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Biodiversity effects on grape quality depend on variety and management intensity.

Published online: 04 Aug 2021

Authors: Steiner, M. & Grace, J. B. & Bacher, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Interactions between plants can be beneficial, detrimental or neutral. In agricultural systems, competition between crop and spontaneous vegetation is...

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The effects of irrigation, cultivation and some insecticides on the soil arthropods of an East African dry grassland.

Published online: 15 Jul 1968

Authors: Burnett, G. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Investigations were made of arthropods in a silty, poorly drained, gray soil under dry grassland, irrigated sugar cane, and under natural grassland re...

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Physiological analysis of the effects of different soils on sugar beet crops in different years.

Published online: 03 Jan 1969

Authors: Goodman, P. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sugar-beet was grown at 7 locations with different soil types in the E. of England and received 2 levels of N during 1960-2. Differences in yield betw...

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Physiological analysis of the effects of different soils on sugar beet crops in different years.

Published online: 22 May 1969

Authors: Goodman, P. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In each of three years, sugar beet was grown on; seven different soils with two rates of fertilizer-N. Differences in yield between different soils an...

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Increased root herbivory under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations is reversed by silicon-based plant defences.

Published online: 22 Nov 2017

Authors: Frew, A. & Allsopp, P. G. & Gherlenda, A. N. & Johnson, S. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Predicted increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 may alter the susceptibility of many plants to insect herbivores due to changes in plant nutr...

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Modelling the incidence of virus yellows in sugar beet in the UK in relation to numbers of migrating Myzus persicae.

Published online: 16 Apr 1999

Authors: Werker, A. R. & Dewar, A. M. & Harrington, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The incidence of virus yellows diseases (caused by beet yellowing virus [beet yellows closterovirus] and/or beet mild yellowing luteovirus) in sugar b...

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Solar radiation in crop canopies.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Szeicz, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Total solar, near infra-red, and photosynthetically active radiation were measured by tube solarimeters at Rothamsted in barley, sugar beet, field bea...

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Prediction of weed density: the increase of error with prediction interval, and the use of long-term prediction for weed management.

Published online: 08 Jul 1999

Authors: Wallinga, J. & Grasman, J. & Groeneveld, R. M. W. & Kropff, M. J. & Lotz, L. A. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

This paper addresses the errors that are associated with the long-term prediction of weed densities, and the effect of these errors on the performance...

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Models of sugarcane smut disease and their implications for testing variety resistance.

Published online: 17 May 1988

Authors: Elston, D. A. & Simmonds, N. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The testing procedure currently used for assessing Ustilago scitaminea resistance in sugarcane varieties is empirical and leads to anomalies. Models f...

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The influence of weeds and farmyard manure on the activity of Carabidae and other ground-dwelling arthropods in a sugar beet crop.

Published online: 22 Jul 1985

Authors: Purvis, G. & Curry, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pitfall traps were used in the Irish Republic to investigate the effects of weeds and the application of farmyard manure on arthropod activity in suga...

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