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Prescribed burning protects endangered tropical heathlands of the Arnhem Plateau, northern Australia.

Published online: 29 Jul 2015

Authors: Murphy, B. P. & Cochrane, M. A. & Russell-Smith, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There are concerns that frequent intense fires are reducing biodiversity on the Arnhem Plateau within Kakadu National Park, northern Australia. Since ...

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The impact of cattle ranching on large-scale vegetation patterns in a coastal savanna in Tanzania.

Published online: 27 Aug 2003

Authors: Tobler, M. W. & Cochard, R. & Edwards, P. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The success of large-scale cattle ranching in African savanna vegetation has often been limited by problems of bush encroachment and disease (in parti...

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Fire regimes, fire-sensitive vegetation and fire management of the sandstone Arnhem Plateau, monsoonal northern Australia.

Published online: 08 Jul 1999

Authors: Russell-Smith, J. & Ryan, P. G. & Klessa, D. & Waight, G. & Harwood, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A fire history (1980 to the present) developed for Kakadu National Park, derived mostly from manual interpretation of LANDSAT MultiSpectral Scanner (M...

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Modelling habitat selection and distribution of the critically endangered Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus in scrub jungle: an application of a new tracking method.

Published online: 16 Jun 2004

Authors: Panchapakesan Jeganathan & Green, R. E. & Norris, K. & Vogiatzakis, I. N. & Bartsch, A. & Wotton, S. R. & Bowden, C. G. R. & Griffiths, G. H. & Pain, D. & Rahmani, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Jerdon's courser Rhinoptilus bitorquatus is a nocturnally active cursorial bird that is only known to occur in a small area of scrub jungle in Andhra ...

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Understanding the transition of community land use from shifting cultivation to cash cropping in Southern Tanintharyi, Myanmar.

Published online: 09 Sep 2024

Authors: Pyone, K. H. H. & Crego, R. D. & Ngwe, S. S. & Win, S. di & Connette, K. L. & Songer, M. & Connette, G. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Many tropical landscapes have experienced the loss of traditional cultivation practices as they have transitioned to other land use systems. The Tanin...

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Landscape properties affect biodiversity response to retention approaches in forestry.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Mori, A. S. & Tatsumi, S. & Gustafsson, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Retention forestry, in which trees and tree patches are set aside at harvest to promote biodiversity, has been proven to have positive effects on biod...

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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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Impacts of tsetse control and land-use on vegetative structure and tree species composition in south-western Ethiopia.

Published online: 08 Aug 1997

Authors: Reid, R. S. & Wilson, C. J. & Kruska, R. L. & Mulatu, W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

More effective control of the tsetse fly in Africa will reduce constraints imposed by the livestock disease, trypanosomiasis. Trypanosomiasis lowers l...

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Remote sensing-based predictors improve distribution models of rare, early successional and broadleaf tree species in Utah.

Published online: 21 Nov 2007

Authors: Zimmermann, N. E. & Edwards, T. C., Jr. & Moisen, G. G. & Frescino, T. S. & Blackard, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Compared to bioclimatic variables, remote sensing predictors are rarely used for predictive species modelling. When used, the predictors represent typ...

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The comparison of remotely sensed and ground-based habitat area data using species-area models.

Published online: 16 Jan 1998

Authors: Mack, E. L. & Firbank, L. G. & Bellamy, P. E. & Hinsley, S. A. & Veitch, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

As long as high resolution landscape data are more expensive than low resolution data, there needs to be some form of cost-benefit analysis to inform ...

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