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Non-lethal control of wildlife: using chemical repellents as feeding deterrents for the European badger Meles meles.

Published online: 02 Nov 2005

Authors: Baker, S. E. & Ellwood, S. A. & Watkins, R. & Macdonald, D. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Non-lethal methods of controlling wildlife foraging damage may offer conservation, ethical, legal and efficacy advantages over lethal control. Chemica...

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Plant communities can predict the distribution of solitarious desert locust Schistocerca gregaria.

Published online: 02 Nov 2005

Authors: Werf, W. van der & Woldewahid, G. & Huis, A. van & Butrous, M. & Sykora, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The desert locust is a migratory pest whose population development in remote areas must be monitored to prevent outbreaks, upsurges and plagues. Monit...

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No evidence for trade-offs between bird diversity, yield and water table depth on oil palm smallholdings: implications for tropical peatland landscape restoration.

Published online: 03 Aug 2022

Authors: Warren-Thomas, E. & Agus, F. & Akbar, P. G. & Crowson, M. & Hamer, K. C. & Hariyadi, B. & Hodgson, J. A. & Kartika, W. D. & Lopes, M. & Lucey, J. M. & Mustaqim, D. & Pettorelli, N. & Saad, A. & Sari, W. & Sukma, G. & Stringer, L. C. & Ward, C. & Hill, J. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Tropical peat swamp forests retain large carbon stocks and support unique biodiversity, but clearance and drainage for agriculture have resulted in fi...

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Indigenous brigades change the spatial patterns of wildfires, and the influence of climate on fire regimes.

Published online: 04 Aug 2022

Authors: Oliveira, M. R. & Ferreira, B. H. S. & Souza, E. B. & Lopes, A. A. & Bolzan, F. P. & Roque, F. O. & Pott, A. & Pereira, A. M. M. & Garcia, L. C. & Damasceno Júnior, G. A. & Costa, A. & Rocha, M. & Xavier, S. & Ferraz, R. A. & Ribeiro, D. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Indigenous people have been managing fire-prone landscapes for millennia, especially in tropical savannas, thereby maintaining carbon stocks and pyrod...

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Scale dependence of landscape heterogeneity effects on plant invasions.

Published online: 24 Jun 2022

Authors: Kotowska, D. & Pärt, T. & Skórka, P. & Auffret, A. G. & Żmihorski, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive alien species are among the most concerning threats to native biodiversity world-wide, and the level of landscape heterogeneity is considered...

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Restoration promotes recovery of woodland birds in agricultural environments: a comparison of 'revegetation' and 'remnant' landscapes.

Published online: 04 Aug 2022

Authors: Bennett, A. F. & Holland, G. J. & Haslem, A. & Stewart, A. & Radford, J. Q. & Clarke, R. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecological restoration in rural environments is a global challenge for the 21st century. Restoration measures - such as agri-environment activities, w...

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Thinning the thickets: foraging of hardy cattle, sheep and goats in green alder shrubs.

Published online: 04 Aug 2022

Authors: Pauler, C. M. & Zehnder, T. & Staudinger, M. & Lüscher, A. & Kreuzer, M. & Berard, J. & Schneider, M. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Green alder shrubs Alnus viridis increasingly overgrow European mountain pastures but hinder natural forest succession. This nitrogen-fixing, autochth...

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Carabid beetles have hump-shaped responses to disturbance and resource gradients within agricultural landscapes.

Published online: 23 Aug 2023

Authors: Muneret, L. & Ricci, B. & Vialatte, A. & Aviron, S. & Ducourtieux, C. & Biju-Duval, L. & Petit, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding the effects of the huge diversity of cropping systems on local biodiversity is challenging but necessary to implement agroecological sys...

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Undersowing oats with clovers supports pollinators and suppresses arable weeds without reducing yields.

Published online: 19 Aug 2023

Authors: Boetzl, F. A. & Sundahl, A. D. & Friberg, H. & Viketoft, M. & Bergkvist, G. & Lundin, O.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sustainable food production requires agriculture to conserve biodiversity and facilitate ecosystem services to maintain productivity levels while redu...

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Habitat loss on seasonal migratory range imperils an endangered ungulate.

Published online: 12 Apr 2021

Authors: Williams, S. H. & Steenweg, R. & Hegel, T. & Russell, M. & Hervieux, D. & Hebblewhite, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Endangered species policies and their associated recovery documents and management actions do not always sufficiently address the importance of migrat...

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