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Improving the value of field margins as foraging habitat for farmland birds.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Douglas, D. J. T. & Vickery, J. A. & Benton, T. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Uncropped field margins are important foraging habitats on farmland for many declining bird species and are a key component of Agri-Environment Scheme...

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Production and diversity of enchytraeids, earthworms and plants in fertilized hay meadow plots.

Published online: 10 Jun 1986

Authors: Standen, V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Random soil samples were used to estimate the number and weight of each species of enchytraeid and lumbricid at fourteen long-established experimental...

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Further greening, broadening: towards an effective contribution of the European agricultural and nature management policy on green issues.

Published online: 17 Jan 2018

Authors: Doorn, A. van & Westerink, J. & Nieuwenhuizen, W. & Melman, D. & Schrijver, R. & Breman, B.

Content type: Bulletin

This report explores in what way greening and enhancing sustainability of agriculture could be best supported within the CAP: by greening of direct pa...

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A degradation threshold for irreversible loss of soil productivity: a long-term case study in China.

Published online: 12 Oct 2011

Authors: Gao Yang & Zhong BingLin & Yue Hui & Wu Bin & Cao ShiXiong

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

During the past three decades, conservation and restoration biologists have increasingly recognized that ecological communities are likely to exhibit ...

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An assessment of integrated watershed management in Ethiopia.

Published online: 01 Feb 2017

Authors: Gebrehaweria Gebregziabher & Dereje Assefa Abera & Girmay Gebresamuel & Giordano, M. & Langan, S.

Content type: Bulletin

In Ethiopia, watershed management programs commenced in a formal way in the 1970s. From that time up to the late 1990s, implementation was typically a...

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Linking agricultural practice to insect and bird populations: a historical study over three decades.

Published online: 11 Sep 2002

Authors: Benton, T. G. & Bryant, D. M. & Cole, L. & Crick, H. Q. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There is continuing debate about the impact of agricultural practices on farmland wildlife. In particular, it has been postulated that a general decli...

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National patterns of functional diversity and redundancy in predatory ground beetles and bees associated with key UK arable crops.

Published online: 05 Feb 2014

Authors: Woodcock, B. A. & Harrower, C. & Redhead, J. & Edwards, M. & Vanbergen, A. J. & Heard, M. S. & Roy, D. B. & Pywell, R. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invertebrates supporting natural pest control and pollination ecosystem services are crucial to world-wide crop production. Understanding national pat...

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Food security in a climate perspective: what role could the private sector play regarding investment in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia?

Published online: 10 Feb 2016

Authors: Bachke, M. E. & Haug, R.

Content type: Bulletin

The purpose of this study is to discuss different ways of implementing the Food Security in a Climate Perspective strategy 2013-15 in relation to supp...

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The measurement and control of stomatal resistance in the field.

Published online: 31 Dec 1966

Authors: Monteith, J. L. & Szeicz, G. & Waggoner, P. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The rate of evaporation from a crop is expressed in terms of weather parameters and a quantity rS derived from profiles of temperature, humidity, and ...

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EUROeyeopener 2.1: Drinking water supply southwestern Delta and Rijnmond-Drechtsteden.

Published online: 13 May 2015

Authors: Schipper, P. N. M. & Janssen, G. M. C. M. & Polman, N. B. P. & Linderhof, V. G. M. & Bakel, P. J. T. van & Massop, H. T. L. & Kselik, R. A. L. & Oude Essink, G. H. P. & Stuyt, L. C. P. M.

Content type: Bulletin

Safeguarding the future drinking water supply in this Dutch region affects the chloride level of polder water, and thus the quality of irrigation wate...

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