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The IFOAM principle of health - how do organic farmers apply it in practice?

Published online: 17 Oct 2018

Authors: Vieweger, A. & Döring, T. F. & Bloch, R. & Bachinger, J. & Klimek, M. & Paxton, R. & Woodward, L.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

The project 'Developing best practice networks of health in organic agricultural systems' aimed to create an international network of farmers and scie...

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Agroforestry is more productive than monoculture, and organic agroforestry is competitive with its conventional counterpart.

Published online: 17 Oct 2018

Authors: Andres, C. & Schneider, M. & Trujillo, G. & Alcon, F. & Amurrio, P. & Perez, E. & Weibel, F. & Milz, J.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is produced in monocultures (MONO) or agroforests (AF). Farmers have to decide between two strategies: short-term (rapid in...

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Stress-gradient framework for green roofs: applications for urban agriculture and other ecosystem services.

Published online: 02 Oct 2023

Authors: Rolhauser, A. G. & MacIvor, J. S. & Roberto, A. & Ahmed, S. & Isaac, M. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. Green roofs are promoted to contribute to more resilient cities by enhancing urban ecosystem services and food systems. Extensive, low-maintenance ...

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Factors affecting the establishment and survival of Anaitis efformata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) introduced into Australia for the biological control of St. John's wort, Hypericum perforatum. I. Laboratory experiments.

Published online: 08 Jul 1987

Authors: Briese, D. T. & Pullen, K. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Anaitis efformata [Aplocera efformata], a potential biological control agent for St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) in south-eastern Australia, wa...

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Close to the edge: spatial variation in plant diversity, biomass and floral resources in conventional and agri-environment cereal fields.

Published online: 27 Nov 2024

Authors: Sutcliffe, L. M. E. & Schellenberg, J. & Meyer, S. & Leuschner, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Non-crop (segetal) plants in arable systems are commonly perceived simply as 'weeds', that is, harmful at worst and undesirable at best. The increase ...

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Resolving a heated debate: the utility of prescribed burning as a management tool for biodiversity on lowland heath.

Published online: 15 Jan 2024

Authors: Smith, B. M. & Carpenter, D. & Holland, J. & Andruszko, F. & Gathorne-Hardy, A. & Eggleton, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Lowland heath is a priority habitat for conservation, nowadays largely managed for biodiversity. Historically, prescribed burning has been the princip...

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NatureScot Research Report 1291 - Review of chough management between populations - a comparison of the biotic and abiotic factors influencing chough populations across the UK and Irish range.

Published online: 13 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Norfolk, D. & Siriwardena, G.

Content type: Reports

This report provides an update on the status, drivers of change, and management effects concerning the Scottish chough population and other relevant p...

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The carabid and staphylinid fauna of winter wheat and fallow on a clay with flints soil.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Jones, M. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Studies were carried out in Hertfordshire, England, during 1971-75 on the carabid and staphylinid fauna in areas of a Stackyard field (clay with flint...

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Effect of climate change-induced increases on the range of rice-barley double cultivation on the intermediate egret.

Published online: 22 Feb 2024

Authors: Choi Green & Son SeokJun & Do MinSeock & Nam HyungKyu

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Intensification of cultivation methods and land-use types, particularly in the face of climate change, has steadily weakened the habitat function of r...

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The ecology and evolution of human-wildlife cooperation.

Published online: 08 Aug 2022

Authors: Cram, D. L. & Wal, J. E. M. van der & Uomini, N. & Cantor, M. & Afan, A. I. & Attwood, M. C. & Amphaeris, J. & Balasani, F. & Blair, C. J. & Bronstein, J. L. & Buanachique, I. O. & Cuthill, R. R. T. & Jewel Das & Daura-Jorge, F. G. & Deb, A. & Dixit, T. & Dlamini, G. S. & Dounias, E. & Gedi, I. I. & Gruber, M. & Hoffmann, L. S. & Holzlehner, T. & Isack, H. A. & Laltaika, E. A. & Lloyd-Jones, D. J. & Lund, J. & Machado, A. M. S. & Mahadevan, L. & Moreno, I. B. & Nwaogu, C. J. & Pierotti, R. & Rucunua, S. A. & Santos, W. F. dos & Serpa, N. & Smith, B. D. & Hari Sridhar & Tolkova, I. & Tun, T. & Valle-Pereira, J. V. S. & Wood, B. M. & Wrangham, R. W. & Spottiswoode, C. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Human-wildlife cooperation is a type of mutualism in which a human and a wild, free-living animal actively coordinate their behaviour to achieve a com...

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