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No place like home: using seed zones to improve restoration of native grasses in the West.

Published online: 08 Apr 2015

Authors: St. Clair, B. & Erickson, V.

Content type: Bulletin

Seed zones and seed transfer guidelines describe where plants are most likely to thrive. Scientists with the Forest Service and Agricultural Research ...

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Understanding the effects of a new grazing policy: the impact of seasonal grazing on shrub demography in the Inner Mongolian steppe.

Published online: 04 Dec 2013

Authors: Li ShouLi & Yu FeiHai & Werger, M. J. A. & Dong Ming & Ramula, S. & Zuidema, P. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grazing by livestock is a common land use in arid and semi-arid areas. Developing sustainable grazing regimes that conserve vegetation and maintain pr...

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The conservation management of Imperata cylindrica grassland in Nepal with fire and cutting: an experimental approach.

Published online: 05 Aug 1999

Authors: Peet, N. B. & Watkinson, A. R. & Bell, D. J. & Sharma, U. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Imperata cylindrica dominated grassland in the Nepal Terai supports a number of threatened species including swamp deer Cervus duvauceli, hispid hare ...

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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 spatial population dynamics of insects exploiting a patchy food resource: a model study of local persistence.

Published online: 25 Sep 1996

Authors: Halley, J. M. & Dempster, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The density-dependent persistence of four tephritid flies on patches of their host vegetation (Urophora jaceana and Chaetorellia jaceae on Centaurea n...

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The presence of sheep leads to increases in plant diversity and reductions in the impact of deer on heather.

Published online: 12 Oct 2011

Authors: DeGabriel, J. L. & Albon, S. D. & Fielding, D. A. & Riach, D. J. & Westaway, S. & Irvine, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grazing has been implicated in the decline of heather-dominated moorlands in Britain, but there has been little consideration of the effects of differ...

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Restoration of ecosystem function in an abandoned sandpit: plant and soil responses to paper de-inking sludge.

Published online: 30 Jun 1999

Authors: Fierro, A. & Angers, D. A. & Beauchamp, C. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In mine spoil reclamation, the establishment of a sustainable plant cover requires the improvement of limiting conditions and the re-initiation of car...

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Spatial scale of insect-mediated pollen dispersal in oilseed rape in an open agricultural landscape.

Published online: 15 Jun 2011

Authors: Chifflet, R. & Klein, E. K. & Lavigne, C. & Féon, V. le & Ricroch, A. E. & Lecomte, J. & Vaissière, B. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Interest in pollen-borne gene dispersal has grown with the cultivation of genetically modified plants. To date, both experimental data and models of o...

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Impacts of management at a local and landscape scale on pollinators in semi-natural grasslands.

Published online: 04 Jan 2022

Authors: Larkin, M. & Stanley, D. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Managing farmland to benefit biodiversity is becoming increasingly necessary to combat biodiversity declines and maintain ecosystem services. Results-...

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Facebook groups as citizen science tools for plant species monitoring.

Published online: 23 Nov 2021

Authors: Marcenò, C. & Cubino, J. P. & Chytrý, M. & Genduso, E. & Salemi, D. & Rosa, A. la & Gristina, A. S. & Agrillo, E. & Bonari, G. & Galdo, G. G. del & Ilardi, V. & Landucci, F. & Guarino, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Social networks offer communication channels through which people share huge amounts of primary data that can be used for scientific analyses, includi...

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