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Assessing the impact of Impatiens glandulifera on riparian habitats: partitioning diversity components following species removal.

Published online: 03 May 2006

Authors: Hulme, P. E. & Bremner, E. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Attempts to quantify the impact of non-native plants on the vegetation of invaded habitats have often been criticized because of the frequent use of o...

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Restoration of grassland after magnesian limestone quarrying.

Published online: 22 Jul 1986

Authors: Richardson, J. A. & Evans, M. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Dactylis glomerata, 18 other grass spp. and 5 legume spp. were grown in mixtures and in pure stands on magnesian limestone waste from 1971. In the gre...

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Land use history and seed dispersal drive divergent plant community assembly patterns in urban vacant lots.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Johnson, A. L. & Borowy, D. & Swan, C. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite high levels of disturbance and habitat modification, urban ecosystems still host substantial levels of biodiversity. The processes that mainta...

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Influence of herbivory, competition and soil fertility on the abundance of Cirsium arvense in acid grassland.

Published online: 16 Aug 2000

Authors: Edwards, G. R. & Bourdôt, G. W. & Crawley, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The extent to which the weed Cirsium arvense (creeping thistle) may be controlled by manipulating interspecific competition and herbivory was examined...

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The effect of the spatial distribution of winter seed food resources on their use by farmland birds.

Published online: 11 Oct 2006

Authors: Siriwardena, G. M. & Calbrade, N. A. & Vickery, J. A. & Sutherland, W. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agri-environment measures providing winter seed are central to current management activities aiming to reverse granivorous farmland bird declines. Pre...

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The effect of precipitation chemistry upon anion and cation fluxes from the surface layer of ombrotrophic mires in the UK.

Published online: 01 Mar 1997

Authors: Sanger, L. J. & Billett, M. F. & Cresser, M. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Replicate cores and monoliths bearing intact vegetation were sampled from the acrotelm and surface litter layer of ombrotrophic mires across a gradien...

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The effects of large-scale fragmentation on bryophytes in temperate forests.

Published online: 17 Nov 2004

Authors: Pharo, E. J. & Lindenmayer, D. B. & Taws, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Bryophyte response to landscape fragmentation has not been investigated in replicated studies in temperate forests. Many bryophytes disperse widely bu...

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Influence of livestock grazing on range condition in south-west Masailand, Northern Tanzania.

Published online: 16 Jan 1993

Authors: Mwalyosi, R. B. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Range condition was assessed in a semiarid 2265 km2 area of Tanzania grazed by cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and a range of game wildlife. Primary pro...

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An evaluation of methods for estimating the net aerial primary productivity of estuarine angiosperms.

Published online: 01 Jan 1979

Authors: Linthurst, R. A. & Reimold, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Harvest methods (peak standing crop, and the methods of Milner and Hughes, Smalley, Valiela, Teal & Sass, and Wiegert & Evans) were used to es...

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Some effects of soil type and crop density on the activity and abundance of the epigeic fauna, particularly Carabidae, in sugar-beet fields.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Baker, A. N. & Dunning, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pitfall trapping in sugar-beet crops in East Anglia in 1970 and 1971 showed that Carabidae were much more active and abundant than other epigeic preda...

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