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Ancient and contemporary shellfish cultivation practices bolster bivalve communities and diversity-biomass relationships.

Published online: 28 Jan 2025

Authors: Cox, K. D. & Davies, H. L. & Millard-Martin, B. & Black, M. & Hessing-Lewis, M. & Smith, N. F. & Juanes, F. & Dudas, S. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Marine ecosystems provide humans with access to nutritious food. The discussion surrounding the cultivation of intertidal resources currently focuses ...

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Embracing dynamic design for climate-resilient living shorelines.

Published online: 01 May 2021

Authors: Mitchell, M. & Bilkovic, D. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

This paper draws on scientific literature and practical experience with living shoreline design and application to make recommendations for how living...

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Photosynthesis and growth rates in Salvinia molesta and Eichhornia crassipes.

Published online: 11 Jun 1985

Authors: Sale, P. J. M. & Orr, P. T. & Shell, G. S. & Erskine, D. J. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Max. hourly rates of CO2 uptake measured in midsummer in well-developed communities of S. molesta and E. crassipes ranged from 20 to 23 and from 30 to...

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Implications of overfishing of frugivorous fishes for cryptic function loss in a neotropical floodplain.

Published online: 22 Jul 2021

Authors: Araujo, J. M. & Correa, S. B. & Penha, J. & Anderson, J. & Traveset, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many frugivorous animals act simultaneously as seed predators and dispersers, and shifts in the abundance and mean phenotype of the frugivore populati...

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Individual and combined responses of stream ecosystems to multiple stressors.

Published online: 10 Dec 2008

Authors: Townsend, C. R. & Uhlmann, S. S. & Matthaei, C. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Managers must understand the effects of stressors on ecosystems in order to identify thresholds of harm but, to be meaningful, thresholds will usually...

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Using Markov chain successional models backwards.

Published online: 03 May 2006

Authors: Solow, A. R. & Smith, W. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Markov chains are commonly used to model succession in plant and animal communities. Once fitted to data, these models are typically used to address e...

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Cadmium pollution triggers a positive biodiversity-productivity relationship: evidence from a laboratory microcosm experiment.

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Li JinTian & Duan HongNan & Li ShaoPeng & Kuang JiaLiang & Zeng Yi & Shu WenSheng

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Human activities are greatly changing the conditions of ecosystems. One of these major changes is that more and more ecosystems are facing increasing ...

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Measuring the relative resilience of subarctic lakes to global change: redundancies of functions within and across temporal scales.

Published online: 12 Jun 2013

Authors: Angeler, D. G. & Allen, C. R. & Johnson, R. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecosystems at high altitudes and latitudes are expected to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of global change. We assessed the responses of li...

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Flow restoration and the impacts of multiple stressors on fish communities in regulated rivers.

Published online: 20 Jul 2020

Authors: Göthe, E. & Degerman, E. & Sandin, L. & Segersten, J. & Tamario, C. & McKie, B. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. River regulation for hydropower is undertaken worldwide, causing profound alterations to hydrological regimes and running water habitats. Regulated...

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Where to fish in the forest? Tree characteristics and contiguous seagrass features predict mangrove forest quality for fishes and crustaceans.

Published online: 22 Dec 2023

Authors: Wanjiru, C. & Nagelkerken, I. & Rueckert, S. & Harcourt, W. & Huxham, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Mangroves often support rich fish and crustacean communities, although faunal abundance and diversity show strong spatiotemporal variability. Consiste...

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