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Evaluating CAP wildflower strips: high-quality seed mixtures significantly improve plant diversity and related pollen and nectar resources.

Published online: 14 Jun 2022

Authors: Schmidt, A. & Kirmer, A. & Hellwig, N. & Kiehl, K. & Tischew, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Flower strips are a fundamental part of agri-environment schemes (AESs) introduced by the European Union to counteract the loss of biodiversity and re...

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Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests.

Published online: 08 Dec 2024

Authors: Chianucci, F. & Napoleone, F. & Ricotta, C. & Ferrara, C. & Fusaro, L. & Balducci, L. & Trentanovi, G. & Bradley, O. & Kovacs, B. & Mina, M. & Cerabolini, B. E. L. & Vandekerkhove, K. & Smedt, P. de & Lens, L. & Hertzog, L. & Verheyen, K. & Hofmeister, J. & Hošek, J. & Matula, R. & Doerfler, I. & Müller, J. & Weisser, W. W. & Helback, J. & Schall, P. & Fischer, M. & Heilmann-Clausen, J. & Riis-Hansen, R. & Goldberg, I. & Aude, E. & Kepfer-Rojas, S. & Schmidt, I. K. & Nielsen, T. R. & Mårell, A. & Dumas, Y. & Janssen, P. & Paillet, Y. & Archaux, F. & Xystrakis, F. & Tinya, F. & Ódor, P. & Aszalós, R. & Bölöni, J. & Cutini, A. & Bagella, S. & Sitzia, T. & Brazaitis, G. & Marozas, V. & Ujházyová, M. & Ujházy, K. & Máliš, F. & Nordén, B. & Burrascano, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Managing forests to sustain their diversity and functioning is a major challenge in a changing world. Despite the key role of understory vegetation in...

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Exploring current and emerging irrigation and drainage management to reduce the impact of extreme events and mitigate droughts and floods.

Published online: 04 Sep 2019

Authors: Roux, L. le & Juba, R. & Mbanjwa, W.

Content type: Bulletin

Effective water management has become an important part of sustainable economic development worldwide. In areas dependent on agriculture for livelihoo...

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Targeted policy proposals for managing spontaneous forest expansion in the Mediterranean.

Published online: 05 Jan 2021

Authors: Varela, E. & Pulido, F. & Moreno, G. & Zavala, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Recent forest expansion in Euro-Mediterranean countries predominantly results from secondary succession in abandoned farmland, rather than from artifi...

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Isotopic investigation of denitrification in a riparian ecosystem in western France.

Published online: 04 Feb 2004

Authors: Clément, J. C. & Holmes, R. M. & Peterson, B. J. & Pinay, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Nitrogen (N) loss from agricultural fields and urban areas to stream and groundwaters is a world-wide environmental problem. Excessive nitrogen loadin...

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Effects of water-saving rice cultivation methods on yield, water use, and water-use efficiency.

Published online: 03 Oct 2019

Authors: Gaspar, J. P. & Henry, C. G. & Anders, M. M. & Duren, M. & Hendrix, D. & Horton, A. P.

Content type: Bulletin article

Water available for irrigation is declining in many rice-growing regions around the world. Global populations continue to rise increasing crop product...

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Effects of slash harvest on bryophytes and vascular plants in southern boreal forest clear-cuts.

Published online: 04 Jan 2006

Authors: Åström, M. & Dynesius, M. & Hylander, K. & Nilsson, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Slash harvesting from forests to provide bioenergy reduces the amount of woody debris in the managed forest landscape and changes the physical and che...

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Landscape conservation as a strategy for recovering biodiversity: lessons from a long-term program of pasture restoration in the southern Atlantic forest.

Published online: 21 Oct 2022

Authors: Cardoso, F. C. G. & Capellesso, E. S. & Britez, R. M. de & Inague, G. & Marques, M. C. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although ecological restoration has entered the global agenda to reverse different anthropogenic disturbances, we still know little about how this sol...

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A non-native earthworm shifts seed predation dynamics of a native weed.

Published online: 14 Feb 2022

Authors: Regnier, E. E. & Hovick, S. M. & Liu Jianyang & Harrison, S. K. & Diekmann, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Introduced seed dispersers can shift seed predation dynamics in native species, impacting native plant establishment and spread. We studied the effect...

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