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A habitat connectivity reality check for fish physical habitat model results and decision-making for river restoration.

Published online: 06 May 2024

Authors: Hansen, H. H. & Schneider, M. & Hägele, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Fish physical habitat models are a tool for guiding restoration efforts in lotic ecosystems, but often they overestimate restoration outcomes because ...

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South Somerset SSSIs: a study of neutral grassland succession.

Published online: 23 Jul 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Gibson, C. W. D.

Content type: Reports

This report details studies of fields of known ages and past treatment within a narrow compass of countryside in Somerset, near the border with Dorset...

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Positive forest cover effects on coffee yields are consistent across regions.

Published online: 18 Feb 2022

Authors: González-Chaves, A. & Carvalheiro, L. G. & Garibaldi, L. A. & Metzger, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Enhancing biodiversity-based ecosystem services can generate win-win opportunities for conservation and agricultural production. Pollination and pest ...

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Classification and ecological relevance of soundscapes in urban informal settlements.

Published online: 11 Aug 2023

Authors: Fleming, G. M. & Elqadi, M. M. & Taruc, R. R. & Tela, A. & Duffy, G. A. & Ramsay, E. E. & Faber, P. A. & Chown, S. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Sound exerts wide-ranging influence on humans. The quality of that influence depends on the sound source and context in which it is perceived, but nat...

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Assessing the accuracy of species distribution models: prevalence, kappa and the true skill statistic (TSS).

Published online: 11 Apr 2007

Authors: Allouche, O. & Tsoar, A. & Kadmon, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In recent years the use of species distribution models by ecologists and conservation managers has increased considerably, along with an awareness of ...

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Multi-scale modeling of relationships between forest health and climatic factors.

Published online: 15 Apr 2015

Authors: Crosby, M. K. & Fan, Z. F. & Fan, X. G. & Spetich, M. A. & Leininger, T. D.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Forest health and mortality trends are impacted by changes in climate. These trends can vary by species, plot location, forest type, and/or ecoregion....

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Adaptive monitoring in action: reconsidering design-based estimators reveals underestimation of whitebark pine disease prevalence in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Published online: 16 May 2021

Authors: Shanahan, E. & Wright, W. J. & Irvine, K. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Identifying and understanding status and trends in ecological indicators motivates continual monitoring over decades. Many programs rely on probabi...

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The effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage depend on interactions between plant community composition, precipitation seasonality, and soil climate regime.

Published online: 10 Mar 2023

Authors: Maxwell, T. M. & Germino, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Annual-grass invasions are transforming desert ecosystems in ways that affect ecosystem carbon (C) balance, but previous studies do not agree on the p...

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Landscapes of risk: a comparative analysis of landscape metrics for the ecotoxicological assessment of pesticide risk to bees.

Published online: 20 Aug 2024

Authors: Nicholson, C. C. & Lonsdorf, E. V. & Andersson, G. K. S. & Knapp, J. L. & Svensson, G. P. & Gönczi, M. & Jonsson, O. & Miranda, J. R. de & Williams, N. M. & Rundlöf, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pesticide use in agricultural landscapes creates environmental contamination that is heterogenous in space and time. Mobile organisms, such as bees, a...

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The effects of weirs on structural stream habitat and biological communities.

Published online: 30 Nov 2011

Authors: Mueller, M. & Pander, J. & Geist, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Most of the world's rivers are affected by dams and weirs. Information on the quantitative and qualitative effects of weirs across biological communit...

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