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NatureScot Research Report 1328 - The ecological value of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDSs) in maintaining genetic diversity in urban areas.

Published online: 24 Nov 2024

Published by: UK, NatureScot

Authors: Jehle, R. & Hall, J. & Hook, S. A. & King, S. & MacArthur, K. & Miró, A. & Rae, M. & O'Brien, D.

Content type: Reports

This report investigates the genetic variation of common frog populations (Rana temporaria) breeding in sustainable urban drainage system (SuDS) ponds...

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Restorative recreation: one landowner's experience restoring a cedar-infested native prairie remnant in Iowa's Loess Hills.

Published online: 16 Jul 2021

Authors: Swanson, P. C.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Over 80% of pre-settlement Iowa was a prairie landscape, but conversion and neglect has reduced that to less than 0.1% of the original 30 million acre...

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Integrating presence-only and detection/non-detection data to estimate distributions and expected abundance of difficult-to-monitor species on a landscape-scale.

Published online: 09 Sep 2024

Authors: Twining, J. P. & Fuller, A. K. & Sun, C. C. & Calderón-Acevedo, C. A. & Schlesinger, M. D. & Berger, M. & Kramer, D. & Frair, J. L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Estimating species distribution and abundance is foundational to effective management and conservation. Using an integrated species distribution model...

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Environmental variation across multiple spatial scales and temporal lags influences Hendra virus spillover.

Published online: 23 Dec 2023

Authors: Faust, C. L. & Castellanos, A. A. & Peel, A. J. & Eby, P. & Plowright, R. K. & Han, B. A. & Bharti, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pathogens can spill over and infect new host species by overcoming a series of ecological and biological barriers. Hendra virus (HeV) circulates in Au...

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Burning for enhanced non-timber forest product yield may jeopardize the resource base through interactive effects.

Published online: 28 Sep 2016

Authors: Darabant, A. & Dorji & Staudhammer, C. L. & Rai, P. B. & Gratzer, G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Non-timber forest product (NTFP) harvest is frequently accompanied by resource management practices that interact with the harvesting itself, other di...

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Suppressing competitive dominants and community restoration with native parasitic plants using the hemiparasitic Rhinanthus alectorolophus and the dominant grass Calamagrostis epigejos.

Published online: 22 Nov 2017

Authors: Těšitel, J. & Mládek, J. & Horník, J. & Těšitelová, T. & Adamec, V. & Tichý, L.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Dominance of native or alien competitive plants causes competitive exclusion of subordinate species and represents a major mechanism reducing biodiver...

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Effect of stocking rate and rainfall on rangeland dynamics and cattle performance in a semi-arid savanna, South Africa.

Published online: 28 Jul 2000

Authors: Fynn, R. W. S. & O'Connor, T. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In order to examine the emerging paradigm of non-equilibrium behaviour of plant-livestock relations in semi-arid rangeland, the effect of stocking rat...

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Fast-growing pioneer tree stands as a rapid and effective strategy for bracken elimination in the Neotropics.

Published online: 16 Oct 2013

Authors: Douterlungne, D. & Thomas, E. & Levy-Tacher, S. I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Large areas of agricultural land around the world are degraded as a consequence of dominance by bracken fern (Pteridium spp.). Tropical production sys...

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Perennial habitat fragments, parasitoid diversity and parasitism in ephemeral crops.

Published online: 19 Dec 2012

Authors: Letourneau, D. K. & Allen, S. G. B. & Stireman, J. O., III

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Agricultural intensification has led to the removal of semi-wild, perennial vegetation in agricultural landscapes. However, in short-cycle crops, freq...

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Harnessing practitioner knowledge to inform the conservation of a protected species, the hazel dormouse Muscardinus avellanarius.

Published online: 28 Jun 2023

Authors: Phillips, B. B. & Crowley, S. L. & Bell, O. & McDonald, R. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

(1). Conservation decisions are typically constrained by the availability of published evidence. Practitioners and non-academic experts often possess ...

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