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The interactive effects of management on the productivity and plant community structure of an upland meadow: an 8-year field trial.

Published online: 26 Feb 2001

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Shiel, R. S. & Millward, D. & Corkhill, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural policy in the Pennine Dales Environmentally Sensitive Area in northern England aims to enhance plant species diversity in agriculturally ...

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Does increasing the diversity of seeds broadcast for restoration alter post-dispersal seed predation and its community-determining effects?

Published online: 22 Oct 2023

Authors: Drescher, B. J. & Nolan, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Native seeds broadcast for restoration are often consumed by predators before they can germinate. However, it is unclear how the composition of a seed...

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Seed shed in the making of hay from mesotrophic grassland in a field in Northern England: effects of hay cut date, grazing and fertilizer in a split-split-plot experiment.

Published online: 13 Nov 1996

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Pullan, S. & Shiel, R. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A hay crop was cut at three different dates in 1990 from a mesotrophic (meadow) grassland in Upper Teesdale, under various fertilizer, grazing and cut...

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Restorenet: an emerging restoration network reveals controls on seeding success across dryland ecosystems.

Published online: 23 Nov 2020

Authors: Havrilla, C. A. & Munson, S. M. & McCormick, M. L. & Laushman, K. M. & Balazs, K. R. & Butterfield, B. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Drylands are Earth's largest terrestrial biome and support one-third of the global population. However, they are also highly vulnerable to land degrad...

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Ecological impacts of pesticide seed treatments on arthropod communities in a grain crop rotation.

Published online: 09 Dec 2020

Authors: Dubey, A. & Lewis, M. T. & Dively, G. P. & Hamby, K. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

While many studies have investigated non-target impacts of neonicotinoid seed treatments (NSTs), they usually take place within a single crop and focu...

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Influence of cultivation regime upon buried weed seeds in arable cropping systems.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Froud-Williams, R. J. & Chancellor, R. J. & Drennan, D. S. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of cultivation on the number of seeds of different spp. in arable land were investigated at 4 sites over several yr. Soil cores were obtai...

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Long-term effects of disease epidemics.

Published online: 07 Dec 1991

Authors: Jarosz, A. M. & Burdon, J. J. & Müller, W. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Plants from 4 seed lines, developed on the basis of high or low seed wt and whether the seed came from wheat that was healthy or infected by mildew (E...

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New opportunities for an old method: using fluorescent colours to measure seed dispersal.

Published online: 04 Nov 2009

Authors: Lemke, A. & Lippe, M. von der & Kowarik, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seed dispersal is of high applied relevance as it governs colonization processes in rare species and during plant invasions. Seed tracking is a powerf...

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Effects of temperature fluctuation, red and far-red light and nitrate on seed germination of five grasses.

Published online: 17 Feb 1984

Authors: Williams, E. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seed germination in Agrostis capillaris, Holcus lanatus, Poa trivialis, Cynosurus cristatus and Festuca rubra was investigated in the dark at temp. ra...

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Long-term effects of seeding after wildfire on vegetation in Great Basin shrubland ecosystems.

Published online: 08 Oct 2014

Authors: Knutson, K. C. & Pyke, D. A. & Wirth, T. A. & Arkle, R. S. & Pilliod, D. S. & Brooks, M. L. & Chambers, J. C. & Grace, J. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive annual grasses alter fire regimes in shrubland ecosystems of the western USA, threatening ecosystem function and fragmenting habitats necessa...

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