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Women's empowerment and crop diversification in Bangladesh: a possible pathway to climate change adaptation and better nutrition.

Published online: 23 Oct 2019

Authors: Pinto, A. de & Seymour, G. & Bryan, E. & Bhandari, P.

Content type: Bulletin

The existing literature shows that climate change will likely affect several of the dimensions that determine people's food security status in Banglad...

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Reproductive failure of a human-tolerant species, the American kestrel, is associated with stress and human disturbance.

Published online: 31 Jul 2013

Authors: Strasser, E. H. & Heath, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The rapid increase of human activity in wild and developed areas presents novel challenges for wildlife. Some species may use human-dominated landscap...

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Interactive effects of pasture management intensity, release from grazing and prescribed fire on forty subtropical wetland plant assemblages.

Published online: 03 Feb 2016

Authors: Boughton, E. H. & Quintana-Ascencio, P. F. & Bohlen, P. J. & Fauth, J. E. & Jenkins, D. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pasture management intensity, livestock grazing and prescribed fire are three widespread agricultural practices that affect small, isolated wetlands, ...

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Prescribed fire does not promote outbreaks of a primary bark beetle at low-density populations.

Published online: 03 Feb 2016

Authors: Tabacaru, C. A. & Park, J. & Erbilgin, N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The causes of bark beetle outbreaks - particularly the role of disturbances - are poorly understood. Stand-scale disturbances, like fires, can suddenl...

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Aphid feeding by some polyphagous predators in relation to aphid density in cereal fields.

Published online: 01 Jan 1981

Authors: Sunderland, K. D. & Vickerman, G. P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Samples of aphids and predators were taken from 10 spring barley and winter wheat fields in southern UK between May and September in 1972-77. The guts...

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Decomposition of genetically engineered tobacco under field conditions: persistence of the proteinase inhibitor I product and effects on soil microbial respiration and protozoa, nematode and microarthropod populations.

Published online: 26 Sep 1997

Authors: Donegan, K. K. & Seidler, R. J. & Fieland, V. J. & Schaller, D. L. & Palm, C. J. & Ganio, L. M. & Cardwell, D. M. & Steinberger, Y.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

To evaluate the potential effects of genetically engineered (transgenic) plants on soil ecosystems, litter bags containing leaves of non-engineered (p...

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Planning for aquaculture diversification: the importance of climate change and other drivers. FAO Technical Workshop, Rome, Italy, 23-25 June, 2016.

Published online: 23 May 2018

Authors: Harvey, B. & Soto, D. & Carolsfeld, J. & Beveridge, M. & Bartley, D. M.

Content type: Bulletin; Conference proceedings

Aquaculture is the world's most diverse farming system in terms of number of species, methods and the environments where the farms are located. Member...

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Trade, transport and trouble: managing invasive species pathways in an era of globalization.

Published online: 04 Mar 2009

Authors: Hulme, P. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Humans have traded and transported alien species for millennia with two notable step-changes: the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Industri...

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The importance of transport hubs in stepping-stone invasions.

Published online: 04 Mar 2009

Authors: Floerl, O. & Inglis, G. J. & Dey, K. & Smith, A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Biological invasions are characterized by occasional long-distance, human-assisted dispersal. Centres of human transportation that are connected by tr...

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Internal borders for managing invasive marine species.

Published online: 04 Mar 2009

Authors: Forrest, B. M. & Gardner, J. P. A. & Taylor, M. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

This study discusses theoretical and practical issues around the definition of internal borders for the management of marine pests, drawing on princip...

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