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Beyond the fragmentation debate: a conceptual model to predict when habitat configuration really matters.

Published online: 02 Apr 2014

Authors: Villard, M. A. & Metzger, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Research addressing the effects of habitat fragmentation on species, assemblages or ecosystems has been fraught with difficulties, from its conceptual...

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Height and species as factors determining browsing of shrubs by wapiti.

Published online: 01 Jan 1979

Authors: Rounds, R. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The scrub layer was studied in 11 selected areas of Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba, which are used as winter range by wapiti (Cervus canadens...

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The effect of open drainage ditches on the plant and invertebrate communities of moorland and on the decomposition of peat.

Published online: 10 Nov 1990

Authors: Coulson, J. C. & Butterfield, J. E. L. & Henderson, E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A model of the function of open drainage ditches (grips) on peat moorland in northern England is described. The model makes the following predictions:...

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Population dynamics and larval establishment of Sitona discoideus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in New Zealand lucerne.

Published online: 08 Jun 1988

Authors: Goldson, S. L. & Frampton, E. R. & Proffitt, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Population data on Sitona discoideus collected from young lucerne in Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1982-86 were analysed using life tables. Manipulated ...

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Estimating the biomass of large mammalian herbivores in a tropical montane forest: a method of faecal counting that avoids assuming a 'steady state' system.

Published online: 01 Apr 1995

Authors: Plumptre, A. J. & Harris, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Faecal counting techniques were used to census 5 large mammalian herbivore species during 1988-89 in the Parc National des Volcans in Rwanda: Cephalop...

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Alternative strategies for enhancement of fish stocks.

Published online: 25 May 2016

Authors: Welcomme, R. & Funge-Smith, S. & Halls, A. & Cowx, I.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

The factors to be considered on whether there is a need to stock a fishery resource, the environmental impacts of stocking and habitat restoration to ...

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The control of Echinochloa stagnina (Retz.) P. Beauv. by harvesting for dry season livestock fodder in Lake Kainji, Nigeria - a modelling approach.

Published online: 20 Dec 1984

Authors: Morton, A. J. & Obot, E. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The use of E. stagnina, the major component of the emergent vegetation of Lake Kainji, is described. A simple model of the colonization potential of E...

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Population trends of common British butterflies at monitored sites.

Published online: 13 Apr 1995

Authors: Pollard, E. & Moss, D. & Yates, T. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In recent decades, many of the common and widespread butterflies in Britain which do not already occupy the whole of the country have expanded in rang...

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Effects of spatial heterogeneity on Jones's model for cyst-nematode population dynamics and crop root damage.

Published online: 27 Apr 1984

Authors: Perry, J. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Stochastic analogues that included variation in spatial heterogeneity of population densities and of parameter values in Globodera were produced using...

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UKCEH, Lee Walker.

Published online: 08 Dec 2024

Published by: UK, UK Centre for Ecology a Hydrology

Content type: Conference slides

This presentation delves into the role of environmental monitoring in assessing and safeguarding the health of the UK countryside. It highlights the N...

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