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Landscape diversity, habitat connectivity, age and size determine the conservation value of limestone quarries for diverse wild bee communities.

Published online: 08 Apr 2025

Authors: Kirsch, F. & Hass, A. & Alfert, T. & Westphal, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Abandoned and even active limestone quarries (excavation sites) can represent important secondary habitats for many species, including wild bees, asso...

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Shade-growing practices lessen the impact of coffee plantations on multiple dimensions of ant diversity.

Published online: 27 May 2021

Authors: Ibarra-Isassi, J. & Handa, I. T. & Arenas-Clavijo, A. & Escobar-Ramírez, S. & Armbrecht, I. & Lessard, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Land use management influence changes in biodiversity beyond the targeted species. Management practices in coffee plantations have shifted from coffee...

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Wild bee communities benefit from temporal complementarity of hedges and flower strips in apple orchards.

Published online: 19 Feb 2023

Authors: Königslöw, V. von & Fornoff, F. & Klein, A. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Wild bees importantly pollinate both crop and wild plants. Yet, in intensive agricultural landscapes, wild bees are rare due to resource limitations o...

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Plant diversity enhances the reclamation of degraded lands by stimulating plant-soil feedbacks.

Published online: 24 Nov 2020

Authors: Jia Pu & Liang JieLiang & Yang ShengXiang & Zhang ShengChang & Liu Jun & Liang ZhiWei & Li FengMei & Zeng QingWei & Fang Zhou & Liao Bin & Shu WenSheng & Cadotte, M. W. & Li JinTian

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite a rich history of theoretical and empirical work showing that increasing biodiversity results in higher ecosystem function, this research has ...

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Enhancing plant diversity in agricultural landscapes promotes both rare bees and dominant crop-pollinating bees through complementary increase in key floral resources.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Sutter, L. & Jeanneret, P. & Bartual, A. M. & Bocci, G. & Albrecht, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Enhancing key floral resources is essential to effectively mitigate the loss of pollinator diversity and associated provisioning of pollination functi...

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The effectiveness of classical biological control of invasive plants.

Published online: 19 Dec 2012

Authors: Clewley, G. D. & Eschen, R. & Shaw, R. H. & Wright, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Invasive alien plants have serious economic and ecological impacts, for example, by displacing native plants and invertebrates, and their management i...

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Effects of grazing on soil nitrogen spatial heterogeneity depend on herbivore assemblage and pre-grazing plant diversity.

Published online: 03 Feb 2016

Authors: Liu Chen & Song XuXin & Wang Ling & Wang DeLi & Zhou XiaoMei & Liu Jun & Zhao Xuan & Li Jing & Lin HaiJiao

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The spatial heterogeneity of limiting soil resources is an essential factor determining ecosystem processes and function. It has been reported that la...

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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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Manipulating plant microbiomes in the field: native mycorrhizae advance plant succession and improve native plant restoration.

Published online: 07 Oct 2022

Authors: Koziol, L. & Bauer, J. T. & Duell, E. B. & Hickman, K. & House, G. L. & Schultz, P. A. & Tipton, A. G. & Wilson, G. W. T. & Bever, J. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The plant microbiome is critical to plant health and is degraded with anthropogenic disturbance. However, the value of re-establishing the native micr...

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Marine Restoration Potential MaRePo.

Published online: 19 Oct 2023

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Johnson, C. L. E. & Axelsson, M. & Brown, L. & Carrigan, K. H. O. & Cordingley, A. & Elliot, A. L. & Downie, A. & Gannon, L. & Green, B. C. & Jones, J. & Marsh, M. K. & McNie, F. & Mills, S. R. A. & Wallace, N. M. & Woods, H. J.

Content type: Reports

This report focuses on the Marine Restoration Potential (MaRePo) project, which serves as a proof-of-concept study investigating the habitat restorati...

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