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The impact of 36 years of grazing management on vegetation dynamics in dune slacks.

Published online: 04 Dec 2013

Authors: Millett, J. & Edmondson, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grazing mammals are often used to maintain and restore high conservation value plant communities, but the evidence base for management is lacking long...

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Vegetation dynamics on rangelands: a critique of the current paradigms.

Published online: 24 Sep 2003

Authors: Briske, D. D. & Fuhlendorf, S. D. & Smeins, F. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rangeland ecologists have been debating the validity of two current paradigms for the evaluation of vegetation dynamics on rangelands. This debate fre...

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Temporal variation in recruitment and mortality for the pasture weed Hieracium floribundum: implications for a model of population dynamics.

Published online: 11 Jun 1985

Authors: Reader, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

3-fold differences in annual recruitment and 8-fold differences in annual mortality were recorded for H. floribundum between 1975 and 1983. Annual var...

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A classification of East African rangeland. 2. The water balance as a guide to site potential.

Published online: 22 May 1971

Authors: Woodhead, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

For Kenya, maps of annual water availability indices, representing the mean total precipitation available for transpiration as a percentage of the ann...

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Estimating the effects of land degradation and rainfall variation on productivity in rangelands: an approach using remote sensing and models of grazing and herbage dynamics.

Published online: 13 Nov 1996

Authors: Pickup, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Land degradation in non-equilibrium rangelands may be defined in terms of loss of resilience and is linked with lower economic productivity through r...

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An evaluation of three quick methods commonly used to assess sward height in ecology.

Published online: 03 Jan 2002

Authors: Stewart, K. E. J. & Bourn, N. A. D. & Thomas, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many ecological studies and applications involve measuring the height of grassland swards. An evaluation was made of the practicality, accuracy and co...

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A plough technique for sampling soil insects.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Roberts, R. J. & Ridsdill Smith, T. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A plough transect technique is described for the rapid sampling of scarabaeid beetle larvae in pastures. The number of larvae per unit length of furro...

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Modelling the relationship between bird population variables and hedgerow and other field margin attributes. I. Species richness of winter, summer and breeding birds.

Published online: 11 Aug 1995

Authors: Parish, T. & Lakhani, K. H. & Sparks, T. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

An understanding of how farming practices in adjacent fields and the dimensions of the hedge and other boundary components affect birds is essential f...

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Facilitation of red deer grazing by cattle and its impact on red deer performance.

Published online: 19 Jul 1988

Authors: Gordon, I. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Cattle were removed from the Isle of Rhum, Scotland, in 1957. Cattle were reintroduced into one area of the island in 1970 and grazed on areas occupie...

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Germination and seedling emergence in Diplachne fusca: a semi-aquatic weed of rice fields.

Published online: 26 Oct 1991

Authors: McIntyre, S. & Mitchell, D. S. & Ladiges, P. Y.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The native grass D. fusca has become an important weed in rice fields in temperate Australia since rice cultivation began there in 1922. Field and gla...

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