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Unpacking land degradation and the thorny issue of woody plant encroachment in South Africa.

Published online: 13 Oct 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Mani, S. & Osborne, C. P. & Cleaver, F.

Content type: Blog

In this work, the situation of land degradation in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa was analysed by adapting a natural resource governance fram...

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Anthropogenic land-use change shapes bird diversity along the eastern Himalayan altitudinal gradient.

Published online: 14 Jun 2022

Authors: Penjor, U. & Jamtsho, R. & Sherub, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Globally, the conversion of natural forest into agricultural land and human settlement has altered avian diversity and structure often leading to func...

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Land classification for management planning in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia.

Published online: 22 May 1970

Authors: Astle, W. L. & Webster, R. & Lawrance, C. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A classification system for the land-use survey to be conducted as a basis for management planning in the Luangwa Valley is described. The classificat...

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Quantifying landscape-level land-use intensity patterns through radar-based remote sensing.

Published online: 21 Nov 2018

Authors: Howison, R. A. & Piersma, T. & Kentie, R. & Hooijmeijer, J. C. E. W. & Olff, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The increasing availability of high resolution and high frequency, radar-based remote sensing data (i.e. observations on land surface characteristics,...

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Social strategies to access land influence crop diversity in northwestern Morocco.

Published online: 09 Jul 2024

Authors: Demongeot, M. & Hmimsa, Y. & McKey, D. & Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Y. & Renard, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Much evidence supports the ecological and agronomic benefits of diversity, of both crops and environments, for building resilience and sustainability ...

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Land-use intensity and relatedness to native plants promote exotic plant invasion in a tropical biodiversity hotspot.

Published online: 09 Sep 2024

Authors: Raveloaritiana, E. & Tscharntke, T. & Martin, D. A. & Wurz, A. & Osen, K. & Soazafy, M. R. & Vorontsova, M. S. & Kreft, H. & Rakouth, B. & Grass, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Exotic plant invasions threaten biodiversity and are costly to farmers. Land use is a major pathway promoting the spread of exotic plant species; howe...

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Agricultural development and the conservation of avian biodiversity on the Eurasian steppes: a comparison of land-sparing and land-sharing approaches.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Kamp, J. & Urazaliev, R. & Balmford, A. & Donald, P. F. & Green, R. E. & Lamb, A. J. & Phalan, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the abandonment of >40 million ha of cropland, a collapse in livestock numbers and the recovery of ...

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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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Landscape-specific thresholds in the relationship between species richness and natural land cover.

Published online: 18 Dec 2019

Authors: Simmonds, J. S. & Rensburg, B. J. van & Tulloch, A. I. T. & Maron, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Thresholds in the relationship between species richness and natural land cover can inform landscape-level vegetation protection and restoration target...

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Evaluating spatially explicit sharing-sparing scenarios for multiple environmental outcomes.

Published online: 06 Mar 2021

Authors: Finch, T. & Day, B. H. & Massimino, D. & Redhead, J. W. & Field, R. H. & Balmford, A. & Green, R. E. & Peach, W. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding how to allocate land for the sustainable delivery of multiple, competing objectives is a major societal challenge. The land sharing-spar...

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