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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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Sensitivity to agricultural inputs and dispersal limitation determine the response of arable plants to time since transition to organic farming.

Published online: 10 Sep 2024

Authors: Carrié, R. & Smith, H. G. & Ekroos, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Transitioning to low-input agricultural systems such as organic farming has been acknowledged as a way to mitigate negative effects of agriculture on ...

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Studies on polyphagous predators of cereal aphids.

Published online: 01 Jan 1980

Authors: Edwards, C. A. & Sunderland, K. D. & George, K. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Experiments were done in England in fields of winter wheat at North Farm, West Sussex, and at Rothamsted in 1978 to investigate the effect of predatio...

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Risk assessment of pesticide seed treatment for farmland birds using refined field data.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Lopez-Antia, A. & Feliu, J. & Camarero, P. R. & Ortiz-Santaliestra, M. E. & Mateo, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Due to reductions in winter food resources, newly sown cereal seeds have become a key component of many bird species' diets, but these seeds are often...

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Landscape-scale interactions of spatial and temporal cropland heterogeneity drive biological control of cereal aphids.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Baillod, A. B. & Tscharntke, T. & Clough, Y. & Batáry, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural landscapes are characterised by dynamic crop mosaics changing in composition and configuration over space and time. Although semi-natural...

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Long-term changes in the flora of the cereal ecosystem on the Sussex Downs, England, focusing on the years 1968-2005.

Published online: 10 Mar 2010

Authors: Potts, G. R. & Ewald, J. A. & Aebischer, N. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There has been a surge of interest in the effects of modern agriculture on biodiversity but studies of farmland flora have lacked continuity and histo...

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Arthropods in cereal crops: nocturnal activity, vertical distribution and aphid predation.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Vickerman, G. P. & Sunderland, K. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

As part of a wider study on the ecology of cereal crops, preliminary studies were carried out in Britain on the nocturnal activity and vertical distri...

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Annual losses of weed seeds due to predation in organic cereal fields.

Published online: 05 Nov 2003

Authors: Westerman, P. R. & Wes, J. S. & Kropff, M. J. & Werf, W. van der

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Post-dispersal seed losses in annual arable weed species are poorly quantified, but may be of significance for natural population control, especially ...

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Life history and population dynamics of Theba pisana (Mollusca: Helicidae) in a cereal-pasture rotation.

Published online: 09 Feb 1991

Authors: Baker, G. H. & Hawke, B. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The life history, population dynamics and dispersal of the snail Theba pisana were studied in a cereal-pasture rotation in South Australia in 1984-88....

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Third and fourth trophic level composition shift in an aphid-parasitoid-hyperparasitoid food web limits aphid control in an intercropping system.

Published online: 15 Feb 2022

Authors: Jeavons, E. & Baaren, J. van & Ralec, A. le & Buchard, C. & Duval, F. & Llopis, S. & Postic, E. & Lann, C. le

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding how resource diversification affects ecological interactions, food web structure and ecosystem functioning is essential in both fundamen...

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