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Restorenet: an emerging restoration network reveals controls on seeding success across dryland ecosystems.

Published online: 23 Nov 2020

Authors: Havrilla, C. A. & Munson, S. M. & McCormick, M. L. & Laushman, K. M. & Balazs, K. R. & Butterfield, B. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Drylands are Earth's largest terrestrial biome and support one-third of the global population. However, they are also highly vulnerable to land degrad...

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Managing fire mosaics for small mammal conservation: a landscape perspective.

Published online: 18 Apr 2012

Authors: Kelly, L. T. & Nimmo, D. G. & Spence-Bailey, L. M. & Taylor, R. S. & Watson, S. J. & Clarke, M. F. & Bennett, A. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Fire is a major driver of ecosystem structure and function worldwide. It is also widely used as a management tool to achieve conservation goals. A com...

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Pteropus vampyrus, a hunted migratory species with a multinational home-range and a need for regional management.

Published online: 04 Nov 2009

Authors: Epstein, J. H. & Olival, K. J. & Pulliam, J. R. C. & Smith, C. & Westrum, J. & Hughes, T. & Dobson, A. P. & Akbar Zubaid & Sohayati Abdul Rahman & Misliah Mohamad Basir & Field, H. E. & Daszak, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The management of migratory species is challenging because of insufficient data on long-range movement patterns, habitat use, and the impact of anthro...

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Use of resource selection functions to identify conservation corridors.

Published online: 04 Nov 2009

Authors: Chetkiewicz, C. L. B. & Boyce, M. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Corridors are commonly used to connect fragments of wildlife habitat, yet the identification of conservation corridors typically neglects processes of...

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A review of the effectiveness of different on-site wastewater treatment systems and their management to reduce phosphorus pollution.

Published online: 18 Jan 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: May, L. & Woods, H.

Content type: Reports

This review assessess the information contained in publicly available literature with a view to enabling Natural England to improve the advice that th...

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Quantifying the effects of prey abundance on killer whale reproduction.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Ward, E. J. & Holmes, E. E. & Balcomb, K. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Management decisions for threatened and endangered species require risks to be identified and prioritized, based on the degree to which they influence...

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Bayesian occupancy models for populations of crawfish, Palinurus elephas.

Published online: 24 Jan 2024

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Jackson, A. C.

Content type: Reports

This study used the Sparta occupancy model with records from the Seasearch programme from coastal waters of Britain and Ireland during the period 2000...

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Understanding the effects of a new grazing policy: the impact of seasonal grazing on shrub demography in the Inner Mongolian steppe.

Published online: 04 Dec 2013

Authors: Li ShouLi & Yu FeiHai & Werger, M. J. A. & Dong Ming & Ramula, S. & Zuidema, P. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grazing by livestock is a common land use in arid and semi-arid areas. Developing sustainable grazing regimes that conserve vegetation and maintain pr...

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Coexistence across space and time: social-ecological patterns within a decade of human-coyote interactions in San Francisco.

Published online: 22 Mar 2024

Authors: Wilkinson, C. E. & Caspi, T. & Stanton, L. A. & Campbell, D. & Schell, C. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

enThis link goes to a English sectionesThis link goes to a Spanish sectionzhThis link goes to a Spanish section Global change is increasing the freque...

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Assessing the population impacts and cost-effectiveness of a conservation translocation.

Published online: 02 Oct 2021

Authors: Yackulic, C. B. & Haverbeke, D. R. van & Dzul, M. & Bair, L. & Young, K. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Managers often move, or translocate, organisms into habitats that are assumed to be suitable; however, the consequences of these translocations are us...

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