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Low-cost management interventions and their impact on multilevel trade-offs in agricultural grasslands.

Published online: 19 Feb 2024

Authors: Burian, A. & Norton, B. A. & Alston, D. & Willmot, A. & Reynolds, S. & Meynell, G. & Lynch, P. & Bulling, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Cost-effective strategies to increase biodiversity are a fundamental requirement to reconcile conservation and food production in agricultural land...

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Limiting scaring activities reduces economic costs associated with foraging barnacle geese: results from an individual-based model.

Published online: 18 Jan 2024

Authors: Jager, M. de & Buitendijk, N. H. & Baveco, J. M. & Els, P. van & Nolet, B. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

With increasing numbers of large grazing birds on agricultural grassland, conflict with farmers is rising. One management approach to alleviate confli...

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Prediction of National Vegetation Classification communities in the British uplands using environmental data at multiple spatial scales, aerial images and the classifier random forest.

Published online: 03 Aug 2011

Authors: Bradter, U. & Thom, T. J. & Altringham, J. D. & Kunin, W. E. & Benton, T. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

High-resolution vegetation maps are a valuable resource for conservation, land management and research. In Great Britain, the National Vegetation Clas...

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Remnant woodland biodiversity gains under 10 years of revealed-price incentive payments.

Published online: 20 Jul 2020

Authors: Bond, A. J. & O'Connor, P. J. & Cavagnaro, T. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Evaluation of conservation incentive programme outcomes is needed to direct future investment, however, monitoring of large-scale programmes is relati...

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Configurational landscape heterogeneity shapes functional community composition of grassland butterflies.

Published online: 01 Apr 2015

Authors: Perović, D. & Gámez-Virués, S. & Börschig, C. & Klein, A. M. & Krauss, J. & Steckel, J. & Rothenwöhrer, C. & Erasmi, S. & Tscharntke, T. & Westphal, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Landscape heterogeneity represents two aspects of landscape simplification: (i) compositional heterogeneity (diversity of habitat types); and (ii) con...

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Can restoration of afforested peatland regulate pests and disease?

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Gilbert, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Government policies are driving landscape-scale changes in land use to provide ecosystem services; but there may be unconsidered cascading effects. A ...

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Landscape heterogeneity can partially offset negative effects of habitat loss on mammalian biodiversity in agroecosystems.

Published online: 27 Apr 2024

Authors: Pônzio, M. do C. & Pasqualotto, N. & Zanin, M. & Chiarello, A. G. & Pardini, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Intensive, large-scale agriculture promotes the conversion of natural habitats and diversified crops into monocultures, decreasing both native vegetat...

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Towards a systems approach for understanding honeybee decline: a stocktaking and synthesis of existing models.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Becher, M. A. & Osborne, J. L. & Thorbek, P. & Kennedy, P. J. & Grimm, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The health of managed and wild honeybee colonies appears to have declined substantially in Europe and the United States over the last decade. Sustaina...

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Livestock and their management are key to the future of Africa's wildlife.

Published online: 04 Nov 2020

Authors: Western, D. & Tyrrell, P. & Brehony, P. & Russell, S. & Western, G. & Kamanga, J.

Content type: Blog

Protected areas fall far short of securing the space needed to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem function at a global scale and in the face of climat...

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Grassland invasions: effects of manipulations of climate and management.

Published online: 22 Aug 2001

Authors: Buckland, S. M. & Thompson, K. & Hodgson, J. G. & Grime, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate change, in combination with the impacts of land use, will give rise to new opportunities for grassland invasion. This paper reports on the rep...

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