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Reducing risky interactions: identifying barriers to the successful management of human-wildlife conflict in an urban parkland.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Griffin, L. L. & Haigh, A. & Conteddu, K. & Andaloc, M. & McDonnell, P. & Ciuti, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Managing activities that result in human-wildlife conflict is a challenging goal for modern scientists and managers. In recent years, the self-motivat...

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Nature-reliant, low-income households face the highest rates of woody-plant encroachment in South Africa.

Published online: 09 Aug 2022

Authors: White, J. D. M. & Stevens, N. & Fisher, J. T. & Archibald, S. & Reynolds, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Woody-plant encroachment is an under-recognized consequence of land degradation. This phenomenon is common in rangeland ecosystems, where woody plants...

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Scale- and time-dependent effects of fertilization, mowing and dominant removal on a grassland community during a 15-year experiment.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Lepš, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Multiple land-use change drivers affect, in most cases negatively, the biodiversity in species-rich meadows. Empirical data that can help to disentang...

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Bird community recovery following removal of an invasive tree.

Published online: 30 Sep 2021

Authors: O'Leary, B. A. & Burd, M. & Venn, S. E. & Gleadow, R. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. Faunal responses to plant invasions and their managed removal can expand our understanding of the nature of disturbance and the success of restored...

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Landscape configuration, organic management, and within-field position drive functional diversity of spiders and carabids.

Published online: 28 Aug 2019

Authors: Gallé, R. & Happe, A. K. & Baillod, A. B. & Tscharntke, T. & Batáry, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural management intensity and landscape heterogeneity act as the main drivers of biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes while also deter...

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Abundance of an economically important nematode parasite increased in Puget Sound between 1930 and 2016: evidence from museum specimens confirms historical data.

Published online: 28 Aug 2019

Authors: Howard, I. & Davis, E. & Lippert, G. & Quinn, T. P. & Wood, C. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Does disturbance increase or decrease parasite transmission among wildlife hosts? Ecologists cannot answer this controversial question, in part becaus...

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Missing the people for the trees: identifying coupled natural-human system feedbacks driving the ecology of Lyme disease.

Published online: 28 Aug 2019

Authors: MacDonald, A. J. & Larsen, A. E. & Plantinga, A. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Infectious diseases are rapidly emerging and many are increasing in incidence across the globe. Processes of land-use change, notably habitat loss and...

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Quantifying seed rain patterns in a remnant and a chronosequence of restored tallgrass prairies in north central Missouri.

Published online: 21 Jan 2025

Authors: Wynne, K. C. & Parker-Smith, M. J. & Murdock, E. M. & Sullivan, L. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seed rain is an influential process related to plant community diversity, composition and regeneration. However, knowledge of seed rain patterns is li...

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Evaluating dynamics in human-bear interactions within social-ecological system.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Ji YunRui & Wei XueLei & Li DiQiang

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Over the past few decades, social-ecological transformations have contributed to the restoration of numerous carnivores, presenting new challenges for...

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Responses and resilience of tallgrass prairie streams to patch-burn grazing.

Published online: 01 Dec 2020

Authors: Fulgoni, J. N. & Whiles, M. R. & Dodds, W. K. & Larson, D. M. & Jackson, K. E. & Grudzinski, B. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Patch-burn grazing (PBG) can promote terrestrial heterogeneity and biodiversity, but can temporarily increase stream nutrients and ecosystem metabolis...

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