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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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Manual of landscape analysis: Volume 3: Procedures for the generation of spatial indexes of landscape sample units.

Published online: 07 Feb 2019

Content type: Bulletin

The National Forest Inventory of Brazil (IFN-BR) aims to inform the formulation and implementation of public policies for the development, use and con...

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Assessing the sensitivity of biodiversity indices used to inform fire management.

Published online: 02 May 2018

Authors: Giljohann, K. M. & Kelly, L. T. & Connell, J. & Clarke, M. F. & Clarke, R. H. & Regan, T. J. & McCarthy, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity indices are widely used to summarize changes in the distribution and abundance of multiple species and measure progress towards managemen...

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National Vegetation Classification (NVC) survey 2014: Pixton Park, near Dulverton, Somerset.

Published online: 20 Aug 2022

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Hewins, E.

Content type: Reports

A habitat survey was undertaken at Pixton Park in September 2014. This involved mapping ofNational Vegetation Classification (NVC) plant communities (...

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Homogenization of lepidopteran communities in intensively cultivated agricultural landscapes.

Published online: 07 Apr 2010

Authors: Ekroos, J. & Heliölä, J. & Kuussaari, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Landscape simplification and habitat fragmentation may cause severe declines of less mobile and habitat specialist species and lead to biotic homogeni...

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Restoration of species-rich grassland on arable land: assessing the limiting processes using a multi-site experiment.

Published online: 12 Aug 2002

Authors: Pywell, R. F. & Bullock, J. M. & Hopkins, A. & Walker, K. J. & Sparks, T. H. & Burke, M. J. W. & Peel, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural intensification has resulted in the reduction and fragmentation of species-rich grasslands across much of western Europe. We examined the...

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Conservation implications of rainforest use patterns: mature forests provide more resources but secondary forests supply more medicine.

Published online: 06 Jan 2010

Authors: Gavin, M. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Tropical rainforests are a global conservation priority. Robust arguments supporting rainforest conservation can attract funding and shape land-use ma...

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Plant trait characteristics vary with size and eutrophication in European lowland streams.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Baattrup-Pedersen, A. & Göthe, E. & Larsen, S. E. & O'Hare, M. & Birk, S. & Riis, T. & Friberg, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Previous studies investigating community-level relationships between plant functional trait characteristics and stream environmental characteristics r...

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Generating more integrated biodiversity objectives - rationale, principles and practice.

Published online: 14 May 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Mainstone, C. & Jefferson, R. & Diack, I. & Alonso, I. & Crowle, A. & Rees, S. & Goldberg, E. & Webb, J. & Drewitt, A. & Taylor, I. & Cox, J. & Edger, P. & Walsh, K.

Content type: Reports

Effective biodiversity conservation can be hampered by the compartmentalisation of technical advice, guidance, objectives and strategy according to ha...

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Landscape connectivity, habitat structure and activity of bat guilds in farmland-dominated matrices.

Published online: 13 Feb 2013

Authors: Frey-Ehrenbold, A. & Bontadina, F. & Arlettaz, R. & Obrist, M. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural intensification has caused a decline in structural elements in European farmland, where natural habitats are increasingly fragmented. The...

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