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Can restoration of afforested peatland regulate pests and disease?

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Gilbert, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Government policies are driving landscape-scale changes in land use to provide ecosystem services; but there may be unconsidered cascading effects. A ...

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Confronting contingency in restoration: management and site history determine outcomes of assembling prairies, but site characteristics and landscape context have little effect.

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Grman, E. & Bassett, T. & Brudvig, L. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The outcomes of ecological restoration are notoriously unpredictable, but we have no general predictive understanding of this contingency. Management ...

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Mosquitofish dominate amphibian and invertebrate community development in experimental wetlands.

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Shulse, C. D. & Semlitsch, R. D. & Trauth, K. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restored and constructed habitats can play important conservation roles. Predators help shape communities in these habitats through complex interactio...

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Soil aggregate stability increase is strongly related to fungal community succession along an abandoned agricultural field chronosequence in the Bolivian Altiplano.

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Duchicela, J. & Sullivan, T. S. & Bontti, E. & Bever, J. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soil aggregate stability is an important ecosystem property which deteriorates overtime due to agricultural practices. The cessation of cultivation al...

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Landscape-scale conservation: collaborative agri-environment schemes could benefit both biodiversity and ecosystem services, but will farmers be willing to participate?

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: McKenzie, A. J. & Emery, S. B. & Franks, J. R. & Whittingham, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The primary aim of many agri-environment schemes (AES) is to enhance biodiversity; however, the results of AES designed for this purpose have, to date...

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Prescribed burning, atmospheric pollution and grazing effects on peatland vegetation composition.

Published online: 02 May 2018

Authors: Noble, A. & Palmer, S. M. & Glaves, D. J. & Crowle, A. & Brown, L. E. & Holden, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Peatlands are valued for ecosystem services including carbon storage, water provision and biodiversity. However, there are concerns about the impacts ...

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Planting accelerates restoration of tropical forest but assembly mechanisms appear insensitive to initial composition.

Published online: 02 May 2018

Authors: Li LanPing & Cadotte, M. W. & Martínez-Garza, C. & Peña-Domene, M. de la & Du GuoZhen

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Central to the success of restoration is how applied activities influence community assembly mechanisms. Phylogenetic and trait-based approaches to co...

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Testing the link between perceived and actual risk of predation: mosquito oviposition site selection and egg predation by native and introduced fish.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Segev, O. & Verster, R. & Weldon, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

According to the threat-sensitivity hypothesis, prey avoidance behaviour should reflect the magnitude of predation risk. Since predation can strongly ...

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Seed predation has the potential to drive a rare plant to extinction.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Kurkjian, H. M. & Carothers, S. K. & Jules, E. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pre-dispersal seed predation is sometimes considered unlikely to dramatically affect plant population growth because plants are generally expected to ...

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How will predicted land-use change affect waterfowl spring stopover ecology? Inferences from an individual-based model.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Beatty, W. S. & Kesler, D. C. & Webb, E. B. & Naylor, L. W. & Raedeke, A. H. & Humburg, D. D. & Coluccy, J. M. & Soulliere, G. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, overexploitation and climate change pose familiar and new challenges to conserving natural populations throughout...

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