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The added value of including key microbial traits to determine nitrogen-related ecosystem services in managed grasslands.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Pommier, T. & Cantarel, A. A. M. & Grigulis, K. & Lavorel, S. & Legay, N. & Baxendale, C. & Bardgett, R. D. & Bahn, M. & Poly, F. & Clément, J. C. & Isaac, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite playing central roles in nutrient cycles and plant growth, soil microbes are generally neglected in the study of ecosystem services (ES), due ...

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Artificial light at night alters grassland vegetation species composition and phenology.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Bennie, J. & Davies, T. W. & Cruse, D. & Bell, F. & Gaston, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Human settlements and transport networks are growing rapidly worldwide. Since the early 20th century their expansion has been accompanied by increasin...

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A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on US great basin carbon storage.

Published online: 21 Apr 2022

Authors: Nagy, R. C. & Fusco, E. J. & Balch, J. K. & Finn, J. T. & Mahood, A. & Allen, J. M. & Bradley, B. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Non-native, invasive Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) is pervasive in sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin ecoregion of the western United States, comp...

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Land abandonment and intensification diminish spatial and temporal β-diversity of grassland plants and herbivorous insects within paddy terraces.

Published online: 29 Jul 2015

Authors: Uchida, K. & Ushimaru, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although traditional land-use and management practices are known to enhance environmental heterogeneity in agricultural lands, loss of heterogeneity r...

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Impacts of grazing by different large herbivores in grassland depend on plant species diversity.

Published online: 29 Jul 2015

Authors: Liu Jun & Feng Chao & Wang DeLi & Wang Ling & Wilsey, B. J. & Zhong ZhiWei

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

It is well documented that large herbivores have pronounced effects on plant communities in grassland ecosystems, and the extent and course of their e...

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High-nature-value grasslands have the capacity to cope with nutrient impoverishment induced by mowing and livestock grazing.

Published online: 29 Jul 2015

Authors: Mládková, P. & Mládek, J. & Hejduk, S. & Hejcman, M. & Cruz, P. & Jouany, C. & Pakeman, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Management of high-nature-value (HNV) grasslands follows agri-environmental schemes across large areas of Europe. Long-term agreements and restriction...

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Can management compensate for atmospheric nutrient deposition in heathland ecosystems?

Published online: 11 Oct 2006

Authors: Härdtle, W. & Niemeyer, M. & Niemeyer, T. & Assmann, T. & Fottner, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Atmospheric nutrient deposition has contributed to widespread changes in heathlands throughout Europe. As a consequence, management is now being consi...

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Sheep-grazing with different foraging efficiencies in a Dutch mixed grassland.

Published online: 01 Apr 1987

Authors: Leeuw, J. de & Bakker, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In 1972, 11 ha of woodland, heathland and previously manured pasture was fenced in for a sheep-grazing experiment and the different grazing intensitie...

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A novel mark-recapture technique and its application to monitoring the direction and distance of local movements of rangeland grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in the context of pest management.

Published online: 11 Oct 1999

Authors: Narisu & Lockwood, J. A. & Schell, S. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rangeland grasshopper movement was studied in Wyoming, USA, in July 1997 with respect to the biological and ecological factors (population density, de...

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Effects of habitat cover, landscape structure and spatial variables on the abundance of birds in an agricultural-forest mosaic.

Published online: 17 Nov 2004

Authors: Heikkinen, R. K. & Luoto, M. & Virkkala, R. & Rainio, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Numerical studies of the relationship between birds and their habitat are important because they provide understanding of the impacts of natural and h...

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