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Challenges and directions for open ecosystems biodiversity restoration: an overview of the techniques applied for cerrado.

Published online: 12 Nov 2023

Authors: Pilon, N. A. L. & Campos, B. H. & Durigan, G. & Cava, M. G. B. & Rowland, L. & Schmidt, I. & Sampaio, A. & Oliveira, R. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecological restoration of tropical open ecosystems remains challenging for both science and practice. Over the last decade, innovative techniques have...

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Detecting flowers on imagery with computer vision to improve continental scale grassland biodiversity surveying.

Published online: 02 Jul 2024

Authors: Elvekjaer, N. & Martinez-Sanchez, L. & Bonnet, P. & Joly, A. & Paracchini, M. L. & Velde, M. van der

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Large-scale biodiversity monitoring is essential for assessing biodiversity trends, yet traditional surveying methods are limited in the spatial/tempo...

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Epizootiology of the seal disease in the eastern North Sea.

Published online: 06 Mar 1993

Authors: Heide-Jørgensen, M. P. & Härkönen, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The intensity of the 1988 outbreak of phocine distemper among harbour seals, Phoca vitulina, present in the vicinity of haul-out sites in the Kattegat...

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A slippery slope: logging alters mass-abundance scaling in ecological communities.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Umesh Srinivasan

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Natural ecosystems face ever-increasing anthropogenic threats from activities such as logging. It is therefore important to: (i) understand anthropoge...

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Using multiple data sources provides density estimates for endangered Florida panther.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Sollmann, R. & Gardner, B. & Chandler, R. B. & Shindle, D. B. & Onorato, D. P. & Royle, J. A. & O'Connell, A. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

To assess recovery of endangered species, reliable information on the size and density of the target population is required. In practice, however, thi...

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Vegetation-site relationships of roadside plant communities in West Virginia, USA.

Published online: 30 Mar 2005

Authors: Rentch, J. S. & Fortney, R. H. & Stephenson, S. L. & Adams, H. S. & Grafton, W. N. & Anderson, J. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In mountainous regions, road construction is accompanied by large-scale physical disturbance associated with cut and fill operations that drastically ...

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Sanctioned quotas vs information provisioning for community wildlife conservation in Zimbabwe: a framed field experiment approach.

Published online: 22 May 2019

Authors: Ntuli, H. & Crépin, A. S. & Schill, C. & Muchapondwa, E.

Content type: Bulletin

We investigate the behavioural responses of resource users to policy interventions like sanctioned quotas and information provisioning. We do so in a ...

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Combining time trends in multiple metrics for identifying persistent changes in population processes or environmental stressors.

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Trenkel, V. M. & Rochet, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Metrics have become a standard way for summarizing environmental monitoring results. Different metrics react differently to natural variations and hum...

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Using daily ration models and stable isotope analysis to predict biomass depletion by herbivores.

Published online: 11 Oct 2006

Authors: Inger, R. & Ruxton, G. D. & Newton, J. & Colhoun, K. & Mackie, K. & Robinson, J. A. & Bearhop, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Food availability is one of the major factors governing the distribution of animals. Because animal numbers can in turn regulate the availability of f...

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Wild foods from forests: quantities collected across Zambia.

Published online: 23 Nov 2022

Authors: Steel, E. A. & Bwembelo, L. & Mulani, A. & Siamutondo, A. L. M. & Banda, P. & Gumbo, D. & Moombe, K. & Ickowitz, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Forests provide an immense range of benefits to people, many of which are not prioritized by forest policy because they are difficult to quantify. Wil...

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