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Wildlife roadkill and COVID-19: a biologically significant, but heterogeneous, reduction.

Published online: 04 Aug 2022

Authors: Pokorny, B. & Cerri, J. & Bužan, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Collisions with vehicles are a major cause of wildlife mortality. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries enforced lockdowns that reduced vehicul...

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Where do the feral oilseed rape populations come from? A large-scale study of their possible origin in a farmland area.

Published online: 23 Apr 2008

Authors: Pivard, S. & Adamczyk, K. & Lecomte, J. & Lavigne, C. & Bouvier, A. & Deville, A. & Gouyon, P. H. & Huet, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many cultivated species can escape from fields and colonize seminatural habitats as feral populations. Of these, feral oilseed rape is a widespread fe...

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Effects of pre-existing submersed vegetation and propagule pressure on the invasion success of Hydrilla verticillata.

Published online: 23 Apr 2008

Authors: Chadwell, T. B. & Engelhardt, K. A. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

With biological invasions causing widespread problems in ecosystems, methods to curb the colonization success of invasive species are needed. The effe...

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Impact of controlled neonicotinoid exposure on bumblebees in a realistic field setting.

Published online: 11 Oct 2017

Authors: Arce, A. N. & David, T. I. & Randall, E. L. & Rodrigues, A. R. & Colgan, T. J. & Wurm, Y. & Gill, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pesticide exposure has been implicated as a contributor to insect pollinator declines. In social bees, which are crucial pollination service providers...

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Invader Relative Impact Potential: a new metric to understand and predict the ecological impacts of existing, emerging and future invasive alien species.

Published online: 11 Oct 2017

Authors: Dick, J. T. A. & Laverty, C. & Lennon, J. J. & Barrios-O'Neill, D. & Mensink, P. J. & Britton, J. R. & Médoc, V. & Boets, P. & Alexander, M. E. & Taylor, N. G. & Dunn, A. M. & Hatcher, M. J. & Rosewarne, P. J. & Crookes, S. & MacIsaac, H. J. & Xu Meng & Ricciardi, A. & Wasserman, R. J. & Ellender, B. R. & Weyl, O. L. F. & Lucy, F. E. & Banks, P. B. & Dodd, J. A. & MacNeil, C. & Penk, M. R. & Aldridge, D. C. (et al)

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Predictions of the identities and ecological impacts of invasive alien species are critical for risk assessment, but presently we lack universal and s...

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Biome-scale signatures of land-use change on raptor abundance: insights from single-visit detection-based models.

Published online: 11 Oct 2017

Authors: Dénes, F. V. & Sólymos, P. & Subhash Lele & Silveira, L. F. & Beissinger, S. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Declines in raptor populations often result from the transformation of natural habitats to anthropogenic land uses, but the rate of population change ...

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Man-made lagoons and how their attractiveness to waders might be increased by manipulating the biomass of an insect benthos.

Published online: 02 Mar 1995

Authors: Rehfisch, M. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The benthic invertebrate communities of 4 man-made brackish (mixo-oligohaline) lagoons in the Humber Estuary, England, were investigated. The communit...

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An improved quantitative method for estimating invertebrate predation in the field using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

Published online: 03 Apr 1993

Authors: Sopp, P. I. & Sunderland, K. D. & Fenlon, J. S. & Wratten, S. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

An equation for estimating invertebrate predation was tested in laboratory experiments with Sitobion avenae and polyphagous predators (Agonum dorsale,...

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Termite assemblage collapse along a land-use intensification gradient in lowland central Sumatra, Indonesia.

Published online: 21 May 2003

Authors: Jones, D. T. & Susilo, F. X. & Bignell, D. E. & Hardiwinoto, S. & Gillison, A. N. & Eggleton, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Termites are major decomposers in tropical regions and play an important role in soil processes. This study measured the impact of land-use intensific...

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