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The value of forests: Payments for Ecosystem Services in a green economy.

Published online: 23 Mar 2016

Content type: Bulletin

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) describes the situation where the user of an environmental service, such as water purification, pays the landown...

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Evaluating the combined effects of climate and land-use change on tree species distributions.

Published online: 29 Jul 2015

Authors: García-Valdés, R. & Svenning, J. C. & Zavala, M. A. & Purves, D. W. & Araújo, M. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A large proportion of the world's biodiversity is reportedly threatened by habitat loss and climate change. However, there are few studies that invest...

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Land-use impacts on the quantity and configuration of ecosystem service provisioning in Massachusetts, USA.

Published online: 29 Jul 2015

Authors: Blumstein, M. & Thompson, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Meeting fundamental human needs while also maintaining ecosystem function and services is the central challenge of sustainability science. In the dens...

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Assessing the ecological status of candidate reference lakes in Ireland using palaeolimnology.

Published online: 11 Oct 2006

Authors: Leira, M. & Jordan, P. & Taylor, D. & Dalton, C. & Bennion, H. & Rose, N. & Irvine, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires that member states establish type-specific reference conditions for all waterbodies, ...

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Community-level restoration profiles in Mediterranean vegetation: nurse-based vs. traditional reforestation.

Published online: 05 Aug 2009

Authors: Rey, P. J. & Siles, G. & Alcántara, J. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Many restoration projects aim to transform degraded vegetation into mature native plant communities. The recovery of the structure and properties of r...

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Experimental Forests of the Southern Research Station: highlights of foundational silviculture studies.

Published online: 26 Jun 2019

Authors: Laseter, S. H. & Vose, J. M. & Guldin, J. M. & Bragg, D. C. & Spetich, M. A. & Keyser, T. L. & Elliott, K. J. & Sayer, M. A. S. & Sung ShiJean [Sung, S. J. S. ]

Content type: Bulletin article; Conference paper

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station is home to 19 Experimental Forests (EFs) that provide unique opportunitie...

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Modelling habitat suitability for a potential flagship species, the hooded capuchin, of the Paraguayan Upper Paraná Atlantic forest.

Published online: 28 Aug 2022

Authors: Smith, R. L. & Lusseau, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

The hooded capuchin (Sapajus cay) is an adaptable, generalist primate species found throughout eastern Paraguay with preferences for the Paraguayan Up...

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Landscape conservation as a strategy for recovering biodiversity: lessons from a long-term program of pasture restoration in the southern Atlantic forest.

Published online: 21 Oct 2022

Authors: Cardoso, F. C. G. & Capellesso, E. S. & Britez, R. M. de & Inague, G. & Marques, M. C. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Although ecological restoration has entered the global agenda to reverse different anthropogenic disturbances, we still know little about how this sol...

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Measuring the success of reforestation for restoring biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

Published online: 22 Feb 2017

Authors: Derhé, M. A. & Murphy, H. & Monteith, G. & Menéndez, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Effective assessment of the success of ecological restoration projects is critical in justifying the use of restoration in natural resource management...

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Tree diversity enhances tree transpiration in a Panamanian forest plantation.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Kunert, N. & Schwendenmann, L. & Potvin, C. & Hölscher, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Tree plantations play an important role in meeting the growing demand for wood, but there is concern about their high rates of water use. Recent appro...

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