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Temperate alley-cropping agroforestry improves pest control potential by promoting spider abundance and functional diversity.

Published online: 21 Jan 2025

Authors: Matevski, D. & Sagolla, V. & Beule, L. & Schuldt, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Intensive agricultural land use negatively impacts biodiversity, including arthropod predator diversity and their pest control potential. Alley-croppi...

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Linking symbioses with intrinsic chemical defences in conifers: fungal-mediated resistance against an invasive pathogen.

Published online: 17 Dec 2024

Authors: Bullington, L. & Martin, E. & Erbilgin, N. & Kennedy, P. & Kegley, A. & Larkin, B. & Lekberg, Y. & Six, D. & Sniezko, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive pathogens threaten the sustainability of forest ecosystems globally. Trees possess intrinsic pathogen defence mechanisms, including major gen...

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Local-scale tree and shrub diversity improves pollination services to shea trees in tropical west African parklands.

Published online: 22 Nov 2020

Authors: Delaney, A. & Dembele, A. & Nombré, I. & Lirasse, F. G. & Marshall, E. & Nana, A. & Vickery, J. & Tayleur, C. & Stout, J. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Shea Vitellaria paradoxa trees bear fruit and seeds of considerable economic, nutritional and cultural value in the African Sudano-Sahelian zone. In m...

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Growth history and crown vine coverage are principal factors influencing growth and mortality rates of big-leaf mahogany Swietenia macrophylla in Brazil.

Published online: 06 Jan 2010

Authors: Grogan, J. & Landis, R. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Current efforts to model population dynamics of high-value tropical timber species largely assume that individual growth history is unimportant to pop...

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Mean wind patterns and snow depths in an alpine-subalpine ecosystem as measured by damage to coniferous trees.

Published online: 29 May 1996

Authors: Woolridge, G. L. & Musselman, R. C. & Sommerfeld, R. A. & Fox, D. G. & Connell, B. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Deformations of Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) trees were surveyed for the purpose of determining climatic ...

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Tree mortality response to drought-density interactions suggests opportunities to enhance drought resistance.

Published online: 29 Apr 2022

Authors: Bradford, J. B. & Shriver, R. K. & Robles, M. D. & McCauley, L. A. & Woolley, T. J. & Andrews, C. A. & Crimmins, M. & Bell, D. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The future of dry forests around the world is uncertain given predictions that rising temperatures and enhanced aridity will increase drought-induced ...

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Forest management and regional tree composition drive the host preference of saproxylic beetle communities.

Published online: 10 Jun 2015

Authors: Müller, J. & Wende, B. & Strobl, C. & Eugster, M. & Gallenberger, I. & Floren, A. & Steffan-Dewenter, I. & Linsenmair, K. E. & Weisser, W. W. & Gossner, M. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Among saproxylic beetles, many early colonizers prefer particular host species. Ranking of preferred hosts of local saproxylic beetle communities is c...

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The ecology of the tree-hole breeding mosquitoes in the Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria.

Published online: 22 May 1965

Authors: Service, M. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following is based largely on the author's summary. As little information was available on mosquitos breeding in tree holes in West Africa, a stud...

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An examination of the potential efficacy of high-intensity fires for reversing woody encroachment in savannas.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Smit, I. P. J. & Asner, G. P. & Govender, N. & Vaughn, N. R. & Wilgen, B. W. van

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Frequent fires are often proposed as a way of preventing woody encroachment in savannas, yet few studies have examined whether high-intensity fires ca...

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Landscape properties affect biodiversity response to retention approaches in forestry.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Mori, A. S. & Tatsumi, S. & Gustafsson, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Retention forestry, in which trees and tree patches are set aside at harvest to promote biodiversity, has been proven to have positive effects on biod...

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