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Anthropogenic disturbance facilitates a non-native species on offshore oil platforms.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Viola, S. M. & Page, H. M. & Zaleski, S. F. & Miller, R. J. & Doheny, B. & Dugan, J. E. & Schroeder, D. M. & Schroeter, S. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Anthropogenic practices that facilitate species introductions must be identified and modified to improve management and control the spread of non-nati...

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Towards smarter harvesting from natural palm populations by sparing the individuals that contribute most to population growth or productivity.

Published online: 20 Feb 2019

Authors: Jansen, M. & Anten, N. P. R. & Bongers, F. & Martínez-Ramos, M. & Zuidema, P. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Natural populations deliver a wide range of products that provide income for millions of people and need to be exploited sustainably. Large heterogene...

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Different open-canopy vegetation types affect matrix permeability for a dispersing forest amphibian.

Published online: 02 Apr 2014

Authors: Cline, B. B. & Hunter, M. L., Jr.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Population viability often depends on conserving functional connectivity in fragmented landscapes. For pool-breeding amphibians, population connectivi...

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Detection of crayfish plague spores in large freshwater systems.

Published online: 02 Apr 2014

Authors: Strand, D. A. & Jussila, J. & Johnsen, S. I. & Viljamaa-Dirks, S. & Edsman, L. & Wiik-Nielsen, J. & Viljugrein, H. & Engdahl, F. & Vrålstad, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Indigenous European freshwater crayfish (ICS) are threatened due to invasive North American freshwater crayfish that are natural carriers of Aphanomyc...

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Spatial targeting of woodland creation can reduce the colonisation credit of woodland plants.

Published online: 02 Oct 2023

Authors: Hughes, S. & Kunin, W. & Ziv, G. & Watts, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Colonisation credit refers to the temporal lag between positive conservation actions and species' responses and may be one of the reasons we fail to m...

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A model of the grazing of hill vegetation by sheep in the UK. II. The prediction of offtake by sheep.

Published online: 26 Jun 1997

Authors: Armstrong, H. M. & Gordon, I. J. & Hutchings, N. J. & Illius, A. W. & Milne, J. A. & Sibbald, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A model is described which predicts seasonal changes in the quantity and digestibility of offtake by ewes and lambs grazing seven dwarf shrub-dominate...

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No-mow amenity grassland case study: phenology of floral abundance and nectar resource.

Published online: 25 Oct 2022

Authors: Hemmings, K. & Elton, R. & Grange, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. Popular campaigns such as No Mow May seek to encourage early-season forage resource for pollinators in urban green spaces. Land managers need to ba...

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Recovery of orange trees following severe water stress.

Published online: 01 Jan 1980

Authors: Fereres, E. & Cruz-Romero, G. & Hoffman, G. J. & Rawlins, S. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Twelve-year old cv. Valencia orange trees were subjected to a single water stress, under field conditions at Tacna, Arizona, inducing leaf water poten...

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Using long-term monitoring of red fox populations to assess changes in rodent control practices.

Published online: 04 Dec 2013

Authors: Jacquot, M. & Coeurdassier, M. & Couval, G. & Renaude, R. & Pleydell, D. & Truchetet, D. & Raoul, F. & Giraudoux, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pest control is a global issue for agriculture, health, biodiversity conservation and economy. Anticoagulant rodenticides are used over large areas to...

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Seeing beyond the frames we inherit: a challenge to tenacious conservation narratives.

Published online: 22 Mar 2024

Authors: Chignell, S. M. & Satterfield, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Natural and social scientists everywhere are struggling to understand how to proceed in the face of continued biodiversity loss and the injustices bro...

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