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The sluggard has no locusts: from persistent pest to irresistible icon.

Published online: 26 Oct 2021

Authors: Dominy, N. J. & Fannin, L. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Desert locusts Schistocerca gregaria are threatening the food security of millions of people and devastating economies in eastern Africa and northern ...

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The Potential Contribution of Agroforestry to Net Zero Objectives [updated Nov 2022].

Published online: 06 Jan 2023

Published by: Woodland Trust

Authors: Burgess, P. J. & Graves, A.

Content type: Reports

The aim of this report is to examine the potential contribution of agroforestry to net zero objectives in the United Kingdom over the next 40-50 years...

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The fate of land in expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts, 2013-16.

Published online: 02 Apr 2020

Authors: Bigelow, D. & Claassen, R. & Hellerstein, D. & Breneman, V. & Williams, R. & You ChengXia

Content type: Bulletin

Voluntary retirement of cropland under the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides numerous benefits related to soil erosion, water quality...

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Primary production of a grassland in Nairobi National Park, Kenya.

Published online: 22 Jul 1986

Authors: Deshmukh, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Primary production of a grassland in Nairobi National Park was estimated at harvest and by mortality estimates of the 3 most abundant grass spp. (Them...

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Factors affecting the performance of seedlings and ramets of invading grasses in an established ryegrass sward.

Published online: 22 Jul 1986

Authors: Howe, C. D. & Snaydon, R. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seedlings and 2-tiller ramets of Poa trivialis, P. annua, Agrostis stolonifera and Festuca rubra were planted into an established sward of Lolium pere...

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Conservation benefits of international Aichi protection and restoration targets for future epiphyte metapopulations.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Ruete, A. & Jönsson, M. T. & Snäll, T. & Fajardo, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

More than half way towards the deadline for 2020 Aichi targets, a key question is whether the metapopulation dynamics of dispersal-restricted habitat ...

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Flow intermittence and ecosystem services in rivers of the Anthropocene.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Datry, T. & Boulton, A. J. & Bonada, N. & Fritz, K. & Leigh, C. & Sauquet, E. & Tockner, K. & Hugueny, B. & Dahm, C. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are watercourses that cease flow at some point in time and space. Arguably Earth's most widespread ty...

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The effects of reducing population density on contact rates between brushtail possums: implications for transmission of bovine tuberculosis.

Published online: 13 Nov 2002

Authors: Ramsey, D. & Spencer, N. & Caley, P. & Efford, M. & Hansen, K. & Lam, M. & Cooper, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Interactions during mating are thought to be an important mechanism for transmission of tuberculosis (Tb) Mycobacterium bovis in the brushtail possum ...

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Individual study: effect of varying coppice height on tree survival and ground flora in Brasenose Wood, Oxfordshire, UK.

Published online: 12 Sep 2018

Authors: Wright, I. R. & Bartel, T. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Coppicing is a commonly used management intervention to increase structural diversity in woodlands, but coppiced trees are vulnerable to browsing by d...

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Cutting trees in a secondary forest to increase gaur Bos gaurus numbers in Khao Phaeng Ma reforestation area, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand.

Published online: 12 Sep 2018

Authors: Prayong, N. & Srikosamatara, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

The value of tourism for gaur Bos gaurus in the Khao Phang Ma reforestation area at the edge of Khao Yai-Dong Phaya Yen World Heritage Site decreased ...

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