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Effects of late summer cattle grazing on the diversity of riparian pasture vegetation in an upland conifer forest.

Published online: 26 Feb 2001

Authors: Humphrey, J. W. & Patterson, G. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Species-rich grassland is important for biodiversity in upland forests, particularly within riparian zones. Prior to afforestation, the botanical dive...

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The interactive effects of management on the productivity and plant community structure of an upland meadow: an 8-year field trial.

Published online: 26 Feb 2001

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Shiel, R. S. & Millward, D. & Corkhill, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural policy in the Pennine Dales Environmentally Sensitive Area in northern England aims to enhance plant species diversity in agriculturally ...

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'Sense of place' and conservation: toponym diversity helps to maintain vegetation naturalness.

Published online: 15 Sep 2023

Authors: Valkó, O. & Bede, Á. & Rádai, Z. & Deák, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Place names are an important but vanishing part of cultural diversity, and their relevance for environmental sciences is increasingly acknowledged. St...

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Review: potential roles of soil fauna in improving the efficiency of rain gardens used as natural stormwater treatment systems.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Mehring, A. S. & Levin, L. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Natural treatment systems such as rain gardens aim to overcome the negative effects of urbanization on water quality, availability, and freshwater and...

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A comparison of clearfelling and gradual thinning of plantations for the restoration of insect herbivores and woodland plants.

Published online: 23 Dec 2015

Authors: Atkinson, B. & Bailey, S. & Vaughan, I. P. & Memmott, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Testing restoration methods is essential for the development of restoration ecology as a science. It is also important to monitor a range of taxa, not...

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Disease management during bloom affects the floral microbiome but not pollination in a mass-flowering crop.

Published online: 22 Jun 2023

Authors: Schaeffer, R. N. & Crowder, D. W. & Illán, J. G. & Beck, J. J. & Fukami, T. & Williams, N. M. & Vannette, R. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Flowering crops are heavily managed during bloom to both promote pollination and prevent disease. Disease management practices can alter the floral mi...

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A field test of mechanisms underpinning animal diversity in recently burned landscapes.

Published online: 06 Jul 2023

Authors: Senior, K. L. & Giljohann, K. M. & McCarthy, M. A. & Kelly, L. T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Planned burning generates different types of pyrodiversity, however, experimental tests of how alternative spatial patterns of burning influence anima...

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Impact of human extraction on tropical humid forests in the Western Ghats in Uttara Kannada, South India.

Published online: 24 Apr 1996

Authors: Daniels, R. J. R. & Madhav Gadgil & Joshi, N. V.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Thirty strip transects of 2400 m2 each, in the evergreen forest tract of the district of Uttara Kannada, were clustered into 2 groups with high and lo...

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Tree performance in a biodiversity enrichment experiment in an oil palm landscape.

Published online: 21 Jul 2020

Authors: Zemp, D. C. & Gérard, A. & Hölscher, D. & Ammer, C. & Irawan, B. & Sundawati, L. & Teuscher, M. & Kreft, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Large-scale conversion of tropical forests into oil palm monocultures has led to dramatic losses of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. While ecolog...

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Influence of introduced reindeer on the vegetation of South Georgia: results from a long-term exclusion experiment.

Published online: 25 Oct 1988

Authors: Leader-Williams, N. & Smith, R. I. L. & Rothery, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

South Georgia has a species-poor vascular flora that is not adapted to grazing by vertebrates and reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) introduced in 1911 and ...

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