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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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The management of wild large herbivores to meet economic, conservation and environmental objectives.

Published online: 19 Jan 2005

Authors: Gordon, I. J. & Hester, A. J. & Festa-Bianchet, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Wild large herbivores provide goods and income to rural communities, have major impacts on land use and habitats of conservation importance and, in so...

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Evidence review: how effective are alternatives to plastic tree shelters for establishing new native trees and woodland?

Published online: 22 Jan 2022

Published by: Woodland Trust

Authors: Bavin, S.

Content type: Reports

1. In recent decades, plastic tree shelters have been used to great effect to provide protection to individual planted trees in created woodlands. How...

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Recent changes in mountain birch forest structure and understory vegetation depend on the seasonal timing of reindeer grazing.

Published online: 03 Jun 2021

Authors: Stark, S. & Ylänne, H. & Kumpula, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Subarctic forest-tundra ecotones dominated by mountain birch (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii) are an important habitat for semi-domestic reindeer ...

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Bush-control studies in the drier areas of Kenya. 3. Control of Disperma in semi-desert dwarf shrub grassland.

Published online: 13 Jan 1967

Authors: Pratt, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effects of controlling the shrub Disperma sp. (near D. eremophilum Milne-Redhead) by hand clearing and 3 mechanical methods on ground-cover compositio...

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Comparison of moose browsing on Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and lodgepole pine (P. contorta).

Published online: 11 Apr 1989

Authors: Niemelä, P. & Danell, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Trees of two Scots pine phenotypes (poor and fertile soils) and lodgepole pine (intermediate) were exposed side by side in a field study. Biomass cons...

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Ecosystem service trade-offs resulting from woody plant removal vary with biome, encroachment stage and removal method.

Published online: 21 May 2024

Authors: Ding JingYi & Eldridge, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Plant removal is used widely to restore systems encroached by woody plants and to improve ecosystem health and human well-being. However, the effects ...

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A comparison of planting and natural succession after a forest fire in the northern Sierra Nevada.

Published online: 01 Jan 1980

Authors: Bock, J. H. & Raphael, M. & Bock, C. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Approx. 15 000 ha of mixed coniferous forest were burned on the northern California/Nevada border during the Donner Ridge fire in 1960. Vegetation was...

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The competitive interaction between Acacia karroo and the herbaceous layer and how this is influenced by defoliation.

Published online: 16 Dec 1989

Authors: Stuart-Hill, G. C. & Tainton, N. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A study in semi-arid savanna in South Africa of experimentally isolated A. karroo trees (all other trees and shrubs had been cleared from the sites). ...

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Missing carcasses, lost nutrients: quantifying nutrient losses from deer culling practices in Scotland.

Published online: 24 Aug 2024

Authors: Ferraro, K. M. & Hirst, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Deer management has become an integral part of ecosystem recovery efforts across the globe. Within Scotland, annual deer culls have been implemented t...

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