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The problems of prediction and scale in applied ecology: the example of fire as a management tool.

Published online: 15 Sep 2004

Authors: Freckleton, R. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

This paper serves as a brief introduction to a set of four papers on the large-scale effects of fires as management tools. Two papers in this profile ...

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The effect of human trampling on a sand dune ecosystem dominated by Empetrum nigrum.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Hylgaard, T. & Liddle, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The influence of trampling was studied on the outer dune heath of Skallingen, southwest Jutland. The total number of passages and the period of time o...

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Experimental evidence that even minor livestock trampling has severe effects on land snail communities in forest remnants.

Published online: 25 Feb 2015

Authors: Denmead, L. H. & Barker, G. M. & Standish, R. J. & Didham, R. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Land-use intensification is increasing dramatically in production systems world-wide. Livestock production is an important component of production lan...

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Variation in Bromus sterilis on farmland: evidence for the origin of field infestations.

Published online: 13 May 1995

Authors: Theaker, A. J. & Boatman, N. D. & Froud-Williams, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Results from a common garden experiment and from a survey of isozymic variation conducted in southern England during 1987 and 1988, using population s...

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Changes in the vegetation at Coom Rigg Moss national nature reserve within the period 1958-86.

Published online: 31 Aug 1991

Authors: Chapman, S. B. & Rose, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The area surrounding Coom Rigg Moss (a peatland National Nature Reserve) was planted with conifers in the 1950s. The results of surveys conducted in 1...

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Long-term changes to the frequency of occurrence of British moths are consistent with opposing and synergistic effects of climate and land-use changes.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Fox, R. & Oliver, T. H. & Harrower, C. & Parsons, M. S. & Thomas, C. D. & Roy, D. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Species' distributions are likely to be affected by a combination of environmental drivers. We used a data set of 11 million species occurrence record...

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Both frequency and diversity of childhood nature experiences are associated with self-reported pro-biodiversity behaviours in adulthood.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Aota, Y. & Soga, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

enThis link goes to a English sectionjaThis link goes to a English section The ongoing degradation of Earth's ecosystems through human activities pose...

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Plant traits of propagule banks and standing vegetation reveal flooding alleviates impacts of agriculture on wetland restoration.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Dawson, S. K. & Warton, D. I. & Kingsford, R. T. & Berney, P. & Keith, D. A. & Catford, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restoration of degraded plant communities requires understanding of community assembly processes. Human land use can influence plant community assembl...

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An experimental study of the effects of sheep grazing on vegetation change in a species-poor grassland and the role of seedling recruitment into gaps.

Published online: 14 Oct 1994

Authors: Bullock, J. M. & Clear-Hill, B. & Dale, M. P. & Silvertown, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

An experiment was set up in 1986 on a species-poor grassland in Oxfordshire to determine the effect of sheep grazing management on vegetation change a...

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Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco.

Published online: 18 Dec 2019

Authors: Macchi, L. & Baumann, M. & Bluhm, H. & Baker, M. & Levers, C. & Grau, H. R. & Kuemmerle, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

World-wide, tropical savannas and dry forests are under increasing pressure from land use. The environmental impacts of agricultural expansion into th...

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