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Carrying capacity in overwintering birds: when are spatial models needed?

Published online: 14 May 2003

Authors: Goss-Custard, J. D. & Stillman, R. A. & Caldow, R. W. G. & West, A. D. & Guillemain, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

We sometimes need to predict the maximum number of bird-days that can be supported by the food supply in a site used by migratory birds outside the br...

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Intertidal habitat loss and wildfowl numbers: applications of a spatial depletion model.

Published online: 01 May 1998

Authors: Percival, S. M. & Sutherland, W. J. & Evans, P. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A spatial depletion model of the responses of grazing wildfowl to the availability of intertidal vegetation at Lindisfarne National Nature reserve, no...

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Unraveling local preferences and willingness to pay for different management scenarios: a choice experiment to Biosphere Reserve management.

Published online: 26 Jun 2019

Authors: Castillo-Eguskitza, N. & Hoyos, D. & Onaindia, M. & Czajkowski, M.

Content type: Bulletin

Economic valuation of ecosystem services has emerged as a valuable tool to promote conservation and sustainable land management. Our study adds to thi...

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El Yunque National Forest Atlas.

Published online: 10 Oct 2018

Authors: Quiñones, M. & Parés-Ramos, I. K. & Gould, W. A. & Gonzalez, G. & McGinley, K. & Ríos, P.

Content type: Bulletin

El Yunque National Forest Atlas is a collaborative effort by the International Institute of Tropical Forestry and El Yunque National Forest to provide...

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The fate of land in expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts, 2013-16.

Published online: 02 Apr 2020

Authors: Bigelow, D. & Claassen, R. & Hellerstein, D. & Breneman, V. & Williams, R. & You ChengXia

Content type: Bulletin

Voluntary retirement of cropland under the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides numerous benefits related to soil erosion, water quality...

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Core areas for wetland birds in Zuid-Holland. Importance of these [areas] for international obligations regarding other bird species.

Published online: 13 May 2015

Authors: Melman, T. C. P. & Sierdsema, H. & Hammers, M. & Oosterveld, E. & Schotman, A. G. M.

Content type: Bulletin

Wet grasslands (21 190 ha) in the province of Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, are internationally important as a core area for black-tailed godwits (Limosa...

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The number of pins in a point quadrat frame.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Rothery, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Theoretical considerations indicated that it was possible to increase the precision of estimation of vegetation cover by reducing the number of pins i...

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Wigeon (Anas penelope L.) conservation and salting pasture management at Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve, Somerset.

Published online: 01 Jan 1973

Authors: Cadwalladr, D. A. & Owen, M. & Morley, J. V. & Cook, R. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Observations indicated that this species of duck, as well as sheep, grazed Puccinellia maritima/Agrostis stolonifera swards in preference to Festuca r...

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Further experiments on the management of saltings pasture for wigeon (Anas penelope L.) conservation at Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve, Somerset.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Cadwalladr, D. A. & Morley, J. V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Counts of wigeon droppings on plots of Puccinellia maritima/Agrostis stolonifera and of mown and unmown Festuca rubra on the salt marsh on Fennings Is...

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Environmental reserve quotas in Brazil's new forest legislation: an ex ante appraisal.

Published online: 13 Jan 2016

Authors: May, P. H. & Bernasconi, P. & Wunder, S. & Lubowski, R.

Content type: Bulletin

The Brazilian Forest Code (FC) requires all private rural properties to maintain a fixed proportion of their area in natural vegetation as a legal res...

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