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BES Grant Report: Time-dependent effects of plant-microbe interactions.

Published online: 14 Jun 2024

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Zou HengXing

Content type: Grant report

This study examines how conditioning time and mechanisms, such as microbial community changes, nutrient levels and environmental factors, affect plant...

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Aerial activity of linyphiid spiders: modelling dispersal distances from meteorology and behaviour.

Published online: 05 Nov 2003

Authors: Thomas, C. F. G. & Brain, P. & Jepson, P. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Dispersal parameters are critical for modelling spatially dynamic populations yet remain among the most difficult to quantify. Linyphiid spider aerial...

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Core areas for wetland birds in Zuid-Holland. Importance of these [areas] for international obligations regarding other bird species.

Published online: 13 May 2015

Authors: Melman, T. C. P. & Sierdsema, H. & Hammers, M. & Oosterveld, E. & Schotman, A. G. M.

Content type: Bulletin

Wet grasslands (21 190 ha) in the province of Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, are internationally important as a core area for black-tailed godwits (Limosa...

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Social and ecological dimensions are needed to understand human-wildlife conflict in subsistence farming context.

Published online: 17 Dec 2024

Authors: Yeshey & Keenan, R. J. & Ford, R. M. & Nitschke, C. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

This study explores the social, economic and environmental dimensions of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in four districts of Bhutan. Looking beyond the...

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Stand structure and light penetration. 1. Analysis by point quadrats.

Published online: 15 Jan 1966

Authors: Wilson, J. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The path of a point quadrat through a stand until it first contacts foliage is comparable to the path of a ray of light from the sky until it is inter...

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Identification of standard and compact apple trees by discriminant function analysis.

Published online: 24 Oct 1971

Authors: Eaton, G. W. & Lapins, K. O.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Discriminant functions for discriminating between standard and compact mutants of young Delicious apple trees were computed on the basis of 5 simple m...

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The role of livestock portfolios and group-based approaches for building resilience in the face of accelerating climate change: an asset-based panel data analysis from rural Kenya.

Published online: 04 Nov 2015

Authors: Ngigi, M. W. & Müller, U. & Birner, R.

Content type: Bulletin

This study examines the impact of multiple shocks on assets by employing two waves of a panel data set of 360 rural households in three agro-ecologica...

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Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services.

Published online: 03 Feb 2016

Authors: Seidl, R. & Spies, T. A. & Peterson, D. L. & Stephens, S. L. & Hicke, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The provisioning of ecosystem services to society is increasingly under pressure from global change. Changing disturbance regimes are of particular co...

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Using Ellenberg indicator values to assess soil quality in British forests from ground vegetation: a pilot study.

Published online: 30 Jul 1997

Authors: Hawkes, J. C. & Pyatt, D. G. & White, I. M. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

As a pilot study, descriptions of the vegetation and soil sampling were carried out on 20 British forest sites to investigate the soil factors likely ...

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Responses of Lumbricidae to saline inundation.

Published online: 01 Jan 1980

Authors: Piearce, T. G. & Piearce, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

At two localities in northwest England that had recently been inundated by the sea, the decline in the density, biomass and species spectrum of Lumbri...

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