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Imperfect detection in plant populations can cause misestimates of demographic rates and missed population trends: the case for Astragalus microcymbus Barneby.

Published online: 04 Apr 2025

Authors: Deprenger-Levin, M. & Dawson, C. A. & Grant, T. A. & Wunder, M. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Stage-structured population models are widely used for plant demographic studies to assess population dynamics. Over the last several decades, there h...

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Germination and seedling emergence in Diplachne fusca: a semi-aquatic weed of rice fields.

Published online: 26 Oct 1991

Authors: McIntyre, S. & Mitchell, D. S. & Ladiges, P. Y.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The native grass D. fusca has become an important weed in rice fields in temperate Australia since rice cultivation began there in 1922. Field and gla...

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Temporal dynamics of plant competition in genetically diverse wheat populations in the presence and absence of stripe rust.

Published online: 19 Feb 1997

Authors: Finckh, M. R. & Mundt, C. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effects of disease and environment on competitive interactions among wheat genotypes were investigated. Wheat genotypes (5) were grown in up to 6 diff...

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Canopy development, leaf demography and growth dynamics of wheat and three weed species growing in pure and mixed stands.

Published online: 01 Apr 1987

Authors: Maillette, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Wheat cv. Concorde, Chenopodium album, Agropyron repens [Elymus repens] and Spergula arvensis were grown in pure stands and in mixtures of weeds with ...

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Population dynamics of the nitrifying bacterium Nitrosolobus in soil.

Published online: 01 Jan 1980

Authors: Macdonald, R. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ammonium-oxidizing bacteria (Nitrosolobus sp.) were counted every 2 days for 28 days in the top 5 cm of a soil at Rothamsted. The population density f...

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The effect of precipitation on radial increment in Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.) and on the dynamics of a lepidopteran pest insect.

Published online: 17 May 1988

Authors: Münster-Swendsen, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Increment core samples at b.h. were taken from 15 trees in each of 7 stands (aged 22-68 yr) in North Zealand, Denmark, in Oct.-Nov. 1984. Radial incre...

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NatureScot Research Report 876 - Preliminary assessment completed in 2015 of the feasibility of maintaining, limiting or eradicating feral pigs in Scotland.

Published online: 06 Sep 2022

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Massei, G. & Ward, A.

Content type: Reports

This paper describes a 2015 project on the distribution; population dynamics; ecology; environmental impact; risk assessment and practical, humane and...

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A model for the spatial dynamics of linyphiid spiders in farmland.

Published online: 25 Sep 1996

Authors: Halley, J. M. & Thomas, C. F. G. & Jepson, P. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Linyphiid spiders are important predators of pests in agricultural ecosystems. Their ability to disperse aeronautically is a pre-adaptation to ephemer...

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Population dynamics of cabbage root fly in Canada and England.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Benson, J. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Life tables for populations of Hylemya (Erioischia) brassicae (Bch.) on cabbage crops in Canada [cf. RAE/A 60, 538] and England [50, p. 286] are analy...

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Improving the application of long-term ecology in conservation and land management.

Published online: 05 Feb 2014

Authors: Davies, A. L. & Colombo, S. & Hanley, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Significant effort is being made to develop more inclusive and systematic decision-making frameworks in ecology, but these have yet to include palaeoe...

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