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Designing a network for butterfly habitat restoration: where individuals, populations and landscapes interact.

Published online: 29 Aug 2007

Authors: McIntire, E. J. B. & Schultz, C. B. & Crone, E. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restoring biologically appropriate habitat networks is fundamental to the persistence and connectivity of at-risk species surviving in highly fragment...

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A desk review of the ecology of heather beetle.

Published online: 25 May 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Gillingham, P. & Diaz, A. & Stillman, R. & Pinder, A. C.

Content type: Reports

The heather beetle Lochmaea suturalis is a naturally occurring species in the heather dominated landscapes of the United Kingdom. When the heather bee...

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Observer retention, site selection and population dynamics interact to Bias abundance trends in bats.

Published online: 19 Apr 2022

Authors: Dambly, L. I. & Jones, K. E. & Boughey, K. L. & Isaac, N. J. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many long-term wildlife population monitoring programmes rely on citizen scientists for data collection. This can offer several benefits over traditio...

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Emerging RHDV2 suppresses the impact of endemic and novel strains of RHDV on wild rabbit populations.

Published online: 27 Jul 2020

Authors: Ramsey, D. S. L. & Cox, T. & Strive, T. & Forsyth, D. M. & Stuart, I. & Hall, R. & Elsworth, P. & Campbell, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Multi-strain, host-disease dynamics describe a system where multiple strains of a pathogen compete for susceptible individuals of a single host. Th...

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Growth and reproduction trade-offs can estimate previous reproductive history in alpine ungulates.

Published online: 16 Aug 2021

Authors: Larue, B. & Pelletier, F. & Côté, S. D. & Hamel, S. & Festa-Bianchet, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Life-history theory predicts energy allocation trade-offs between traits when resources are limited. If females reduce allocation to growth when they ...

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Bumblebee colony density on farmland is influenced by late-summer nectar supply and garden cover.

Published online: 23 May 2021

Authors: Timberlake, T. P. & Vaughan, I. P. & Baude, M. & Memmott, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Floral resources are important in limiting pollinator populations, but they are often highly variable across time and space and the effect of this ...

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Leveraging the strengths of citizen science and structured surveys to achieve scalable inference on population size.

Published online: 05 Mar 2024

Authors: Stillman, A. N. & Howell, P. E. & Zimmerman, G. S. & Bjerre, E. R. & Millsap, B. A. & Robinson, O. J. & Fink, D. & Stuber, E. F. & Ruiz-Gutierrez, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Population size is a key metric for management and policy decisions, yet wildlife monitoring programmes are often limited by the spatial and temporal ...

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Compensatory recruitment unlikely in high-elevation amphibian populations challenged with disease.

Published online: 17 Jul 2023

Authors: Hardy, B. M. & Muths, E. & Lambert, B. A. & Schneider, S. C. & Funk, W. C. & Bailey, L. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding the causes of population variation in host response to disease, and the mechanisms of persistence, can serve as vital information for sp...

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Heterogeneous grazing causes local extinction of edible perennial shrubs: a matrix analysis.

Published online: 22 Aug 2001

Authors: Hunt, L. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Population modelling and field measurements of births, growth and mortality were used to investigate the long-term change in abundance of Atriplex ves...

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Bioacoustic monitoring reveals shifts in breeding songbird populations and singing behaviour with selective logging in tropical forests.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Pillay, R. & Fletcher, R. J., Jr. & Sieving, K. E. & Udell, B. J. & Bernard, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Selective logging is the primary cause of tropical forest degradation and is rapidly expanding worldwide. While the impacts of logging on species dive...

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