Applied Ecology Resources and Ecological Solutions & Evidence

25/07/2024

🎀 How attractive are the US gov. recommended species to the they're supposed to support? Study reveals Asclepias tuberosa, Gaillardia pulchella & Verbena hastata to be most attractive!

Read the full study: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.12363

Recent government incentives have recognized the importance of supplementary wildflower plantings to support native bee populations, yet little information exists on the attractiveness of recommended...

22/07/2024

🤔 Do we need to some landscapes to have in others?

This Registered Report explores the potential of polyculture to give us high biodiversity + yields in the same place – moving beyond the land-sharing/sparing dichotomy

Do we need to sacrifice biodiversity in some landscapes in order to conserve biodiversity in others? This protocol sets out the methodology for a systematic map of evidence on yield- and biodiversity...

21/07/2024

📸 Can we monitor whether habitats reclaimed on sands can mitigate for the impacts of past disturbance + sufficiently support wildlife? Hawkes et al. demonstrate that data can help reliably assess reclamation success

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A quasi-experiment and an innovative occupancy model were used to assess trends in wildlife species over a 15-year period. Results are consistent with expectations and point to the use of camera trap...

18/07/2024

🚗🌱 Roadsides seeded with prairie mixes have more native flowers than those seeded with non-native mixes, but both types of sites get colonized by species. Discover how to refine seed mixes to help pollinators while reducing costs:

We performed floral surveys in revegetated roadside sites that were 2–20 years old, and were either seeded with diverse native grassland mixes or non-native mixes. We found that seeding native forbs ...

18/07/2024

🤝💧 Marques et al. brought together researchers, managers and students to identify five key factors to advance stormwater – multidisciplinary information on their ecosystem function and services is key!

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Information on the impacts of maintenance operations, biological condition, water quality, costs and benefits and impact on surrounding landscape are important gaps that hinder a modern approach to d...

15/07/2024

🦁 A managed meta-population approach of populations is a useful tool for conservational tool for managers to consider worldwide – Selier et al. look at population management in South Africa as a case study:

Ecological Solutions and Evidence is an open access journal covering all areas of applied ecology that communicate key findings related to practical environmental management.

11/07/2024

🔥Prescribed fire at a large scale positively contributed to abundance!

Find out more about the integrated model of and point count data that helped bridge this knowledge gap:

Ecological Solutions and Evidence is an open access journal covering all areas of applied ecology that communicate key findings related to practical environmental management.

10/07/2024

🐝🥼10-a-day keeps the doctor away! pollen loads contain a surprisingly consistent number of plant species, regardless of the species, field site or time of year. What could be driving this tendency towards such a consistent foraging breadth? Read the full study:

Ecological Solutions and Evidence is an open access journal covering all areas of applied ecology that communicate key findings related to practical environmental management.

09/07/2024

🌳 Balancing control and : debarking heads for harvesters & bark gouging devices can help efficiently manage Spruce Bark Beetle populations while conserving non-target beetle diversity in retained dead wood

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Ecological Solutions and Evidence is an open access journal covering all areas of applied ecology that communicate key findings related to practical environmental management.

27/06/2024

🦅 There is no effective regulatory framework in place to protect wild from a future repetition of the catastrophic collapse in their populations in South Asia caused by the non-steroidal veterinary drug diclofenac

Read the full study: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2688-8319.12357