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Uptake and above- and below-ground allocation of soil mineral-N and fertilizer-15N in a perennial grass ley (Festuca pratensis).

Published online: 31 Mar 1990

Authors: Hanson, A. C. & Pettersson, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A perennial Festuca pratensis ley was grown during 3 years in a field experiment at Kjettslinge, Sweden. N uptake, defined as the flow of N into the c...

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The ecology of slugs in potato crops, with special reference to the differential susceptibility of potato cultivars to slug damage.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Pinder, L. C. V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Aspects under study in a Northumberland market garden included the distribution of slugs in soil under potato plants and grassland during June to Nove...

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Effects of physical disturbance on arctic vegetation in the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

Published online: 01 Jan 1974

Authors: Babb, T. A. & Bliss, L. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soil disturbance (vehicle tracks, carcass sites, etc.) did not generally cause serious erosion and thermokarst arising from increased soil heat flux. ...

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Reduced-effort schemes for monitoring butterfly populations.

Published online: 21 Nov 2007

Authors: Roy, D. B. & Rothery, P. & Brereton, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Butterflies are one of the few insect groups that can be monitored effectively and have the potential to develop national and Europe-wide trends in ab...

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The influence of vegetation pattern on the grazing of heather moorland by red deer and sheep. II. The impact on heather.

Published online: 24 Mar 1995

Authors: Clarke, J. L. & Welch, D. & Gordon, I. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Red deer (Cervus elaphus) and Scottish Blackface sheep were grazed in a series of 10-day periods in plots of heather (Calluna vulgaris) moorland havin...

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Flow intermittence and ecosystem services in rivers of the Anthropocene.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Datry, T. & Boulton, A. J. & Bonada, N. & Fritz, K. & Leigh, C. & Sauquet, E. & Tockner, K. & Hugueny, B. & Dahm, C. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are watercourses that cease flow at some point in time and space. Arguably Earth's most widespread ty...

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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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Ecological studies of the vegetation of the Sudan. IV. The effect of simulated grazing on the growth of Acacia senegal (L.) Wild. seedlings.

Published online: 24 Feb 1970

Authors: Seif el Din, A. & Obeid, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Describes a study of seedling survival after simulated browsing (removal of the cotyledons of 3-day seedlings, or the leading shoots of seedlings 1-11...

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Phosphorus adsorption by soils from heathlands in southern England in relation to successional change.

Published online: 16 Mar 1991

Authors: Chapman, S. B. & Rose, R. J. & Basanta, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Determinations of the phosphorus adsorption characteristics of a range of heathland soils are described and related to differences in phosphorus econo...

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Conservation of vascular plants in single large and several small mires: species richness, rarity and taxonomic diversity.

Published online: 26 May 1999

Authors: Virolainen, K. M. & Suomi, T. & Suhonen, J. & Kuitunen, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A study was conducted during 1994-95 in Finland within a 1600 ha area containing patchy boreal spruce (Picea abies) and pine (Pinus sylvestris) mire h...

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