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The effect of habitat management on home-range size and survival of rural Norway rat populations.

Published online: 10 Dec 2008

Authors: Lambert, M. S. & Quy, R. J. & Smith, R. H. & Cowan, D. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Norway rat Rattus norvegicus populations are usually controlled with toxic baits, but this approach is increasingly recognized as having negative welf...

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Resource selection by sympatric wild equids in the Mongolian Gobi.

Published online: 10 Dec 2008

Authors: Kaczensky, P. & Ganbaatar, O. & Wehrden, H. von & Walzer, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Historically, the overlap zones of wild equids were small in Africa but extensive for Przewalski's horses Equus ferus przewalskii and Asiatic wild ass...

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Modelling edge effects of mature forest plantations on peatland waders informs landscape-scale conservation.

Published online: 05 Feb 2014

Authors: Wilson, J. D. & Anderson, R. & Bailey, S. & Chetcuti, J. & Cowie, N. R. & Hancock, M. H. & Quine, C. P. & Russell, N. & Stephen, L. & Thompson, D. B. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Edge effects of native forest fragmentation have been well studied, but there are few studies of open-ground habitats fragmented by plantation forests...

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Habitat selection by song thrushes in stable and declining farmland populations.

Published online: 16 Jun 2004

Authors: Peach, W. J. & Denny, M. & Cotton, P. A. & Hill, I. F. & Gruar, D. & Barritt, D. & Impey, A. & Mallord, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Losses of farmland birds from the wider countryside have become a major conservation issue in the UK and Europe. Song thrush Turdus philomelos populat...

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Balancing natural forest regrowth and tree planting to ensure social fairness and compliance with environmental policies.

Published online: 21 Dec 2021

Authors: Gastauer, M. & Miazaki, A. S. & Crouzeilles, R. & Tavares, P. A. & Lino, E. D. S. M. & Rodrigues, R. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The environmental benefits and lower implementation costs of (assisted) natural forest regrowth (NFR) compared to tree planting qualify it as a viable...

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Local management or wider context: what determines the value of farm revegetation plantings for birds?

Published online: 24 Dec 2021

Authors: Haslem, A. & Clarke, R. H. & Holland, G. J. & Radford, J. Q. & Stewart, A. & Bennett, A. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Small-scale revegetation plantings on farms are common to restoration efforts in agricultural regions worldwide. Such plantings provide habitat for di...

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Pervasive early 21st-century vegetation changes across Danish semi-natural ecosystems: more losers than winners and a shift towards competitive, tall-growing species.

Published online: 25 Feb 2015

Authors: Timmermann, A. & Damgaard, C. & Strandberg, M. T. & Svenning, J. & Bennett, J. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Semi-natural open habitats in north-western Europe are highly prioritized for conservation, and optimization of management planning is essential for c...

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Disentangling the interrelated abiotic and biotic pathways linking landscape composition and crop production.

Published online: 19 Feb 2023

Authors: Gerits, F. & Reubens, B. & Messely, L. & Smedt, P. de & Landuyt, D. & Loos, A. & Verheyen, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Landscape composition and its related functional agrobiodiversity (FAB) was severely simplified during the last decades. As landscape composition is e...

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Succession of floodplain grasslands following reduction in land use intensity: the importance of environmental conditions, management and dispersal.

Published online: 04 Mar 2009

Authors: Bischoff, A. & Warthemann, G. & Klotz, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Classical ecological theory predicts a succession towards plant communities that are determined by environmental conditions. However, in ecological re...

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Prioritizing terrestrial invasive alien plant species for management in urban ecosystems.

Published online: 29 Apr 2022

Authors: Potgieter, L. J. & Shrestha, N. & Cadotte, M. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive alien plant species (IAPs) in urban areas can have detrimental effects on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Urban areas ...

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