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From nature reserve to mosaic management: improving matrix survival, not permeability, benefits regional populations under habitat loss and fragmentation.

Published online: 03 Aug 2022

Authors: Yamaura, Y. & Fletcher, R. J., Jr. & Lade, S. J. & Higa, M. & Lindenmayer, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although matrix improvement in fragmented landscapes is a promising conservation measure, matrix permeability (willingness of an organism to enter the...

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Monte Carlo analysis of parameter uncertainty in matrix models for the weed Cirsium vulgare.

Published online: 23 Apr 2008

Authors: Tenhumberg, B. & Louda, S. M. & Eckberg, J. O. & Takahashi, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Parameter uncertainty challenges the use of matrix models because it violates key assumptions underlying elasticity analyses. We have developed a matr...

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Recovery of a sparrowhawk population in relation to declining pesticide contamination.

Published online: 03 Apr 1993

Authors: Newton, I. & Wyllie, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus) found dead in eastern England showed a significant reduction in HEOD (organochlorine pesticide residues derived from al...

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Better together: building an engaged conservation paleobiology science for the future.

Published online: 02 Oct 2023

Authors: Dietl, G. P. & Durham, S. R. & Clark, C. & Prado, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Making decisions about natural resource conservation is often difficult because of a lack of longer-term data, which are needed to provide a frame of ...

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Direct effects of competition on individual juniper plants: a field study.

Published online: 21 May 1990

Authors: McPherson, G. R. & Wright, H. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

On each of two sites in western Texas, 240 Juniperus pinchotii plants were harvested. The competitive influence of herbs and shrubs associated with ea...

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Long-term changes in agricultural practices and wildfowling in an internationally important wetland, and their effects on the guild of wintering ducks.

Published online: 28 May 1999

Authors: Duncan, P. & Hewison, A. J. M. & Houte, S. & Rosoux, R. & Tournebize, T. & Dubs, F. & Burel, F. & Bretagnolle, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Changes in the Marais Poitevin wetland, France, are described. The area of grasslands decreased by 50% between 1970 and 1995, principally as a result ...

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Age structure and density of red-capped robin populations vary with habitat size and shape.

Published online: 26 Jan 2000

Authors: Major, R. E. & Christie, F. J. & Gowing, G. & Ivison, T. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In order to determine the influence of habitat shape on aspects of the population dynamics of birds, 196 male red-capped robins (Petroica goodenovii) ...

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A comparison of relative growth rates of different individual plants and different cultivars of onion of diverse geographic origin at two temperatures and two light intensities.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Brewster, J. L. & Barnes, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In two series of experiments, the relative leaf growth rates (RA) and relative growth rates (RW) of seedlings of 8 onion cvs of diverse geographic ori...

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NatureScot Research Report 1226 - Trapping feral pigs in corral traps and drop nets as possible population management tools - practical lessons and assessment of animal welfare in a pilot study.

Published online: 13 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Green, P.

Content type: Reports

This report updates on the management of wild boar/Eurasian wild pigs/feral pigs (Sus scrofa) in the UK, highlighting their increasing numbers and pot...

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Pesticide use on cereals and the survival of grey partridge chicks: a field experiment.

Published online: 19 Mar 1986

Authors: Rands, M. R. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A field experiment in Hampshire was undertaken to test whether the herbicides, fungicides and insecticides used on cereal fields reduce the survival o...

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