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Using the stable isotope marker 44Ca to study dispersal and host-foraging activity in parasitoids.

Published online: 11 Oct 2006

Authors: Wanner, H. & Gu HaiNan & Hattendorf, B. & Günther, D. & Dorn, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Dispersal and host-foraging activity are important behavioural characteristics for parasitoid species used as biological control agents. Appropriate m...

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A field study with genetically engineered alfalfa inoculated with recombinant Sinorhizobium meliloti: effects on the soil ecosystem.

Published online: 18 Feb 2000

Authors: Donegan, K. K. & Seidler, R. J. & Doyle, J. D. & Porteous, L. A. & Digiovanni, G. & Widmer, F. & Watrud, L. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Three genotypes of alfalfa [lucerne] (Medicago sativa) plants (parental, transgenic α-amylase-producing and transgenic lignin peroxidase-producing) we...

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Testing biotic indicator taxa: the sensitivity of insectivorous mammals and their prey to the intensification of lowland agriculture.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Pocock, M. J. O. & Jennings, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Changes to agricultural policy aim to extensify agriculture and increase biodiversity. However, it is not known how sensitive many taxa are to intensi...

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The effects of late cutting on threatened bumblebees Bombus spp. in sea wall grassland at Goldhanger creek, Essex, England.

Published online: 10 May 2020

Authors: Gardiner, T. & Fargeaud, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Sea wall flood defences provide important grassland habitats for bumblebees in the UK but cutting in July and August could be deleterious for declinin...

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Pollinator networks, alien species and the conservation of rare plants: Trinia glauca as a case study.

Published online: 29 Oct 2008

Authors: Carvalheiro, L. G. & Barbosa, E. R. M. & Memmott, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite the essential role of pollination in the maintenance of many rare plant species, conservation management plans rarely consider the service of ...

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Predation of codling moth eggs, Cydia pomonella, the predators responsible and their alternative prey.

Published online: 01 Jan 1978

Authors: Glen, D. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In a study in an unsprayed cider-apple orchard in Bristol, England, on the importance of egg predation in the population dynamics of Cydia pomonella (...

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Ecological traps for large-scale invasive species control: predicting settling rules by recolonising American mink post-culling.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Melero, Y. & Cornulier, T. & Oliver, M. K. & Lambin, X.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Management programmes seeking to reduce the density of invasive species must overcome compensatory processes, such as recolonisation by dispersers fro...

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On the ecology of the fauna of stones in the current in a South African river supporting a very large Simulium (Diptera) population.

Published online: 22 May 1970

Authors: Chutter, F. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following is based largely on the author's summary of this account of a study of the fauna of stones in the Vaal River in the north-east of Cape P...

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The effect of sprays on the fauna of apple trees. II. Some aspects of the interaction between populations of Blepharidopterus angulatus (Fall.) (Heteroptera: Miridae) and its prey, Panonychus ulmi (Koch) (Acarina: Tetranychidae).

Published online: 04 Jul 1965

Authors: Muir, R. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

These two parts of a series deal with studies in an apple orchard in south-eastern England in 1953-59 on the effect of routine sprays of winter wash (...

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Fire patterns in piñon and juniper land cover types in the semiarid Western United States from 1984 through 2013.

Published online: 31 Jul 2019

Authors: Board, D. I. & Chambers, J. C. & Miller, R. F. & Weisberg, P. J.

Content type: Bulletin

Increases in area burned and fire size have been reported across a wide range of forest and shrubland types in the Western United States in recent dec...

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