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Indonesia Rural Economic Development Series. Growing plants on a barren hill: local knowledge as part of land restoration in Sumba Timur, Indonesia.

Published online: 14 Aug 2019

Authors: Mulyoutami, E. & Purnomosidhi, P. & Suryadi, A. & Nugky, I. & Hanggawali, D. N. & Sabastian, G. E. & Anggrayani, S. & Roshetko, J. M.

Content type: Bulletin

Implementation of land restoration needs to be adjusted to local conditions to be more efficient and effective. Local communities are the actors with ...

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Weed risk assessment: a way forward or a waste of time?

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Hulme, P. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many alien weeds pose significant environmental and/or economic threats across the globe, and methods to assess the potential risk of species introduc...

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The impact of biological control on the distribution and abundance of Chondrilla juncea in south-eastern Australia.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Burdon, J. J. & Groves, R. H. & Cullen, J. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Changes in the distribution, frequency and abundance of 3 forms of the weed Chondrilla juncea in south-eastern Australia are documented for the period...

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Distribution of Urophora galls in flower heads of diffuse and spotted knapweed in British Columbia.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Myers, J. H. & Harris, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The distribution of Urophora affinis (Frnf.) and U. quadrifasciata (Wied.) among the flower heads of diffuse (Centaurea diffusa) and spotted (C. macul...

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Trade-offs in parasitism efficiency and brood size mediate parasitoid coexistence, with implications for biological control of the invasive emerald ash borer.

Published online: 23 Sep 2015

Authors: Wang XiaoYi & Jennings, D. E. & Duan, J. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Parasitoids often are selected for use as biological control agents because of their high host specificity, yet such host specificity can result in st...

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Immigration, frequency distributions and dispersion patterns of the psyllid Trioza erytreae (Del Guercio) in a citrus orchard.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Samways, M. J. & Manicom, B. Q.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A citrus orchard at Nelspruit, South Africa, was pruned back to the main branches to stimulate the growth of new shoots, which are highly attractive t...

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An insect (Argyresthia retinella, Lep., Yponomeutidae) outbreak in northern birch forests, released by climatic changes?

Published online: 02 Jun 1999

Authors: Tenow, O. & Nilssen, A. C. & Holmgren, B. & Elverum, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In the early 1990s, birch (Betula pubescens) forests in north-western Norway were damaged by the bud- and shoot-mining larvae of Argyresthia retinella...

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The impact of wild geese visiting improved grasslands in the Netherlands.

Published online: 31 Mar 1990

Authors: Bruinderink, G. W. T. A. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The number of migratory geese spending winter and early spring in the Netherlands increased from 100 000 in the early 1960s to almost 600 000 in the 1...

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Do host-plant requirements and mortality from soil cultivation determine the distribution of graminivorous sawflies on farmland?

Published online: 10 Jul 1999

Authors: Barker, A. M. & Brown, N. J. & Reynolds, C. J. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There are many arthropod species on farmland that are not economic pests but which have an important role in the wider ecology of agricultural ecosyst...

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The control of Pieris rapae with DDT. II. Survival of the young stages of Pieris after spraying.

Published online: 01 Jul 1970

Authors: Dempster, J. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following are virtually the author's summaries of these parts of a series on observations in central England [cf. RAE A 57 7969].
Following the us...

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