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Interacting effects of sand, slugs and jute drive community composition in direct-seeded urban wildflower meadows.

Published online: 01 Dec 2024

Authors: Horsfall, K. & Livesley, S. J. & Delpratt, J. & Hirst, M. J. & Williams, N. S. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Wildflower meadows support biodiversity in urban environments, whilst providing low-maintenance, amenity landscapes. By moving from international plan...

Effects of three different alternate wetting and drying regimes in rice cultivation on yield, water use, and water use efficiency in a clay soil during a wet year.

Published online: 09 Oct 2019

Authors: Gaspar, J. P. & Henry, C. G. & Duren, M. W. & Horton, A. P. & James, H.

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 produc...

Mitigation or disturbance? Effects of liming on macroinvertebrate assemblage structure and leaf-litter decomposition in the humic streams of northern Sweden.

Published online: 11 Oct 2006

Authors: McKie, B. G. & Petrin, Z. & Malmqvist, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Stream liming can alleviate the effects of anthropogenic acidification but itself constitutes a substantial ecosystem-level perturbation. Acidity in t...

Responses of invertebrate trophic level, feeding guild and body size to the management of improved grassland field margins.

Published online: 05 Aug 2009

Authors: Woodcock, B. A. & Potts, S. G. & Tscheulin, T. & Pilgrim, E. & Ramsey, A. J. & Harrison-Cripps, J. & Brown, V. K. & Tallowin, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Management of lowland mesotrophic grasslands in north-west Europe often makes use of inorganic fertilizers, high stocking densities and silage-based f...

Functional and numerical responses do not always indicate the most effective predator for biological control: an analysis of two predators in a two-prey system.

Published online: 11 Sep 2002

Authors: Lester, P. J. & Harmsen, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Functional and numerical responses are key components in the selection of predators for biological control. We examined the relevance of these resp...

Biocontrol in insecticide sprayed crops does not benefit from semi-natural habitats and recovers slowly after spraying.

Published online: 08 Sep 2020

Authors: Gagic, V. & Hulthen, A. D. & Marcora, A. & Wang XiaoBei & Jones, L. & Schellhorn, N. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

To enhance biological pest control in crop fields, it is recommended to increase semi-natural area on farm and decrease insecticide spraying. While th...

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...

The consequences of ant-attendance to the biological control of the red wax scale insect Ceroplastes rubens by Anicetus beneficus.

Published online: 25 Sep 1996

Authors: Itioka, T. & Inoue, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of an attendant ant (Lasius niger) on the host-parasitoid system of the red wax scale insect (Ceroplastes rubens) and its parasitoid wasp ...

Abundance and diversity of wild bees along gradients of heavy metal pollution.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Moroń, D. & Grześ, I. M. & Skórka, P. & Szentgyörgyi, H. & Laskowski, R. & Potts, S. G. & Woyciechowski, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Wild bees are one of the most important groups of pollinators in the temperate zone. Therefore, population declines have potentially negative impacts ...

The ecology of Chondrilla juncea in the western Mediterranean.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Wapshere, A. J. & Hasan, S. & Wahba, W. K. & Caresche, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

This study was conducted to examine the distribution of C. juncea in relation to various environmental conditions in the western Mediterranean where t...

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