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Unveiling the role of forests in landslide occurrence, recurrence and recovery.

Published online: 27 Nov 2024

Authors: Law YingKi & Lee, C. K. F. & Chan, A. H. Y. & Mak, N. P. L. & Hau, B. C. H. & Wu Jin

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rain-triggered landslides cause significant socioeconomic loss and long-term ecological impact, disrupting topsoil and seed banks and creating unfavou...

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Is environmental legislation conserving tropical stream faunas? A large-scale assessment of local, riparian and catchment-scale influences on Amazonian fish.

Published online: 21 Nov 2018

Authors: Leal, C. G. & Barlow, J. & Gardner, T. A. & Hughes, R. M. & Leitão, R. P. & Mac nally, R. & Kaufmann, P. R. & Ferraz, S. F. B. & Zuanon, J. & Paula, F. R. de & Ferreira, J. & Thomson, J. R. & Lennox, G. D. & Dary, E. P. & Röpke, C. P. & Pompeu, P. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural expansion and intensification are major threats to tropical biodiversity. In addition to the direct removal of native vegetation, agricul...

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Forest fragments modulate the provision of multiple ecosystem services.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Mitchell, M. G. E. & Bennett, E. M. & Gonzalez, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural landscapes provide the essential ecosystem service of food to growing human populations; at the same time, agricultural expansion to incr...

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Exposure of Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) to humans reduces behavioural responses to potential threats.

Published online: 15 Jul 2024

Authors: Zukerman, Y. & Berger-Tal, O.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The spatial expansion of human populations has increased the overlap between humans and wildlife, leading to the greater tolerance of many wildlife sp...

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Highways associated with expansion of boreal scavengers into the alpine tundra of fennoscandia.

Published online: 21 Nov 2020

Authors: Rød-Eriksen, L. & Skrutvold, J. & Herfindal, I. & Jensen, H. & Eide, N. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat fragmentation may affect species distributions through, for example, altered resource availability and shifts in species interactions. Fragmen...

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Impacts of umbrella species management on non-target species.

Published online: 09 Sep 2024

Authors: Zarri, E. C. & Naugle, D. E. & Martin, T. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restoration of anthropogenically altered habitats has often focused on management for umbrella species-vulnerable species whose conservation is though...

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Ecosystem response to interventions: lessons from restored and created wetland ecosystems.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Moreno-Mateos, D. & Meli, P. & Vara-Rodríguez, M. I. & Aronson, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Current efforts to restore and create ecosystems require greater understanding of ecosystems' responses to commonly used physical and biological inter...

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Disease management during bloom affects the floral microbiome but not pollination in a mass-flowering crop.

Published online: 22 Jun 2023

Authors: Schaeffer, R. N. & Crowder, D. W. & Illán, J. G. & Beck, J. J. & Fukami, T. & Williams, N. M. & Vannette, R. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Flowering crops are heavily managed during bloom to both promote pollination and prevent disease. Disease management practices can alter the floral mi...

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A before-and-after assessment of patch-burn grazing and riparian fencing along headwater streams.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Larson, D. M. & Dodds, W. K. & Whiles, M. R. & Fulgoni, J. N. & Thompson, T. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Fire and grazing are common in grasslands world-wide to maintain grass cover and cattle production. The effects of fire, cattle grazing and riparian f...

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Suppressing competitive dominants and community restoration with native parasitic plants using the hemiparasitic Rhinanthus alectorolophus and the dominant grass Calamagrostis epigejos.

Published online: 22 Nov 2017

Authors: Těšitel, J. & Mládek, J. & Horník, J. & Těšitelová, T. & Adamec, V. & Tichý, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Dominance of native or alien competitive plants causes competitive exclusion of subordinate species and represents a major mechanism reducing biodiver...

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