Journal of Applied Ecology
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
Driving forward the field of applied ecology through a high-quality evidence base for scientists, managers and policymakers. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
An assessment of Alberta's strategy for controlling mountain pine beetle outbreaks 🪲🧪
Findings tentatively support a ‘wait it out’ management strategy for forest pests with strong Allee effects, where small populations face experience negative growth 💭🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Findings tentatively support a ‘wait it out’ management strategy for forest pests with strong Allee effects, where small populations face experience negative growth 💭🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
An assessment of Alberta's strategy for controlling mountain pine beetle outbreaks 🪲🧪
Findings tentatively support a ‘wait it out’ management strategy for forest pests with strong Allee effects, where small populations face experience negative growth 💭🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Findings tentatively support a ‘wait it out’ management strategy for forest pests with strong Allee effects, where small populations face experience negative growth 💭🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Soil community structure across native & exotic forests is shaped by edaphoclimatic conditions & eukaryotic biomarkers 🌲
Indicates to the importance of taking management decisions for these forests considering regional conditions as well as forest type 🌏 🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Indicates to the importance of taking management decisions for these forests considering regional conditions as well as forest type 🌏 🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Soil community structure across native & exotic forests is shaped by edaphoclimatic conditions & eukaryotic biomarkers 🌲
Indicates to the importance of taking management decisions for these forests considering regional conditions as well as forest type 🌏 🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Indicates to the importance of taking management decisions for these forests considering regional conditions as well as forest type 🌏 🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Beaver wetlands create a buzz & a flutter for pollinators! 🦫🌎
Results show that beaver wetlands...
👉boost hoverfly richness/abundance 🐝
👉boost butterfly abundance 🦋
👉diversify foraging resources for pollinators 📈
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Results show that beaver wetlands...
👉boost hoverfly richness/abundance 🐝
👉boost butterfly abundance 🦋
👉diversify foraging resources for pollinators 📈
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Beaver wetlands create a buzz & a flutter for pollinators! 🦫🌎
Results show that beaver wetlands...
👉boost hoverfly richness/abundance 🐝
👉boost butterfly abundance 🦋
👉diversify foraging resources for pollinators 📈
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Results show that beaver wetlands...
👉boost hoverfly richness/abundance 🐝
👉boost butterfly abundance 🦋
👉diversify foraging resources for pollinators 📈
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Restoration induced long-term vegetation change in oligotrophic peatlands 🌱
Highlights the necessity of long-term monitoring and suggests that Sphagnum moss cover could be used as an indicator of success 💭 🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Highlights the necessity of long-term monitoring and suggests that Sphagnum moss cover could be used as an indicator of success 💭 🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Restoration induced long-term vegetation change in oligotrophic peatlands 🌱
Highlights the necessity of long-term monitoring and suggests that Sphagnum moss cover could be used as an indicator of success 💭 🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Highlights the necessity of long-term monitoring and suggests that Sphagnum moss cover could be used as an indicator of success 💭 🌏 🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Coupling hydrodynamic drifting simulations and seasonal demographics to unmask the drivers of jellyfish blooms 🪼
Presents a framework for identifying the unknown locations of polyp beds; a key parameter in predicting occurrences of jellyfish blooms 📊🧪🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Presents a framework for identifying the unknown locations of polyp beds; a key parameter in predicting occurrences of jellyfish blooms 📊🧪🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Coupling hydrodynamic drifting simulations and seasonal demographics to unmask the drivers of jellyfish blooms 🪼
Presents a framework for identifying the unknown locations of polyp beds; a key parameter in predicting occurrences of jellyfish blooms 📊🧪🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Presents a framework for identifying the unknown locations of polyp beds; a key parameter in predicting occurrences of jellyfish blooms 📊🧪🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Landscape & crop diversity contributes to greater yield stability 🌱🌏
Promoting diverse agricultural landscapes with balanced heterogeneity can enhance the resilience of agricultural systems to climate change & contribute to long-term food security 📈🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Promoting diverse agricultural landscapes with balanced heterogeneity can enhance the resilience of agricultural systems to climate change & contribute to long-term food security 📈🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Landscape & crop diversity contributes to greater yield stability 🌱🌏
Promoting diverse agricultural landscapes with balanced heterogeneity can enhance the resilience of agricultural systems to climate change & contribute to long-term food security 📈🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Promoting diverse agricultural landscapes with balanced heterogeneity can enhance the resilience of agricultural systems to climate change & contribute to long-term food security 📈🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Good habitat & group living mitigate nest failure from predation & flooding in a riparian bird 🐦
Proposes conservation management actions should aim at improving the quality of riparian habitat & preserving existing areas of high P. aquaticus density 🌏 🧪
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70181
Proposes conservation management actions should aim at improving the quality of riparian habitat & preserving existing areas of high P. aquaticus density 🌏 🧪
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70181
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Good habitat & group living mitigate nest failure from predation & flooding in a riparian bird 🐦
Proposes conservation management actions should aim at improving the quality of riparian habitat & preserving existing areas of high P. aquaticus density 🌏 🧪
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70181
Proposes conservation management actions should aim at improving the quality of riparian habitat & preserving existing areas of high P. aquaticus density 🌏 🧪
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70181
Fire severity reduces tick populations, but landscape context shapes their recovery 📊
Using field data, remote sensing, and SEMs, this research offer a scalable approach to monitor ecosystem and disease vector responses to wildfire 🛰️🧪🌎 @samsambado.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Using field data, remote sensing, and SEMs, this research offer a scalable approach to monitor ecosystem and disease vector responses to wildfire 🛰️🧪🌎 @samsambado.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Fire severity reduces tick populations, but landscape context shapes their recovery 📊
Using field data, remote sensing, and SEMs, this research offer a scalable approach to monitor ecosystem and disease vector responses to wildfire 🛰️🧪🌎 @samsambado.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Using field data, remote sensing, and SEMs, this research offer a scalable approach to monitor ecosystem and disease vector responses to wildfire 🛰️🧪🌎 @samsambado.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Seven consecutive annual fires promote the richness, abundance, & resilience of the Cerrado grass layer 🔥🌎
Grasses benefit much more from frequent fires than from the prolonged fire-suppression regimes that hinder their communities 🌱🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Grasses benefit much more from frequent fires than from the prolonged fire-suppression regimes that hinder their communities 🌱🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Seven consecutive annual fires promote the richness, abundance, & resilience of the Cerrado grass layer 🔥🌎
Grasses benefit much more from frequent fires than from the prolonged fire-suppression regimes that hinder their communities 🌱🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Grasses benefit much more from frequent fires than from the prolonged fire-suppression regimes that hinder their communities 🌱🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Old-growth forests are vital for Madagascar’s endemic amphibians, but agroforests can also contribute to conservation, especially when managed with thick leaf litter & large native trees 🐸🌲
Promoting biodiversity-friendly practices aligns farming with conservation 🌎🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Promoting biodiversity-friendly practices aligns farming with conservation 🌎🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Old-growth forests are vital for Madagascar’s endemic amphibians, but agroforests can also contribute to conservation, especially when managed with thick leaf litter & large native trees 🐸🌲
Promoting biodiversity-friendly practices aligns farming with conservation 🌎🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Promoting biodiversity-friendly practices aligns farming with conservation 🌎🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Mammals with large home ranges, low reproductive rates & small body sizes are most vulnerable to roads: A meta-analysis 🛣️🌎🧪
Proposes that we should maintain low road densities & install small-mesh mitigation fencing along roads 🧱
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Proposes that we should maintain low road densities & install small-mesh mitigation fencing along roads 🧱
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Mammals with large home ranges, low reproductive rates & small body sizes are most vulnerable to roads: A meta-analysis 🛣️🌎🧪
Proposes that we should maintain low road densities & install small-mesh mitigation fencing along roads 🧱
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Proposes that we should maintain low road densities & install small-mesh mitigation fencing along roads 🧱
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Where will species go as the world changes? 🌍
Suggests that practitioners can find more reliable answers by pairing long-term biodiversity monitoring with dynamic models 📊🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Suggests that practitioners can find more reliable answers by pairing long-term biodiversity monitoring with dynamic models 📊🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Where will species go as the world changes? 🌍
Suggests that practitioners can find more reliable answers by pairing long-term biodiversity monitoring with dynamic models 📊🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Suggests that practitioners can find more reliable answers by pairing long-term biodiversity monitoring with dynamic models 📊🧪
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Our November issue is now available! 🦗🌎🧪
Featuring a range of topics such as...
📈Unmasking the drivers of jellyfish blooms🪼
🔥The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity🌲
🐝Enhancing pollinator habitats in urban landscapes🏘️
Read it in full👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
Featuring a range of topics such as...
📈Unmasking the drivers of jellyfish blooms🪼
🔥The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity🌲
🐝Enhancing pollinator habitats in urban landscapes🏘️
Read it in full👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
November 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our November issue is now available! 🦗🌎🧪
Featuring a range of topics such as...
📈Unmasking the drivers of jellyfish blooms🪼
🔥The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity🌲
🐝Enhancing pollinator habitats in urban landscapes🏘️
Read it in full👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
Featuring a range of topics such as...
📈Unmasking the drivers of jellyfish blooms🪼
🔥The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity🌲
🐝Enhancing pollinator habitats in urban landscapes🏘️
Read it in full👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664...
Dense and continuous pine plantations fuel severe wildfires and hinder recovery 🔥
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Dense and continuous pine plantations fuel severe wildfires and hinder recovery 🔥
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Reducing tree density can lower impacts, guiding more resilient afforestation and fire management strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems 🌲
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Our webinar discussing how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change is tomorrow! ⏰🌏🧪
You can still register for free, below 👇
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You can still register for free, below 👇
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October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Our webinar discussing how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change is tomorrow! ⏰🌏🧪
You can still register for free, below 👇
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You can still register for free, below 👇
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Are you interested in learning how policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change can be strengthened by Integrated Nature-Climate Action? 💭🌏
You have one week left to sign up for our free webinar with @hollietree.bsky.social & @pettorelli.bsky.social! ⏰🧪
Register here 👇
bit.ly/4mJGwx2
You have one week left to sign up for our free webinar with @hollietree.bsky.social & @pettorelli.bsky.social! ⏰🧪
Register here 👇
bit.ly/4mJGwx2
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Are you interested in learning how policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change can be strengthened by Integrated Nature-Climate Action? 💭🌏
You have one week left to sign up for our free webinar with @hollietree.bsky.social & @pettorelli.bsky.social! ⏰🧪
Register here 👇
bit.ly/4mJGwx2
You have one week left to sign up for our free webinar with @hollietree.bsky.social & @pettorelli.bsky.social! ⏰🧪
Register here 👇
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Urbanised landscape and microhabitat differences can influence flowering phenology and synchrony in an annual herb 🌿🌏 🧪
Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇
Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇
Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
October 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Urbanised landscape and microhabitat differences can influence flowering phenology and synchrony in an annual herb 🌿🌏 🧪
Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇
Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
Findings revealed that populations in urban sites exhibited earlier flowering onset and longer flowering duration compared to rural locations 🏢 👇
Read here: buff.ly/VWtG2kW
Roads shape seed dispersal by rodents and carnivores at forest edges 🛣️🌏
These findings highlight the role of roads as barriers and of roadsides as corridors for mammal-mediated seed dispersal, with implications for forest regeneration and habitat connectivity 🐭🧪
buff.ly/cMAJEde
These findings highlight the role of roads as barriers and of roadsides as corridors for mammal-mediated seed dispersal, with implications for forest regeneration and habitat connectivity 🐭🧪
buff.ly/cMAJEde
October 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Roads shape seed dispersal by rodents and carnivores at forest edges 🛣️🌏
These findings highlight the role of roads as barriers and of roadsides as corridors for mammal-mediated seed dispersal, with implications for forest regeneration and habitat connectivity 🐭🧪
buff.ly/cMAJEde
These findings highlight the role of roads as barriers and of roadsides as corridors for mammal-mediated seed dispersal, with implications for forest regeneration and habitat connectivity 🐭🧪
buff.ly/cMAJEde
🦁Predators have a strong sex-bias when it comes to their favourite prey 🌏
In their new paper @andrewabraham.bsky.social quantify large carnivore sex-biases in Africa and examine how wildlife managers can replicate such effects when natural predators are missing 👇
buff.ly/Q8cB4Qq
In their new paper @andrewabraham.bsky.social quantify large carnivore sex-biases in Africa and examine how wildlife managers can replicate such effects when natural predators are missing 👇
buff.ly/Q8cB4Qq
October 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🦁Predators have a strong sex-bias when it comes to their favourite prey 🌏
In their new paper @andrewabraham.bsky.social quantify large carnivore sex-biases in Africa and examine how wildlife managers can replicate such effects when natural predators are missing 👇
buff.ly/Q8cB4Qq
In their new paper @andrewabraham.bsky.social quantify large carnivore sex-biases in Africa and examine how wildlife managers can replicate such effects when natural predators are missing 👇
buff.ly/Q8cB4Qq
Are you interested in how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change? 🌎🧪
If yes, our upcoming free webinar might be perfect for you! 💭
Register & find out more below 👇
bit.ly/4mJGwx2
If yes, our upcoming free webinar might be perfect for you! 💭
Register & find out more below 👇
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October 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Are you interested in how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change? 🌎🧪
If yes, our upcoming free webinar might be perfect for you! 💭
Register & find out more below 👇
bit.ly/4mJGwx2
If yes, our upcoming free webinar might be perfect for you! 💭
Register & find out more below 👇
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Controlling a tree invader for coastal plant communities' restoration affected below-ground dynamics 🌱🌏🧪
We used coastal vegetation on sandy soils in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest as a model to investigate below-ground dynamics in communities under restoration 🌀
Read more: buff.ly/sYUu8fk
We used coastal vegetation on sandy soils in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest as a model to investigate below-ground dynamics in communities under restoration 🌀
Read more: buff.ly/sYUu8fk
October 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Controlling a tree invader for coastal plant communities' restoration affected below-ground dynamics 🌱🌏🧪
We used coastal vegetation on sandy soils in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest as a model to investigate below-ground dynamics in communities under restoration 🌀
Read more: buff.ly/sYUu8fk
We used coastal vegetation on sandy soils in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest as a model to investigate below-ground dynamics in communities under restoration 🌀
Read more: buff.ly/sYUu8fk
Validating habitat suitability models for pine marten (Martes martes) reintroductions to England and Wales 📈🧪
The adaptive methodology can be applied to other species as reintroduction projects continue to grow in popularity 💭🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
The adaptive methodology can be applied to other species as reintroduction projects continue to grow in popularity 💭🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Validating habitat suitability models for pine marten (Martes martes) reintroductions to England and Wales 📈🧪
The adaptive methodology can be applied to other species as reintroduction projects continue to grow in popularity 💭🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
The adaptive methodology can be applied to other species as reintroduction projects continue to grow in popularity 💭🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Mixed plant and arthropod biodiversity responses to solar park establishment on former agricultural lands 🦋
Suggests that, while biodiversity can increase in solar parks post-conversion compared to previous land use, not all taxonomic groups benefit from this change 🌏🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Suggests that, while biodiversity can increase in solar parks post-conversion compared to previous land use, not all taxonomic groups benefit from this change 🌏🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Mixed plant and arthropod biodiversity responses to solar park establishment on former agricultural lands 🦋
Suggests that, while biodiversity can increase in solar parks post-conversion compared to previous land use, not all taxonomic groups benefit from this change 🌏🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Suggests that, while biodiversity can increase in solar parks post-conversion compared to previous land use, not all taxonomic groups benefit from this change 🌏🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Applications for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme close TOMORROW! ⏰🌏
If you'd like to learn more about the peer review process then this voluntary two-year role could be the role for you 🌱🧪
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47uwYlD
If you'd like to learn more about the peer review process then this voluntary two-year role could be the role for you 🌱🧪
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47uwYlD
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Applications for our 2026 Associate Editor Mentoring Scheme close TOMORROW! ⏰🌏
If you'd like to learn more about the peer review process then this voluntary two-year role could be the role for you 🌱🧪
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47uwYlD
If you'd like to learn more about the peer review process then this voluntary two-year role could be the role for you 🌱🧪
Find out more and apply: bit.ly/47uwYlD
Machine learning for biosecurity: A probabilistic framework for invasive species management 🦒🌏
We present a novel machine learning (ML) framework to quantify species progression along the introduction–naturalization–invasion continuum 🖥️🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
We present a novel machine learning (ML) framework to quantify species progression along the introduction–naturalization–invasion continuum 🖥️🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Machine learning for biosecurity: A probabilistic framework for invasive species management 🦒🌏
We present a novel machine learning (ML) framework to quantify species progression along the introduction–naturalization–invasion continuum 🖥️🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
We present a novel machine learning (ML) framework to quantify species progression along the introduction–naturalization–invasion continuum 🖥️🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...