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Weed management and woodland creation - an evidence review of herbicide alternatives and impacts on biodiversity.

Published online: 22 Jan 2022

Published by: Woodland Trust

Authors: Bavin, S.

Content type: Reports

1. Weed control is important for ensuring the rapid and successful establishment of trees in woodland creation projects. Over recent decades, herbicid...

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Assessing the state of New Zealand's garden birds from national to local scales.

Published online: 24 Jan 2022

Authors: MacLeod, C. J. & Green, P. & Howard, S. & Gormley, A. M. & Brandt, A. J. & Spurr, E. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Better biodiversity indicators are needed to address information gaps, describe trends accurately and robustly and be useful for decisionmakers. Citiz...

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Vulnerability and adaptation strategies of dairy farming systems to extreme climate events in southwest Uganda: results of CSA-PRA workshops.

Published online: 04 Sep 2019

Authors: Vries, M. de

Content type: Bulletin

Prolonged droughts and excess rainfall are expected to increase in frequency and intensity in southwest Uganda as a result of climate change. The aim ...

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Effect of biodiversity on economic benefits from communal lands in Namibia.

Published online: 13 Apr 2011

Authors: Naidoo, R. & Weaver, L. C. & Stuart-Hill, G. & Tagg, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The conservation of biodiversity is increasingly justified by claims that human livelihoods are improved through its protection. Nature's ecosystem se...

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Cost-effectiveness of strategies to establish a European bison metapopulation in the Carpathians.

Published online: 13 Apr 2011

Authors: Kuemmerle, T. & Perzanowski, K. & Akçakaya, H. R. & Beaudry, F. & Deelen, T. R. van & Parnikoza, I. & Khoyetskyy, P. & Waller, D. M. & Radeloff, V. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Where populations are confined to fragmented, human-dominated landscapes, preventing declines and extirpations will often rely on metapopulation manag...

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Limits to exploitation: dynamic food web models predict the impact of livestock grazing on Ethiopian wolves Canis simensis and their prey.

Published online: 13 Apr 2011

Authors: Vial, F. & Macdonald, D. W. & Haydon, D. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Anticipating the consequences of, and sustainable limits to, human exploitation of ecosystem resources requires a quantitative understanding of food w...

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The potential of parasitoid Hymenoptera as bioindicators of arthropod diversity in agricultural grasslands.

Published online: 13 Apr 2011

Authors: Anderson, A. & McCormack, S. & Helden, A. & Sheridan, H. & Kinsella, A. & Purvis, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

As measuring biodiversity in its entirety is impractical, there is a need for bioindicators. This study tested the hypothesis that parasitoid Hymenopt...

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Remote sensing and GPS tracking reveal temporal shifts in habitat use in nonbreeding black-tailed godwits.

Published online: 16 Feb 2025

Authors: Craft, T. B. & Piersma, T. & Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W. & Zhu BingRun & D'Souza, M. & O'Reilly, E. & Fokkema, R. W. & Stessens, M. & Belting, H. & Marlow, C. & Ludwig, J. & Melter, J. & Alves, J. A. & Esteban-Pineda, A. & Gutiérrez, J. S. & Masero, J. A. & Rocha, A. D. & Dreef, C. & Howison, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Knowledge of the habitat requirements for migratory species throughout their full annual cycle is necessary for comprehensive species protection plans...

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Modelling ecological half-lives for radiocaesium in Norwegian brown trout populations.

Published online: 28 Jun 2000

Authors: Hessen, D. O. & Skurdal, J. & Hegge, O. & Andersen, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Models of ecological half-life may be valuable and cost-effective predictive tools for authorities setting restrictions on human consumption of freshw...

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'I owe it to the animals': the bidirectionality of Swiss alpine farmers' relational values.

Published online: 09 Mar 2023

Authors: Chapman, M. & Deplazes-Zemp, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Relational values have recently been proposed as a concept to expand our understanding of environmental values from the categories previously dominati...

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