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NatureScot Research Report 1295 - Youth Survey on NatureScot's Corporate Plan 2022-2026.

Published online: 06 Sep 2022

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Gardner, A. & Webster, C.

Content type: Reports

This report presents the findings of a survey which examined young people's views on nature in Scotland. The survey was undertaken to ensure that Natu...

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The relative success of Africanized and European honey-bees over a range of life-zones in Costa Rica.

Published online: 27 Feb 1993

Authors: Spivak, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The reproductive success and biology of Africanized (A) and European (E) honeybees (Apis mellifera) were compared for a year (1984-86) over 3 life-zon...

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Bumble-BEEHAVE: a systems model for exploring multifactorial causes of bumblebee decline at individual, colony, population and community level.

Published online: 29 May 2019

Authors: Becher, M. A. & Twiston-Davies, G. & Penny, T. D. & Goulson, D. & Rotheray, E. L. & Osborne, J. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

World-wide declines in pollinators, including bumblebees, are attributed to a multitude of stressors such as habitat loss, resource availability, emer...

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Successional trends in Floristic Quality.

Published online: 18 Apr 2012

Authors: Spyreas, G. & Meiners, S. J. & Matthews, J. W. & Molano-Flores, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Simple, conservation-relevant, plant community measures are sought by resource managers. In this context, the use of Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA...

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Habitat use by sympatric wild and domestic herbivores in an African savanna woodland: the influence of cattle spatial behaviour.

Published online: 18 Sep 1996

Authors: Fritz, H. & Garine-Wichatitsky, M. de & Letessier, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The spatial distribution of two wild ungulates, impala (Aepyceros melampus) and kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), and of domestic cattle, was monitored...

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A comparative study on the food-locating ability of Helisoma duryi, Biomphalaria camerunensis and Bulinus truncatus (Pulmonata: Planorbidae).

Published online: 06 Mar 1993

Authors: Madsen, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Helisoma duryi has been suggested as a biological control agent against the snail intermediate hosts of schistosomes, Biomphalaria and Bulinus species...

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A model of the grazing of hill vegetation by sheep in the UK. II. The prediction of offtake by sheep.

Published online: 26 Jun 1997

Authors: Armstrong, H. M. & Gordon, I. J. & Hutchings, N. J. & Illius, A. W. & Milne, J. A. & Sibbald, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A model is described which predicts seasonal changes in the quantity and digestibility of offtake by ewes and lambs grazing seven dwarf shrub-dominate...

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Designing a network for butterfly habitat restoration: where individuals, populations and landscapes interact.

Published online: 29 Aug 2007

Authors: McIntire, E. J. B. & Schultz, C. B. & Crone, E. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restoring biologically appropriate habitat networks is fundamental to the persistence and connectivity of at-risk species surviving in highly fragment...

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Cost distance modelling of landscape connectivity and gap-crossing ability using radio-tracking data.

Published online: 26 May 2010

Authors: Richard, Y. & Armstrong, D. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Landscape connectivity, the ability of species to move between different elements of a landscape, has been evaluated mainly by expert opinion, proxy d...

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Dispersal and orientation of sterile Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha ludens (Tephritidae) in Chiapas, Mexico.

Published online: 05 Aug 1986

Authors: Baker, P. S. & Chan, A. S. T. & Jimeno Zavala, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The dispersal of marked, sterilized adults of Ceratitis capitata and Anastrepha ludens, which had been released on 6 occasions in coffee and mango pla...

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