Search

All content is free for everyone to browse, read and share. You’ll find journal articles and non-peer reviewed grey literature. Type keywords into the search box or Use the filtering options below to browse the content.

Filter by...

Showing 90 results

Fast-growing pioneer tree stands as a rapid and effective strategy for bracken elimination in the Neotropics.

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Douterlungne, D. & Thomas, E. & Levy-Tacher, S. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Large areas of agricultural land around the world are degraded as a consequence of dominance by bracken fern (Pteridium spp.). Tropical production sys...

Read more

Forest loss and treeless matrices cause the functional impoverishment of sapling communities in old-growth forest patches across tropical regions.

Published online: 20 Sep 2022

Authors: Arasa-Gisbert, R. & Arroyo-Rodríguez, V. & Meave, J. A. & Martínez-Ramos, M. & Lohbeck, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Landscape-level disturbances, such as forest loss, can profoundly alter the functional composition and diversity of biotic assemblages. In fact, the l...

Read more

Effects of selective logging on tropical forest butterflies on Buru, Indonesia.

Published online: 24 Apr 1996

Authors: Hill, J. K. & Hamer, K. C. & Lace, L. A. & Banham, W. M. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The butterfly fauna of lowland monsoon forest on Buru Island, Maluku, Indonesia, was compared in unlogged forest and forest that had been selectively ...

Read more

Butterfly spatial distribution and habitat requirements in a tropical forest: impacts of selective logging.

Published online: 10 Nov 1999

Authors: Hill, J. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Spatial distribution, abundance and habitat requirements of Ragadia makuta (Satyrinae) were studied in Sabah (Borneo) during August 1997, in undisturb...

Read more

Biome awareness disparity is bad for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration.

Published online: 07 Oct 2022

Authors: Silveira, F. A. O. & Ordóñez-Parra, C. A. & Moura, L. C. & Schmidt, I. B. & Andersen, A. N. & Bond, W. & Buisson, E. & Durigan, G. & Fidelis, A. & Oliveira, R. S. & Parr, C. & Rowland, L. & Veldman, J. W. & Pennington, R. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

We introduce the concept of Biome Awareness Disparity (BAD)-defined as a failure to appreciate the significance of all biomes in conservation and rest...

Read more

Macrofungal diversity in fragmented and disturbed forests of the Western Ghats of India.

Published online: 03 May 2006

Authors: Brown, N. & Shonil Bhagwat & Watkinson, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite their functional importance, little is known about how and where fungi can be conserved. It is important that we understand the consequences o...

Read more

Barriers to forest regeneration of deforested and abandoned land in Panama.

Published online: 04 Jan 2006

Authors: Hooper, E. & Legendre, P. & Condit, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In Panama, abandoned agricultural lands that supported tropical rain forest are invaded by the exotic invasive grass Saccharum spontaneum, which precl...

Read more

Reafforestation and nutrient reserves in the humid tropics.

Published online: 22 May 1971

Authors: Cornforth, I. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

After burning tropical evergreen seasonal forests and tropical marsh forests, and replanting with Pinus caribbea, soil N decreased for a period of 4 y...

Read more

Moth assemblages as indicators of environmental quality in remnants of upland Australian rain forest.

Published online: 12 Jul 2000

Authors: Kitching, R. L. & Orr, A. G. & Thalib, L. & Mitchell, H. & Hopkins, M. S. & Graham, A. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite concern about the effects of fragmentation on biodiversity, quantitative studies are still scarce with respect to many major groups and import...

Read more

Termite assemblage collapse along a land-use intensification gradient in lowland central Sumatra, Indonesia.

Published online: 21 May 2003

Authors: Jones, D. T. & Susilo, F. X. & Bignell, D. E. & Hardiwinoto, S. & Gillison, A. N. & Eggleton, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Termites are major decomposers in tropical regions and play an important role in soil processes. This study measured the impact of land-use intensific...

Read more