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Nature networks evidence handbook.

Published online: 19 Jan 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Crick, H. & Crosher, I. & Mainstone, C. & Taylor, S. & Wharton, A. & Langford, P. & Larwood, J. & Lusardi, J. & Appleton, D. & Brotherton, P. & Duffield, S. & Macgregor, N.

Content type: Reports

The overarching ambition of the Defra 25 Year Environmental Plan is to 'leave our environment in a better state than we found it and to pass on to the...

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Quantifying restoration success and recovery in a metal-polluted stream: a 17-year assessment of physicochemical and biological responses.

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Clements, W. H. & Vieira, N. K. M. & Church, S. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Evaluating the effectiveness of stream restoration is often challenging because of the lack of pre-treatment data, narrow focus on physicochemical mea...

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A metacommunity approach for detecting species influenced by mass effect.

Published online: 23 Nov 2020

Authors: Leboucher, T. & Tison-Rosebery, J. & Budnick, W. R. & Jamoneau, A. & Vyverman, W. & Soininen, J. & Boutry, S. & Passy, S. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Mass effect, allowing species to persist in unfavourable habitats, and dispersal limitation, preventing species from reaching favourable habitats, are...

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Ecosystem service provision by road verges.

Published online: 28 Jul 2020

Authors: Phillips, B. B. & Bullock, J. M. & Osborne, J. L. & Gaston, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Roads form a vast, rapidly growing global network that has diverse, detrimental ecological impacts. However, the habitats that border roads ('road ver...

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Disrupting the effects of synergies between stressors: improved water quality dampens the effects of future CO2 on a marine habitat.

Published online: 13 Feb 2013

Authors: Falkenberg, L. J. & Connell, S. D. & Russell, B. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Synergies among stressors drive unanticipated changes to alternative states, yet little has been done to assess whether alleviating one or more contri...

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Monitoring sediment production from forest road approaches to stream crossings in the Virginia Piedmont.

Published online: 15 Apr 2015

Authors: Brown, K. R. & Aust, W. M. & McGuire, K. J.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Reopening of abandoned legacy roads is common in forest operations and represents a reduced cost in comparison to new road construction. However, lega...

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Multiple stressors and stream ecosystem functioning: climate warming and agricultural stressors interact to affect processing of organic matter.

Published online: 23 Sep 2015

Authors: Piggott, J. J. & Niyogi, D. K. & Townsend, C. R. & Matthaei, C. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Measures of organic matter processing have been proposed as indices of stream ecosystem function to complement structural measures (water quality, tax...

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Social-ecological feedbacks drive spatial exploitation in a northern freshwater fishery: a halo of depletion.

Published online: 25 Jul 2020

Authors: Wilson, K. L. & Foos, A. & Barker, O. E. & Farineau, A. & Gisi, J. de & Post, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Freshwater fisheries are complex social-ecological systems spatially structured by coupled feedbacks between people and nature. Spatial exploitation d...

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Evidence-based restoration of freshwater biodiversity after mining: experience from Central European spoil heaps.

Published online: 23 Oct 2021

Authors: Kolar, V. & Tichanek, F. & Tropek, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Post-mining freshwater habitats can serve as secondary habitats for threatened species. Being globally plentiful, their efficient restoration should b...

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Pollutants affect development in nestling starlings Sturnus vulgaris.

Published online: 13 Apr 2011

Authors: Markman, S. & Müller, C. T. & Pascoe, D. & Dawson, A. & Buchanan, K. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pollutants as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are of worldwide concern, due to their detrimental effects on the physiology and behaviour of wild...

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