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Using ants as bioindicators in land management: simplifying assessment of ant community responses.

Published online: 17 Jul 2002

Authors: Andersen, A. N. & Hoffmann, B. D. & Müller, W. J. & Griffiths, A. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The indicator qualities of terrestrial invertebrates are widely recognized in the context of detecting ecological change associated with human land us...

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Moth assemblages as indicators of environmental quality in remnants of upland Australian rain forest.

Published online: 12 Jul 2000

Authors: Kitching, R. L. & Orr, A. G. & Thalib, L. & Mitchell, H. & Hopkins, M. S. & Graham, A. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite concern about the effects of fragmentation on biodiversity, quantitative studies are still scarce with respect to many major groups and import...

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Effects of re-braiding measures on hydromorphology, floodplain vegetation, ground beetles and benthic invertebrates in mountain rivers.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Jähnig, S. C. & Brunzel, S. & Gacek, S. & Lorenz, A. W. & Hering, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Medium-sized and large mountain rivers are among the most degraded river types in Europe and numerous river restoration projects are currently carried...

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Successional response of a tropical forest termite assemblage to experimental habitat perturbation.

Published online: 14 Mar 2000

Authors: Davies, R. G. & Eggleton, P. & Dibog, L. & Lawton, J. H. & Bignell, D. E. & Brauman, A. & Hartmann, C. & Nunes, L. & Holt, J. & Rouland, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The successional response of a termite assemblage to the experimental perturbation of forest habitat was studied in southern Cameroon, to determine th...

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The implications of red deer grazing to ground vegetation and invertebrate communities of Scottish native pinewoods.

Published online: 21 Dec 1994

Authors: Baines, D. & Sage, R. B. & Baines, M. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effect of grazing by red deer (Cervus elaphus) was assessed in eight native pinewoods (dominated by Pinus sylvestris) in the Scottish Highlands in...

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Changes in decomposition rates and Collembola densities during the forestry cycle in conifer plantations.

Published online: 30 Jun 1999

Authors: Butterfield, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conifers have a tendency to produce detrimental changes in the soil that suppress decomposition. It is also possible that clear-felling and the short ...

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The influence of ants and ant manipulation on the cocoa farm fauna.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Majer, J. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Certain species of dominant ants were selectively eliminated from different subplots in order to elucidate the influence of ants and other factors on ...

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Spider adaptation to artificial biotopes: the fauna of percolating filter beds in a sewage treatment works.

Published online: 04 Jun 1998

Authors: Duffey, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The spider faunas of 2 filter beds at the Minworth Sewage Treatment Works in Birmingham, UK, were studied from June 1980 to June 1981 inclusive, to in...

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Man-made lagoons and how their attractiveness to waders might be increased by manipulating the biomass of an insect benthos.

Published online: 02 Mar 1995

Authors: Rehfisch, M. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The benthic invertebrate communities of 4 man-made brackish (mixo-oligohaline) lagoons in the Humber Estuary, England, were investigated. The communit...

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A comparison of two pollinators: the introduced honey bee Apis mellifera and an indigenous bee Centris tarsata on cashew Anacardium occidentale in its native range of NE Brazil.

Published online: 04 Jun 1998

Authors: Freitas, B. M. & Paxton, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Aspects of the flowering biology of wild cashew A. occidentale, an andromonoecious, self-fertile tree, were investigated in north-east Brazil, where t...

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