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Mediating mutualisms: farm management practices and evolutionary changes in symbiont co-operation.

Published online: 13 Nov 2002

Authors: Kiers, E. T. & West, S. A. & Denison, R. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Root symbionts (rhizobia and arbuscular mycorrhizas) are often assumed to increase agricultural productivity consistently. However, rhizobial and myco...

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Variation partitioning in canonical ordination reveals no effect of soil but an effect of co-occurring species on translocation success in Iris atrofusca.

Published online: 09 Feb 2011

Authors: Volis, S. & Dorman, M. & Blecher, M. & Sapir, Y. & Burdeniy, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Despite being expensive, complicated and less successful than the conservation of primary habitat, translocation is rapidly gaining importance as a co...

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Plant regulation of essential and non-essential heavy metals.

Published online: 01 Jan 1979

Authors: Leavitt, S. W. & Dueser, R. D. & Goodell, H. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Along two traverses near Mineral, Virginia (USA) (where soil metal concentrations vary greatly because of the natural weathering of sulphide mineral d...

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The effects of conservation management of reed beds. I. The invertebrates.

Published online: 17 Apr 1993

Authors: Ditlhogo, M. K. M. & James, R. & Laurence, B. R. & Sutherland, W. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A replicated experiment was conducted in 1988-89 in a stand of reeds (Phragmites australis) which were cut, burnt or left unmanaged on the Hundred Acr...

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A nutrient index quantifying productivity of agaves and cacti.

Published online: 16 Mar 1991

Authors: Nobel, P. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Plant productivity is influenced by water status, temperature, and photosynthetically active radiation, the effects of which provide an environmental ...

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Chronic low level hydrocarbon amendments stimulate plant growth and microbial activity in salt-marsh microcosms.

Published online: 06 Apr 1991

Authors: Li, Y. & Morris, J. T. & Yoch, D. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Salt-marsh microcosms containing the halophyte Spartina alterniflora were maintained in a greenhouse for 2 years and given daily dosages of a hydrocar...

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Dynamics and contribution to carbon flows of Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) under four cropping systems.

Published online: 20 Apr 1990

Authors: Lagerlöf, J. & Andrén, O. & Paustian, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Enchytraeids were sampled in 1980-85 in an agricultural field experiment with four cropping systems: barley without nitrogen fertilization (B0); barle...

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The measurement of length and distribution of onion roots in the field and the laboratory.

Published online: 20 Oct 1972

Authors: Baldwin, J. P. & Tinker, P. B. & Marriott, F. H. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The 'Quantimet' Image Analysing Computer was used to measure the length of roots washed out from soil, and a new autoradiographic (32P) method for mea...

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Soil seed banks and the effects of meadow management on vegetation change in a 10-year meadow field trial.

Published online: 12 Aug 2002

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

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Enhancement of plant species diversity is often an objective in grassland management for wildlife conservation. Such management regimes may also chang...

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Effects of experimental irrigation and drought on the composition and diversity of soil fauna in a coniferous stand.

Published online: 19 Feb 2003

Authors: Lindberg, N. & Engtsson, J. B. & Persson, T.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The effects of experimental long-term summer drought and irrigation on soil fauna were studied in a Norway spruce (Picea abies) stand in southwestern ...

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