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Investigating the impacts of field-realistic exposure to a neonicotinoid pesticide on bumblebee foraging, homing ability and colony growth.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Stanley, D. A. & Russell, A. L. & Morrison, S. J. & Rogers, C. & Raine, N. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The ability to forage and return home is essential to the success of bees as both foragers and pollinators. Pesticide exposure may cause behavioural c...

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Response of a herbivore community to increased food quality and quantity: an experiment with nitrogen fertilizer in a boreal forest.

Published online: 12 Jul 2000

Authors: Ball, J. P. & Danell, K. & Sunesson, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Herbivores make decisions at different spatial levels in response to food plant quality and quantity. Although experiments have examined the responses...

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Natural habitat does not mediate vertebrate seed predation as an ecosystem dis-service to agriculture.

Published online: 01 Apr 2015

Authors: Schäckermann, J. & Mandelik, Y. & Weiss, N. & Wehrden, H. von & Klein, A. & Kleijn, D. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Spillover of beneficial organisms from natural habitats to croplands can improve agro-ecosystem services, but wildlife can also negatively influence a...

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The Bernwood Population of Bechstein's Bats: A Non-Technical Summary of the Evidence.

Published online: 31 Jul 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Murphy, S. & Deykin, N. & Riley, J. & McArthur, T.

Content type: Reports

A single male Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii), one of the UK's rarest bat species, recorded in 2009 in south Buckinghamshire represented the firs...

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The last moves: the effect of hunting and culling on the risk of disease spread from a population of reindeer.

Published online: 15 Feb 2021

Authors: Mysterud, A. & Rauset, G. R. & Moorter, B. van & Andersen, R. & Strand, O. & Rivrud, I. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Hunting and culling are frequently used to combat infectious wildlife diseases. The aim is to markedly lower population density in order to limit dise...

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Immersive citizen science experiences and their role in changing perceptions of coastal wetlands.

Published online: 14 Dec 2024

Authors: McKinley, E. & Rojas, M. I. G. & Palacios, M. M. & Nichols, C. G. & Bhattacharjee, A. & Macreadie, P. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Citizen, or community, science initiatives are increasingly recognised as an effective strategy to connect society with nature, science and environmen...

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Citizen science promotes knowledge, skills and collective action to monitor and protect freshwater streams.

Published online: 17 Dec 2024

Authors: Gönner, J. von & Masson, T. & Köhler, S. & Fritsche, I. & Bonn, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Citizen science has great potential to foster ecological knowledge, skills and collective action for biodiversity conservation. To date, however, ther...

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Fine-scale diet data reveal spatial variation in predator-prey interactions in Norwegian fjords.

Published online: 14 Jul 2024

Authors: Tengvall, J. & Søvik, G. & Enberg, K. & Lindstrøm, U. & Strand, M. & Pedersen, T. & Strand, H. K. & Zimmermann, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

enThis link goes to a English sectionnoThis link goes to a English section Predator-prey interactions in time and space determine stock productivity, ...

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Organic matter intake, diet digestibility and feeding behaviour of goats, red deer and South American camelids feeding on three contrasting Scottish vegetation communities.

Published online: 23 Jul 1997

Authors: Fraser, M. D. & Gordon, I. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

With changes in the agricultural policy for rural areas in the UK, there is increased pressure to develop management protocols for indigenous and sown...

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An experimental game to examine pastoralists' preferences for human-lion coexistence strategies.

Published online: 23 Nov 2022

Authors: Sargent, R. & Rakotonarivo, O. S. & Rushton, S. P. & Cascio, B. & Grau, A. & Bell, A. R. & Bunnefeld, N. & Dickman, A. & Pfeifer, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Reconciling conflicts between wildlife conservation and other human activities is a pervasive, multifaceted issue. Large carnivores, such as the Afric...

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