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The impact on tigers of poaching versus prey depletion.

Published online: 10 Dec 2008

Authors: Chapron, G. & Miquelle, D. G. & Lambert, A. & Goodrich, J. M. & Legendre, S. & Clobert, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There exists a continuing dilemma in prioritizing conservation actions for large carnivores. Habitat loss, poaching, and prey depletion have often bee...

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Shade-grown cacao supports a self-sustaining population of two-toed but not three-toed sloths.

Published online: 05 Feb 2014

Authors: Peery, M. Z. & Pauli, J. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The development of shade-grown agro-ecosystems has increasingly been identified as a strategy for conserving tropical biodiversity. While biodiversity...

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Estimation of immigration rate using integrated population models.

Published online: 07 Apr 2010

Authors: Abadi, F. & Gimenez, O. & Ullrich, B. & Arlettaz, R. & Schaub, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The dynamics of many populations is strongly affected by immigrants. However, estimating and modelling immigration is a real challenge. In the past, s...

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Parasite spillover to native hosts from more tolerant, supershedding invasive hosts: implications for management.

Published online: 04 Feb 2022

Authors: Ortega, N. & Roznik, E. A. & Surbaugh, K. L. & Cano, N. & Price, W. & Campbell, T. & Rohr, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Introduced hosts are capable of introducing parasite species and altering the abundance of parasites that are already present in native hosts, but few...

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Lead in small mammals, plants, and soil at varying distances from a highway.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Quarles, H. D., III & Hanawalt, R. B. & Odum, W. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soil samples were from each side and the central grass strip of highway U.S. Rt. 29 north of Charlottesville, Va., USA, with average flow of 12 470 ve...

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Reproduction and nest behaviour of Tennessee warblers Vermivora peregrina in forests treated with Lepidoptera-specific insecticides.

Published online: 19 Aug 1998

Authors: Holmes, S. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A study was carried out to test the hypothesis that food reductions caused by forest spraying with Lepidoptera-specific insecticides would affect Tenn...

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Spotted! Remote camera traps used in a novel design reveal a perilous situation for the critically endangered northwest African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki) in a conflict-affected protected area in Benin.

Published online: 14 May 2025

Authors: Drouilly, M. & Ipavec, A. & Grente, O. & Horion, R. & Ouindeyama, A. & Henschel, P. & Lapeyre, V. & N'Diaye, Y. C. & Shams, A. & Breitenmoser, C. & Durant, S. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Large mammals play critical roles in ecosystems, yet 60% are threatened with extinction and populations continue to decrease. Declines are particularl...

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Value of the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi as food for cereal spiders.

Published online: 05 Oct 1995

Authors: Toft, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Laboratory experiments were carried out to analyse various aspects of spider performance under different diets, focusing mainly on the value of the ap...

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Oviposition of frit fly (Oscinella frit L.) on oat seedlings and subsequent larval development.

Published online: 01 Jul 1970

Authors: Jones, M. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following is virtually the author's summary of this account of observations in southern England. When undisturbed in a breeding chamber, females o...

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The effects on beneficial arthropods of the exclusion of herbicides from cereal crop edges.

Published online: 11 Apr 1992

Authors: Chiverton, P. A. & Sotherton, N. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The arthropod faunas of herbicide-treated (mecoprop, bromoxynil and ioxynil) and untreated headland plots of a spring wheat crop were compared in a re...

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