Rapid responses of bees and butterflies but not birds to targeted urban road verge habitat enhancements 🛣️

Modifications such as additional plant species may be required for urban road verges to provide habitat for a greater range of taxa 🌸

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Shade tree trait diversity and functions in agroforestry systems: A review of which traits matter 📑

Proposes a matrix of shade tree traits that influence desirable agroecosystem outcomes for farmers 🌲

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Sensitivity to agricultural inputs & dispersal limitation determine the response of arable plants to time since transition to organic farming

Benefits of organic farming for plant diversity likely to take decades to become substantial after conversion 🌸

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Very excited to be participating in the 2024 Turtle Island Indigenous Science Conference!
Journal of Applied Ecology UH SACNAS
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Fish responses to manipulated microhabitat complexity in urbanised shorelines 🐠

Shows that, to enhance fish diversity, it is important to provide three-dimensional habitat architecture that incorporates a wide range of microhabitat sizes and types 🐟

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Double the difference you make to aspiring ecologists!

Your donations will allow individuals facing barriers to progression to attend our 10th anniversary summer school

Shathuki shares what attending the summer school meant to her

Shathuki Perera

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The landscape of fear in cattle farms? How the presence of barn swallow influences the activity of pest flies 🐄

New blog post discussing how swallow conservation can lead to lower pest fly activity on livestock farms 🪰

Read more 👇
appliedecologistsblog.com/2024/04/18/the…

Ecosystem managers are selective in where they apply restoration treatments 📑

Suggests conclusions on success are more accurate if statistical tools such as “propensity-score matching” are used to address the non-randomness and resulting bias 📊

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Can livestock grazing dampen density-dependent fluctuations in wild herbivore populations? 🐑

Suggests that conservation action to facilitate wild herbivore population recovery needs to account for density-dependent regulation 📑

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Organic compost belowground and floral diversity aboveground interactively shape beneficial insects in urban gardens 🪲

Recommends augmentation of biodiversity aboveground together with biodiversity belowground to strengthen crop protection 🌸

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Despite growing awareness for #TropicalGrassyBiomes restoration, a systematic review by researchers from Centro de Síntese Ecológica e Conservação - CSEC unveils the lack of field studies and severe geographical gaps and data-reporting issues 📑

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Shifts in plant-invertebrate interactions between wild and ex situ conservation populations of a critically endangered tree 🌳

Emphasizes that it's essential to integrate herbivore and pollinator management in future ex situ conservation 🐝

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Announcing the winning ecologists of our journals' Early Career Prizes!🎉

This year’s exciting research spans an array of topics, from combining remote-sensing tools to using soundscapes to increase oyster recruitment!

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Dutch landscapes have shifted from insect to wind pollination over the past 87 years 🍃

Recommends integrating monitoring and protection of insect-pollinated plants into existing schemes for pollinators to safeguard biodiversity and crop security 🐝

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📢VACANCY Journal of Ecology: 2x #Editors for the #BiologicalFlora !

We're seeking #plant #ecologists with an extensive knowledge of #flora #species , #botany & #taxonomy .
1 to lead British & Irish Flora, & 1 to lead International Flora

⏰10-May
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