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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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Landscape context mediates the physiological stress response of birds to farmland diversification.

Published online: 25 Nov 2020

Authors: Latimer, C. E. & Smith, O. M. & Taylor, J. M. & Edworthy, A. B. & Owen, J. P. & Snyder, W. E. & Kennedy, C. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Farmland diversification practices are increasingly adopted to help reverse biodiversity declines in agroecosystems. However, evidence for the effecti...

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Escape responses of terrestrial and aquatic birds to drones: towards a code of practice to minimize disturbance.

Published online: 30 Nov 2020

Authors: Weston, M. A. & O'Brien, C. & Kostoglou, K. N. & Symonds, M. R. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Advances in human technology can lead to widespread and rapid increases in interactions between wildlife and potentially disturbing stimuli. The recre...

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Using spatial heterogeneity to extrapolate species richness: a new method tested on Ecuadorian cloud forest birds.

Published online: 03 May 2006

Authors: O'Dea, N. & Whittaker, R. J. & Ugland, K. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

For most ecological assemblages, compiling complete inventories of species is difficult, if not impossible. Various methods have been developed to est...

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Revisiting the pyrodiversity-biodiversity hypothesis: long-term fire regimes and the structure of ant communities in a Neotropical savanna hotspot.

Published online: 14 Jan 2015

Authors: Maravalhas, J. & Vasconcelos, H. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The idea that variable fire regimes (pyrodiversity) may increase habitat heterogeneity and, consequently, increase biodiversity at the landscape level...

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Eighth session of the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, Brasilia, Brazil, 5-9 October 2015.

Published online: 20 Jul 2016

Published by: Food and Agriculture Organization

Content type: Bulletin; Conference proceedings

The eighth session of the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) was held in Brasilia, Brazil from 5-9 October 2015, at...

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Climate, invasive species and land use drive population dynamics of a cold-water specialist.

Published online: 26 Jul 2017

Authors: Kovach, R. P. & Al-Chokhachy, R. & Whited, D. C. & Schmetterling, D. A. & Dux, A. M. & Muhlfeld, C. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate change is an additional stressor in a complex suite of threats facing freshwater biodiversity, particularly for cold-water fishes. Research ad...

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Effects of pesticides on soil bacterial, fungal and protist communities, soil functions and grape quality in vineyards.

Published online: 24 May 2024

Authors: Steiner, M. & Falquet, L. & Fragnière, A. L. & Brown, A. & Bacher, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Pesticides can have unintentional effects on non-target organisms and change biotic communities. Such changes might be particularly important in soil ...

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Applied ecology of fear: a meta-analysis on the potential of facilitating human-wildlife coexistence through nonlethal tools.

Published online: 10 Jun 2024

Authors: Ramirez, J. I. & Kuijper, D. P. J. & Olofsson, J. & Smit, C. & Hofmeester, T. R. & Siewert, M. B. & Widemo, F. & Cromsigt, J. P. G. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The term "applied ecology of fear" was recently introduced to describe the growing research field that applies the theory of the ecology of fear to ma...

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Organic management and landscape heterogeneity combine to sustain multifunctional bird communities in European vineyards.

Published online: 11 Jun 2021

Authors: Barbaro, L. & Assandri, G. & Brambilla, M. & Castagneyrol, B. & Froidevaux, J. & Giffard, B. & Pithon, J. & Puig-Montserrat, X. & Torre, I. & Calatayud, F. & Gaüzère, P. & Guenser, J. & Macià-Valverde, F. X. & Mary, S. & Raison, L. & Sirami, C. & Rusch, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conserving functionally diverse bird communities in European farmland is becoming critical, with no exception for regions of wine production. Manageme...

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