J. & Estévez, R. A. & Álvarez-Miranda, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conservation triage is an evolving strategy designed to allocate limited resources to address pressures that require urgent actions due to their conse...

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Untangling the threads of conservation: a closer look at restoration and preservation.

Published online: 21 May 2024

Authors: Mori, A. S. & Isbell, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Global goals and targets were recently set for biodiversity conservation in the coming decade. As action plans are now being developed, it is timely a...

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A response from the British Ecological Society to Defra's "net gain" consultation.

Published online: 01 Apr 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Content type: White paper

This paper describes the response from the British Ecological Society to Defra's "net gain" consultation. The Net Gain consultation is seeking views o...

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Citizen science promotes knowledge, skills and collective action to monitor and protect freshwater streams.

Published online: 17 Dec 2024

Authors: Gönner, J. von & Masson, T. & Köhler, S. & Fritsche, I. & Bonn, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Citizen science has great potential to foster ecological knowledge, skills and collective action for biodiversity conservation. To date, however, ther...

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Effective management for deadwood-dependent lichen diversity requires landscape-scale habitat protection.

Published online: 08 Jan 2024

Authors: Hämäläinen, A. & Fahrig, L. & Strengbom, J. & Ranius, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat loss is considered a major threat for biodiversity. However, the scales on which its effects occur are still insufficiently understood, namely...

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Is saltmarsh restoration success constrained by matching natural environments or altered succession? A test using niche models.

Published online: 21 Nov 2018

Authors: Sullivan, M. J. P. & Davy, A. J. & Grant, A. & Mossman, H. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restored habitats, such as saltmarsh created through managed realignment, sometimes fail to meet targets for biological equivalence with natural refer...

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Long-term changes to the frequency of occurrence of British moths are consistent with opposing and synergistic effects of climate and land-use changes.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Fox, R. & Oliver, T. H. & Harrower, C. & Parsons, M. S. & Thomas, C. D. & Roy, D. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Species' distributions are likely to be affected by a combination of environmental drivers. We used a data set of 11 million species occurrence record...

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Capturing threshold responses of marine benthos along gradients of natural and anthropogenic change.

Published online: 28 Dec 2020

Authors: Couce, E. & Engelhard, G. H. & Schratzberger, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecologists and managers need to understand what types of communities emerge with continued human alterations to ecosystems against a background of nat...

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Topsoil removal through scarification improves natural regeneration in high-graded Nothofagus old-growth forests.

Published online: 02 May 2018

Authors: Soto, D. P. & Puettmann, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

High grading by removing the majority of trees with superior timber quality has led to loss of productivity and biodiversity in forests. Typically, af...

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