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Microplastics promote the invasiveness of invasive alien species under fluctuating water regime.

Published online: 27 Nov 2024

Authors: Zhang RuiFeng & Guo YuJian & Lai YaWen & Zhao TingTing & Li GuanLin & Yan ZhaoGui & Wang YongJian & Rillig, M. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Microplastic (MP) pollution and alien plant invasions are two important threats to terrestrial ecosystems. Microplastics alter the physical and chemic...

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Hydrological disturbance benefits a native fish at the expense of an exotic fish.

Published online: 11 Oct 2006

Authors: Leprieur, F. & Hickey, M. A. & Arbuckle, C. J. & Closs, G. P. & Brosse, S. & Townsend, C. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Some native fish in New Zealand do not coexist with introduced salmonids. Previous studies of disjunct distributions of exotic brown trout Salmo trutt...

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Effects of feline panleucopaenia on the population characteristics of feral cats on Marion Island.

Published online: 02 Mar 1988

Authors: Rensburg, P. J. J. van & Skinner, J. D. & Aarde, R. J. van

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Virulent virus was introduced in 1977 to a feral cat population on the 290-km2 Marion Island, South Africa, where the cats were killing some 450 000 p...

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Stable coexistence of an invasive plant and biocontrol agent: a parameterized coupled plant-herbivore model.

Published online: 30 Mar 2005

Authors: Buckley, Y. M. & Rees, M. & Sheppard, A. W. & Smyth, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Coupled plant-herbivore models, allowing feedback from plant to herbivore populations and vice versa, enable us to predict the impact of biocontrol ag...

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Limited impacts of adaptive multi-paddock grazing systems on plant diversity in the Northern Great Plains.

Published online: 20 Sep 2022

Authors: Grenke, J. S. J. & Bork, E. W. & Carlyle, C. N. & Boyce, M. S. & Cahill, J. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grassland plant community structure and function are dependent on the type, timing, frequency and intensity of disturbance. Grazing systems employing ...

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Factors affecting the establishment and survival of Anaitis efformata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) introduced into Australia for the biological control of St. John's wort, Hypericum perforatum. I. Laboratory experiments.

Published online: 08 Jul 1987

Authors: Briese, D. T. & Pullen, K. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Anaitis efformata [Aplocera efformata], a potential biological control agent for St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) in south-eastern Australia, wa...

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Factors affecting the establishment and survival of Anaitis efformata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) introduced into Australia for the biological control of St. John's wort, Hypericum perforatum. II. Field trials.

Published online: 08 Jul 1987

Authors: Briese, D. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Life tables for Anaitis efformata [Aplocera efformata], a potential control agent for St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum), were obtained by followi...

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Long-term effects of defoliation: incomplete recovery of a New Zealand alpine tussock grass, Chionochloa pallens, after 20 years.

Published online: 26 May 2000

Authors: Lee, W. G. & Fenner, M. & Loughnan, A. & Lloyd, K. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Chionochloa pallens, a New Zealand low alpine tussock grass, is an important food plant of the takahé (Porphyrio hochstetteri), a rare endemic flightl...

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Can commercially imported bumble bees out-compete their native conspecifics?

Published online: 11 Oct 2006

Authors: Ings, T. C. & Ward, N. L. & Chittka, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although invasive species are major topics of research, little consideration has been given to the implications of introducing non-native subspecies o...

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Functional traits associated with the establishment of introduced Phytophthora spp. in Swedish forests.

Published online: 21 Nov 2018

Authors: Redondo, M. A. & Boberg, J. & Stenlid, J. & Oliva, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive forest pathogens of the genus Phytophthora are threatening ecosystems globally. Phytophthora species are mainly introduced by humans importin...

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