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Special Issue: Seed predation.

Published online: 10 Dec 2008

Authors: Lewis, O. T. & Gripenberg, S.

Content type: Journal issue

This issue contains 4 papers focusing on the following topics: (i) insect seed predators and environmental change; (ii) limits of predation rates by t...

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An analytical model for field measurement of photosynthesis.

Published online: 01 Jan 1977

Authors: Reed, R. L. & Hamerly, E. R. & Dinger, B. E. & Jarvis, P. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The model, applicable to all terrestrial plants, accounted for 90% of the variance in field measurements on Liriodendron tulipifera.

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The ineffectiveness of the stingless bee Trigona jaty (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae) as a pollinator of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.).

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Young, A. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In a cocoa plantation in Costa Rica, T. jaty was a common visitor to the flowers; on 70% of observed visits, the bees collected pollen. However, fruit...

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The foraging behaviour of honeybees on ornamental Malus spp. used as pollinizers in apple orchards.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Kendall, D. A. & Smith, B. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The flowers of 3 ornamental Malus spp. (M. aldenhamensis, M. floribunda cv. Hillierii and M. cv. Golden Hornet) and of cvs Cox's Orange Pippin, Worces...

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Indicators for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: a pan-European study.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Billeter, R. & Liira, J. & Bailey, D. & Bugter, R. & Arens, P. & Augenstein, I. & Aviron, S. & Baudry, J. & Bukacek, R. & Burel, F. & Cerny, M. & Blust, G. de & Cock, R. de & Diekötter, T. & Dietz, H. & Dirksen, J. & Dormann, C. & Durka, W. & Frenzel, M. & Hamersky, R. & Hendrickx, F. & Herzog, F. & Klotz, S. & Koolstra, B. & Lausch, A. & Coeur, D. le (et al)

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In many European agricultural landscapes, species richness is declining considerably. Studies performed at a very large spatial scale are helpful in u...

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Using subsets of species in biodiversity surveys.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Vellend, M. & Lilley, P. L. & Starzomski, B. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In many biodiversity surveys, a small proportion of species require a disproportionate amount of a researcher's time and effort to detect or identify....

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Informed multi-objective decision-making in environmental management using Pareto optimality.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Kennedy, M. C. & Ford, E. D. & Singleton, P. & Finney, M. & Agee, J. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effective decision-making in environmental management requires the consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict. Common optimization methods...

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Ecological restoration and estuarine management: placing people in the coastal landscape.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Weinstein, M. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Amid signs that estuarine ecosystems are increasingly degraded and may reach new thresholds of irreversible decline, restoration ecologists and coasta...

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Restoration of wet features for breeding waders on lowland grassland.

Published online: 26 Mar 2008

Authors: Eglington, S. M. & Gill, J. A. & Bolton, M. & Smart, M. A. & Sutherland, W. J. & Watkinson, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Over the last century, the loss of around half of the world's wetlands, principally through drainage and conversion to agriculture, has been one of th...

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Identifying rice fields at risk from damage by the greater flamingo.

Published online: 04 Jul 2001

Authors: Tourenq, C. & Aulagnier, S. & Durieux, L. & Lek, S. & Mesléard, F. & Johnson, A. & Martin, J. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Since the early 1980s, greater flamingos (Phoenicopterus ruber roseus) have been reported to cause damage to the rice fields of the Camargue, southeas...

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