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West of Walney Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) Monitoring Report 2018: Marine Protected Area (MPA) Monitoring Programme.

Published online: 10 May 2023

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Mitchell, P. & McIlwaine, P. & Arosio, R. & Hogg, O. & Clare, D.

Content type: Reports

This report is one of a series of Marine Protected Area (MPA) monitoring reports delivered to Defra by the Marine Protected Areas Group (MPAG). The pu...

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Homogenization of lepidopteran communities in intensively cultivated agricultural landscapes.

Published online: 07 Apr 2010

Authors: Ekroos, J. & Heliölä, J. & Kuussaari, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Landscape simplification and habitat fragmentation may cause severe declines of less mobile and habitat specialist species and lead to biotic homogeni...

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Riparian reserves protect butterfly communities in selectively logged tropical forest.

Published online: 27 Jul 2022

Authors: Montejo-Kovacevich, G. & Marsh, C. J. & Smith, S. H. & Peres, C. A. & Edwards, D. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Selective logging is the most widespread habitat disturbance in tropical forests. Primary forest set-asides along riparian zones are mandated in many ...

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Savanna woody plants responses to mammalian herbivory and implications for management of livestock-wildlife landscape.

Published online: 07 Oct 2021

Authors: Kibet, S. & Nyangito, M. & MacOpiyo, L. & Kenfack, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The need to address wildlife conservation outside of protected areas has become more urgent than ever before to meet environmental and socio-economic ...

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Agricultural development and the conservation of avian biodiversity on the Eurasian steppes: a comparison of land-sparing and land-sharing approaches.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Kamp, J. & Urazaliev, R. & Balmford, A. & Donald, P. F. & Green, R. E. & Lamb, A. J. & Phalan, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the abandonment of >40 million ha of cropland, a collapse in livestock numbers and the recovery of ...

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Standardising field-based assessment of invasion degree: a case study in two habitats of Reunion Island.

Published online: 27 Jun 2024

Authors: Fenouillas, P. & Caubit, M. & Cazal, E. & Soleyen, C. A. & Strasberg, D. & Rouget, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Biological invasions represent one of the major threats to biodiversity conservation, especially in island ecosystems. Field-based assessments of the ...

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First evidence that marine protected areas can work for marine mammals.

Published online: 18 Apr 2012

Authors: Gormley, A. M. & Slooten, E. & Dawson, S. & Barker, R. J. & Rayment, W. & Fresne, S. du & Bräger, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have been advocated for the protection of threatened marine mammals, but there is no empirical evidence that they are ef...

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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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Quantifying range structure to inform management in invaded landscapes.

Published online: 18 Apr 2022

Authors: Cheney, C. & Wilgen, N. J. van & Esler, K. J. & Foxcroft, L. C. & McGeoch, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The negative impact of invasive alien plants (IAPs) in protected areas (PAs) is managed through control programmes, often using area-based management,...

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Bat phylogenetic responses to regenerating Amazonian forests.

Published online: 09 Oct 2022

Authors: Farneda, F. Z. & Rocha, R. & Aninta, S. G. & López-Baucells, A. & Sampaio, E. M. & Palmeirim, J. M. & Bobrowiec, P. E. D. & Dambros, C. S. & Meyer, C. F. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Throughout the tropics, regenerating secondary forests occupy vast areas previously cleared for agriculture and cattle ranching. However, despite the ...

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