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All routes are not created equal: an ungulate's choice of migration route can influence its survival.

Published online: 22 Jul 2020

Authors: Sawyer, H. & Lebeau, C. W. & McDonald, T. L. & Xu WenJing & Middleton, A. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Our knowledge of migration ecology has progressed quickly in concert with technological advances that collect fine-scale movement data through time. W...

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Traffic intensity and vegetation management affect flower-visiting insects and their response to resources in road verges.

Published online: 01 Nov 2024

Authors: Horstmann, S. & Auffret, A. G. & Herbertsson, L. & Klatt, B. K. & Müller, S. & Öckinger, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Road verges can support high densities of flowers and could therefore provide new opportunities for the conservation of flower-visiting insects. One w...

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Home is where the heat is: thermoregulation of European bats inhabiting artificial roosts and the threat of heat waves.

Published online: 07 Oct 2022

Authors: Czenze, Z. J. & Noakes, M. J. & Wojciechowski, M. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Anthropogenic land use changes, such as deforestation and commercial forestry, have substantially reduced natural roost sites for European bats. A com...

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Soil protist functional composition shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition in subtropical forests.

Published online: 01 Dec 2023

Authors: Wang JianQing & Zheng ChengYang & Lucas-Borja, M. E. & Shi XiuZhen

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soil protists play a key role in driving ecological functions through predation and parasitism. However, little is known about how nitrogen (N) deposi...

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Cereal aphid populations in non-crop habitats show strong density dependence.

Published online: 21 Nov 2007

Authors: Bommarco, R. & Wetterlind, S. & Sigvald, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Few studies have addressed how density-dependent and density-independent regulation of population growth and abundance varies among habitats for a spe...

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Experimental cutting of the shrub layer did not improve capercaillie Tetrao urogallus breeding success during wet summers in Scots pine forests, Strathspey, UK.

Published online: 12 Sep 2018

Authors: Summers, R. & Dugan, D. & Willi, J. & Macfie, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Understanding factors causing the low breeding success of capercaillies Tetrao urogallus is important for the conservation of this species. Here we in...

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Climatic variation in forage grasses. 2. Germination, flowering and leaf development in Mediterranean populations of Phalaris tuberosa.

Published online: 13 Jan 1967

Authors: Cooper, J. P. & Mcwilliam, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

8 Mediterranean populations of P. tuberosa covering the climatic range from Morocco and Israel (severe summer drought, growing season 5-6 months) to N...

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Seasonal effects on the nutritional ecology of blackbuck Antilope cervicapra.

Published online: 22 Apr 1998

Authors: Jhala, Y. V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seasonal food habits of the endangered blackbuck antelope Antilope cervicapra were studied by observing wild and captive blackbuck feeding in differen...

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Seasonal variation in the abundance, biomass and biodiversity of earthworms in soils contaminated with metal emissions from a primary smelting works.

Published online: 16 Jun 1999

Authors: Spurgeon, D. J. & Hopkin, S. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) were sampled on four occasions (spring, summer, autumn and winter) at 14 sites along two transects from a primary l...

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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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