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Effect of pyric herbivory on source-sink dynamics in grassland birds.

Published online: 03 Aug 2016

Authors: Davis, C. A. & Churchwell, R. T. & Fuhlendorf, S. D. & Engle, D. M. & Hovick, T. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Grasslands world-wide provide a host of ecosystem services. In particular, these grasslands serve as biodiversity repositories for a myriad of imperil...

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Restructuring tree provenance test data to conform to reciprocal transplant experiments for detecting local adaptation.

Published online: 03 Aug 2016

Authors: Lu PengXin & Parker, W. C. & Colombo, S. J. & Man RongZhou

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Local adaptation is a fundamental assumption in delineating seed zones and developing seed transfer guidelines to safeguard climatic adaptation of tre...

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Developing a robust technique to detect populations of endangered native white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes, invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus and crayfish plague Aphanomyces astaci in lotic systems using innovative eDNA approaches.

Published online: 29 Oct 2021

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Farmer, A.

Content type: Reports

eDNA sampling was carried out on known populations of white-clawed crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes and invasive signal crayfish Pacifastacus lenius...

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Long-term impact of changes in sheep Ovis aries densities on the breeding output of the hen harrier Circus cyaneus.

Published online: 09 Feb 2011

Authors: Amar, A. & Davies, J. & Meek, E. & Williams, J. & Knight, A. & Redpath, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Livestock grazing is an important form of land use across the globe and changes in grazing pressure can have profound effects on vertebrate population...

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Long-term population studies and the development of an integrated management programme for control of Opuntia stricta in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Published online: 29 May 1998

Authors: Hoffmann, J. H. & Moran, V. C. & Zeller, D. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A phycitid moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, was released in Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa, during 1988 in an attempt to control O. stricta biol...

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The relationship between the presence of larval anisakine nematodes in cod and marine mammals in British home waters.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Young, P. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

About 5,400 cod from off the Hebrides, the Irish Sea, the Bristol Channel, the Southern Bight, the central North Sea and off the north-east English co...

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Implications of plant functional traits and drought survival strategies for ecological restoration.

Published online: 02 May 2018

Authors: Balachowski, J. A. & Volaire, F. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Restoration of degraded grasslands through active revegetation often involves re-establishing populations of native grasses, which must withstand incr...

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Accounting for spatiotemporal sampling variation in joint species distribution models.

Published online: 27 Apr 2024

Authors: North, J. S. & Schliep, E. M. & Hansen, G. J. A. & Kundel, H. & Custer, C. A. & McLaughlin, P. & Wagner, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Estimating relative abundance is critical for informing conservation and management efforts and for making inferences about the effects of environment...

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The effectiveness of agri-environment schemes for the conservation of farmland moths: assessing the importance of a landscape-scale management approach.

Published online: 15 Jun 2011

Authors: Fuentes-Montemayor, E. & Goulson, D. & Park, K. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural intensification and expansion are regarded as major causes of worldwide declines in biodiversity during the last century. Agri-environmen...

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The last moves: the effect of hunting and culling on the risk of disease spread from a population of reindeer.

Published online: 15 Feb 2021

Authors: Mysterud, A. & Rauset, G. R. & Moorter, B. van & Andersen, R. & Strand, O. & Rivrud, I. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Hunting and culling are frequently used to combat infectious wildlife diseases. The aim is to markedly lower population density in order to limit dise...

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