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A framework for assessing the biodiversity and fishery aspects of marine reserves.

Published online: 05 Aug 2009

Authors: Levin, P. S. & Kaplan, I. & Grober-Dunsmore, R. & Chittaro, P. M. & Oyamada, S. & Andrews, K. & Mangel, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Resource management agencies are often charged with managing natural resources for economic and social goals, while also protecting and conserving bio...

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Nine years of vegetation development in a postmining site: effects of spontaneous and assisted site recovery.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Baasch, A. & Kirmer, A. & Tischew, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Highly disturbed areas such as surface-mined land provide a great challenge for ecological restoration. The goal is to identify appropriate restoratio...

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Promoting conservation can be fun through video games like Animal Crossing.

Published online: 30 Sep 2021

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Fisher, J. & Yoh, N. & Kubo, T. & Rundle, D.

Content type: Blog

This paper explores how features of the popular Nintendo game Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH) can be used for pro-conservation messaging. The aut...

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The viable weed seed content of some tropical agricultural soils.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Kellman, M. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The viable weed seed content of the surface soil at 78 sites in the upper Belize Valley, British Honduras, averaged 6488 seeds/m2 and included 54 spec...

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Dry season weed communities in the upper Belize valley.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Kellman, M. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Weed communities sampled at 78 sites on farmland in the upper Belize Valley, British Honduras, showed 148 different weeds present, of which 103 were i...

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Accounting for detectability improves estimates of species richness in tropical bat surveys.

Published online: 15 Jun 2011

Authors: Meyer, C. F. J. & Aguiar, L. M. S. & Aguirre, L. F. & Baumgarten, J. & Clarke, F. M. & Cosson, J. F. & Villegas, S. E. & Fahr, J. & Faria, D. & Furey, N. & Henry, M. & Hodgkison, R. & Jenkins, R. K. B. & Jung, K. G. & Kingston, T. & Kunz, T. H. & Gonzalez, M. C. M. & Moya, I. & Patterson, B. D. & Pons, J. M. & Racey, P. A. & Rex, K. & Sampaio, E. M. & Solari, S. & Stoner, K. E. & Voigt, C. C. (et al)

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Species richness is a state variable of some interest in monitoring programmes but raw species counts are often biased due to imperfect species detect...

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Guild-specific responses of bats to landscape composition and configuration in fragmented Amazonian rainforest.

Published online: 04 Mar 2009

Authors: Klingbeil, B. T. & Willig, M. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat loss and fragmentation are serious threats to biodiversity, especially in the Amazon Basin, where biodiversity is greatest and deforestation i...

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Limitations to the use of pitfall traps in ecological studies exemplified by a study of spiders in a field of winter wheat.

Published online: 03 Apr 1993

Authors: Topping, C. J. & Sunderland, K. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Araneae were collected using pitfall traps and absolute density sampling over a period of 6 months in a field of winter wheat in the UK. The numerical...

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Macroinvertebrate distributions and the conservation value of aquatic Coleoptera, Mollusca and Odonata in the ditches of traditionally managed and grazing fen at Wicken Fen, UK.

Published online: 28 May 1999

Authors: Painter, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Water-filled ditches are an important ecological feature of lowland Britain. Originally dug to facilitate wetland drainage, ditches often provide refu...

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Plymouth sound & estuaries SAC subtidal sediment data analysis report 2017.

Published online: 28 Aug 2022

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Johnson, G. & Burrows, F. & Crabtree, R. & Warner, I.

Content type: Reports

The aim of this project was to analyse sediment infauna data to measure any changes in community composition at the Plymouth Sound and Estuaries Speci...

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