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Exploring and validating statistical reliability in forensic conservation genetics.

Published online: 24 Jan 2019

Authors: Buschbom, J.

Content type: Bulletin

Safeguarding biological diversity from evolutionary lineages to ecosystems is a major undertaking for humanity. Forensic conservation genetics for the...

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Has Danish agriculture maintained farmland bird populations?

Published online: 14 Jul 2004

Authors: Fox, A. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Rapid agricultural change in western Europe has occurred in the last three decades, at cost to farmland biodiversity, particularly birds. This study r...

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The effects of bioturbation and herbivory by the polychaete Nereis diversicolor on loss of saltmarsh in south-east England.

Published online: 14 Jul 2004

Authors: Paramor, O. A. L. & Hughes, R. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The saltmarshes of south-east England are eroding rapidly. Field and laboratory experiments were used to test the hypotheses that: (i) at the mudflat-...

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Landscape patterns drive provision of nature's contributions to people by mobile species.

Published online: 21 Dec 2024

Authors: O'Brien, S. A. & Anderson, D. P. & Lavorel, S. & Lai, H. R. & Burgh, N. de & Tylianakis, J. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Predicting how nature's contributions to people (NCP) vary spatially remains a challenge. For NCP provided by mobile species, it is unclear how predic...

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Evil and allies: opportunistic gulls as both spreaders and sentinels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in human-transformed landscapes.

Published online: 10 Dec 2024

Authors: Martín-Vélez, V. & Montalvo, T. & Giralt, D. & Ramírez, F. & Giménez, J. & Morral-Puigmal, C. & Planell, R. & Sabate, S. & Bota, G. & Navarro, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Human-transformed residuals, especially those derived from human waste (dumps), farmland, and livestock are involved in the emergence of antibiotic-re...

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birds and insects respond differently to combinations of semi-natural features in farm landscapes.

Published online: 05 Nov 2022

Authors: Hall, M. A. & Nimmo, D. G. & Bennett, A. F.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Semi-natural features among farmland have a key role in maintaining wildlife in rural landscapes. Practical conservation requires knowledge of which c...

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Effects of fire on pollinators and pollination.

Published online: 12 Apr 2017

Authors: Brown, J. & York, A. & Christie, F. & McCarthy, M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Increased incidence of landscape fire and pollinator declines with co-extinctions of dependent plant species are both globally significant. Fire can a...

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Detecting early-warning signals of concern in plant populations with a citizen science network. Are threatened and other priority species for conservation performing worse?

Published online: 03 Aug 2021

Authors: García, M. B. & Silva, J. L. & Tejero, P. & Pardo, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Long-term monitoring of biodiversity is a fundamental part of environmental management, and Citizen Science (CS) approaches are increasing their contr...

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Range-wide population viability analyses reveal high sensitivity to wildflower harvesting in extreme environments.

Published online: 27 Jul 2021

Authors: Treurnicht, M. & Schurr, F. M. & Slingsby, J. A. & Esler, K. J. & Pagel, J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The ecological effects of harvesting from wild populations are often uncertain, especially since the sensitivity of populations to harvesting can vary...

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Integrating socioecological suitability with human-wildlife conflict risk: case study for translocation of a large ungulate.

Published online: 04 Jan 2022

Authors: McCann, N. P. & Walberg, E. M. & Forester, J. D. & Schrage, M. W. & Fulton, D. C. & Ditmer, M. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Translocations are essential for re-establishing wildlife populations. As they sometimes fail, it is critical to assess factors that influence their s...

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