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Alleviating grazing damage by white-fronted geese: an optimal foraging approach.

Published online: 15 Sep 2004

Authors: Amano, T. & Ushiyama, K. & Fujita, G. & Higuchi, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural damage by wildlife is a serious constraint on the coexistence of humans and wildlife. Understanding the behavioural processes involved in...

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Temporal patterns of crop-raiding by primates: linking food availability in croplands and adjacent forest.

Published online: 19 Mar 1999

Authors: Naughton-Treves, L. & Treves, A. & Chapman, C. & Wrangham, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The temporal pattern of foraging on crops (the equivalent to mast fruiting of forest trees) by redtail monkeys Cercopithecus ascanius, olive baboons P...

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Trait-related responses to habitat fragmentation in Amazonian bats.

Published online: 23 Sep 2015

Authors: Farneda, F. Z. & Rocha, R. & López-Baucells, A. & Groenenberg, M. & Silva, I. & Palmeirim, J. M. & Bobrowiec, P. E. D. & Meyer, C. F. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding how interspecific variation in functional traits influences species' capacity to persist in fragments and use patches in fragmented land...

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Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy.

Published online: 23 Apr 2008

Authors: Hulme, P. E. & Bacher, S. & Kenis, M. & Klotz, S. & Kühn, I. & Minchin, D. & Nentwig, W. & Olenin, S. & Panov, V. & Pergl, J. & Pyšek, P. & Roques, A. & Sol, D. & Solarz, W. & Vilà, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pathways describe the processes that result in the introduction of alien species from one location to another. A framework is proposed to facilitate t...

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Assessing lamb predation by feral pigs in Australia's semi-arid rangelands.

Published online: 13 May 1998

Authors: Choquenot, D. & Lukins, B. & Curran, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Two experiments were used to investigate the relationship between feral pig density and the rate of lamb predation and the differential susceptibility...

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Background food influences rate of encounter and efficacy of rodenticides in wild house mice.

Published online: 04 Oct 2024

Authors: Brown, P. R. & Henry, S. & Hinds, L. A. & Robinson, F. & Duncan, R. P. & Ruscoe, W. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Baiting is widely used in wildlife management for various purposes, including lethal control, fertility control, disease and parasite control, and con...

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Predation by introduced foxes on native bush rats in Australia: do foxes take the doomed surplus?

Published online: 18 Mar 2000

Authors: Banks, P. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Introduced vertebrate predators are one of the most important threats to endemic mammal species. Prey naivety can lead to heavy losses to alien predat...

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A before-after control-impact experiment reveals that culling reduces the impacts of invasive deer on endangered peatlands.

Published online: 05 Mar 2024

Authors: Comte, S. & Bengsen, A. J. & Thomas, E. & Bennett, A. & Davis, N. E. & Brown, D. & Forsyth, D. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive deer have undesirable impacts on native ecosystems. Culling is commonly used to reduce those impacts, but is expensive and sometimes controve...

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Responses of stream macroinvertebrates and ecosystem function to conventional, integrated and organic farming.

Published online: 29 Sep 2010

Authors: Magbanua, F. S. & Townsend, C. R. & Blackwell, G. L. & Phillips, N. & Matthaei, C. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Organic farming practices can benefit a wide range of terrestrial biota in comparison to conventional farming but we do not know whether this benefit ...

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Indirect effects and biological control of mosquitoes by mosquitofish.

Published online: 04 Oct 1988

Authors: Bence, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Gambusia affinis reduced the abundance of the mosquito Culex tarsalis in a rice field in the San Joaquin Valley, California. The fish also reduced the...

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