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Invasion pathways at a crossroad: policy and research challenges for managing alien species introductions.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Hulme, P. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity have agreed that, by 2020, invasion pathways will be identified, prioritized and managed to prevent ...

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The varying income effects of weather variation: initial insights from rural Vietnam.

Published online: 07 Sep 2016

Authors: Narloch, U.

Content type: Bulletin

To estimate the impact of weather on rural income changes over time, this study combines data from the panel subsample of the latest Vietnam Household...

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Chronic anthropogenic disturbance drives the biological impoverishment of the Brazilian Caatinga vegetation.

Published online: 10 Jun 2015

Authors: Ribeiro, E. M. S. & Arroyo-Rodríguez, V. & Santos, B. A. & Tabarelli, M. & Leal, I. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In addition to acute transformations of ecosystems caused by deforestation, old-growth forests world-wide are being increasingly altered by low-intens...

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Non-invasive mark-resight surveys for brown bears: incorporating spatial information to improve landscape-scale monitoring of density and distribution.

Published online: 24 Nov 2023

Authors: Schmidt, J. H. & Deacy, W. W. & Hughes, L. J. & Schertz, D. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Effective wildlife monitoring and management are reliant on unbiased estimators of population parameters. Most standard survey approaches ignore spati...

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Effects of between-site variation in soil microbial communities and plant-soil feedbacks on the productivity and composition of plant communities.

Published online: 11 Oct 2017

Authors: Bauer, J. T. & Blumenthal, N. & Miller, A. J. & Ferguson, J. K. & Reynolds, H. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A critical challenge in the science and practice of restoration ecology is to understand the drivers of variation in restoration outcomes. Soil microb...

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Monitoring mammal populations with line transect techniques in African forests.

Published online: 12 Jul 2000

Authors: Plumptre, A. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Line transect survey techniques have been used to estimate population density for a variety of mammal species in tropical forests. This paper investig...

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Latin American experiences in natural forest management concessions.

Published online: 02 May 2020

Authors: Gretzinger, S.

Content type: Bulletin

FAO is leading an initiative to improve policies and practices related to concessions on natural production forests in order to sustain forests, build...

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Local dispersion of the Eucalyptus leaf-beetle Chrysophtharta bimaculata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), and implications for forest protection.

Published online: 13 Nov 1997

Authors: Clarke, A. R. & Zalucki, M. P. & Madden, J. L. & Patel, V. S. & Paterson, S. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Chrysophtharta bimaculata is a native chrysomelid species that can cause chronic defoliation of plantation and regrowth Eucalyptus forests in Tasmania...

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A view from above: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a new tool for assessing liana infestation in tropical forest canopies.

Published online: 18 Dec 2019

Authors: Waite, C. E. & Heijden, G. M. F. van der & Field, R. & Boyd, D. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Tropical forests store and sequester large quantities of carbon, mitigating climate change. Lianas (woody vines) are important tropical forest compone...

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Fire-induced negative nutritional outcomes for cattle when sharing habitat with native ungulates in an African savanna.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Odadi, W. O. & Kimuyu, D. M. & Sensenig, R. L. & Veblen, K. E. & Riginos, C. & Young, T. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Prescribed burning is used in tropical savannas to improve habitat conditions for domestic and wild herbivores, but its effects on the ecological inte...

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