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Climate change and agriculture.

Published online: 16 Sep 2020

Published by: British Ecological Society

Authors: Wentworth, J.

Content type: Bulletin article

Agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, which has implications for food production and security. Agriculture could be more resilie...

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Crown of a Sitka spruce plantation: analysis and stochastic description of the developments of the branching structure.

Published online: 01 Jan 1978

Authors: Cochrane, L. A. & Ford, E. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The number, length, angle, azimuth and compass bearing of whorl and interwhorl branches were measured in 1973 and 1976 for a plantation of P. sitchens...

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Performance of sheep on unburned and serially burned blanket bog in western Ireland.

Published online: 24 Feb 1984

Authors: Lance, A. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A heather-dominated blanket bog was burned in small patches annually for 5 yr. Sheep were stocked at 1 ewe/ha from the 2nd yr onward and their perform...

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Enabling regulatory frameworks for contract farming.

Published online: 31 Oct 2018

Authors: Viinikainen, T. & Caro, C. B.

Content type: Bulletin

FAO's previous contribution to the development of contract farming saw the publication in 2015 of the UNIDROIT/FAO/IFAD Legal Guide on Contract Farmin...

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Estimating the effects of land degradation and rainfall variation on productivity in rangelands: an approach using remote sensing and models of grazing and herbage dynamics.

Published online: 13 Nov 1996

Authors: Pickup, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Land degradation in non-equilibrium rangelands may be defined in terms of loss of resilience and is linked with lower economic productivity through r...

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The potential for buffel grass renewal from seed in 16-year-old buffel grass-sirato pastures in south-east Queensland.

Published online: 31 Mar 1990

Authors: Hacker, J. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Seed production by Cenchrus ciliaris cv. Biloela and soil seed reserves were studied in two 16-year-old C. ciliaris/Macroptilium atropurpureum cv. Sir...

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Managing ecosystem services and biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes: are the solutions the same?

Published online: 20 Jun 2012

Authors: Macfadyen, S. & Cunningham, S. A. & Costamagna, A. C. & Schellhorn, N. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biodiversity conservation and agricultural production have traditionally been viewed as substantially in conflict and recent declines in biodiversity ...

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The fate of land in expiring Conservation Reserve Program contracts, 2013-16.

Published online: 02 Apr 2020

Authors: Bigelow, D. & Claassen, R. & Hellerstein, D. & Breneman, V. & Williams, R. & You ChengXia

Content type: Bulletin

Voluntary retirement of cropland under the USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) provides numerous benefits related to soil erosion, water quality...

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Futures of tropical production forests.

Published online: 13 Jan 2016

Authors: Putz, F. E. & Romero, C.

Content type: Bulletin

Forests are landscape-embedded complex systems with fates determined by multitudes of changing and interacting factors that are sectoral and extra-sec...

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A method for approximating the photosynthetic production of stand members inside the canopy.

Published online: 01 Jan 1982

Authors: Kellomaki, S. & Salminen, R. & Hari, P. & Ventila, M. & Kanninen, M. & Kauppi, P. & Smolander, H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A 'simulator' is described, which integrates measurements of light intensity within a forest canopy in order to estimate the total amount of CO2 fixed...

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