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Floral presence and flower identity alter cereal aphid endosymbiont communities on adjacent crops.

Published online: 21 Dec 2023

Authors: Zytynska, S. E. & Sturm, S. & Hawes, C. & Weisser, W. W. & Karley, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Floral plantings adjacent to crops fields can recruit populations of natural enemies by providing flower nectar and non-crop prey to increase natural ...

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The distribution of attack by a shoot-fly larva.

Published online: 30 Jun 1971

Authors: Bullock, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The following is substantially the author's summary of this account of further studies in Kenya [cf. RAE A 57 1599]. The distribution of eggs laid by ...

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Effects of earthworm inoculation upon the root growth of direct drilled cereals.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Edwards, C. A. & Lofty, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Normal field populations of deep-burrowing or shallow-working earthworms were inoculated into small plots that had been sterilized with dichloropropan...

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Germination of seeds of five annual species of barley grass.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Popay, A. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In the laboratory, seeds of Hordeum geniculatum, H. glaucum, H. leporinum, H. marinum and H. murinum showed some innate dormancy which was most eviden...

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Regenerative potential of barley grass (Hordeum leporinum).

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Halloran, G. M. & Pennell, A. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seed of H. leporinum was collected from a field at Mount Derrimut, Victoria in Jan. 1975 and stored until May when germination was studied. Av. seed f...

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Enhancing food supplies for waders: inconsistent effects of substratum manipulations on aquatic invertebrate biomass.

Published online: 28 Jun 2000

Authors: Sanders, M. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The potential of substratum manipulations as a technique for enhancing food supplies for waders was investigated in 98 constructed ponds at 6 sites in...

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Breeding skylarks Alauda arvensis on Environmentally Sensitive Area arable reversion grass in southern England: survey-based and experimental determination of density.

Published online: 24 Feb 1999

Authors: Wakeham-Dawson, A. & Szoszkiewicz, K. & Stern, K. & Aebischer, N. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In the South Downs and South Wessex Downs (southern England), designated an Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) in 1987 and 1993, respectively, farme...

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Conservation tillage mitigates the negative effect of landscape simplification on biological control.

Published online: 03 Feb 2016

Authors: Tamburini, G. & Simone, S. de & Sigura, M. & Boscutti, F. & Marini, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biological pest control is a key ecosystem service, and it depends on multiple factors acting from the local to the landscape scale. However, the effe...

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Aphid feeding by some polyphagous predators in relation to aphid density in cereal fields.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Sunderland, K. D. & Vickerman, G. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Samples of aphids and predators were taken from 10 spring barley and winter wheat fields in southern UK between May and September in 1972-77. The guts...

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An ecological survey of land use and soil erosion in the West Pakistan and Azad Kashmir catchment of the river Jhelum.

Published online: 12 Jan 1969

Authors: Mcvean, D. N. & Robertson, V. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Information is given on climate, soil types, vegetation, rural sociology, agriculture and land capability in the above survey area. The subtropical sc...

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