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Linking phylogenetic similarity and pollution sensitivity to develop ecological assessment methods: a test with river diatoms.

Published online: 01 Jun 2016

Authors: Keck, F. & Bouchez, A. & Franc, A. & Rimet, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Diatoms include a great diversity of taxa and are recognized as powerful bioindicators of freshwater quality. However, using diatoms for bioassessment...

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Fire management in Mediterranean-climate shrublands: a case study from the Cape fynbos, South Africa.

Published online: 26 May 2010

Authors: Wilgen, B. W. van & Forsyth, G. G. & Klerk, H. de & Sonali Das & Khuluse, S. & Schmitz, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Fire is an important process in Mediterranean-ecosystem shrublands, and prescribed burning is often used to manage these ecosystems. Analyses of past ...

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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on human-nature interactions: pathways, evidence and implications.

Published online: 22 Oct 2021

Authors: Soga, M. & Evans, M. J. & Cox, D. T. C. & Gaston, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the global response have dramatically changed people's lifestyles in much of the world. These major changes, a...

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Hybrid apes in the anthropocene: burden or asset for conservation?

Published online: 22 Oct 2021

Authors: Palmer, A. & Sommer, V. & Msindai, J. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Conservationists often view hybrid animals as problematic, at least if anthropogenic influence caused the intermixing to occur. However, critics propo...

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Evaluating population recovery for sea turtles under nesting beach protection while accounting for nesting behaviours and changes in availability.

Published online: 20 Jun 2012

Authors: Thorson, J. T. & Punt, A. E. & Nel, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sea turtles and sea birds generally have high conservation importance world-wide and are often difficult to survey except when present on nesting grou...

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Environmental conditions associated with bat white-nose syndrome mortality in the north-eastern United States.

Published online: 20 Jun 2012

Authors: Flory, A. R. & Kumar, S. & Stohlgren, T. J. & Cryan, P. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease of hibernating North American bats that is caused by the cold-growing fungus Geomyces destructans. Si...

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Inferring habitat suitability and spread patterns from large-scale distributions of an exotic invasive pasture grass in north Australia.

Published online: 20 Jun 2012

Authors: Petty, A. M. & Setterfield, S. A. & Ferdinands, K. B. & Barrow, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The understanding of large-scale patterns in expanding populations of alien invasive plants can be used to infer the environmental limiting factors, h...

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The influence of elevated CO2 and simulated seasonal changes in temperature on tissue turnover in pasture turves dominated by perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and white clover (Trifolium repens).

Published online: 24 Mar 1995

Authors: Clark, H. & Newton, P. C. D. & Bell, C. C. & Glasgow, E. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Tissue turnover, leaf morphology and population dynamics of perennial ryegrass and white clover were studied in pasture turves grown at ambient (350 µ...

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Recreation of lowland heathland on ex-arable land: assessing the limiting processes on two sites with contrasting soil fertility and pH.

Published online: 18 Jul 2007

Authors: Walker, K. J. & Warman, E. A. & Bhogal, A. & Cross, R. B. & Pywell, R. F. & Meek, B. R. & Chambers, B. J. & Pakeman, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

European heathlands are of high conservation value but have declined as a result of agricultural intensification. Heathland recreation is currently be...

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Provenance variation of ecologically important traits of forest trees: implications for restoration.

Published online: 18 Jul 2007

Authors: O'Brien, E. K. & Mazanec, R. A. & Krauss, S. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The source of seed or plant material can have profound implications for the success of restoration efforts because most species exhibit adaptive genet...

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