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Using the conservation evidence website.

Published online: 27 Nov 2020

Published by: Evidence in Conservation Teaching Initiative

Authors: Martina, C. & Downey, H. & Martin, C.

Content type: Educational material

This publication deals with the Environmental Conservation Evidence website, a free resource which summarizes any evidence for interventions related t...

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Using the conservation evidence website.

Published online: 26 Nov 2020

Published by: Evidence in Conservation Teaching Initiative

Authors: Downey, H.

Content type: Educational material

This publication deals with Conservation Evidence, a free resource summarising the evidence for conservation interventions. It gathers evidence using ...

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Forest fragments modulate the provision of multiple ecosystem services.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Mitchell, M. G. E. & Bennett, E. M. & Gonzalez, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural landscapes provide the essential ecosystem service of food to growing human populations; at the same time, agricultural expansion to incr...

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Recovery of a boreal ground-beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) fauna 15 years after variable retention harvest.

Published online: 25 Nov 2020

Authors: Wu LinHao & He FangLiang & Spence, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Retention harvests are preferred over traditional clear-cuts for sustainable forest management because maintenance and re-establishment of native fore...

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Repeated fires trap Amazonian blackwater floodplains in an open vegetation state.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Flores, B. M. & Fagoaga, R. & Nelson, B. W. & Holmgren, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate change may increase the occurrence of droughts and fires in the Amazon. Most of our understanding on how fire affects tropical ecosystems is b...

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Introduction of exotic tree species as a threat to the Azores bullfinch population.

Published online: 30 Apr 1997

Authors: Ramos, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The Azores bullfinch (or priolo), Pyrrhula murina [Pyrrhula pyrrhula murina], is known only in the east of the island of S. Miguel (Azores), where it ...

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A three decade assessment of climate-associated changes in forest composition across the north-eastern USA.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Bose, A. K. & Weiskittel, A. & Wagner, R. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate-associated changes in forest composition have been widely reported, particularly where changes in abiotic conditions have resulted in high mor...

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Latin American experiences in natural forest management concessions.

Published online: 02 May 2020

Authors: Gretzinger, S.

Content type: Bulletin

FAO is leading an initiative to improve policies and practices related to concessions on natural production forests in order to sustain forests, build...

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Bryophyte abundance, diversity and composition after retention harvest in boreal mixedwood forest.

Published online: 02 May 2018

Authors: Bartels, S. F. & Macdonald, S. E. & Johnson, D. & Caners, R. T. & Spence, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Variable-retention harvest is widely recognized as an alternative to more intensive methods such as clear-cutting. However, present information is ina...

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Mammal species richness and habitat use in rainforest and abandoned agricultural fields in Chiapas, Mexico.

Published online: 01 May 1998

Authors: Medellín, R. A. & Equihua, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The potential of small, isolated maize fields embedded in a large forest matrix (average canopy height 30 m, dominant trees Dialium guianense, Licania...

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