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Areas of outstanding nineteenth century beauty: historic landscape characterisation analysis of protected areas in England.

Published online: 29 Mar 2023

Authors: Stratigos, M. J. & Ward, C. & Hatfield, J. H. & Finch, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Establishing and expanding protected areas (PAs) has become a key conservation tool in efforts to halt global declines in biodiversity. Given the ubiq...

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Disconnection from nature: expanding our understanding of human-nature relations.

Published online: 14 Aug 2023

Authors: Beery, T. & Olafsson, A. S. & Gentin, S. & Maurer, M. & Stålhammar, S. & Albert, C. & Bieling, C. & Buijs, A. & Fagerholm, N. & Garcia-Martin, M. & Plieninger, T. & Raymond, C. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

The human relationship with nature is a topic that has been explored throughout human history. More recently, the idea of connection to nature has mer...

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Special Issue: Nature on screen: The implications of visual media for human-nature relationships.

Published online: 10 Oct 2022

Content type: Journal issue

This special feature draws attention to new research and perspectives around two key questions. First, how and why is 'nature on screen' produced, by ...

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Beyond taxonomy: a review of macroinvertebrate trait-based community descriptors as tools for freshwater biomonitoring.

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Menezes, S. & Baird, D. J. & Soares, A. M. V. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Species traits have been frequently used in ecological studies in an attempt to develop a general ecological framework linking biological communities ...

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NatureScot Research Report 1259 - A risk-based approach to peatland restoration and peat instability.

Published online: 21 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Mills, A. J. & Rushton, D.

Content type: Reports

This report outlines a risk-based approach to assessing the potential impacts of peatland restoration activities on peat stability. It introduces an i...

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Spatial distribution of biodiversity citizen science in a natural area depends on area accessibility and differs from other recreational area use.

Published online: 25 Oct 2022

Authors: Mandeville, C. P. & Nilsen, E. B. & Finstad, A. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Opportunistic citizen science produces large amounts of primary biodiversity data but is underutilized in the conservation and management of protected...

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Weighting effective number of species measures by abundance weakens detection of diversity responses.

Published online: 20 Jul 2020

Authors: Cao Yong & Hawkins, C. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effective number of species (ENS) has been proposed as a robust measure of species diversity that overcomes several limitations in terms of both d...

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Optimising nature conservation outcomes for a given region-wide level of food production.

Published online: 26 Nov 2020

Authors: Finch, T. & Green, R. E. & Massimino, D. & Peach, W. J. & Balmford, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The land sharing-sparing framework aims to quantify the trade-off between food production and biodiversity conservation, but it has been criticized fo...

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Cultivating reciprocity and supporting indigenous lifeways through the cultural transformation of natural resource management in North America.

Published online: 22 May 2025

Authors: Fisk, J. J. & Berl, R. E. W. & Long, J. & Jacobs, L. & Eeden, L. van & Adams, M. M. & Fernández-Llamazares, Á. & Murphy, J. & Gavin, M. & Williams, C. K. & Salerno, J. & Verschuuren, B. & Bennett, N. & Idohou, R. & Mawyer, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Recent decades have seen increasing calls for implementing Indigenous Knowledges (IK) in natural resource management (NRM). However, efforts have been...

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Assemblages of soil macrofauna across a Scottish land-use intensification gradient: influences of habitat quality, heterogeneity and area.

Published online: 04 Jan 2006

Authors: Eggleton, P. & Vanbergen, A. J. & Jones, D. T. & Lambert, M. C. & Rockett, C. & Hammond, P. M. & Beccaloni, J. & Marriott, D. & Ross, E. & Giusti, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Land-use intensification strongly influences biodiversity by altering habitat heterogeneity, the distribution of habitat types and their extent. This ...

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