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Escaping social-ecological traps through ecological restoration and socioeconomic development in China's Loess Plateau.

Published online: 20 Sep 2023

Authors: Wang ZhuangZhuang & Fu BoJie & Wu XuTong & Li YingJie & Wang Shuai & Lu Nan

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The social-ecological trap is an emerging concept that describes situations in which self-reinforcing social and ecological feedbacks maintain or push...

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Grazing-induced shifts in community functional composition and soil nutrient availability in Tibetan alpine meadows.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Niu KeChang & He JinSheng & Lechowicz, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The functional structure of plant communities can be altered by grazing through two main mechanisms: species turnover (i.e. changes in species occurre...

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Chinese Loess Plateau vegetation since the Last Glacial Maximum and its implications for vegetation restoration.

Published online: 10 Apr 2013

Authors: Jiang WenYing & Cheng YuFen & Yang XiaoXiao & Yang ShiLing

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

China has been investing heavily in afforestation programmes to control soil erosion on the vast Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP). This massive afforestati...

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Factors associated with wolverine Gulo gulo predation on domestic sheep.

Published online: 18 Mar 2000

Authors: Landa, A. & Gudvangen, K. & Swenson, J. E. & Røskaft, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Losses of domestic sheep grazing unattended on upland summer ranges in the Snøhetta plateau of south central Norway during 1979-94 were examined, in r...

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Genetic variation on the rocks - the impact of climbing on the population ecology of a typical cliff plant.

Published online: 03 Aug 2011

Authors: Vogler, F. & Reisch, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rock climbing enjoys enormous popularity world-wide. As a consequence, the anthropogenic pressure on the vegetation of formerly undisturbed cliff ecos...

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Nonlinear response of the soil seed bank and its role in plant community regeneration with increased grazing disturbance.

Published online: 11 Nov 2022

Authors: An, H. & Baskin, C. C. & Ma MiaoJun

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The soil seed bank represents valuable rebuilding capital that may rescue an ecosystem from state transition once vegetation has crossed an apparent t...

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Trade-off between vegetation type, soil erosion control and surface water in global semi-arid regions: a meta-analysis.

Published online: 24 Nov 2020

Authors: Wu GaoLin & Liu YiFan & Cui Zeng & Liu Yu & Shi ZhiHua & Yin Rui & Kardol, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soil erosion control and water resource protection can closely interact during restoration of terrestrial ecosystems. In semi-arid ecosystems, an urge...

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Small mammals in pine plantations and natural habitats on Zomba plateau, Malawi.

Published online: 17 May 1988

Authors: Happold, D. C. D. & Happold, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Results are presented from live-trapping studies at 12 sites (9 Pinus patula plantations, 1-32 yr old; 1 Cupressus lusitanica plantation, 17 yr old; a...

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Infestation of cod (Gadus morhua L.) with larvae of codworm (Terranova decipiens Krabbe) and herringworm, Anisakis sp. (Nematoda, Ascaridata), in North Atlantic and Arctic waters.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Platt, N. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Nearly 5,300 Gadus morhua collected from the North Atlantic and Arctic during 1971-73 were examined for larvae of Terranova decipiens and Anisakis sp....

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Biomass, production, decomposition of and N release from root nodules in two Casuarina equisetifolia plantations in Sonbhadra, India.

Published online: 01 Apr 1995

Authors: Srivastava, A. K. & Ambasht, R. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Two Casuarina equisetifolia plantation stands of age 5 and 8 yr, located in dry tropical climate of the Vindhyan plateau have been studied in order to...

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