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Chemically mediated tritrophic interactions: opposing effects of glucosinolates on a specialist herbivore and its predators.

Published online: 03 Aug 2011

Authors: Chaplin-Kramer, R. & Kliebenstein, D. J. & Chiem, A. & Morrill, E. & Mills, N. J. & Kremen, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The occurrence of enemy-free space presents a challenge to the top-down control of agricultural pests by natural enemies, making bottom-up factors suc...

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A review of the effectiveness of different on-site wastewater treatment systems and their management to reduce phosphorus pollution.

Published online: 18 Jan 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: May, L. & Woods, H.

Content type: Reports

This review assessess the information contained in publicly available literature with a view to enabling Natural England to improve the advice that th...

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Plant diversity in a managed temperate deciduous forest: understorey response to two silvicultural systems.

Published online: 19 Jan 2005

Authors: Decocq, G. & Aubert, M. & Dupont, F. & Alard, D. & Saguez, R. & Wattez-Fanger, A. & Foucault, B. de & Delelis-Dusollier, A. & Bardat, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Disturbances and resource availability are key factors affecting plant diversity in managed forests. As disturbance regimes vary among silvicultural s...

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Recovery of wild large herbivores following livestock decline in a tropical Indian wildlife reserve.

Published online: 17 Nov 2004

Authors: Madhusudan, M. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Resource competition is an important process governing the impact of livestock on native wild mammalian herbivores, an issue acknowledged to be of glo...

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Land-use intensity impacts habitat selection of ground-nesting farmland birds in the Netherlands.

Published online: 20 Jan 2023

Authors: Li YuHong & Piersma, T. & Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W. & Howison, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

(1). Agricultural intensification has modified grassland habitats, causing serious declines in farmland biodiversity including breeding birds. Until n...

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Incorporating disturbance into trophic ecology: fire history shapes mesopredator suppression by an apex predator.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Geary, W. L. & Ritchie, E. G. & Lawton, J. A. & Healey, T. R. & Nimmo, D. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Apex predators can suppress smaller bodied "mesopredators." In doing so, they can provide refuge to species preyed upon by mesopredators, which is par...

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Contrasting impacts of land-use change on phylogenetic and functional diversity of tropical forest birds.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Chapman, P. M. & Tobias, J. A. & Edwards, D. P. & Davies, R. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity conservation strategies increasingly target maintaining evolutionary history and the resilience of ecosystem function, not just species r...

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Chaparral bird community responses to prescribed fire and shrub removal in three management seasons.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Newman, E. A. & Potts, J. B. & Tingley, M. W. & Vaughn, C. & Stephens, S. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Chaparral, a type of shrubland common throughout the California Floristic Province, is subject to management and removal in regions where wildfire thr...

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From unburnt to salvage logged: quantifying bird responses to different levels of disturbance severity.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Lindenmayer, D. B. & McBurney, L. & Blair, D. & Wood, J. & Banks, S. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Forests world-wide are increasingly subject to natural and human disturbances, including wildfires and logging of varying intensity and frequency. Und...

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Valuable habitat and low deforestation can reduce biodiversity gains from development rights markets.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Helmstedt, K. J. & Potts, M. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Illegal private land deforestation threatens global biodiversity, even in areas with native habitat requirements stipulated by law. Compliance can be ...

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