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Savanna resilience to droughts increases with the proportion of browsing wild herbivores and plant functional diversity.

Published online: 20 Sep 2023

Authors: Irob, K. & Blaum, N. & Weiss-Aparicio, A. & Hauptfleisch, M. & Hering, R. & Uiseb, K. & Tietjen, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Maintaining the resilience and functionality of savannas is key to sustaining the ecosystem services they provide. This maintenance is largely depende...

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Responses of Leymus arenarius to nutrients: improvement of seed production and seedling establishment for land reclamation.

Published online: 09 Jan 1998

Authors: Greipsson, S. & Davy, A. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Iceland has vast areas of mobile sand resulting from volcanic glacier bursts and erosion. Seeds of the coastal, dune-building grass Leymus arenarius a...

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The natural 'exclosure effect' and tree regeneration following post-windstorm salvage logging.

Published online: 21 May 2024

Authors: Bosley-Smith, C. & Fraver, S. & D'Amato, A. W. & Rogers, N. S. & Tabak, N. & Wason, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Understanding the influence of post-disturbance forest management on tree regeneration is critical for assessing ecosystem recovery and guiding future...

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Mapping an urban ecosystem service: quantifying above-ground carbon storage at a city-wide scale.

Published online: 12 Oct 2011

Authors: Davies, Z. G. & Edmondson, J. L. & Heinemeyer, A. & Leake, J. R. & Gaston, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite urbanization being a major driver of land-use change globally, there have been few attempts to quantify and map ecosystem service provision at...

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Birds of Aleppo pine plantations in south-east Spain in relation to vegetation composition and structure.

Published online: 16 Jan 1998

Authors: López, G. & Moro, M. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The forested habitats in a large part of the Mediterranean semiarid climates of Spain are dominated by Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) forests, most of...

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An experimental field study of different levels of insect herbivory induced by Formica rufa predation on sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus). I. Lepidoptera larvae.

Published online: 04 Jun 1986

Authors: Warrington, S. & Whittaker, J. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Lepidoptera populations and feeding damage were measured on ant-foraged and ant-free sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) trees in North Lancashire, UK. Cat...

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Mass flowering oilseed rape improves early colony growth but not sexual reproduction of bumblebees.

Published online: 04 Mar 2009

Authors: Westphal, C. & Steffan-Dewenter, I. & Tscharntke, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pollination is a vital ecosystem service, which is endangered by the ongoing declines of pollinators. These declines also affect bumblebees (Bombus sp...

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Growth responses of neotropical trees to logging gaps.

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Herault, B. & Ouallet, J. & Blanc, L. & Wagner, F. & Baraloto, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Modelling growth strategies among tropical trees is an important objective in predicting the response of tree dynamics to selective logging and in gai...

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Urban cultivation in allotments maintains soil qualities adversely affected by conventional agriculture.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Edmondson, J. L. & Davies, Z. G. & Gaston, K. J. & Leake, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Modern agriculture, in seeking to maximize yields to meet growing global food demand, has caused loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and compaction, imp...

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Functional groups of wild bees respond differently to faba bean Vicia faba L. cultivation at landscape scale.

Published online: 22 Feb 2021

Authors: Beyer, N. & Gabriel, D. & Kirsch, F. & Schulz-Kesting, K. & Dauber, J. & Westphal, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Concerns about insect declines are growing and the provisioning of ecosystem services like pollination may be threatened. To safeguard biodiversity, g...

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