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Top soil removal reduces water pollution from phosphorus and dissolved organic matter and lowers methane emissions from rewetted peatlands.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Zak, D. & Goldhammer, T. & Cabezas, A. & Gelbrecht, J. & Gurke, R. & Wagner, C. & Reuter, H. & Augustin, J. & Klimkowska, A. & McInnes, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A valid strategy to mitigate the eutrophication of water bodies due to non-point source phosphorus (P) pollution and to reduce the emissions of greenh...

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Land use history and seed dispersal drive divergent plant community assembly patterns in urban vacant lots.

Published online: 31 Jan 2018

Authors: Johnson, A. L. & Borowy, D. & Swan, C. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite high levels of disturbance and habitat modification, urban ecosystems still host substantial levels of biodiversity. The processes that mainta...

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Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services in Kenya: implication for design of PES schemes and participatory forest management.

Published online: 08 Nov 2017

Authors: Okumu, B. & Muchapondwa, E.

Content type: Bulletin

Forest ecosystem services are critical for human well-being as well as functioning and growth of economies. However, despite the growing demand for th...

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Relationships of plant traits and soil biota to soil functions change as nitrogen fertiliser rates increase in an intensively managed agricultural system.

Published online: 21 Apr 2022

Authors: Orwin, K. H. & Mason, N. W. H. & Aalders, L. & Bell, N. L. & Schon, N. & Mudge, P. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Because plant and soil systems are strongly inter-linked, manipulating plant traits in intensively managed agricultural systems could be used to impro...

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Contribution of small isolated habitats in creating refuges from biological invasions along a geomorphological gradient of floodplain waterbodies.

Published online: 28 Jul 2020

Authors: Ishiyama, N. & Miura, K. & Yamanaka, S. & Negishi, J. N. & Nakamura, F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Habitat fragmentation, which involves habitat size reduction and isolation, is a major cause of biodiversity decline. However, interest in small isola...

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Contemporary ecological threats from historical pollution sources: impacts of large-scale resuspension of contaminated sediments on sessile invertebrate recruitment.

Published online: 05 Aug 2009

Authors: Knott, N. A. & Aulbury, J. P. & Brown, T. H. & Johnston, E. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Historical contamination continues to pose a serious ecological threat to many ecosystems across the world. Marine sediments have long acted as sinks ...

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Long-term, livestock-mediated redistribution of nitrogen and phosphorus in an East African savanna.

Published online: 14 May 2003

Authors: Augustine, D. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effect of livestock on African rangelands has been a major focus of recent research, but little attention has been paid to the way livestock affec...

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Fuzzy cognitive mapping as a tool to assess the relative cumulative effects of environmental stressors on an arctic seabird population to identify conservation action and research priorities.

Published online: 26 Sep 2023

Authors: Rooney, R. C. & Daniel, J. & Mallory, M. & Hedd, A. & Ives, J. & Gilchrist, G. & Gjerdrum, C. & Robertson, G. & Ronconi, R. & Wilcox, K. & Wong, S. & Provencher, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

In the Arctic, chemical contaminants, shipping, oil pollution, plastic pollution, changing habitats in relation to climate change and fisheries have b...

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The effect of length on stress-wave velocity in long pieces of Salzmann pine from existing structures.

Published online: 27 Jul 2020

Authors: Osuna-Sequera, C. & Arriaga, F. & Esteban, M. & Íñiguez-González, G. & Bobadilla, I.

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

The use of non-destructive techniques (NDT) to estimate physical-mechanical timber properties is an effective way of assessing and conservation of bui...

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Emerging risks of non-native species escapes from aquaculture: call for policy improvements in China and other developing countries.

Published online: 22 Jul 2020

Authors: Ju RuiTing & Li Xiao & Jiang JiaJia & Wu JiHua & Liu JianGuo & Strong, D. R. & Li Bo

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Global aquaculture relies heavily on the farming of non-native aquatic species (hereafter, NAS). NAS escapes from aquaculture facilities can result in...

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