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Strategies for attaining sustainability and resilience in watersheds.

Published online: 11 Feb 2015

Authors: Cruz, R. V. O.

Content type: Bulletin

This paper enumerates a number of strategies for attaining sustainability and resilience in watersheds. The strategies identified are: (1) promote sci...

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Challenging common myths in protected area management.

Published online: 10 Jul 2019

Published by: Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation

Content type: Miscellaneous

This paper indicates that some of the widespread assumptions relating to the relationship between protected areas (PAs) and human wellbeing are not ba...

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Biodiversity as insurance for sapling survival in experimental tree plantations.

Published online: 22 Feb 2017

Authors: Peer, T. van de & Verheyen, K. & Baeten, L. & Ponette, Q. & Muys, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity can insure ecosystems against declines in their functioning by increasing the mean level of ecosystem processes and decreasing the spatia...

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A century of environmental legislation.

Published online: 01 Jul 2015

Authors: Cain, L. P. & Kaiser, B. A.

Content type: Bulletin

We find three intertwined ambitions that drove federal legislation over wildlife and biodiversity at the beginning of the 20th Century: establishment ...

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Penwith Moors Ecohydrological catchment land-cover survey.

Published online: 19 Aug 2022

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Gilroy, A. & Beard, M.

Content type: Reports

This report presents a land-cover survey conducted in eleven mire catchments within Penwith Moors. The objectives of the land-cover survey are to reco...

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Wealth and risk heterogeneity effects in community-based wildlife management: experimental evidence.

Published online: 11 Aug 2023

Authors: Carpenter, S. & Kreitmair, U.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Community-based conservation is a widely adopted wildlife governance approach, but questions remain about the conditions under which this form of wild...

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Towards effective area-specific agricultural nature management in Noord-Brabant. Collective guideline within the framework of the ANLb2016 plan.

Published online: 23 Nov 2016

Authors: Schotman, A. G. M. & Ottburg, F. G. W. A. & Poelmans, W. J. C. & Corporaal, A.

Content type: Bulletin

The Dutch guidelines for nature management in rural areas (ANLb2016) distinguishes for the province Noord-Brabant 6 habitat types. These habitat types...

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Effects of pasture improvement and management on the ground beetle and spider communities of upland grasslands.

Published online: 08 Aug 1992

Authors: Rushton, S. P. & Luff, M. L. & Eyre, M. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of pasture improvement procedures and subsequent pesticide use on the carabid and spider faunas of semi- natural upland grasslands in nort...

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Evaluation of the upland ecosystem service pilots: synthesis report.

Published online: 25 Jan 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Kirkup, B. & Lusardi, J.

Content type: Reports

This paper provides information on the early attempt to demonstrate how the ecosystem approach might be applied to practical land management scenarios...

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The efficacy and ecological impacts of herbicide and cutting regimes on the submerged plant communities of four British rivers. II. A multivariate analysis of the effects of management regimes on macrophyte communities.

Published online: 08 Dec 1990

Authors: Fox, A. M. & Murphy, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Macrophyte abundance scores derived from percentage frequencies from permanent transects in four rivers were subjected to DECORANA and TWINSPAN multiv...

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