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Enjoying the great outdoors: what role does land management play?

Published online: 04 Nov 2020

Authors: Tew, E. & Simmons, B. & Sutherland, W.

Content type: Blog

An extensive survey was conducted in a major UK forest site to gather participatory data points. Land management significantly affected cultural ecosy...

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Trophic transfer of pesticides: the fine line between predator-prey regulation and pesticide-pest regulation.

Published online: 21 Jan 2021

Authors: Baudrot, V. & Fernandez-De-Simon, J. & Coeurdassier, M. & Couval, G. & Giraudoux, P. & Lambin, X.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding pesticide impacts on populations of target/non-target species and communities is a challenge to applied ecology. When predators that oth...

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Rare soil microbial taxa regulate the negative effects of land degradation drivers on soil organic matter decomposition.

Published online: 13 Oct 2021

Authors: Wu Ying & Chen DiMa & Saleem, M. & Wang Bing & Hu ShuiJin & Delgado-Baquerizo, M. & Bai YongFei

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Land degradation drivers, including loss in vegetation and eutrophication, are expected to impact soil biodiversity and functions in drylands world-wi...

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Nature's contributions to people provided by spontaneous forest regrowth.

Published online: 13 Nov 2020

Authors: Martín-Forés, I. & Magro, S. & Bravo-Oviedo, A. & Alfaro-Sánchez, R. & Espelta, J. M. & Frei, T. & Valdés-Correcher, E. & Fernández-Blanco, C. R. & Winkel, G. & Gerzabek, G. & González-Martínez, S. C. & Hampe, A. & Valladares, F.

Content type: Blog

This paper assessed the changes in nature's contributions to people (NCP) associated with spontaneous forest regrowth, including both forest expansion...

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NatureScot Research Report 1213 - Exploring biological trait analysis and inter-habitat linkages in three seabed habitat PMFs in Scotland.

Published online: 21 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: James, K. & Kamphausen, L. & Cunningham, S. & Kent, F.

Content type: Reports

This report investigates the effects of linkages between selected Priority Marine Feature (PMF) habitats in Scotland on their associated biological co...

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Participatory mapping reveals biocultural and nature values in the shared landscape of a Nordic UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Cusens, J. & Barraclough, A. M. D. & Måren, I. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Making the right decisions for sustainable development requires sound knowledge of the values and spatial distribution of the services co-produced by ...

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Facilitating dynamic and inclusive biodiversity conservation in Britain: an anthropocene perspective.

Published online: 04 Aug 2022

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Thomas, C. D. & Hill, J. K. & Ward, C. & Hatfield, J. H.

Content type: Reports

We propose an approach to conservation centred on achieving positive future trajectories of dynamic change, applied to all locations and species, and ...

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Satellite remote sensing for applied ecologists: opportunities and challenges.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Pettorelli, N. & Laurance, W. F. & O'Brien, T. G. & Wegmann, M. & Nagendra, H. & Turner, W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat loss and degradation, overexploitation, climate change and the spread of invasive species are drastically depleting the Earth's biological div...

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Testing rangeland health theory in the Northern Great Plains.

Published online: 28 Aug 2019

Authors: Reinhart, K. O. & Rinella, M. J. & Waterman, R. C. & Petersen, M. K. & Vermeire, L. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Correctly assessing whether rangeland ecosystem services are stable, improving, or degrading is of global importance. Soil aggregate stability (SAS) i...

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The state of the world's biodiversity for food and agriculture.

Published online: 19 Jun 2019

Authors: Bélanger, J. & Pilling, D.

Content type: Miscellaneous

This report presents the first global assessment of biodiversity for food and agriculture (BFA). It complements other global assessments prepared unde...

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