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The changing Arctic inquiry: a response from the British ecological society to the house of commons environmental audit committee.

Published online: 23 Jul 2020

Published by: British Ecological Society

Content type: White paper

This paper presents the response of the British Ecological Society to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee wherein the following questio...

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Plant trait-based approaches to improve nitrogen cycling in agroecosystems.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Abalos, D. & Groenigen, J. W. van & Philippot, L. & Lubbers, I. M. & Deyn, G. B. de

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Intensive agriculture is dominated by monocultures of high-yielding plants that receive large applications of nitrogen (N) fertilizers to boost plant ...

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Participatory research methods in environmental science: local and scientific knowledge of a limnological phenomenon in the Pantanal wetland of Brazil.

Published online: 18 Oct 2000

Authors: Calheiros, D. F. & Seidl, A. F. & Ferreira, C. J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Participatory research methodologies incorporating local knowledge are important to the success of ecological research and the sustainable management ...

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Bringing together approaches to reporting on within species genetic diversity.

Published online: 08 Sep 2022

Authors: O'Brien, D. & Laikre, L. & Hoban, S. & Bruford, M. W. & Ekblom, R. & Fischer, M. C. & Hall, J. & Hvilsom, C. & Hollingsworth, P. M. & Kershaw, F. & Mittan, C. S. & Mukassabi, T. A. & Ogden, R. & Segelbacher, G. & Shaw, R. E. & Vernesi, C. & MacDonald, A. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Genetic diversity is one of the three main levels of biodiversity recognised in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Fundamental for species ...

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Guidelines on urban and peri-urban forestry.

Published online: 04 Jan 2017

Authors: Salbitano, F. & Borelli, S. & Conigliaro, M. & Chen YuJuan

Content type: Bulletin

These guidelines are the result a consultative process that involved a large number of practitioners from both developed and developing countries. Two...

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Overcoming biodiversity blindness: secondary data in primary citizen science observations.

Published online: 06 May 2024

Authors: Pernat, N. & Canavan, S. & Golivets, M. & Hillaert, J. & Itescu, Y. & Jarić, I. & Mann, H. M. R. & Pipek, P. & Preda, C. & Richardson, D. M. & Teixeira, H. & Vaz, A. S. & Groom, Q.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

In the face of the global biodiversity crisis, collecting comprehensive data and making the best use of existing data are becoming increasingly import...

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Hierarchical Bayes estimation of species richness and occupancy in spatially replicated surveys.

Published online: 23 Apr 2008

Authors: Kéry, M. & Royle, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Species richness is the most widely used biodiversity metric, but cannot be observed directly as, typically, some species are overlooked. Imperfect de...

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Ecosystem service trade-offs resulting from woody plant removal vary with biome, encroachment stage and removal method.

Published online: 21 May 2024

Authors: Ding JingYi & Eldridge, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Plant removal is used widely to restore systems encroached by woody plants and to improve ecosystem health and human well-being. However, the effects ...

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Wood production in tropical rain forest.

Published online: 14 Dec 1966

Authors: Dawkins, H. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Suggests that it is possible to calculate the plant or community phytomass from analysis of forestry sample-plot data of Derbholz (above-ground wood &...

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Dispersal of adult cabbage root fly (Erioischia brassicae (Bouche)) in relation to a brassica crop.

Published online: 01 Jan 1974

Authors: Hawkes, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Adults of Hylemya (Erioischia) brassicae (Bch.) labelled with 32P were released 24 m from a plot of cabbage and recaptured with water traps. The respo...

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