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A phylogenetic evaluation of non-random medicinal plants selection around an African biosphere reserve.

Published online: 16 Mar 2024

Authors: Moutouama, J. K. & Gaoue, O. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Theory in ethnobiology suggests that the selection of medicinal plants by local people in a given region is not random and evolutionary closely relate...

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Favourite places for outdoor recreation: weak correlations between perceived qualities and structural landscape characteristics in Swedish PPGIS study.

Published online: 19 Mar 2024

Authors: Stoltz, J. & Lehto, C. & Hedblom, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Connections between outdoor recreation and various health and well-being benefits are well established. However, questions remain regarding which land...

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Araucaria bidwillii genomics suggest indigenous peoples broadened translocation practices in response to settler colonialism.

Published online: 16 Mar 2024

Authors: Fahey, M. & Rossetto, M. & Ens, E. & Kerkhove, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Retracing past anthropogenic dispersal of culturally important taxa offers insights to the biogeographic history of species, as well as the history of...

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Human-habitat associations in the native distributions of alien bird species.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Cardador, L. & Blackburn, T. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The role of human tolerance is increasingly being proposed as a key driver of invasion success by alien species. Human-habitat associations may facili...

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Weighting effective number of species measures by abundance weakens detection of diversity responses.

Published online: 20 Jul 2020

Authors: Cao Yong & Hawkins, C. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effective number of species (ENS) has been proposed as a robust measure of species diversity that overcomes several limitations in terms of both d...

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Measuring the surrogacy potential of charismatic megafauna species across taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity on a megadiverse island.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Sibarani, M. C. & Marco, M. di & Rondinini, C. & Kark, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conservation organisations and governments often use charismatic megafauna as surrogates to represent broader biodiversity. While these species are pr...

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Ground-truthing of a fish-based environmental DNA metabarcoding method for assessing the quality of lakes.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Li JianLong & Hatton-Ellis, T. W. & Handley, L. J. L. & Kimbell, H. S. & Benucci, M. & Peirson, G. & Hänfling, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Accurate, cost-effective monitoring of fish is required to assess the quality of lakes under the European Water Framework Directive. Recent studies ha...

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Assessing the effect of predator control on an endangered goose population subjected to predator-mediated food web dynamics.

Published online: 23 Jul 2020

Authors: Marolla, F. & Aarvak, T. & Øien, I. J. & Mellard, J. P. & Henden, J. A. & Hamel, S. & Stien, A. & Tveraa, T. & Yoccoz, N. G. & Ims, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Assessing the effectiveness of conservation actions to halt population declines is challenging when confounded by other factors. We assessed whether c...

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Assessing the population impacts and cost-effectiveness of a conservation translocation.

Published online: 02 Oct 2021

Authors: Yackulic, C. B. & Haverbeke, D. R. van & Dzul, M. & Bair, L. & Young, K. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Managers often move, or translocate, organisms into habitats that are assumed to be suitable; however, the consequences of these translocations are us...

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Weighing the unknowns: value of information for biological and operational uncertainty in invasion management.

Published online: 11 Oct 2021

Authors: Li ShouLi & Keller, J. & Runge, M. C. & Shea, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The management of biological invasions is a worldwide conservation priority. Unfortunately, decision-making on optimal invasion management can be impe...

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