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Remote sensing reveals scale-specific effects of forage crop mowing and landscape structure on a declining farmland bird.

Published online: 10 Jun 2025

Authors: Andreatta, D. & Bazzi, G. & Nardelli, R. & Siddi, L. & Cecere, J. G. & Chamberlain, D. & Morganti, M. & Rubolini, D. & Assandri, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. The effectiveness of agri-environment schemes (AESs), the largest conservation-related expenditure for farmland biodiversity conservation within th...

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High ecosystem service delivery potential of small woodlands in agricultural landscapes.

Published online: 20 Jul 2020

Authors: Valdés, A. & Lenoir, J. & Frenne, P. de & Andrieu, E. & Brunet, J. & Chabrerie, O. & Cousins, S. A. O. & Deconchat, M. & Smedt, P. de & Diekmann, M. & Ehrmann, S. & Gallet-Moron, E. & Gärtner, S. & Giffard, B. & Hansen, K. & Hermy, M. & Kolb, A. & Roux, V. le & Liira, J. & Lindgren, J. & Martin, L. & Naaf, T. & Paal, T. & Proesmans, W. & Scherer-Lorenzen, M. & Wulf, M. & Verheyen, K. & Decocq, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Global forest loss and fragmentation have strongly increased the frequency of forest patches smaller than a few hectares. Little is known about the...

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Dead wood distributed in different-sized habitat patches enhances diversity of saproxylic beetles in a landscape experiment.

Published online: 20 May 2024

Authors: Haeler, E. & Stillhard, J. & Clerc, K. H. & Pellissier, L. & Lachat, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

enThis link goes to a English sectiondeThis link goes to a Deutsche section Human intervention often alters the availability of habitat for biodiversi...

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The context-dependent benefits of organic farming on pollinator biodiversity: a meta-analysis.

Published online: 08 Apr 2025

Authors: Walker, E. & Wooliver, R. & Russo, L. & Jagadamma, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural intensification is driving declines in pollinator diversity and the degradation of pollination services worldwide. Organic management, wh...

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Nature networks evidence handbook.

Published online: 19 Jan 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Crick, H. & Crosher, I. & Mainstone, C. & Taylor, S. & Wharton, A. & Langford, P. & Larwood, J. & Lusardi, J. & Appleton, D. & Brotherton, P. & Duffield, S. & Macgregor, N.

Content type: Reports

The overarching ambition of the Defra 25 Year Environmental Plan is to 'leave our environment in a better state than we found it and to pass on to the...

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Economic and not ecological variables shape the sparing-sharing trade-off in a mixed cropping landscape.

Published online: 20 May 2022

Authors: Segre, H. & Carmel, Y. & Shwartz, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The framework of land sparing versus land sharing provides a useful analytical tool to address the crop-production/biodiversity trade-off. Despite mul...

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Birds and butterflies respond to soil-induced habitat heterogeneity in experimental plantings of tallgrass prairie species managed as agroenergy crops in Iowa, USA.

Published online: 23 Sep 2015

Authors: Myers, M. C. & Mason, J. T. & Hoksch, B. J. & Cambardella, C. A. & Pfrimmer, J. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The maintenance of habitat heterogeneity in agricultural landscapes has been promoted as a key strategy to conserve biodiversity. Animal response to g...

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Understanding local knowledge and attitudes toward potential reintroduction of a former British wetland bird.

Published online: 20 Sep 2023

Authors: Alif, Ž. & Crees, J. J. & White, R. L. & Quinlan, M. M. & Kennerley, R. J. & Dando, T. R. & Turvey, S. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Stakeholder acceptance and support is essential for long-term success in species reintroductions, and assessing social feasibility of reintroductions ...

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Organic farming and annual flower strips reduce parasite prevalence in honeybees and boost colony growth in agricultural landscapes.

Published online: 16 Nov 2024

Authors: Pluta, P. & Czechofsky, K. & Hass, A. & Frank, L. & Westerhoff, A. & Klingenberg, H. & Theodorou, P. & Westphal, C. & Paxton, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite the major role that insect pollinators play in crop production, agricultural intensification drives them into decline. Various conservation me...

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Metacommunities, metaecosystems and the environmental fate of chemical contaminants.

Published online: 21 Nov 2018

Authors: Schiesari, L. & Leibold, M. A. & Burton, G. A., Jr.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although pollution is a major driver of ecosystem change, models predicting the environmental fate of contaminants suffer from critical uncertainties ...

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