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Hyperabundant herbivores limit habitat availability and influence nest site selection of Arctic-breeding birds.

Published online: 18 Dec 2019

Authors: Flemming, S. A. & Nol, E. & Kennedy, L. V. & Smith, P. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding an organism's habitat selection and behavioural flexibility in the face of environmental change can help managers plan for future conser...

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Epizootiology of the seal disease in the eastern North Sea.

Published online: 06 Mar 1993

Authors: Heide-Jørgensen, M. P. & Härkönen, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The intensity of the 1988 outbreak of phocine distemper among harbour seals, Phoca vitulina, present in the vicinity of haul-out sites in the Kattegat...

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Taxonomic distinctness and environmental assessment.

Published online: 20 Jan 1999

Authors: Warwick, R. M. & Clarke, K. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The objectives of this paper were to test the performance of the taxonomic distinctness index, Δ+, in a number of environmental impact scenarios, to e...

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Fisheries Impacts on Marine Protected Habitats - A Review of the Evidence.

Published online: 16 May 2023

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Cantrell, R. & Covey, R. & Relf, C. & Irving, R. & Nicholson, J.

Content type: Reports

This report provides literature synthesis on the effects of different fishing gears on marine habitats protected within English waters. It was produce...

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Improved detection of mass effect species assembly for applied metacommunity thinking.

Published online: 13 Jun 2022

Authors: Bried, J. T. & Vilmi, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Dispersal mass effects pose major challenges and opportunities for applied metacommunity ecology. A recent paper in Journal of Applied Ecology (https:...

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The consequences of coastal offsets for fisheries.

Published online: 13 Jun 2022

Authors: Ma DeQiang & Rhodes, J. R. & Maron, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity offsetting is increasingly used to mitigate biodiversity impacts from development, but the practice of offsetting rarely considers how to...

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The sound of recovery: coral reef restoration success is detectable in the soundscape.

Published online: 14 Jun 2022

Authors: Lamont, T. A. C. & Williams, B. & Chapuis, L. & Prasetya, M. E. & Seraphim, M. J. & Harding, H. R. & May, E. B. & Janetski, N. & Jompa, J. & Smith, D. J. & Radford, A. N. & Simpson, S. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pantropical degradation of coral reefs is prompting considerable investment in their active restoration. However, current measures of restoration succ...

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Does environmental contamination influence egg coloration? A long-term study in herring gulls.

Published online: 10 Oct 2012

Authors: Hanley, D. & Doucet, S. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although considerable progress has been made in reducing concentrations of persistent organic compounds in the environment, these contaminants are sti...

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Edna surveys to detect species at very low densities: a case study of European carp eradication in Tasmania, Australia.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Furlan, E. M. & Gleeson, D. & Wisniewski, C. & Yick, J. & Duncan, R. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Eradications of invasive species are usually expensive and difficult to conduct. Knowing when to declare an eradication successful requires distinguis...

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Performance of generation time approximations for extinction risk assessments.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Staerk, J. & Conde, D. A. & Ronget, V. & Lemaitre, J. F. & Gaillard, J. M. & Colchero, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Generation time is a fundamental component of extinction risk assessments for the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threate...

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