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Overcoming resistance and resilience of an invaded community is necessary for effective restoration: a multi-site bracken control study.

Published online: 13 Feb 2013

Authors: Alday, J. G. & Cox, E. S. & Pakeman, R. J. & Harris, M. P. K. & Duc, M. G. le & Marrs, R. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The search for appropriate management strategies to control invasive plants is an important theme in environmental management. However, the recovery o...

Assessing impacts of large herbivores on shrubs: tests of scaling factors for utilization rates from shoot-level measurements.

Published online: 07 Feb 2007

Authors: Bilyeu, D. M. & Cooper, D. J. & Hobbs, N. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Accurate methods for estimating the intensity of browsing by herbivores are fundamental to understanding the ecology of shrub communities. Quantifying...

Local knowledge and relational values of midwestern woody perennial polyculture farmers can inform tree-crop policies.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Kreitzman, M. & Chapman, M. & Keeley, K. O. & Chan, K. M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Agricultural producers, academics and policy-makers are increasingly interested in multifunctional tree crop systems as a solution for maintaining eco...

The potential of wildflower strips to enhance pollination services in sweet cherry orchards grown under polytunnels.

Published online: 01 Dec 2023

Authors: Mateos-Fierro, Z. & Garratt, M. P. D. & Fountain, M. T. & Ashbrook, K. & Westbury, D. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sweet cherry production benefits from insect pollination, but the extent to which wildflower strips can boost pollinator visitation under polytunnels ...

Large-scale impacts of selective logging on canopy tree beta-diversity in the Brazilian Amazon.

Published online: 01 Dec 2023

Authors: Bousfield, C. G. & Massam, M. R. & Peres, C. A. & Edwards, D. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Selective logging is one of the largest drivers of tropical forest degradation. While logged forests often retain high alpha-diversity of tropical tre...

Bird-friendly recommendations for bottomland forests in the Carolinas: birds and people on common ground.

Published online: 24 Feb 2016

Authors: Brunswig, N. & Richardson, S. & Johnson, M. & Heitkamp, B.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Bottomland hardwood forests have suffered tremendous losses in the United States. Yet they support some of the densest breeding populations of imperil...

Honey bees are the most abundant visitors to Australian watermelon but native stingless bees are equally effective as pollinators.

Published online: 16 Jan 2023

Authors: Arachchige, E. C. W. S. & Rader, R. & Cutting, B. T. & Keir, M. & Noort, T. van & Fale, G. & Howlett, B. G. & Samnegård, U. & Evans, L. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Despite the benefits of a diverse approach to crop pollination, global food production remains reliant on a low diversity of managed pollinators, espe...

Control of bracken and the restoration of heathland. III. Bracken litter disturbance and heathland restoration.

Published online: 06 Jun 1992

Authors: Lowday, J. E. & Marrs, R. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In trials in the Breckland region (Norfolk/Suffolk border) UK in 1978-88 on Calluna vulgaris heathland and grass heathland (dominated by Festuca ovina...

Foraging by bats in cleared, thinned and unharvested boreal forest.

Published online: 24 Sep 2003

Authors: Patriquin, K. J. & Barclay, R. M. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Modern silvicultural methods employ various styles of selective harvesting in addition to traditional clear-cutting. This can create a mosaic of patch...

The experimental treatment of the blackfly, Simulium posticatum in the Dorset Stour using the biologically produced insecticide Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis.

Published online: 11 Aug 1995

Authors: Welton, J. S. & Ladle, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Simulium posticatum causes a severe biting problem in the valley of the river Stour in Dorset, UK. Various control measures have been attempted includ...

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