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Soil seed banks and the effects of meadow management on vegetation change in a 10-year meadow field trial.

Published online: 12 Aug 2002

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Shiel, R. S. & Millward, D. & Corkhill, P. & Sanderson, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Enhancement of plant species diversity is often an objective in grassland management for wildlife conservation. Such management regimes may also chang...

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Suppressing competitive dominants and community restoration with native parasitic plants using the hemiparasitic Rhinanthus alectorolophus and the dominant grass Calamagrostis epigejos.

Published online: 22 Nov 2017

Authors: Těšitel, J. & Mládek, J. & Horník, J. & Těšitelová, T. & Adamec, V. & Tichý, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Dominance of native or alien competitive plants causes competitive exclusion of subordinate species and represents a major mechanism reducing biodiver...

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Recreation of lowland heathland on ex-arable land: assessing the limiting processes on two sites with contrasting soil fertility and pH.

Published online: 18 Jul 2007

Authors: Walker, K. J. & Warman, E. A. & Bhogal, A. & Cross, R. B. & Pywell, R. F. & Meek, B. R. & Chambers, B. J. & Pakeman, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

European heathlands are of high conservation value but have declined as a result of agricultural intensification. Heathland recreation is currently be...

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Grassland invasions: effects of manipulations of climate and management.

Published online: 22 Aug 2001

Authors: Buckland, S. M. & Thompson, K. & Hodgson, J. G. & Grime, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate change, in combination with the impacts of land use, will give rise to new opportunities for grassland invasion. This paper reports on the rep...

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Microbial respiration in a temperate sown grassland grazed by sheep.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Hutchinson, K. J. & King, K. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Prediction models were developed for calculating microbial respiration of surface residues and soil (0-15 cm) for a sown temperate pasture grazed at 1...

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Studying long-term, large-scale grassland restoration outcomes to improve seeding methods and reveal knowledge gaps.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Rinella, M. J. & Espeland, E. K. & Moffatt, B. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Studies are increasingly investigating effects of large-scale management activities on grassland restoration outcomes. These studies are providing use...

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Enhancing diversity of species-poor grasslands: an experimental assessment of multiple constraints.

Published online: 07 Feb 2007

Authors: Pywell, R. F. & Bullock, J. M. & Tallowin, J. B. & Walker, K. J. & Warman, E. A. & Masters, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many grasslands in north-west Europe are productive but species-poor communities resulting from intensive agriculture. Reducing the intensity of manag...

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Studies of the feasibility of re-creating chalk grassland vegetation on ex-arable land. II. Germination and early survivorship of seedlings under different management regimes.

Published online: 25 Jan 1997

Authors: Hutchings, M. J. & Booth, K. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Germination and establishment of the chalk grassland perennials Pimpinella saxifraga, Scabiosa columbaria, Plantago media and Achillea millefolium wer...

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A comparative study of germination responses to diurnally-fluctuating temperatures.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Thompson, K. & Grime, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seeds collected from native herbaceous plants in the Sheffield region were subjected to a range of amplitudes of diurnal fluctuations in temp. All exp...

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A comparison of yields from plots sown with a single species or a mixture of grass species.

Published online: 12 Jan 1969

Authors: Whittington, W. J. & O'brien, T. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A triploid meadow fescue/perennial ryegrass hybrid and the 2 parent species were grown alone or in binary mixture and subjected to management for hay ...

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