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Predicting soil properties from floristic composition in western Amazonian rain forests: performance of k-nearest neighbour estimation and weighted averaging calibration.

Published online: 04 Dec 2013

Authors: Suominen, L. & Ruokolainen, K. & Tuomisto, H. & Llerena, N. & Higgins, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Soil quality is an important determinant of primary productivity and species occurrence patterns. Therefore, plant species composition can be used as ...

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Tourism supporting biodiversity: a manual on applying the CBD Guidelines on Biodiversity and Tourism Development.

Published online: 20 Apr 2016

Authors: Denman, R. & Denman, J.

Content type: Miscellaneous

This manual provides information for planners, developers, managers and decision makers involved with tourism development and resource management in a...

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A slippery slope: logging alters mass-abundance scaling in ecological communities.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Umesh Srinivasan

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Natural ecosystems face ever-increasing anthropogenic threats from activities such as logging. It is therefore important to: (i) understand anthropoge...

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Monitoring protected areas by integrating machine learning, remote sensing and citizen science.

Published online: 22 May 2025

Authors: Plas, T. L. van der & Alexander, D. G. & Pocock, M. J. O.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

1. Protected Areas (PAs) are central to addressing the world's biodiversity crisis, but their effectiveness for conservation varies. Therefore, high-r...

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Conservation and biological monitoring of tropical forests: the role of parataxonomists.

Published online: 24 Mar 2004

Authors: Basset, Y. & Novotny, V. & Miller, S. E. & Weiblen, G. D. & Missa, O. & Stewart, A. J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The demise of tropical rain forests will lead to a large-scale extinction of genetic diversity, particularly of arthropods. Curtailing these trends mi...

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FSC Tomorrow's Biodiversity Consultation Report. Collated views and ideas from the 2014 consultation.

Published online: 07 Jul 2020

Published by: UK, Field Studies Council

Authors: Burkmar, R.

Content type: Reports

A wide-ranging consultation with the UK biological recording and biodiversity surveillance and monitoring community was conducted. This was accomplish...

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Modelling large-scale relationships between changes in woodland deer and bird populations.

Published online: 15 Feb 2012

Authors: Newson, S. E. & Johnston, A. & Renwick, A. R. & Baillie, S. R. & Fuller, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

There is increasing evidence from local studies carried out in several parts of the world to suggest that increases in the abundance of deer may be de...

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Cost-efficiency of biodiversity indicators for Mediterranean ecosystems and the effects of socio-economic factors.

Published online: 01 Dec 2010

Authors: Mandelik, Y. & Roll, U. & Fleischer, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity assessments usually rely on indicators as surrogates for direct measures. Although the ecological validity of indicators has been extensi...

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The 'dirty dozen': socio-economic factors amplify the invasion potential of 12 high-risk aquatic invasive species in Great Britain and Ireland.

Published online: 12 Jun 2013

Authors: Gallardo, B. & Aldridge, D. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Aquatic invasive species are a growing concern to environmental managers because of their diverse impacts on aquatic biodiversity and high eradication...

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Indicators for monitoring biological invasions at a national level.

Published online: 29 May 2019

Authors: Wilson, J. R. U. & Faulkner, K. T. & Rahlao, S. J. & Richardson, D. M. & Zengeya, T. A. & Wilgen, B. W. van

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A major challenge for the management of biological invasions is to ensure that data and information from basic inventories and ecological research are...

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