Journal of Applied Ecology

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Restoration temporarily supports the resilience of sagebrush‐steppe ecosystems subjected to repeated fires	177
Towards ecological science for all by all	120
Predicting harvest impact and establishment success when translocating highly mobile and endangered species	66
Bat phylogenetic responses to regenerating Amazonian forests	63
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Validating a surveillance program of invasive mosquitoes based on citizen science in Hungary	54
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Remove saplings early: Cost‐effective strategies to contain tree invasions and prevent their impacts	49
Nature‐based Solutions to tackle climate change and restore biodiversity	47
An unintended ecological benefit from human intervention: The enhancement of carbon storage in seagrass meadows	47
Low‐intensity land‐use enhances soil microbial activity, biomass and fungal‐to‐bacterial ratio in current and future climates	42
Large wild herbivores slow down the rapid decline of plant diversity in a tropical forest biodiversity hotspot	40
Sample coverage affects diversity measures of bird communities along a natural recovery gradient of abandoned agriculture in tropical lowland forests	38
Assessing the value of monitoring to biological inference and expected management performance for a European goose population	38
Decreased precipitation in the late growing season weakens an ecosystem carbon sink in a semi‐arid grassland	37
Pesticide effects on soil fauna communities—A meta‐analysis	37
Reducing disease and producing food: Effects of 13 agrochemicals on snail biomass and human schistosomes	36
Strip intercropping of wheat and oilseed rape enhances biodiversity and biological pest control in a conventionally managed farm scenario	36
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Making plant–pollinator data collection cheaper for restoration and monitoring	35
Inference of local invasion pathways in two invasive crayfish species displaying contrasting genetic patterns	35
Geese migrating over the Pacific Ocean select altitudes coinciding with offshore wind turbine blades	34
Fish responses to manipulated microhabitat complexity in urbanised shorelines	34
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	34
Propensity score matching mitigates risk of faulty inferences in observational studies of effectiveness of restoration trials	34

Grazing effects of wintering geese on grassland yield: A long‐term study from Northwest Germany	33
Landscape conservation as a strategy for recovering biodiversity: Lessons from a long‐term program of pasture restoration in the southern Atlantic Forest	32
The widespread trade in stingless beehives may introduce them into novel places and could threaten species	32
Agriculture causes homogenization of plant‐feeding nematode communities at the regional scale	31
Contrasting soil‐ and canopy‐nurse effects in metalliferous systems may be explained by dominant plant functional strategies	31
Ecological memory and regional context influence performance of adaptation plantings in northeastern US temperate forests	30
Animal‐pollinated crops and cultivars—A quantitative assessment of pollinator dependence values and evaluation of methodological approaches	30
Dutch landscapes have lost insect‐pollinated plants over the past 87 years	30
Impacts of umbrella species management on non‐target species	29
Biometric conversion factors as a unifying platform for comparative assessment of invasive freshwater bivalves	29
The role of propagule pressure in experimental bark beetle invasions	28
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Do wildlife crossing structures mitigate the barrier effect of roads on animal movement? A global assessment	28
Cryptic population decrease due to invasive species predation in a long‐lived seabird supports need for eradication	28
Salmon louse infestation levels on sea trout can be predicted from a hydrodynamic lice dispersal model	28
A new resource for monitoring reef ecosystems: The background of recreational diver photographs contains valuable habitat data	27
Prioritizing areas for ecological restoration: A participatory approach based on cost‐effectiveness	26
The hydrochorous dispersal of plant propagules in a giant river reservoir: Implications for restoration of riparian vegetation	25
Can rolling composite wildflower blocks increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes better than wildflowers strips?	25
Equivalent mating system parameters in post‐mining and undisturbed native plant populations confirms restitution of bird‐pollinator function	24
Evidence for synergistic cumulative impacts of marking and hunting in a wildlife species	24
The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure	24
Can faster growth compensate for increased mortality in subtropical dry forest fragments?	24
Landscapes with higher crop diversity have lower aphid species richness but higher plant virus prevalence	24
Temporal mismatches in flight activity patterns between Pipistrellus kuhlii and Prays oleae in olive farms: Implications for biocontrol services potential	24
Selecting coral species for reef restoration	23
Quantifying the risk of non‐native conifer establishment across heterogeneous landscapes	23
Moisture availability and ecological restoration limit fine fuels and modelled wildfire intensity following non‐native ungulate removal in Hawaii	23
Boosting efficiency of mussel spat collection for ecological sustainability: Identifying critical drivers and informing management	23
Assessing the exposure of UK habitats to 20th‐ and 21st‐century climate change, and its representation in ecological monitoring schemes	22
Crop phenology reshapes the food‐safety landscape for roe deer in an agroecosystem	22
Random forest modelling of multi‐scale, multi‐species habitat associations within KAZA transfrontier conservation area using spoor data	22
Invasive grass fuel loads suppress native species by increasing fire intensity and soil heating	22
Woody plant encroachment and the ecology of vector‐borne diseases	22
Modelling short‐term energetic costs of sonar disturbance to cetaceans using high‐resolution foraging data	22
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Designing an optimal large‐scale reintroduction plan for a critically endangered species	22
Predicting dispersal and conflict risk for wolf recolonization in Colorado	22
Dispersal potential rather than risk assessment scores predict the spread rate of non‐native pines across New Zealand	22
Accounting for bias in prevalence estimation: The case of a globally emerging pathogen	21
Pollination service delivery is complex: Urban garden crop yields are best explained by local canopy cover and garden scale plant species richness	21
Barriers to restoration: Pollution alters nurse effects for an ecosystem engineer	21
Abandoned pastures and restored savannas have distinct patterns of plant–soil feedback and nutrient cycling compared with native Brazilian savannas	21
Individual variation in home‐range across an ocean basin and links to habitat quality and management	21
Mapping the ecological resilience of Atlantic postglacial heathlands	21
Agricultural intensification with seasonal fallow land promotes high bee diversity in Afrotropical drylands	21
Multifunctional soil recovery during the restoration of Brazil's Atlantic Forest after bauxite mining	20
A technological biodiversity monitoring toolkit for biocredits	20
Soil protist functional composition shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition in subtropical forests	20
From nature reserve to mosaic management: Improving matrix survival, not permeability, benefits regional populations under habitat loss and fragmentation	20

Evidence for seasonal compensation of hunting mortalities in a long‐lived migratory bird	20
Contribution of wheat and maize to soil organic carbon in a wheat‐maize cropping system: A field and laboratory study	20
Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration	20
Implementing ecosystem service assessments within agribusiness: Challenges and proposed solutions	20
Reduced count size can provide a robust and more efficient diatom assessment of environmental conditions	19
Migration of humans fleeing conflict in the Lake Chad region may increase pressures on natural resources in Lake Fitri (Chad): A case study on waterbirds	19
Using artificial neural networks and citizen science data to assess jellyfish presence along coastal areas	19
Remote sensing for rangeland conservation monitoring: Impacts of livestock removal after 15 years	19
Human conflict, food security and impacts on wildlife: Importance of sustainable harvest models to inform policy	19
The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement need a joint work programme for climate, nature and people	18
Hunting of sika deer over six decades does not restore forest regeneration	18
Variable coverage in an Autocidal Gravid Ovitrap intervention impacts efficacy of Aedes aegypti control	18
Field‐based ecological studies to assess prospective biological control agents for invasive alien plants: An example from giant rat's tail grass	18
Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests	18
Across borders: External factors and prior behaviour influence North Pacific albatross associations with fishing vessels	18
Factors affecting the recovery of Mexican wolves in the Southwest United States	18
Personality, sex and capture biases: Challenges for predator monitoring and management	18
Ambient nitrogen deposition drives plant‐diversity decline by nitrogen accumulation in a closed grassland ecosystem	18
Large African herbivore diversity is essential in transformed landscapes for conserving dung beetle diversity	18
Leaf functional traits predict shade tolerant tree performance in cloud forest restoration plantings	17
Mixing tree species at different spatial scales: The effect of alpha, beta and gamma diversity on disturbance impacts under climate change	17
Higher avian biodiversity, increased shrub cover and proximity to continuous forest may reduce pest insect crop loss in small‐scale oil palm farming	17
Impact of the Asian gall waspDryocosmus kuriphiluson the radial growth of the European chestnutCastanea sativa	17
Woodland expansion in the presence of deer: 30 years of evidence from the Cairngorms Connect landscape restoration partnership	17
Long‐term heavy grazing increases community‐level foliar fungal diseases by shifting plant composition	17
Drone‐induced flight initiation distances for shorebirds in mixed‐species flocks	17
A Before‐After Control‐Impact experiment reveals that culling reduces the impacts of invasive deer on endangered peatlands	16
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Renewable energies and biodiversity: Impact of ground‐mounted solar photovoltaic sites on bat activity	16
Interacting effects of sand, slugs and jute drive community composition in direct‐seeded urban wildflower meadows	16
Landscape structure and farming management interacts to modulate pollination supply and crop production in blueberries	16
Pyric herbivory in a temperate European wood‐pasture system	16
Linking landscape structure, floral resource distribution, pollen use and movement distances of a generalist predator	16
Marine protected areas' positive effect on fish biomass persists across the steep climatic gradient of the Mediterranean Sea	16
Insecticide and low food quality treatments reduce health and pollination services of two key pollinator taxa	15
Reversing habitat loss: An experimental test of the interactive effects of grazing exclusion and surface rock restoration on reptile conservation	15
Cumulative propagule pressure exerted by escaped pet parrots	15
Reversing declines in farmland birds: How much agri‐environment provision is needed at farm and landscape scales?	15
Benign effects of logging on aerial insectivorous bats in Southeast Asia revealed by remote sensing technologies	15
Insect seed‐predator networks respond positively to restoration on a tropical island	15
Rock removal associated with agricultural intensification will exacerbate the loss of reptile diversity	15
Indigenous brigades change the spatial patterns of wildfires, and the influence of climate on fire regimes	15
Best practices for LGBTQ+ inclusion during ecological fieldwork: Considering safety, cis/heteronormativity and structural barriers	15
Spillover of chalkbrood fungi to native solitary bee species from non‐native congeners	15
Alluring restoration strategies to attract seed‐dispersing animals need more rigorous testing	15
Flowers as dirty doorknobs: Deformed wing virus transmitted between Apis mellifera and Bombus impatiens through shared flowers	15
Different types of semi‐natural habitat are required to sustain diverse wild bee communities across agricultural landscapes	15
Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines	14
Manipulating plant microbiomes in the field: Native mycorrhizae advance plant succession and improve native plant restoration	14
Rapid evolution of flower phenology and clonality in restored populations of multiple grassland species	14
Active restoration fosters better recovery of tropical rainforest birds than natural regeneration in degraded forest fragments	14
Simulating the spread and establishment of alien species along aquatic and terrestrial transport networks: A multi‐pathway and high‐resolution approach	14
Turnover in floral composition explains species diversity and temporal stability in the nectar supply of urban residential gardens	14
Ecological performance underlying ecosystem multifunctionality is promoted by organic farming and hedgerows at the local scale but not at the landscape scale	14
Dancing with the devil: Could native predators inside ‘predator‐free’ havens be good for the conservation of threatened native prey species?	14
Subordinate tree species diversity explains carbon stock better than dominant tree diversity after decades of forest rewilding	14
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	14
Leveraging functional traits of cover crops to coordinate crop productivity and soil health	14
A comparison of approaches for including connectivity in systematic conservation planning	14
Foraging distances, habitat preferences and seasonal colony performance of honeybees in Central European forest landscapes	14
Primary forest loss and degradation reduces biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A global meta‐analysis using dung beetles as an indicator taxon	14
Bees go up, flowers go down: Increased resource limitation from late spring to summer in agricultural landscapes	14
Contrasting trends in biodiversity of birds and trees during succession following cacao agroforest abandonment	14
From parachuting to partnership: Fostering collaborative research in protected areas	14
Effective management for deadwood‐dependent lichen diversity requires landscape‐scale habitat protection	14
Warming decreases desert ecosystem functioning by altering biocrusts in drylands	14
Dominant species establishment may influence invasion resistance more than phylogenetic or functional diversity	14
Managed honeybee hives negatively affect the reproduction of native plants in a dryland nature reserve	14
Soil restoration increases soil health across global drylands: A meta‐analysis	14
Riparian reserves protect butterfly communities in selectively logged tropical forest	14
Balancing bioenergy expansion and restoration: Global shifts in biodiversity intactness	14
Sundaic elephants prefer habitats on the periphery of protected areas	14
How to design multifunctional landscapes?	14
Functional traits driving pollinator and predator responses to newly established grassland strips in agricultural landscapes	13
‘Social distancing’ between plants may amplify coastal restoration at early stage	13
Patterns and drivers of the degradability of dissolved organic matter in dryland soils on the Tibetan Plateau	13
Shade tree trait diversity and functions in agroforestry systems: A review of which traits matter	13
Integrating variation in bacterial‐fungal co‐occurrence network with soil carbon dynamics	13
Wildflower plantings and honeybee competition impact nutritional quality of wild bee diets	13
Active restoration after three decades: Seed addition increases native dominance compared to landscape‐scale secondary succession	13

Degree of intervention affects interannual and within‐plot heterogeneity of seed arrival in tropical forest restoration	13
Selective effects of small barriers on river‐resident fish	13
Bringing together approaches to reporting on within species genetic diversity	13
Sixty years of ecology with impact	13
Restoration thinning accelerates small tree growth but may slow large tree growth in a multi‐age flood‐dependent forest	13
Mapping pathogenic fungi in decayed Norway spruce stands: Insights from harvester positional data	13
Assessing impact risk to tropical marine ecosystems from human activities with a Southeast Asian example	13
Selecting among land sparing, sharing and Triad in a temperate rainforest depends on biodiversity and timber production targets	13
Nitrogen fixation and crop productivity enhancements co‐driven by intercrop root exudates and key rhizosphere bacteria	13
No evidence for trade‐offs between bird diversity, yield and water table depth on oil palm smallholdings: Implications for tropical peatland landscape restoration	13
Multi‐level thresholds of residential and agricultural land use for elk avoidance across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	13
Increases in understory plant cover and richness persist following restoration treatments inPinus ponderosaforests	13
Accurately predicting rare and poorly detectable species habitat for spatial protection	13
Landscape metrics predict habitat redundancy of restored oyster reefs for recruitment enhancement of dominant estuarine fish	13
Increased connections among soil microbes and microfauna enhances soil multifunctionality along a long‐term restoration chronosequence	13
Forest thinning in the seaward fringe speeds up surface elevation increment and carbon accumulation in managed mangrove forests	12
Effects of decade‐long grazing exclusion and wind erosion reduction on community temporal stability in a semi‐arid grassland	12
Exploring drivers of within‐field crop yield variation using a national precision yield network	12
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Seagrass recovery trajectories and recovery potential in relation to nutrient reduction	12
Long term monitoring reveals the importance of large, long unburnt areas and smaller fires in moderating mammal declines in fire‐prone Savanna of northern Australia	12
Habitat quality and biological community responses to innovative hydropower plant installations at transverse in‐stream structures	12
A marine natural capital asset and risk register—Towards securing the benefits from marine systems and linked ecosystem services	12
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Climate change threatens amphibians and species representation within protected areas in tropical wetlands	12
Disentangling the interrelated abiotic and biotic pathways linking landscape composition and crop production	12
Predicting bushmeat biomass from species composition captured by camera traps: Implications for locally based wildlife monitoring	12
Negative association of sea lice from fish farms on recreational fishing catches of Atlantic salmon	12
After the ‘Black Summer’ fires: Faunal responses to megafire depend on fire severity, proportional area burnt and vegetation type	12
Land use history and landscape forest cover determine tropical forest recovery	12
Cattle exclusion increases encounters of wild herbivores in Neotropical forests	12
Direct and indirect effects of management and landscape on biological pest control and crop pest infestation in apple orchards	12
Native vegetation embedded in landscapes dominated by corn and soybean improves honey bee health and productivity	12
Protecting our streams by defining measurable targets for riparian management in a forestry context	12
A conceptual framework for measuring and improving the resilience of biosecurity systems	12
Soundscape enrichment enhances recruitment and habitat building on new oyster reef restorations	12
Preserving large blocks of primary forest is critical to conserve forest‐dependent bird species in the Amazon	11
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Reducing nitrogen inputs mitigates Spartina invasion in the Yangtze estuary	11
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Multiple co‐occurring bioeconomic drivers of overexploitation can accelerate rare species extinction risk	11
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Low‐ and high‐intensity fire in the riparian savanna: Demographic impacts in an avian model species and implications for ecological fire management	11
Karuk ecological fire management practices promote elk habitat in northern California	11
An objective‐based prioritization approach to support trophic complexity through ecological restoration species mixes	11
Repeated clearing as a mechanism for savanna recovery following bush encroachment	11
Impacting habitat connectivity of the endangered Florida panther for the transition to utility‐scale solar energy	11
Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass‐flowering crops in rotational systems	11
Conserving habitat for migratory ungulates: How wide is a migration corridor?	11
Communities in infrastructure habitats are species rich but only partly support species associated with semi‐natural grasslands	11
Correspondence among multiple methods provides confidence when measuring marine protected area effects for species and assemblages	11
Functional rarity and evolutionary uniqueness of threatened species across different scales and habitats in a Central European flora	11
Among stand heterogeneity is key for biodiversity in managed beech forests but does not question the value of unmanaged forests: Response to Bruun and Heilmann‐Clausen (2021)	11
Reanalysis ignores pertinent data, includes inappropriate observations, and disregards realities of applied ecology: Response to Huso and Dalthorp (2023)	11
Recreational vessel networks reveal potential hot spots for marine pest introduction and spread	11
Third and fourth trophic level composition shift in an aphid–parasitoid–hyperparasitoid food web limits aphid control in an intercropping system	11
Soil resources mediate the strength of species but not trait convergence across grassland restorations	11
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Reanalysis indicates little evidence of reduction in eagle mortality rate by automated curtailment of wind turbines	11
Plant water‐use strategies predict restoration success across degraded drylands	11
Crop heterogeneity is positively associated with beneficial insect diversity in subtropical farmlands	11
Species richness: A pivotal factor mediating the effects of land use intensification and climate on grassland multifunctionality	11
Parasite spillover to native hosts from more tolerant, supershedding invasive hosts: Implications for management	11
Herbivore grazing mitigates the negative effects of nitrogen deposition on soil organic carbon in low‐diversity grassland	10
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Agroecological farming, flowering phenology and the pollinator–herbivore–parasitoid nexus regulate non‐crop plant reproduction	10
Blue consequences of the green bioeconomy: Clear‐cutting intensifies the harmful impacts of land drainage on stream invertebrate biodiversity	10
Transition to organic farming negatively affects bat activity	10
Anticipating fluctuations of bigeye tuna in the Pacific Ocean from three‐dimensional ocean biogeochemistry	10
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Two decades of arthropod biodiversity after windthrow show different dynamics of functional groups	10
High semi‐natural vegetation cover and heterogeneity of field sizes promote bird beta‐diversity at larger scales in Ethiopian Highlands	10
Relative energy production determines effect of repowering on wildlife mortality at wind energy facilities	10
Biome Awareness Disparity is BAD for tropical ecosystem conservation and restoration	10
Using dietary metabarcoding analyses to characterise waterbirds–agriculture interactions	10
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Broad spectrum artificial light at night increases the conspicuousness of camouflaged prey	10
Enigmatic freshwater mussel declines could be explained by the biodiversity‐disease relationship	10
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Quantifying the value of participatory science data for conservation decision‐making	10
The world's 100 worst invasive alien insect species differ in their characteristics from related non‐invasive species	10
Reservoir dynamics of rabies in south‐east Tanzania and the roles of cross‐species transmission and domestic dog vaccination	10
Management‐dependent effects of pollinator functional diversity on apple pollination services: A response–effect trait approach	10
Effects of microplastics and drought on soil ecosystem functions and multifunctionality	10
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Balanced spatial distribution of green areas creates healthier urban landscapes	10
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Taxon‐specific responses to landscape‐scale and long‐term implementation of environmentally friendly rice farming	10
Plant diversity ameliorates the evolutionary development of fungicide resistance in an agricultural ecosystem	10
Assessing foodborne pathogen survival in bird faeces to co‐manage farms for bird conservation, production, and food safety	10
Habitat heterogeneity reduces abundance of invasive mealybugs in subtropical fruit crops	10
Fertilizer quantity and type alter mycorrhizae‐conferred growth and resistance to herbivores	10