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Propensity score matching mitigates risk of faulty inferences in observational studies of effectiveness of restoration trials.

Published online: 20 Aug 2024

Authors: Kluender, C. R. & Germino, M. J. & Anthony, C. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Determining effectiveness of restoration treatments is an important requirement of adaptive management, but it can be non-trivial where only portions ...

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The efficacy of DNA sequencing on samples of terrestrial invertebrates 2018/2019.

Published online: 09 Aug 2022

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Rees, H. C. & Maddison, B. M. & Owen, J. P. & Baker, C. A. & Bishop, K. & Gough, K. C. & Webb, J. R.

Content type: Reports

This publication reports on the accuracy of DNA species identification for invertebrates, and investigates also on the reliability of the BOLD databas...

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Public preference for the rewilding framework: a choice experiment in the Oder Delta.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Dunn-Capper, R. & Giergiczny, M. & Fernández, N. & Marder, F. & Pereira, H. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Rewilding is an emerging paradigm in restoration science and is increasingly gaining popularity as a cost-effective ecosystem restoration option. A re...

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The relation between shoot density and attack hi infestations of barley by a shoot fly larva.

Published online: 02 Jul 1969

Authors: Bullock, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following is based largely on the author's summary of this account of investigations in Kenya. The percentage of barley shoots attacked by larvae ...

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The microdistribution of Agrostis tenuis on colliery spoil in relation to spoil chemical variability.

Published online: 01 Jan 1978

Authors: Tasker, A. & Chadwick, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Spoil samples were collected from 5 colliery spoil heaps in N. England. Relationships between the microdistribution of A. tenuis and 17 spoil chemical...

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Woody riparian buffers have indirect effects on macroinvertebrate assemblages of French rivers, but land use effects are much stronger.

Published online: 19 Feb 2022

Authors: Gall, M. le & Palt, M. & Kail, J. & Hering, D. & Piffady, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Woody riparian buffers (hereafter, 'woody buffers') are frequently considered as important to mitigate the effects of stressors on streams and rivers....

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The use of the Lamb daily weather types and the indices of progressiveness, southerliness and cyclonicity to investigate the autumn migration of Rhopalosiphum padi.

Published online: 25 May 1996

Authors: Masterman, A. J. & Foster, G. N. & Holmes, S. J. & Harrington, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The numbers of Rhopalosiphum padi sampled using UK 12.2 m suction traps during the autumn were related to weather data from the preceding year using m...

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The effects of seasonal grazing on the Heteroptera and Auchenorhyncha (Hemiptera) of chalk grassland.

Published online: 01 Jan 1974

Authors: Morris, M. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Samples of Heteroptera and Auchenorrhyncha were taken from replicated plots grazed by sheep in spring, summer, autumn and winter and from ungrazed are...

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Developing a robust technique to detect populations of endangered native white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes, invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus and crayfish plague Aphanomyces astaci in lotic systems using innovative eDNA approaches.

Published online: 29 Oct 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Farmer, A.

Content type: Reports

eDNA sampling was carried out on known populations of white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes and invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus lenius...

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A test of methods for estimating population size of the invasive land snail Achatina fulica in dense vegetation.

Published online: 11 Sep 2002

Authors: Craze, P. G. & Mauremootoo, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Physical inaccessibility often complicates censuses of poorly mobile organisms. We therefore assessed the effectiveness of using a sample of quadrat c...

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