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A phylogenetic evaluation of non-random medicinal plants selection around an African biosphere reserve.

Published online: 16 Mar 2024

Authors: Moutouama, J. K. & Gaoue, O. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Theory in ethnobiology suggests that the selection of medicinal plants by local people in a given region is not random and evolutionary closely relate...

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Summer populations of the cereal aphid Metopolophium dirhodum (Walker) on winter wheat: three contrasting years.

Published online: 05 Aug 1986

Authors: Cannon, R. J. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The summer populations of the aphid Metopolophium dirhodum were monitored in a field of winter wheat in Bedfordshire, England, in 1978-80. The populat...

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Smallholder farmers' perceptions and strategies for adaptation to climate change in Brong Ahafo and Upper West Regions of Ghana.

Published online: 23 Aug 2017

Authors: Abdoulaye, T. & Bamire, A. S. & Akinola, A. A. & Etwire, P. M.

Content type: Bulletin

With data collected from 750 farming households using survey questionnaire and 25 Focus Group Discussions (FGD), this report documents farmers' percep...

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Edge effects on plant communities along power line clearings.

Published online: 29 Jul 2015

Authors: Eldegard, K. & Totland, Ø. & Moe, S. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Power line clearings are edge-creating disturbances in landscapes world-wide, but there have been few studies on their bordering vegetation. Our aim w...

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Seeking compromise across competing goals in conservation translocations: the case of the 'extinct' Floreana Island Galapagos giant tortoise.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Hunter, E. A. & Gibbs, J. P. & Cayot, L. J. & Tapia, W. & Quinzin, M. C. & Miller, J. M. & Caccone, A. & Shoemaker, K. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Conservation translocation projects must carefully balance multiple, potentially competing objectives (e.g. population viability, retention of genetic...

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Functional microbial diversity in regenerating cutover peatlands responds to vegetation succession.

Published online: 10 Dec 2008

Authors: Artz, R. R. E. & Chapman, S. J. & Siegenthaler, A. & Mitchell, E. A. D. & Buttler, A. & Bortoluzzi, E. & Gilbert, D. & Yli-Petays, M. & Vasander, H. & Francez, A. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

While establishment of vegetation is the most visual indicator of regeneration on cutover peatland, the reinstatement of belowground functions is less...

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Experimental evaluation of herbicide use on biodiversity, ecosystem services and timber production trade-offs in forest plantations.

Published online: 15 Feb 2022

Authors: Stokely, T. D. & Kormann, U. G. & Verschuyl, J. & Kroll, A. J. & Frey, D. W. & Harris, S. H. & Mainwaring, D. & Maguire, D. & Hatten, J. A. & Rivers, J. W. & Fitzgerald, S. & Betts, M. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The value of non-commodity ecosystem services provided by forests is widely recognized, but intensive forest management practices are increasing, with...

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Understanding the drivers of subsistence poaching in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: what matters for community wildlife conservation?

Published online: 04 Dec 2019

Authors: Ntuli, H. & Sundström, A. & Sjöstedt, M. & Muchapondwa, E. & Jagers, S. C. & Linell, A.

Content type: Bulletin

While subsistence poaching is a large threat to wildlife conservation in Southern Africa, this behaviour is seldom researched. Individual and communit...

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Sanitary versus environmental policies: fitting together two pieces of the puzzle of European vulture conservation.

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Margalida, A. & Donázar, J. A. & Carrete, M. & Sánchez-Zapata, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Between 1996 and 2000 the appearance of bovine spongiform encephalopathy swiftly became one of the most serious public health and political crises con...

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Differences in trappability of European badgers Meles meles in three populations in England.

Published online: 18 Mar 2000

Authors: Tuyttens, F. A. M. & Macdonald, D. W. & Delahay, R. & Rogers, L. M. & Mallinson, P. J. & Donnelly, C. A. & Newman, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many ecological studies on M. meles, as well as certain programmes to control bovine tuberculosis, would benefit from a greater understanding of the f...

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