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Habitat area but not habitat age determines wild bee richness in limestone quarries.

Published online: 04 Mar 2009

Authors: Krauss, J. & Alfert, T. & Steffan-Dewenter, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Within highly modified European landscapes, limestone quarries can act as important secondary habitats for a range of endangered wild bee species. How...

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Who guides the shepherd? Competition or cooperation? Nature and culture production with sheep flocks.

Published online: 05 Oct 2016

Authors: Schrijver, R. A. M.

Content type: Bulletin

A study was carried out in the Netherlands to assess the financial situation of shepherds looking after flocks, mainly on heathlands. A total of 47 bu...

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Anthropogenic land-use change shapes bird diversity along the eastern Himalayan altitudinal gradient.

Published online: 14 Jun 2022

Authors: Penjor, U. & Jamtsho, R. & Sherub, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Globally, the conversion of natural forest into agricultural land and human settlement has altered avian diversity and structure often leading to func...

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Special Profile: Challenges and prospects for applied ecology in China.

Published online: 03 Jun 2009

Authors: Memmott, J. & Milner-Gulland, E. J. & Hulme, P. & Thirgood, S. & Cadotte, M.

Content type: Journal issue

This special section includes six papers entitled: (1) Price of prosperity: economic development and biological conservation in China; (2) Grazers on ...

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A multistate mark-recapture approach to estimating survival of PIT-tagged salamanders following timber harvest.

Published online: 23 Sep 2015

Authors: Connette, G. M. & Semlitsch, R. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Survival is a critical component of individual fitness, population dynamics and the landscape ecology of organisms. Survival in animal populations is ...

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Co-production of nature's contributions to people: what evidence is out there?

Published online: 22 Sep 2023

Authors: Kachler, J. & Isaac, R. & Martín-López, B. & Bonn, A. & Felipe-Lucia, M. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Nature's contributions to people (NCP) rarely originate from nature alone. Often, only by joining natural capital with forms of anthropogenic capital,...

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Perspectives in modelling ecological interaction networks for sustainable ecosystem management.

Published online: 18 Jun 2024

Authors: Quévreux, P. & Brose, U. & Galiana, N. & Potapov, A. & Thébault, É. & Travers-Trolet, M. & Wollrab, S. & Jabot, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The concept of ecological interaction networks has been widely used in fundamental ecology in the last two decades and has progressively infused in a ...

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Spatial isolation slows down directional plant functional group assembly in restored semi-natural grasslands.

Published online: 10 Apr 2013

Authors: Helsen, K. & Hermy, M. & Honnay, O.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecological restoration schemes often assume that after reinstating appropriate abiotic conditions, plant communities will assemble following a single ...

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NatureScot Opinion Survey 2022.

Published online: 23 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Stewart, D. & Eccleston, J.

Content type: Reports

This report presents the findings from a nationally representative online survey of the Scottish adult population in November 2022, which was designed...

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NatureScot opinion survey 2023.

Published online: 23 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: McGregor, D. & Strachan, V.

Content type: Reports

This report presents the findings from a nationally representative online survey of the Scottish adult population in November 2023, which was designed...

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