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Green roof plant species diversity improves ecosystem multifunctionality.

Published online: 10 Jun 2015

Authors: Lundholm, J. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Constructed ecosystems such as green roofs often contain monocultures or low-diversity plant communities, but adding more plant species to these syste...

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Mediterranean forests: Production of management and vulnerability management tools for Mediterranean forest ecosystems to the effects of climate change and enhancement of optimization efforts for goods and services.

Published online: 08 Nov 2017

Content type: Miscellaneous

The Mediterranean forests of the beneficiary countries of the project (Algeria, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey) cover a total area of nearly 19 ...

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Reduction of agricultural nitrogen inputs into waters: the effectiveness of the Hessian WFD advisory service.

Published online: 17 Oct 2018

Authors: Techen, A. K.

Content type: Miscellaneous

In addition to other nitrogen sources, nitrogen emissions from agriculture pollute waters and other environmental media, both in Germany and in other ...

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Sweat bees on hot chillies: provision of pollination services by native bees in traditional slash-and-burn agriculture in the Yucatán Peninsula of tropical Mexico.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Landaverde-González, P. & Quezada-Euán, J. J. G. & Theodorou, P. & Murray, T. E. & Husemann, M. & Ayala, R. & Moo-Valle, H. & Vandame, R. & Paxton, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Traditional tropical agriculture often entails a form of slash-and-burn land management that may adversely affect ecosystem services such as pollinati...

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Harvesting biofuel grasslands has mixed effects on natural enemy communities and no effects on biocontrol services.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Kim, T. N. & Fox, A. F. & Wills, B. D. & Meehan, T. D. & Landis, D. A. & Gratton, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Perennial bioenergy systems, such as switchgrass and restored prairies, are alternatives to commonly used annual monocultures such as maize. Perennial...

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The role of ecosystems and their management in regulating climate, and soil, water and air quality.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Smith, P. & Ashmore, M. R. & Black, H. I. J. & Burgess, P. J. & Evans, C. D. & Quine, T. A. & Thomson, A. M. & Hicks, K. & Orr, H. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecosystems have a critical role in regulating climate, and soil, water and air quality, but management to change an ecosystem process in support of on...

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Managing urban ecosystems for goods and services.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Gaston, K. J. & Ávila-Jiménez, M. L. & Edmondson, J. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Concomitant with the rise in the proportion of the global human population that resides in urban areas has been growth in awareness of the importance ...

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Mapping ecosystem service and biodiversity changes over 70 years in a rural English county.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Jiang MingKai & Bullock, J. M. & Hooftman, D. A. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity and ecosystem services continue to be compromised by land-use change, which is often focussed on enhancing agricultural production. Asses...

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Long-term trends in climate and hydrology in an agricultural headwater watershed of central Pennsylvania, USA.

Published online: 10 Feb 2016

Authors: Bryant, R. B. & Lu HaiMing & Elkin, K. R. & Buda, A. R. & Collick, A. S. & Folmar, G. J. & Kleinman, P. J.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Climate change has emerged as a key issue facing agriculture and water resources in the US. Long-term (1968-2012) temperature, precipitation and strea...

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Using life-cycle assessment to evaluate environmental impacts of briquette production from forest residues.

Published online: 17 Jul 2019

Authors: Alanya-Rosenbaum, S. & Bergman, R.

Content type: Bulletin

This report presents a life-cycle impact assessment analysis of near-woods processing of post-harvest forest residues into wood briquettes as an alter...

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