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Targeted conservation grazing using molasses to increase preferential consumption of old growth pasture grasses.

Published online: 08 Nov 2017

Authors: Grange, I. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

High conservation value grasslands, which are usually marginal and agriculturally poor, are often difficult to manage appropriately for biodiversity e...

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An evaluation of three quick methods commonly used to assess sward height in ecology.

Published online: 03 Jan 2002

Authors: Stewart, K. E. J. & Bourn, N. A. D. & Thomas, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many ecological studies and applications involve measuring the height of grassland swards. An evaluation was made of the practicality, accuracy and co...

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Slowing down a pine invasion despite uncertainty in demography and dispersal.

Published online: 04 Jan 2006

Authors: Buckley, Y. M. & Brockerhoff, E. & Langer, L. & Ledgard, N. & North, H. & Rees, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Management decisions regarding invasive plants often have to be made quickly and in the face of fragmentary knowledge of their population dynamics. Ho...

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More grazing, more damage? Assessed yield loss on agricultural grassland relates nonlinearly to goose grazing pressure.

Published online: 08 May 2023

Authors: Buitendijk, N. H. & Jager, M. de & Hornman, M. & Kruckenberg, H. & Kölzsch, A. & Moonen, S. & Nolet, B. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In recent decades, conflict between geese and agriculture has increased. Management practices to limit this conflict include concentrating geese in pr...

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Low-cost management interventions and their impact on multilevel trade-offs in agricultural grasslands.

Published online: 19 Feb 2024

Authors: Burian, A. & Norton, B. A. & Alston, D. & Willmot, A. & Reynolds, S. & Meynell, G. & Lynch, P. & Bulling, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Cost-effective strategies to increase biodiversity are a fundamental requirement to reconcile conservation and food production in agricultural land...

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The effect of grazing in winter by wild geese on improved grassland in west Scotland.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Patton, D. L. H. & Frame, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

After 2 trials in late winter 1973-4, 6 main experiments were conducted over the winter periods of 1974-5 and 1975-6 to determine the loss of herbage ...

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Restoration of riverine inland sand dune complexes: implications for the conservation of wild bees.

Published online: 04 Nov 2009

Authors: Exeler, N. & Kratochwil, A. & Hochkirch, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The evaluation of restoration measures is an important task of conservation biology. Inland sand dunes and dry, oligotrophic grasslands have become ra...

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Identifying trends in land degradation in non-equilibrium rangelands.

Published online: 08 Oct 1998

Authors: Pickup, G. & Bastin, G. N. & Chewings, V. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The use of changes over time in the pattern of vegetation growth across gradients of differing grazing intensity to identify trends in range condition...

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Changes in spider (Araneae) assemblages in relation to succession and grazing management.

Published online: 24 Dec 1992

Authors: Gibson, C. W. D. & Hambler, C. & Brown, V. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Spiders were sampled, by suction (D-vac) and direct counts of their webs, in a controlled sheep-grazing experiment on calcareous ex-arable land and in...

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Plant dynamics of New Zealand tussock grassland infested with Hieracium pilosella. II. Transition matrices of vegetation changes.

Published online: 29 Apr 1990

Authors: Scott, D. & Robertson, J. S. & Archie, W. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The vegetation types in 1-m2 permanent quadrats were determined annually in 1975-82 on low and moderate productivity sites of improved or unimproved F...

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