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Satellite imagery as a tool for monitoring species diversity: an assessment.

Published online: 05 Aug 1999

Authors: Harini Nagendra & Madhav Gadgil

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A landscape of 5×5.5 km in the Karnataka region of the Western Ghats of India was mapped into seven landscape element types, using field identificatio...

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Exotic invasive species in urban wetlands: environmental correlates and implications for wetland management.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Ehrenfeld, J. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Wetlands in urban regions are subjected to a wide variety of anthropogenic disturbances, many of which may promote invasions of exotic plant species. ...

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Leveraging relationships between species abundances to improve predictions and inform conservation.

Published online: 04 Oct 2024

Authors: Scher, C. L. & Roberts, S. M. & Krause, K. P. & Clark, J. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many management and conservation contexts can benefit from understanding relationships between species abundances, which can be used to improve predic...

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A national-scale model of linear features improves predictions of farmland biodiversity.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Sullivan, M. J. P. & Pearce-Higgins, J. W. & Newson, S. E. & Scholefield, P. & Brereton, T. & Oliver, T. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Modelling species distribution and abundance is important for many conservation applications, but it is typically performed using relatively coarse-sc...

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Using terrestrial haematophagous leeches to enhance tropical biodiversity monitoring programmes in Bangladesh.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Weiskopf, S. R. & McCarthy, K. P. & Tessler, M. & Rahman, H. A. & McCarthy, J. L. & Hersch, R. & Faisal, M. M. & Siddall, M. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Measuring mammal biodiversity in tropical rainforests is challenging, and methods that reduce effort while maximizing success are crucial for long-ter...

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Resolving a heated debate: the utility of prescribed burning as a management tool for biodiversity on lowland heath.

Published online: 15 Jan 2024

Authors: Smith, B. M. & Carpenter, D. & Holland, J. & Andruszko, F. & Gathorne-Hardy, A. & Eggleton, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Lowland heath is a priority habitat for conservation, nowadays largely managed for biodiversity. Historically, prescribed burning has been the princip...

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Genetic variation on the rocks - the impact of climbing on the population ecology of a typical cliff plant.

Published online: 03 Aug 2011

Authors: Vogler, F. & Reisch, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rock climbing enjoys enormous popularity world-wide. As a consequence, the anthropogenic pressure on the vegetation of formerly undisturbed cliff ecos...

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Combined effects of retention forestry and prescribed burning on polypore fungi.

Published online: 29 Jul 2015

Authors: Suominen, M. & Junninen, K. & Heikkala, O. & Kouki, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Retention forestry and prescribed burning aim to alleviate the negative effects of forestry on biodiversity by maintaining the structural elements of ...

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Railways redistribute plant species in mountain landscapes.

Published online: 25 Oct 2021

Authors: Irfan Rashid & Haq, S. M. & Lembrechts, J. J. & Khuroo, A. A. & Pauchard, A. & Dukes, J. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The significant portion of global terrestrial biodiversity harboured in the mountains is under increasing threat from various anthropogenic impacts. P...

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The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure.

Published online: 08 Oct 2024

Authors: Clark-Wolf, T. J. & Holt, K. A. & Johansson, E. & Nisi, A. C. & Rafiq, K. & West, L. & Boersma, P. D. & Hazen, E. L. & Moore, S. E. & Abrahms, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A major obstacle to preventing and reversing biodiversity loss in the Anthropocene lies in the scarcity of tools and data for monitoring the health an...

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