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Pollination mitigates cucumber yield gaps more than pesticide and fertilizer use in tropical smallholder gardens.

Published online: 25 Feb 2015

Authors: Motzke, I. & Tscharntke, T. & Wanger, T. C. & Klein, A. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pollination can be an essential but often neglected ecosystem service to mitigate crop yield gaps. Pollination services are usually studied in isolati...

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Falcons using orchard nest boxes reduce fruit-eating bird abundances and provide economic benefits for a fruit-growing region.

Published online: 07 Nov 2018

Authors: Shave, M. E. & Shwiff, S. A. & Elser, J. L. & Lindell, C. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Suppression of pest species via a native predator is a regulating ecosystem service that has the potential to limit crop damage and produce economic b...

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Phenological overlap between crop and pollinators: contrasting influence of native and non-native bees on raspberry fruits over the flowering season.

Published online: 25 Jun 2024

Authors: Sáez, A. & Garibaldi, L. A. & Aizen, M. A. & Morales, C. L. & Traveset, A. & Groot, G. S. de & Schmucki, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Phenological overlap between crop flowering and pollinators is a crucial trait for the pollination of more than 75% of the world's crops. However, cro...

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Science to support climate-smart agricultural development: concepts and results from the MICCA pilot projects in East Africa.

Published online: 10 Dec 2014

Authors: Rosenstock, T. S. & Mpanda, M. & Kimaro, A. & Luedeling, E. & Kuyah, S. & Anyekulu, E. & Freeman, O. E. & Thiong'o, M. & Abwanda, S. & Mutuo, P. & Mativo, J. & Shaba, S. & Kirui, J. & Franzel, S. & Neufeldt, H. & Shepherd, K. & Neely, C.

Content type: Bulletin

This document reports on the concepts driving the scientific activities of FAO's Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture Programme's (MICCA) pilot...

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The foliage-light product, a measure for assessing orchard canopies, and its relation to the yields of three apple varieties trained to three forms.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Maggs, D. H. & Alexander, D. McE.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The foliage-light product (FLP) is proposed as a simple and rapid means of assessing management systems of orchard trees by combining the two importan...

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Effect of temperature and depth of burial on the persistence of seed of Avena fatua L. in Western Australia.

Published online: 01 Jan 1977

Authors: Paterson, J. G. & Boyd, W. J. R. & Goodchild, N. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Constant temperatures within the range 11-23 C had no significant effect upon the germination of Avena fatua, but higher temperatures appreciably redu...

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Nutrient limitation after long-term nitrogen fertilizer application in cut grasslands.

Published online: 14 Oct 1994

Authors: Woude, B. J. van der & Pegtel, D. M. & Bakker, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In a field trial in the Drentsche A Nature Reserve in the Netherlands, a grassland reclaimed from a heathland in 1950 and taken out of agricultural pr...

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EUROeyeopener 2.1: Drinking water supply southwestern Delta and Rijnmond-Drechtsteden.

Published online: 13 May 2015

Authors: Schipper, P. N. M. & Janssen, G. M. C. M. & Polman, N. B. P. & Linderhof, V. G. M. & Bakel, P. J. T. van & Massop, H. T. L. & Kselik, R. A. L. & Oude Essink, G. H. P. & Stuyt, L. C. P. M.

Content type: Bulletin

Safeguarding the future drinking water supply in this Dutch region affects the chloride level of polder water, and thus the quality of irrigation wate...

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Response of soybean to attack by stemfly Melanagromyza sojae in farmers' fields in Indonesia.

Published online: 06 Feb 1999

Authors: Berg, H. van den & Shepard, B. M. & Nasikin

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

To determine the effect of M. sojae, a pith-boring agromyzid fly, on soyabean under field conditions in East Java Province, Indonesia, physiologically...

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Environmental effects of air pollution in Britain.

Published online: 01 Sep 1990

Authors: Woodin, S. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There have been air pollution problems in Britain for several centuries. The nature of such problems has changed: intense local smoke pollution has be...

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