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Performance of habitat offsets for species conservation in dynamic human-modified landscapes.

Published online: 16 Nov 2024

Authors: Rhodes, J. R. & Liu Yan & Wahyudi, A. & Maron, M. & Iftekhar, M. S. & Brisbane, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Biodiversity offsets are a popular policy tool for mitigating the impact of development on biodiversity, but the ecological success of offsets arise f...

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Deforestation changes the effectiveness of bed nets for malaria control.

Published online: 27 Jan 2025

Authors: Estifanos, T. K. & Fisher, B. & Ricketts, T. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Land use changes such as deforestation and the degradation of tropical forests can be key drivers of infectious disease, including malaria. However, p...

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Using net anthropogenic nutrient inputs at fine spatial scales benefits decision-making in watersheds to protect water quality.

Published online: 27 Nov 2024

Authors: Shousha, S. & Maranger, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Excessive nutrient loadings from various human activities on land to inland and coastal waters result in water quality degradation through cultural eu...

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Plant diversity enhances the reclamation of degraded lands by stimulating plant-soil feedbacks.

Published online: 24 Nov 2020

Authors: Jia Pu & Liang JieLiang & Yang ShengXiang & Zhang ShengChang & Liu Jun & Liang ZhiWei & Li FengMei & Zeng QingWei & Fang Zhou & Liao Bin & Shu WenSheng & Cadotte, M. W. & Li JinTian

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite a rich history of theoretical and empirical work showing that increasing biodiversity results in higher ecosystem function, this research has ...

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Limited biomass recovery from gold mining in Amazonian forests.

Published online: 23 Nov 2020

Authors: Kalamandeen, M. & Gloor, E. & Johnson, I. & Agard, S. & Katow, M. & Vanbrooke, A. & Ashley, D. & Batterman, S. A. & Ziv, G. & Holder-Collins, K. & Phillips, O. L. & Brondizio, E. S. & Vieira, I. & Galbraith, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Gold mining has rapidly increased across the Amazon Basin in recent years, especially in the Guiana shield, where it is responsible for >90% of tot...

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Sweat bees on hot chillies: provision of pollination services by native bees in traditional slash-and-burn agriculture in the Yucatán Peninsula of tropical Mexico.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Landaverde-González, P. & Quezada-Euán, J. J. G. & Theodorou, P. & Murray, T. E. & Husemann, M. & Ayala, R. & Moo-Valle, H. & Vandame, R. & Paxton, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Traditional tropical agriculture often entails a form of slash-and-burn land management that may adversely affect ecosystem services such as pollinati...

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Land resilience and tail dependence among crop yield distributions.

Published online: 24 Jun 2015

Authors: Du, X. D. & Hennessy, D. A. & Feng, H. L.

Content type: Bulletin

Rate setting procedures for United States crop yield and revenue insurance contracts employ methods that presume correlations to be state invariant. W...

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Private land conservation has landscape-scale benefits for wildlife in agroecosystems.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Yeiser, J. M. & Morgan, J. J. & Baxley, D. L. & Chandler, R. B. & Martin, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Private lands contain much of the world's biodiversity. Conservation of private land, especially agricultural land, is urgent yet challenging because ...

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Changing the fallow paradigm: a win-win strategy for the post-2020 common agricultural policy to halt farmland bird declines.

Published online: 28 Jul 2020

Authors: Tarjuelo, R. & Margalida, A. & Mougeot, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Farmland bird populations have declined sharply due to agricultural intensification. In Europe, these negative population trends have been linked to t...

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Conservation of woody species in China under future climate and land-cover changes.

Published online: 15 Feb 2022

Authors: Peng ShiJia & Zhang Jian & Zhang XiaoLing & Li YaoQi & Liu YunPeng & Wang ZhiHeng

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate and land-cover changes are major threats to biodiversity, and their impacts are expected to intensify in the future. Protected areas (PAs) are...

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