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Observations on environmental and genotypic influences on the overwintering of white clover.

Published online: 01 Feb 1984

Authors: Harris, W. & Rhodes, I. & Mee, S. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Measurements were made during the winter of 1977/78 at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station of changes of leaf, stolon and root biomass, stolon length and...

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Does carbaryl increase fluctuating asymmetry in damselflies under field conditions? A mesocosm experiment with Xanthocnemis zealandica (Odonata: Zygoptera).

Published online: 18 Nov 1999

Authors: Hardersen, S. & Wratten, S. D. & Frampton, C. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Previous laboratory experiments have shown that carbaryl reduces emergence success and increases fluctuating asymmetry in cell patterns of damselfly w...

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Small scale heterogeneity in a semi-arid North American grassland. II. Cattle grazing of simulated urine patches.

Published online: 06 Jun 1992

Authors: Jaramillo, V. J. & Detling, J. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of simulated urine deposition on the selectivity and intensity of cattle grazing on Agropyron smithii [Elymus smithii] tillers were studie...

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The marine survival and growth of wild and hatchery-reared Atlantic salmon.

Published online: 05 Nov 2003

Authors: Jonsson, N. & Jonsson, B. & Hansen, L. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Catches of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. decreased in the 1980s and 1990s over its entire area in the North Atlantic and smolts were often released f...

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The concept of a root demand coefficient.

Published online: 22 May 1970

Authors: Nye, P. H. & Tinker, P. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

If the "root absorbing power" (α) for a nutrient is given by the flux across the root surface divided by a concentration in solution at the root surfa...

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Factors influencing bird species numbers in small woods in south-east England.

Published online: 28 Aug 1996

Authors: Bellamy, P. E. & Hinsley, S. A. & Newton, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Small woods (151) in a 70×30 km agricultural area in Cambridgeshire and S. Lincolnshire, ranging in size from 0.02 to 30 ha and with differing degrees...

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A plough technique for sampling soil insects.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Roberts, R. J. & Ridsdill Smith, T. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A plough transect technique is described for the rapid sampling of scarabaeid beetle larvae in pastures. The number of larvae per unit length of furro...

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Organic matter changes in an age series of Pinus radiata plantations [in Australia.

Published online: 16 Nov 1969

Authors: Forrest, W. G. & Ovington, J. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Data are given on the above-ground biomass of trees, ground flora and litter for a series of young P. radiata plantations 3, 5, 7, 9 and 12 years old ...

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Interactive effects of landscape context constrain the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management.

Published online: 20 Jun 2012

Authors: Concepción, E. D. & Díaz, M. & Kleijn, D. & Báldi, A. & Batáry, P. & Clough, Y. & Gabriel, D. & Herzog, F. & Holzschuh, A. & Knop, E. & Marshall, E. J. P. & Tscharntke, T. & Verhulst, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Ecological theory predicts that the effectiveness of local agri-environmental management to enhance species richness at field scales will be the highe...

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The influence of vegetation pattern on the grazing of heather moorland by red deer and sheep. II. The impact on heather.

Published online: 24 Mar 1995

Authors: Clarke, J. L. & Welch, D. & Gordon, I. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Red deer (Cervus elaphus) and Scottish Blackface sheep were grazed in a series of 10-day periods in plots of heather (Calluna vulgaris) moorland havin...

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