Journal of Applied Ecology

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Soil inoculation improves tree seedling growth in substrates containing bitumen, but the effect varies by species and inoculum source	82
Individual variation in home‐range across an ocean basin and links to habitat quality and management	79
The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure	61
Soil fertility as a mediator of interactions between an introduced specialist beetle and a native generalist nematode on an exotic invasive plant and its native congener	60
Managed honeybee hives negatively affect the reproduction of native plants in a dryland nature reserve	52
Microclimatic niche shifts predict long‐term survival and body mass declines in a warmer and more degraded world	50
Habitat preferences of European bison in contemporary European landscapes	49
Accounting for bias in prevalence estimation: The case of a globally emerging pathogen	48
Assessing the exposure of UK habitats to 20th‐ and 21st‐century climate change, and its representation in ecological monitoring schemes	48
Limited evidence of biodiversity spillover from forest fragments into oil palm plantations in the Amazon	47
Temporal mismatches in flight activity patterns between Pipistrellus kuhlii and Prays oleae in olive farms: Implications for biocontrol services potential	45
Restoration temporarily supports the resilience of sagebrush‐steppe ecosystems subjected to repeated fires	44
Linking landscape structure, floral resource distribution, pollen use and movement distances of a generalist predator	44
Warming decreases desert ecosystem functioning by altering biocrusts in drylands	42
Multifunctional soil recovery during the restoration of Brazil's Atlantic Forest after bauxite mining	42
Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines	42
Shade tree trait diversity and functions in agroforestry systems: A review of which traits matter	41
Seabird‐vessel interactions in industrial fisheries of Northwest Africa: Implications for international bycatch management	40
Demographic performance review of a reintroduction project: Iberian lynx in Extremadura	39
Landscape conservation as a strategy for recovering biodiversity: Lessons from a long‐term program of pasture restoration in the southern Atlantic Forest	39
Increased connections among soil microbes and microfauna enhances soil multifunctionality along a long‐term restoration chronosequence	38
Wildflower plantings and honeybee competition impact nutritional quality of wild bee diets	37
Making plant–pollinator data collection cheaper for restoration and monitoring	37
Differences between terrestrial and offshore bird migration: Implications for offshore wind energy	36

Higher avian biodiversity, increased shrub cover and proximity to continuous forest may reduce pest insect crop loss in small‐scale oil palm farming	35
Large African herbivore diversity is essential in transformed landscapes for conserving dung beetle diversity	35
Antarctica may be vulnerable to invasion by Poa annua from a range of populations around the globe	35
Prioritizing areas for ecological restoration: A participatory approach based on cost‐effectiveness	34
Primary forest loss and degradation reduces biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A global meta‐analysis using dung beetles as an indicator taxon	34
Hunting of sika deer over six decades does not restore forest regeneration	32
Different types of semi‐natural habitat are required to sustain diverse wild bee communities across agricultural landscapes	31
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Achieving international biodiversity targets: Learning from local norms, values and actions regarding migratory waterfowl management in Kazakhstan	30
Predicting the time of arrival of the Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) to new countries based on trade patterns of tyres and plants	30
Unusual success, future uncertainty, and science needs for adaptive management of invasive plants in a US national park	30
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Correspondence among multiple methods provides confidence when measuring marine protected area effects for species and assemblages	27
Negative association of sea lice from fish farms on recreational fishing catches of Atlantic salmon	27
Cacao grafting increases crop yield without compromising biodiversity	27
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Tree functional strategies and soil microbial communities regulate forest ecosystem services	27
An assessment of Alberta's strategy for controlling mountain pine beetle outbreaks	26
The use, misuse and opportunities for structural equation modelling ( SEM ) in wildlife ecology	26
Landscape and crop diversity contributes to greater yield stability	26
Repeated clearing as a mechanism for savanna recovery following bush encroachment	26
Paradoxes and synergies: Optimizing management of a deadly virus in an endangered carnivore	26
Spatial overlap alone downplays the level of interaction between a central place forager and the local fishery	26
A call for refining the peatland restoration strategy in Europe	25
Revisiting the case for assisted colonisation under rapid climate change	25
Recreational vessel networks reveal potential hot spots for marine pest introduction and spread	25
Fire size and vegetation productivity shape bird diversity across burned landscapes in the Atlantic Forest	25
Pathogen‐mediated selection and management implications for white‐tailed deer exposed to chronic wasting disease	25
The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity	25
Microplastics promote the invasiveness of invasive alien species under fluctuating water regime	25
After the ‘Black Summer’ fires: Faunal responses to megafire depend on fire severity, proportional area burnt and vegetation type	25
Transition to organic farming negatively affects bat activity	25
Response of parasitoid communities to insecticide application during a Lymantria dispar outbreak in mixed oak forests	25
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Accelerated avian invasion into the Mediterranean region endangers biodiversity and mandates international collaboration	24
Nutrient enrichment undermines invasion resistance to Spartina alterniflora in a saltmarsh: Insights from modern coexistence theory	24
Natural tree colonisation of organo‐mineral soils does not provide a net carbon capture benefit at decadal timescales	24
Dung beetles maintain phylogenetic divergence but functional convergence across a highly fragmented tropical landscape	24
Lurking in the leaves: How large native trees and leaf litter promote amphibian diversity in Malagasy agroforests	24
Light quality and spatial variability influences on seedling regeneration in Hawaiian lowland wet forests	23
Forest disturbances increase the body mass of two contrasting ungulates	23
Multifunctional benefits of organic farming and hedgerow density	23
Perspectives in modelling ecological interaction networks for sustainable ecosystem management	23
Invasive rodent dynamics in a highly connected African harbour	23
Field‐realistic exposure to the novel insecticide flupyradifurone reduces reproductive output in a bumblebee (Bombus impatiens)	23
Below‐ground ecosystem engineers enhance biodiversity and function in a polluted ecosystem	23
Smart orchard design improves crop pollination	22
Environmental variation across multiple spatial scales and temporal lags influences Hendra virus spillover	22

Thinning the thickets: Foraging of hardy cattle, sheep and goats in green alder shrubs	22
Interactions between land use, taxonomic group and aspects and levels of diversity in a Brazilian savanna: Implications for the use of bioindicators	22
Linking agricultural diversification practices, soil arthropod communities and soil health	22
Spatial variation in the biotic and abiotic filters of oyster recruitment: Implications for restoration	21
Effects of Spartina invasion on the soil organic carbon content in salt marsh and mangrove ecosystems in China	21
Effects of grazing on soil nematodes in grasslands: A global meta‐analysis	21
Experimental enhancement of structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes promotes multidimensional hoverfly diversity	21
Herbaceous production lost to tree encroachment in United States rangelands	21
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Towards effectively restoring agricultural landscapes in East African drylands: Linking plant functional traits with soil hydrology	21
Artificial light at night affects plant–herbivore interactions	21
Controlling a tree invader for coastal plant communities' restoration affected below‐ground dynamics	20
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Fisheries bycatch mitigation measures as an efficient tool for the conservation of seabird populations	20
Effects of salmon lice on numbers and size distributions of Atlantic salmon returning to spawn in Norwegian rivers	20
Water‐saving strategies in rice farming entail cascading effects in prey–predator interactions across ecosystem boundaries	20
Mechanical management decreases arthropod biomass by changing vegetation structure in fallow fields of high conservation value	20
Heathland management affects soil response to drought	20
Using net anthropogenic nutrient inputs at fine spatial scales benefits decision‐making in watersheds to protect water quality	20
The effects of grazing on shrub expansion depend on species' palatability and long‐term alterations in propagule banks in an alpine meadow	20
Mixed plant and arthropod biodiversity responses to solar park establishment on former agricultural lands	19
Collaboration is essential for reliable conservation modelling: Lessons from the Mexican wolf recovery program and a response to Louchouarn et al. (2025)	19
The value of conditional prediction: Can retained species help predict unknown discards in commercial fisheries?	19
Using salt marshes for coastal protection: Effective but hard to get where needed most	19
Habitat availability alters the relative risk of a bovine tuberculosis breakdown in the aftermath of a commercial forest clearfell disturbance	19
Linking root traits to phytoremediation in trees and shrubs: Implications of root economics spectrum	19
Relationship between hydrological restoration and the recovery of vegetation communities in boreal forestry‐drained peatlands	19
Effects of multiple targeted repelling measures on the behaviour of individually tracked birds in an area of increasing human–wildlife conflict	19
Complex landscapes stabilize farm bird communities and their expected ecosystem services	19
Successional and native forests predict the occurrence and infection status of Chagas disease vectors in Panama	19
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi communities shaped by host‐plant affect the outcome of plant–soil feedback in dryland restoration	19
Large‐scale restoration of species‐rich dry grasslands on arable land: Environmental filtering drives successful species establishment over a period of 10 years	18
The effects of crop type, landscape composition and agroecological practices on biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical smallholder farms	18
Barriers to seedling establishment in grasslands: Implications forNothofagusforest restoration and migration	18
Retention forestry can maintain epiphytic lichens on living pine trees, but provides impoverished habitat for deadwood‐associated lichens	18
Native trees are responsible for the high carbon density in urban natural area forests across eight United States cities	18
Human impacts mediate freshwater invertebrate community responses to and recovery from drought	18
Heavy migration traffic and bad weather are a dangerous combination: Bird collisions in New York City	18
An epidemiological framework for chronic wasting disease in multihost communities	18
Salvage logging and subsequent post‐windthrow management diminish forest bird communities for two decades	18
Effects of long‐term fixed fire regimes on African savanna vegetation biomass, vertical structure and tree stem density	18
Tree species richness suppresses red imported fire ant invasion in a subtropical plantation forest	18
Contrasting impacts of nitrogen enrichment on soil nematode diversity in natural and managed ecosystems	17
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Preventing a series of unfortunate events: Using qualitative models to improve conservation	17
Accounting for non‐random samples with distance sampling to estimate population density	17
Aphid biological control in arable crops via flower strips: The predominant role of food resources over diversity effects	17
The natural ‘exclosure effect’ and tree regeneration following post‐windstorm salvage logging	17
Identity and density of parasite exposures alter the outcome of coinfections: Implications for management	17
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Differential effects of roots and symbiotic fungal hyphae on soil organic carbon under straw incorporation	17
Modelling spatial variation in an exploited species across marine reserve boundaries	17
Disease management during bloom affects the floral microbiome but not pollination in a mass‐flowering crop	17
More grazing, more damage? Assessed yield loss on agricultural grassland relates nonlinearly to goose grazing pressure	17
Spatiotemporal isolation of oilseed rape fields reduces insect pest pressure and crop damage	17
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Modelling amphibian road crossing points in a dynamic environment	17
Above‐ground competition by Nephrolepis brownii inhibits tree seedling recruitment in a tropical restoration experiment	17
Bridging the gap: Optimising connectivity solutions for an arboreal gliding mammal	17
Restoration of native saltmarshes enhances carbon sequestration and mitigates warming effects following Spartina alterniflora removal	16
Influence of agricultural intensification on pollinator pesticide exposure, food acquisition and diversity	16
Combining local ecological knowledge with camera traps to assess the link between African mammal life‐history traits and their occurrence in anthropogenic landscapes	16
Efficacy of labile carbon addition to reduce fast‐growing, invasive non‐native plants: A review and meta‐analysis	16
The effects of gas extraction under intertidal mudflats on sediment and macrozoobenthic communities	16
Optimizing ecological surveys for conservation	16
Coupling state‐of‐the‐art modelling tools for better informed Red List assessments of marine fishes	16
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Integrating ecological niche and hydrological connectivity models to assess the impacts of hydropower plants on an endemic and imperilled freshwater turtle	16
Slow drawdown, fast recovery: Stream macroinvertebrate communities improve quickly after large dam decommissioning	16
Tree species mixing can amplify microclimate offsets in young forest plantations	16
Plant–soil feedback drives the ‘nursing effect’ on Sitka spruce	16
Large‐scale changes in macrobenthic biodiversity driven by mangrove afforestation	15
Large marine protected areas can encompass movements of diverse megafauna	15
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Density dependence only affects increase rates in baleen whale populations at high abundance levels	15
Small giants: Tributaries rescue spatially structured populations from extirpation in a highly fragmented stream	15
The relative influences of long‐term fire management and woody cover on termite abundance and activity in an Australian tropical savanna	15
A re‐evaluation of the effects of mechanical cockle dredging in the Dutch Wadden Sea	15

Phenological overlap between crop and pollinators: Contrasting influence of native and non‐native bees on raspberry fruits over the flowering season	15
An ensemble approach to species distribution modelling reconciles systematic differences in estimates of habitat utilization and range area	14
Fertilizer‐induced soil carbon rapidly disappears after clearcutting in boreal production forests	14
Wolves recolonize novel ecosystems leading to novel interactions	14
Riparian reserves protect butterfly communities in selectively logged tropical forest	14
Increasing crop richness and reducing field sizes provide higher yields to pollinator‐dependent crops	14
Effectiveness of spatially patterned methods to restore semideciduous tropical forest	14
The impact of species phylogenetic relatedness on invasion varies distinctly along resource versus non‐resource environmental gradients	14
Sweep netting samples, but not sticky trap samples, indicate beneficial arthropod abundance is negatively associated with landscape wide insecticide use	14
Landscape diversity, habitat connectivity, age and size determine the conservation value of limestone quarries for diverse wild bee communities	14
Integrating forest inventory and LiDAR observations to uncover the role of plant traits on cooling and humidifying effects in urban area	14
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Evidence for seasonal compensation of hunting mortalities in a long‐lived migratory bird	14
Intercropping generates trait plasticity, which corresponds with year‐to‐year stability in productivity	14
Plant species composition and key‐species abundance drive ecosystem multifunctionality	14
Chasing windows of opportunity for habitat formation: Spatial and temporal determinants of oyster settlement rates	14
Predicting the spatio‐temporal dynamics of biological invasions: Have rapid responses in Europe limited the spread of the yellow‐legged hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax)?	14
Different ways to success: Plant community trajectories over time and a soil moisture gradient in restored wetlands	14
Enhanced competitive advantage of invasive plants by growth‐defence trade‐off: Evidence from phytohormone metabolism and transcriptomic analysis	14
Can faster growth compensate for increased mortality in subtropical dry forest fragments?	14
Pioneer habitats drive high plant beta diversity and conservation value of mineral extraction sites	14
Land‐use intensity and relatedness to native plants promote exotic plant invasion in a tropical biodiversity hotspot	14
A range‐wide full‐annual‐cycle model informs conservation of a declining migratory shorebird	14
Doubled density and increased resilience: Consequences of seven consecutive annual dry‐season fires to the unburned Cerrado grass layer	14
Fish responses to manipulated microhabitat complexity in urbanised shorelines	13
A Before‐After Control‐Impact experiment reveals that culling reduces the impacts of invasive deer on endangered peatlands	13
Ecological performance underlying ecosystem multifunctionality is promoted by organic farming and hedgerows at the local scale but not at the landscape scale	13
Using animal tracking for early detection of mass poisoning events	13
The widespread trade in stingless beehives may introduce them into novel places and could threaten species	13
Nesting of ground‐nesting bees in arable fields is not associated with tillage system per se, but with distance to field edge, crop cover, soil and landscape context	13
Implementing ecosystem service assessments within agribusiness: Challenges and proposed solutions	13
Machine learning for biosecurity: A probabilistic framework for invasive species management	13
Mammals with large home ranges, low reproductive rates and small body sizes are most vulnerable to roads: A meta‐analysis	13
Flowers for habitat enhancement primarily benefit common insect pollinators across temperate grasslands	13
Random forest modelling of multi‐scale, multi‐species habitat associations within KAZA transfrontier conservation area using spoor data	13
Dancing with the devil: Could native predators inside ‘predator‐free’ havens be good for the conservation of threatened native prey species?	13
Climate, habitat and demography predict dispersal by an endangered bird in a fragmented landscape	13
Climate change threatens amphibians and species representation within protected areas in tropical wetlands	13
Impacts of umbrella species management on non‐target species	13
Geese migrating over the Pacific Ocean select altitudes coinciding with offshore wind turbine blades	13
Grazing‐N addition interactions drive soil carbon priming and balance via bacterial assimilation in a meadow steppe	13
Act for the best, prepare for the worst—Defining strategic mesopredator triggers that safeguard apex predator eradication benefits	13
Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests	13
Simulating the spread and establishment of alien species along aquatic and terrestrial transport networks: A multi‐pathway and high‐resolution approach	13
Selecting among land sparing, sharing and Triad in a temperate rainforest depends on biodiversity and timber production targets	13
Validating habitat suitability models for pine marten ( Martes martes ) reintroductions to England and Wales	12
Matrix quality determines the strength of habitat loss filtering on bird communities at the landscape scale	12
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The crucial role of ecohydraulic factors in triggering sturgeon reproduction: Implications for active habitat restoration strategies in the Yangtze River	12
Spring precipitation amount and timing predict restoration success in a semi‐arid ecosystem	12
Habitat heterogeneity reduces abundance of invasive mealybugs in subtropical fruit crops	12
Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of semi‐natural habitat, but not crop diversity, is correlated with landscape pollinator richness	12
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Integrating human trail use in montane landscapes reveals larger zones of human influence for wary carnivores	12
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Plant water‐use strategies predict restoration success across degraded drylands	12
An introduction to bee and pesticide research	12
Evaluating the ability of wetland mitigation banks to replace plant species lost from destroyed wetlands	12
Perceived and actual ecosystem services by fruit bats, birds and primates in litchi orchards agroecosystems	12
Variations in root functional traits facilitate the adaptation of pioneer plants to rare earth element mine tailings	12
Early detection strategies for invading tree pests: Targeted surveillance and stakeholder perspectives	12
Disentangling the interrelated abiotic and biotic pathways linking landscape composition and crop production	12
Animal‐pollinated crops and cultivars—A quantitative assessment of pollinator dependence values and evaluation of methodological approaches	12
Coexistence between Przewalski's horse and Asiatic wild ass in the desert: The importance of people	12
Tree mixtures mediate negative effects of introduced tree species on bird taxonomic and functional diversity	11
Setting aside areas for conservation does not increase disturbances in temperate forests	11
Wetland restoration: Predicting vegetation trajectories over 25 years	11
Mitigating bias in long‐term terrestrial ecoacoustic studies	11
Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on plant invasion success driven by nitrogen fluctuations	11
Severe environmental conditions create severe conflicts: A novel ecological pathway to extreme coyote attacks on humans	11
Grassland extensification enhances nest densities of ground‐nesting wild bees	11
Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effect	11
Impacts of diffuse pressure complexes complicate conservation and management of benthic marine habitats	11
Synthesis of highbush blueberry pollination research reveals region‐specific differences in the contributions of honeybees and wild bees	11
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Monitoring population extinction risk with community science data	11
The potential of wildflower strips to enhance pollination services in sweet cherry orchards grown under polytunnels	11
Semi‐natural habitat surrounding farms promotes multifunctionality in avian ecosystem services	11
Higher cutting frequency can restore semi‐natural habitat quality on farmland	11
Impacts of ecological restoration on the genetic diversity of plant species: A global meta‐analysis	11
Remote sensing and GPS tracking reveal temporal shifts in habitat use in nonbreeding Black‐tailed Godwits	11
Fallow deer foraging alone does not preserve the vegetation of traditionally sheep‐grazed calcareous grasslands	11
Assessing the mechanisms and impacts of shrub invasion in forests: A meta‐analysis	11
Impacting habitat connectivity of the endangered Florida panther for the transition to utility‐scale solar energy	11
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A decadal study reveals that restoration guided by an umbrella species does not reach target levels	11
Undersowing oats with clovers supports pollinators and suppresses arable weeds without reducing yields	11
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A conceptual framework for measuring and improving the resilience of biosecurity systems	11
The effects of a decade of agri‐environment intervention in a lowland farm landscape on population trends of birds and butterflies	11
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Short‐stature trees: Need for expanded knowledge on stand dynamics for their ecological and silvicultural management	10
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Cost‐effective portfolio allocation across quarantine, surveillance and eradication using info‐gap theory	10
Fine‐scale spatial risk models to predict avian collisions with power lines	10