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FSC Tomorrow's Biodiversity monitoring and indicators of UK biodiversity change. A review for the FSC Tomorrow's Biodiversity project.

Published online: 07 Jul 2020

Published by: UK, Field Studies Council

Authors: Burkmar, R.

Content type: Reports

This report presents an overview of how biodiversity is monitored in the UK within certain limits: consideration of biodiversity is more or less limit...

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Can species-poor grassland be diversified? A case study of lowland hay meadow restoration at Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion, Wales.

Published online: 09 May 2020

Authors: Shellswell, C. H. & Squire, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

As part of the 'Save Our Magnificent Meadows' project, a two hectare field was converted to hay meadow on the National Trust's Llanerchaeron Estate in...

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NatureScot Research Report 1300 - Scopingthe feasibility of developments to the Terrestrial Bird Indicator for Scotland - urban, farmland and wetland indicators.

Published online: 14 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Martay, B. & Noble, D.

Content type: Reports

This report provides an update on the feasibility of creating new categories within the terrestrial breeding bird indicator, with a focus on urban, we...

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Urbanization interferes with the use of amphibians as indicators of ecological integrity of wetlands.

Published online: 01 Aug 2012

Authors: Guzy, J. C. & McCoy, E. D. & Deyle, A. C. & Gonzalez, S. M. & Halstead, N. & Mushinsky, H. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Wetlands are ecologically and economically important ecosystems but are threatened globally by many forms of human disturbance. Understanding the resp...

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Macrophytes respond to reach-scale river restorations.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Lorenz, A. W. & Korte, T. & Sundermann, A. & Januschke, K. & Haase, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In recent years, river restoration science has been searching for biological indicators of improvement in the physical habitats of streams. To date, r...

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Diversification of Molinia-dominated blanket bogs using Sphagnum propagules.

Published online: 24 Jan 2022

Authors: Pilkington, M. & Walker, J. & Fry, C. & Eades, P. & Meade, R. & Pollett, N. & Rogers, T. & Helliwell, T. & Chandler, D. & Fawcett, E. & Keatley, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Increasing dominance by purple moor grass, Molinia caerulea ('Molinia') on globally rare and protected blanket bogs of the United Kingdom and the Sout...

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The indicator side of tree microhabitats: a multi-taxon approach based on bats, birds and saproxylic beetles.

Published online: 07 Nov 2018

Authors: Paillet, Y. & Archaux, F. & Puy, S. du & Bouget, C. & Boulanger, V. & Debaive, N. & Gilg, O. & Gosselin, F. & Guilbert, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

National and international forest biodiversity assessments largely rely on indirect indicators, based on elements of forest structure that are used as...

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Geobotanical and biogeochemical investigations in the sclerophyllous woodland and shrub associations of the Eastern Goldfields area of Western Australia, with particular reference to the role of Hybanthus floribundus (Lindl.) F. Muell. as a nickel indicator and accumulator plant.

Published online: 01 Jan 1974

Authors: Cole, M. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Gives the results of a survey of woodlands characterized mainly by Eucalyptus spp., including data on: the contents of Ni, Co, Cu, Zn and S in differe...

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Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco.

Published online: 18 Dec 2019

Authors: Macchi, L. & Baumann, M. & Bluhm, H. & Baker, M. & Levers, C. & Grau, H. R. & Kuemmerle, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

World-wide, tropical savannas and dry forests are under increasing pressure from land use. The environmental impacts of agricultural expansion into th...

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Streams are efficient corridors for plant species in forest metacommunities.

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Calçada, E. A. & Closset-Kopp, D. & Gallet-Moron, E. & Lenoir, J. & Rêve, M. & Hermy, M. & Decocq, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The maintenance, restoration or construction of corridors are among the most important conservation strategies world-wide in the face of global change...

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