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The need for a code of practice for mosquito management in European wetlands.

Published online: 10 Nov 2020

Authors: Martinou, A. F.

Content type: Blog

This paper focuses on the importance of European wetlands in providing essential resources to human societies and the major threats to wetlands and th...

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Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana: enhancing impact through demand driven innovations.

Published online: 10 Jan 2018

Authors: Wani, S. P. & Anantha, K. H. & Garg, K. K. & Joshi, P. K. & Girish Sohani & Mishra, P. K. & Palanisami, K.

Content type: Bulletin

India's Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has launched the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (PMKSY) to address India's key agricultural ...

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Assessing genetic risk in revegetation.

Published online: 30 Nov 2011

Authors: Byrne, M. & Stone, L. & Millar, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Revegetation can provide major environmental benefits in degraded landscapes, but there is also potential for negative impacts from genetic change in ...

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Who guides the shepherd? Competition or cooperation? Nature and culture production with sheep flocks.

Published online: 05 Oct 2016

Authors: Schrijver, R. A. M.

Content type: Bulletin

A study was carried out in the Netherlands to assess the financial situation of shepherds looking after flocks, mainly on heathlands. A total of 47 bu...

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The phenology of mesotrophic grassland in the Pennine dales, northern England: historic hay cutting dates, vegetation variation and plant species phenologies.

Published online: 31 Aug 1991

Authors: Smith, R. S. & Jones, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The relevance to conservation of a restriction on the start of haymaking in species-rich meadows is included in the management prescription for the Pe...

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Use of road verges by butterfly and burnet populations, and the effect of roads on adult dispersal and mortality.

Published online: 03 Apr 1993

Authors: Munguira, M. L. & Thomas, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In a survey of areas beside 12 main roads (with the road number prefix 'A') in the UK in June-September 1989, it was found that verges and central res...

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Spatial assessment of benthic compensatory habitats for offshore wind farm impacts.

Published online: 27 Oct 2022

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Ward, O. & Aberson, M. & Kirby, D. & Chaverra, A. & Roberts, A. & Cross, K. & Warner, I. & Reach, I.

Content type: Reports

This project aims to identify benthic habitats that, whilst not classified as the same, have a similar or identical ecological function and ecosystem ...

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Pesticide use on cereals and the survival of grey partridge chicks: a field experiment.

Published online: 19 Mar 1986

Authors: Rands, M. R. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A field experiment in Hampshire was undertaken to test whether the herbicides, fungicides and insecticides used on cereal fields reduce the survival o...

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Effect of climate change-induced increases on the range of rice-barley double cultivation on the intermediate egret.

Published online: 22 Feb 2024

Authors: Choi Green & Son SeokJun & Do MinSeock & Nam HyungKyu

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Intensification of cultivation methods and land-use types, particularly in the face of climate change, has steadily weakened the habitat function of r...

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Breeding skylarks Alauda arvensis on Environmentally Sensitive Area arable reversion grass in southern England: survey-based and experimental determination of density.

Published online: 24 Feb 1999

Authors: Wakeham-Dawson, A. & Szoszkiewicz, K. & Stern, K. & Aebischer, N. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In the South Downs and South Wessex Downs (southern England), designated an Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) in 1987 and 1993, respectively, farme...

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