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Principal sensory experiences of forest visitors in four countries, for evidence-based nature therapy.

Published online: 17 Dec 2024

Authors: Buckley, R. C. & Cooper, M. A. & Zhong LinSheng

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

To advance the theoretical and practical underpinnings for nature therapies, i.e. nature exposure as a means to improve mental health, we compared the...

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Moth, lichens and air pollution along a transect from Manchester to North Wales.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Bishop, J. A. & Cook, L. M. & Muggleton, J. & Seaward, M. R. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Gives results of measurements of the light reflectance of the bark, the type of stem-epiphyte cover, and the lichen flora of samples of trees of Oak (...

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Variation in yield among competing individuals within mixed genotype stands of tea: a selection problem.

Published online: 01 Jan 1978

Authors: Cannell, M. G. R. & Njuguna, C. K. & Ford, E. D. & Smith, R. & Ross-Parker, H. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The procedure adopted in an attempt to identify bushes which would produce high-yielding clones is described. In a six-month study in Kericho, Kenya, ...

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Making use of harvest information to examine alternative management scenarios: a body weight-structured model for wild boar.

Published online: 01 Aug 2012

Authors: Gamelon, M. & Gaillard, J. M. & Servanty, S. & Gimenez, O. & Toïgo, C. & Baubet, E. & Klein, F. & Lebreton, J. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Harvest models are often built to explore the sustainability of the dynamics of exploited populations and to help evaluate hunting management scenario...

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Aspects of light climate within apple orchards.

Published online: 24 Oct 1971

Authors: Jackson, J. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The apple orchards studied had discontinuous bush-and hedge-type canopies of mean leaf-area indexes of 1-1-4. These values were low, owing to the exis...

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Use of grassland and field selection by brent geese Branta bernicla.

Published online: 15 Dec 1990

Authors: Summers, R. W. & Critchley, C. N. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Around Scolt Head Island, N. Norfolk 43.7%, 57.7% and 65.5% of the cumulative total number of observations of brent geese (Branta b. bernicla) were ma...

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The role of aphids in wood formation. II. The effect of the lime aphid, Eucallipterus tiliae L. (Aphididae), on the growth of lime, Tilia X vulgaris Hayne.

Published online: 29 Jun 1972

Authors: Dixon, A. F. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following is virtually the author's summary of this second part of a series [cf. RAE A 59 2659]. Experiments on saplings of lime (Tilia) under con...

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The application of hemispherical photography to cereal canopies.

Published online: 01 Jan 1977

Authors: Hooper, B. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A critical assessment was made of the use of hemispherical photography in fully-developed wheat and barley canopies. It is concluded that black-and-wh...

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The foraging behaviour of honeybees on ornamental Malus spp. used as pollinizers in apple orchards.

Published online: 01 Jan 1978

Authors: Kendall, D. A. & Smith, B. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The flowers of 3 ornamental Malus species (M. aldenhamensis, M. floribunda and M. cv. Golden Hornet), and the flowers of Cox, Worcester and Lambourne ...

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Differential survival of genetic variants in crowded populations of Phlox.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Bazzaz, F. A. & Levin, D. A. & Schmierbach, M. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The nature of change in genetic structure during self-thinning of crowded mixtures of Phlox drummondii genotypes was investigated with (1) 10 commerci...

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