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Agricultural intensification erodes taxonomic and functional diversity in Mediterranean olive groves by filtering out rare species.

Published online: 06 Nov 2021

Authors: Tarifa, R. & Martínez-Núñez, C. & Valera, F. & González-Varo, J. P. & Salido, T. & Rey, P. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES) have been proposed to mitigate the impact of agriculture on both taxonomic and functional biodiversity. However, a be...

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Bumblebee colony density on farmland is influenced by late-summer nectar supply and garden cover.

Published online: 23 May 2021

Authors: Timberlake, T. P. & Vaughan, I. P. & Baude, M. & Memmott, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

1. Floral resources are important in limiting pollinator populations, but they are often highly variable across time and space and the effect of this ...

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Effect of small catchment dams on downstream vegetation of a seasonal river in semi-arid African savanna.

Published online: 10 Jul 2002

Authors: O'Connor, T. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seasonal rivers in semiarid African savannas support riparian woodland and hydromorphic grassland, key habitats for wildlife or livestock. We investig...

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Direct and indirect effects of urbanization, pesticides and wild insect pollinators on mango yield.

Published online: 15 Feb 2024

Authors: Marcacci, G. & Soubadra Devy & Wenzel, A. & Rao, V. S. & Kumar, S. S. & Nölke, N. & Belavadi, V. V. & Tscharntke, T. & Grass, I. & Westphal, C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Expanding cities increasingly encroach fertile farmlands, questioning the viability of maintaining agriculture within and around them. Yet, our knowle...

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Predicting calyptrate fly populations from the weather, and probable consequences of climate change.

Published online: 02 Nov 2005

Authors: Goulson, D. & Derwent, L. C. & Hanley, M. E. & Dunn, D. W. & Abolins, S. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Calyptrate flies include numerous species that are disease vectors and have a high nuisance value, notably Musca domestica. Populations are often asso...

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Influence of agricultural management, sward structure and food resources on grassland field use by birds in lowland England.

Published online: 02 Nov 2005

Authors: Atkinson, P. W. & Fuller, R. J. & Vickery, J. A. & Conway, G. J. & Tallowin, J. R. B. & Smith, R. E. N. & Haysom, K. A. & Ings, T. C. & Asteraki, E. J. & Brown, V. K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural management of grassland in lowland Britain has changed fundamentally in the last 50 years, resulting in spatial and structural uniformity...

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What role for income stabilisation insurance in EU agriculture? The case of the Regione Emilia Romagna in Italy.

Published online: 11 Mar 2015

Authors: P'erez-Blanco, C. D. & Mysiak, J. & Gutíerrez-Martín, C. & Salvo, M. de

Content type: Bulletin

The steep upward-rising damage trend incurred by natural hazard risk as a result of climate change is already inflating economic losses in agriculture...

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Coffee pulp accelerates early tropical forest succession on old fields.

Published online: 13 May 2021

Authors: Cole, R. J. & Zahawi, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Applying nutrient-rich agricultural by-products, such as fruit peels and pulp, to degraded land has been proposed as a strategy to overcome a number o...

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The effects of predator exclusion and caging on cereal aphids in winter wheat.

Published online: 01 Jan 1983

Authors: Chambers, R. J. & Sunderland, K. D. & Wyatt, I. J. & Vickerman, G. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Changes in numbers of cereal aphids (mainly Sitobion avenae (F.) and Metopolophium dirhodum (Wlk.) but including also Rhopalosiphum padi (L.)) were me...

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Optimizing coffee production: increased floral visitation and bean quality at plantation edges with wild pollinators and natural vegetation.

Published online: 15 Jun 2024

Authors: Machado, A. C. P. & Baronio, G. J. & Novaes, C. S. & Ollerton, J. & Torres, M. W. & Lopes, D. N. S. & Rech, A. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Animal pollination is important for more than 75% of agricultural crops, including coffee, whose productivity can increase with adequate pollination. ...

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