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Enhancing ecosystem services in apple orchards.

Published online: 27 Apr 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Content type: Blog

This paper presents the results of a field study conducted in Spain, to evaluate the effectiveness of installing nest boxes for insectivorous birds in...

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Enhancing ecosystem services in apple orchards.

Published online: 27 Apr 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Content type: Blog

This paper presents the results of a field study conducted in Spain, to evaluate the efficiency of installing artificial nest boxes for insectivorous ...

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The effect of sprays on the fauna of apple trees. IV. The re-coloniziilíon of orchard plols by the predatory Mirid Blepharidopierus angulatus and its effect on populations of Panaychus ulmi..

Published online: 02 Jul 1969

Authors: Muir, R. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following is based largely on the author's summary of .this part of a series on investigations in south-eastern f-.ngland [cf. RAE A 54 470]. Foll...

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The role of different organo-chlorine compounds in the breeding of British sparrowhawks.

Published online: 01 Jan 1978

Authors: Newton, I. & Bogan, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Organochlorine levels and shell thickness indices varied little between eggs in the same clutch of Accipiter nisus in the UK, but they varied greatly ...

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Phenotypic and community consequences of captive propagation in mosquitofish.

Published online: 20 Jul 2020

Authors: Wood, Z. T. & Fryxell, D. C. & Robinson, R. R. & Palkovacs, E. P. & Kinnison, M. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Captive propagation can lead to phenotypic change in fish populations, but the broader community-level consequences of captive phenotypes remain la...

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Solar parks as livestock enclosures can become key to linking energy, biodiversity and society.

Published online: 12 Oct 2023

Authors: Zaplata, M. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The expansion of renewable energy generation sites in the landscape is controversial, as is repopulation by large predators, particularly wolves. Both...

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A model for the effect of Sphecophaga vesparum vesparum as a biological control agent of the common wasp in New Zealand.

Published online: 25 May 1996

Authors: Barlow, N. D. & Moller, H. & Beggs, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A model of intermediate complexity is described to predict and understand the reasons for the ultimate impact of the ichneumonid parasitoid S. v. vesp...

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Differential effects of landscape and management on diversity and density of ground-dwelling farmland spiders.

Published online: 25 May 2005

Authors: Schmidt, M. H. & Roschewitz, I. & Thies, C. & Tscharntke, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The distribution and abundance of animals are influenced by factors at both local and wider landscape scales. Natural enemies of pests in arable field...

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Some effects of weed control on the numbers of the small cabbage white (Pieris rapae L.) on brussels sprouts.

Published online: 26 Oct 1970

Authors: Dempster, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The presence of weeds within the crop provided a habitat which was more suitable for some of the arthropod predators of P. rapae. Harpalus rufipes was...

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Studies on Haltica carduorum Guerin (Coleoptera:Chrysomelidae) on alien beetle released in Britain as a contribution to the biological control of creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Baker, C. R. B. & Blackman, R. L. & Claridge, M. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Adults of Altica (Haltica) carduorum Guer. from France were released in 1969 and 1970 on Cirsium arvense (creeping thistle) at Silwood Park, Berkshire...

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