Journal of Applied Ecology

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Restoration temporarily supports the resilience of sagebrush‐steppe ecosystems subjected to repeated fires	126
Predicting harvest impact and establishment success when translocating highly mobile and endangered species	78
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Bat phylogenetic responses to regenerating Amazonian forests	67
Validating a surveillance program of invasive mosquitoes based on citizen science in Hungary	66
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An unintended ecological benefit from human intervention: The enhancement of carbon storage in seagrass meadows	57
Assessing the value of monitoring to biological inference and expected management performance for a European goose population	55
Decreased precipitation in the late growing season weakens an ecosystem carbon sink in a semi‐arid grassland	55
Subordinate tree species diversity explains carbon stock better than dominant tree diversity after decades of forest rewilding	52
Effects of decade‐long grazing exclusion and wind erosion reduction on community temporal stability in a semi‐arid grassland	52
Dancing with the devil: Could native predators inside ‘predator‐free’ havens be good for the conservation of threatened native prey species?	50
Act for the best, prepare for the worst—Defining strategic mesopredator triggers that safeguard apex predator eradication benefits	49
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Woody plant encroachment and the ecology of vector‐borne diseases	47
Remove saplings early: Cost‐effective strategies to contain tree invasions and prevent their impacts	47
Sample coverage affects diversity measures of bird communities along a natural recovery gradient of abandoned agriculture in tropical lowland forests	47
Agricultural intensification with seasonal fallow land promotes high bee diversity in Afrotropical drylands	43
Primary forest loss and degradation reduces biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A global meta‐analysis using dung beetles as an indicator taxon	43
Different types of semi‐natural habitat are required to sustain diverse wild bee communities across agricultural landscapes	42
Quantifying the risk of non‐native conifer establishment across heterogeneous landscapes	42
Reducing disease and producing food: Effects of 13 agrochemicals on snail biomass and human schistosomes	41
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Integrating variation in bacterial‐fungal co‐occurrence network with soil carbon dynamics	39
Structural diversity is an important predictor of forest productivity responses to drought	38

Inference of local invasion pathways in two invasive crayfish species displaying contrasting genetic patterns	38
Fish responses to manipulated microhabitat complexity in urbanised shorelines	37
Making plant–pollinator data collection cheaper for restoration and monitoring	37
Propensity score matching mitigates risk of faulty inferences in observational studies of effectiveness of restoration trials	37
Geese migrating over the Pacific Ocean select altitudes coinciding with offshore wind turbine blades	36
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	36
Grazing effects of wintering geese on grassland yield: A long‐term study from Northwest Germany	36
Contrasting soil‐ and canopy‐nurse effects in metalliferous systems may be explained by dominant plant functional strategies	35
A Before‐After Control‐Impact experiment reveals that culling reduces the impacts of invasive deer on endangered peatlands	34
Rapid evolution of flower phenology and clonality in restored populations of multiple grassland species	34
Ecological memory and regional context influence performance of adaptation plantings in northeastern US temperate forests	34
Woodland expansion in the presence of deer: 30 years of evidence from the Cairngorms Connect landscape restoration partnership	34
Multifunctional soil recovery during the restoration of Brazil's Atlantic Forest after bauxite mining	31
Restoration thinning accelerates small tree growth but may slow large tree growth in a multi‐age flood‐dependent forest	31
Higher avian biodiversity, increased shrub cover and proximity to continuous forest may reduce pest insect crop loss in small‐scale oil palm farming	31
Animal‐pollinated crops and cultivars—A quantitative assessment of pollinator dependence values and evaluation of methodological approaches	30
The role of propagule pressure in experimental bark beetle invasions	30
Dutch landscapes have lost insect‐pollinated plants over the past 87 years	30
Salmon louse infestation levels on sea trout can be predicted from a hydrodynamic lice dispersal model	30
Bringing together approaches to reporting on within species genetic diversity	30
Cryptic population decrease due to invasive species predation in a long‐lived seabird supports need for eradication	29
Invasive grass fuel loads suppress native species by increasing fire intensity and soil heating	28
Designing an optimal large‐scale reintroduction plan for a critically endangered species	28
Crop phenology reshapes the food‐safety landscape for roe deer in an agroecosystem	28
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A new resource for monitoring reef ecosystems: The background of recreational diver photographs contains valuable habitat data	27
Temporal mismatches in flight activity patterns between Pipistrellus kuhlii and Prays oleae in olive farms: Implications for biocontrol services potential	26
Can rolling composite wildflower blocks increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes better than wildflowers strips?	26
Evidence for synergistic cumulative impacts of marking and hunting in a wildlife species	26
Can faster growth compensate for increased mortality in subtropical dry forest fragments?	26
The hydrochorous dispersal of plant propagules in a giant river reservoir: Implications for restoration of riparian vegetation	26
Equivalent mating system parameters in post‐mining and undisturbed native plant populations confirms restitution of bird‐pollinator function	25
The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure	25
Landscapes with higher crop diversity have lower aphid species richness but higher plant virus prevalence	25
Random forest modelling of multi‐scale, multi‐species habitat associations within KAZA transfrontier conservation area using spoor data	24
Boosting efficiency of mussel spat collection for ecological sustainability: Identifying critical drivers and informing management	24
Modelling short‐term energetic costs of sonar disturbance to cetaceans using high‐resolution foraging data	24
Predicting dispersal and conflict risk for wolf recolonization in Colorado	24
Selecting coral species for reef restoration	24
Leveraging functional traits of cover crops to coordinate crop productivity and soil health	23
Climate change threatens amphibians and species representation within protected areas in tropical wetlands	23
Managed honeybee hives negatively affect the reproduction of native plants in a dryland nature reserve	23
Increasing plant species diversity stimulates soil microbial necromass nitrogen accumulation in a subtropical forest	23
Seals exhibit localised avoidance of operational tidal turbines	23
Dominant species establishment may influence invasion resistance more than phylogenetic or functional diversity	23
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Mapping the ecological resilience of Atlantic postglacial heathlands	22
Assessing the exposure of UK habitats to 20th‐ and 21st‐century climate change, and its representation in ecological monitoring schemes	22
Abandoned pastures and restored savannas have distinct patterns of plant–soil feedback and nutrient cycling compared with native Brazilian savannas	22
Accounting for bias in prevalence estimation: The case of a globally emerging pathogen	22

Barriers to restoration: Pollution alters nurse effects for an ecosystem engineer	22
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Long‐term management is required for the recovery of pollination networks and function in restored grasslands	21
Pollination service delivery is complex: Urban garden crop yields are best explained by local canopy cover and garden scale plant species richness	21
Managed forests are a stronghold of non‐native beetles in Europe	21
From nature reserve to mosaic management: Improving matrix survival, not permeability, benefits regional populations under habitat loss and fragmentation	21
Increased soil multifunctionality is determined by altered bacterial–fungal–protistan compositions and co‐occurrence network complexity during vegetation restoration in a Karst region, southwest China	20
Low‐intensity land‐use enhances soil microbial activity, biomass and fungal‐to‐bacterial ratio in current and future climates	20
Benign effects of logging on aerial insectivorous bats in Southeast Asia revealed by remote sensing technologies	20
Drone‐induced flight initiation distances for shorebirds in mixed‐species flocks	20
Strip intercropping of wheat and oilseed rape enhances biodiversity and biological pest control in a conventionally managed farm scenario	20
Silvicultural regime shapes understory functional structure in European forests	20
Using artificial neural networks and citizen science data to assess jellyfish presence along coastal areas	19
Evidence for seasonal compensation of hunting mortalities in a long‐lived migratory bird	19
Reduced count size can provide a robust and more efficient diatom assessment of environmental conditions	19
Implementing ecosystem service assessments within agribusiness: Challenges and proposed solutions	19
Soil protist functional composition shifts with atmospheric nitrogen deposition in subtropical forests	19
Human conflict, food security and impacts on wildlife: Importance of sustainable harvest models to inform policy	19
A technological biodiversity monitoring toolkit for biocredits	19
Increased connections among soil microbes and microfauna enhances soil multifunctionality along a long‐term restoration chronosequence	18
Personality, sex and capture biases: Challenges for predator monitoring and management	18
Large African herbivore diversity is essential in transformed landscapes for conserving dung beetle diversity	18
Agriculture causes homogenization of plant‐feeding nematode communities at the regional scale	18
A comparison of approaches for including connectivity in systematic conservation planning	18
Simulating the spread and establishment of alien species along aquatic and terrestrial transport networks: A multi‐pathway and high‐resolution approach	18
Factors affecting the recovery of Mexican wolves in the Southwest United States	18
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	18
Do wildlife crossing structures mitigate the barrier effect of roads on animal movement? A global assessment	18
Hunting of sika deer over six decades does not restore forest regeneration	18
Long‐term heavy grazing increases community‐level foliar fungal diseases by shifting plant composition	18
Pyric herbivory in a temperate European wood‐pasture system	17
Linking landscape structure, floral resource distribution, pollen use and movement distances of a generalist predator	17
Reversing habitat loss: An experimental test of the interactive effects of grazing exclusion and surface rock restoration on reptile conservation	17
Leaf functional traits predict shade tolerant tree performance in cloud forest restoration plantings	17
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Insect seed‐predator networks respond positively to restoration on a tropical island	17
Insecticide and low food quality treatments reduce health and pollination services of two key pollinator taxa	17
Renewable energies and biodiversity: Impact of ground‐mounted solar photovoltaic sites on bat activity	17
Interacting effects of sand, slugs and jute drive community composition in direct‐seeded urban wildflower meadows	17
Spillover of chalkbrood fungi to native solitary bee species from non‐native congeners	17
Effective management for deadwood‐dependent lichen diversity requires landscape‐scale habitat protection	16
Cumulative propagule pressure exerted by escaped pet parrots	16
Moisture availability and ecological restoration limit fine fuels and modelled wildfire intensity following non‐native ungulate removal in Hawaii	16
Dispersal potential rather than risk assessment scores predict the spread rate of non‐native pines across New Zealand	16
Alluring restoration strategies to attract seed‐dispersing animals need more rigorous testing	16
How to design multifunctional landscapes?	16
Variable coverage in an Autocidal Gravid Ovitrap intervention impacts efficacy of Aedes aegypti control	16
Cattle exclusion increases encounters of wild herbivores in Neotropical forests	16
Best practices for LGBTQ+ inclusion during ecological fieldwork: Considering safety, cis/heteronormativity and structural barriers	16
From parachuting to partnership: Fostering collaborative research in protected areas	16
Indigenous brigades change the spatial patterns of wildfires, and the influence of climate on fire regimes	16
Sundaic elephants prefer habitats on the periphery of protected areas	16
Rock removal associated with agricultural intensification will exacerbate the loss of reptile diversity	16
Ecological performance underlying ecosystem multifunctionality is promoted by organic farming and hedgerows at the local scale but not at the landscape scale	15
Warming decreases desert ecosystem functioning by altering biocrusts in drylands	15
Foraging distances, habitat preferences and seasonal colony performance of honeybees in Central European forest landscapes	15
Degree of intervention affects interannual and within‐plot heterogeneity of seed arrival in tropical forest restoration	15
Accurately predicting rare and poorly detectable species habitat for spatial protection	15
Active restoration after three decades: Seed addition increases native dominance compared to landscape‐scale secondary succession	15
Riparian reserves protect butterfly communities in selectively logged tropical forest	15
Balancing bioenergy expansion and restoration: Global shifts in biodiversity intactness	15
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	15
Selective effects of small barriers on river‐resident fish	15
Functional traits driving pollinator and predator responses to newly established grassland strips in agricultural landscapes	15
Mapping pathogenic fungi in decayed Norway spruce stands: Insights from harvester positional data	15
Multi‐level thresholds of residential and agricultural land use for elk avoidance across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	15
Contrasting trends in biodiversity of birds and trees during succession following cacao agroforest abandonment	15
Turnover in floral composition explains species diversity and temporal stability in the nectar supply of urban residential gardens	15
Active restoration fosters better recovery of tropical rainforest birds than natural regeneration in degraded forest fragments	15
Assessing impact risk to tropical marine ecosystems from human activities with a Southeast Asian example	15
Increases in understory plant cover and richness persist following restoration treatments inPinus ponderosaforests	15
Landscape metrics predict habitat redundancy of restored oyster reefs for recruitment enhancement of dominant estuarine fish	15
Contribution of wheat and maize to soil organic carbon in a wheat‐maize cropping system: A field and laboratory study	14
Native bacteria and cyanobacteria can influence seedling emergence and growth of native plants used in dryland restoration	14
Landscape structure and farming management interacts to modulate pollination supply and crop production in blueberries	14
Impacts of umbrella species management on non‐target species	14
The widespread trade in stingless beehives may introduce them into novel places and could threaten species	14
Ambient nitrogen deposition drives plant‐diversity decline by nitrogen accumulation in a closed grassland ecosystem	14
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Wildflower plantings and honeybee competition impact nutritional quality of wild bee diets	14

Marine protected areas' positive effect on fish biomass persists across the steep climatic gradient of the Mediterranean Sea	14
Individual variation in home‐range across an ocean basin and links to habitat quality and management	14
Climate, habitat and demography predict dispersal by an endangered bird in a fragmented landscape	14
Mixing tree species at different spatial scales: The effect of alpha, beta and gamma diversity on disturbance impacts under climate change	14
The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the Paris Agreement need a joint work programme for climate, nature and people	14
Large wild herbivores slow down the rapid decline of plant diversity in a tropical forest biodiversity hotspot	14
Forest thinning in the seaward fringe speeds up surface elevation increment and carbon accumulation in managed mangrove forests	14
Land use history and landscape forest cover determine tropical forest recovery	14
Landscape conservation as a strategy for recovering biodiversity: Lessons from a long‐term program of pasture restoration in the southern Atlantic Forest	14
Effectiveness of novel hybrid mangrove living shorelines is context dependent	14
Nature‐based Solutions to tackle climate change and restore biodiversity	14
No evidence for trade‐offs between bird diversity, yield and water table depth on oil palm smallholdings: Implications for tropical peatland landscape restoration	14
Biometric conversion factors as a unifying platform for comparative assessment of invasive freshwater bivalves	14
Remote sensing for rangeland conservation monitoring: Impacts of livestock removal after 15 years	14
Manipulating plant microbiomes in the field: Native mycorrhizae advance plant succession and improve native plant restoration	14
Bees go up, flowers go down: Increased resource limitation from late spring to summer in agricultural landscapes	14
Sixty years of ecology with impact	14
Shade tree trait diversity and functions in agroforestry systems: A review of which traits matter	14
Soil restoration increases soil health across global drylands: A meta‐analysis	13
Flowers as dirty doorknobs: Deformed wing virus transmitted between Apis mellifera and Bombus impatiens through shared flowers	13
Impacting habitat connectivity of the endangered Florida panther for the transition to utility‐scale solar energy	13
Prioritizing areas for ecological restoration: A participatory approach based on cost‐effectiveness	13
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Movement‐integrated habitat selection reveals wolves balance ease of travel with human avoidance in a risk–reward trade‐off	13
Mass‐flowering lupin has positive, but limited, effect on wild bee conservation in agricultural landscapes	13
‘Social distancing’ between plants may amplify coastal restoration at early stage	13
Cacao grafting increases crop yield without compromising biodiversity	13
Reversing declines in farmland birds: How much agri‐environment provision is needed at farm and landscape scales?	13
Pesticide effects on soil fauna communities—A meta‐analysis	13
Recreational vessel networks reveal potential hot spots for marine pest introduction and spread	13
Climate change impacts on blanket peatland in Great Britain	13
Selecting among land sparing, sharing and Triad in a temperate rainforest depends on biodiversity and timber production targets	13
Correction to ‘Reservoir dynamics of rabies in south‐east Tanzania and the roles of cross‐species transmission and domestic dog vaccination’	13
Nitrogen fixation and crop productivity enhancements co‐driven by intercrop root exudates and key rhizosphere bacteria	13
Patterns and drivers of the degradability of dissolved organic matter in dryland soils on the Tibetan Plateau	13
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Lower ungulate population density in rainforests under anthropogenic influences	13
Automated acoustic monitoring captures timing and intensity of bird migration	12
Impacts of ecological restoration on the genetic diversity of plant species: A global meta‐analysis	12
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Direct and indirect effects of management and landscape on biological pest control and crop pest infestation in apple orchards	12
Third and fourth trophic level composition shift in an aphid–parasitoid–hyperparasitoid food web limits aphid control in an intercropping system	12
Assessing foodborne pathogen survival in bird faeces to co‐manage farms for bird conservation, production, and food safety	12
Reducing nitrogen inputs mitigates Spartina invasion in the Yangtze estuary	12
Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass‐flowering crops in rotational systems	12
Roads and forest edges facilitate yellow fever virus dispersion	12
The potential of fallow management to promote steppe bird conservation within the next EU Common Agricultural Policy reform	12
Broad spectrum artificial light at night increases the conspicuousness of camouflaged prey	12
Early detection strategies for invading tree pests: Targeted surveillance and stakeholder perspectives	12
Human–wildlife coexistence needs more evidence‐based interventions to reduce the losses of crops, livestock and fishery catches	12
Exploring drivers of within‐field crop yield variation using a national precision yield network	12
Enigmatic freshwater mussel declines could be explained by the biodiversity‐disease relationship	12
What is better for animal conservation translocation programmes: Soft‐ or hard‐release? A phylogenetic meta‐analytical approach	12
Predicting bushmeat biomass from species composition captured by camera traps: Implications for locally based wildlife monitoring	12
Drivers of soil microbial community assembly during recovery from selective logging and clear‐cutting	12
Active wetland restoration kickstarts vegetation establishment, but natural development promotes greater plant diversity	12
Reservoir dynamics of rabies in south‐east Tanzania and the roles of cross‐species transmission and domestic dog vaccination	12
Estimating the effects of smolt size and migration timing on salmon marine survival using a multivariate mixed‐effect model	11
Achieving international biodiversity targets: Learning from local norms, values and actions regarding migratory waterfowl management in Kazakhstan	11
Integrating snake distribution, abundance and expert‐derived behavioural traits predicts snakebite risk	11
Ecological requirements drive the variable responses of wheat pests and natural enemies to the landscape context	11
Fine‐scale diet data reveal spatial variation in predator–prey interactions in Norwegian fjords	11
Correspondence among multiple methods provides confidence when measuring marine protected area effects for species and assemblages	11
A marine natural capital asset and risk register—Towards securing the benefits from marine systems and linked ecosystem services	11
Rearing impacts on dispersal and biocontrol performance: A case study on Phytoseiulus persimilis	11
Spring precipitation amount and timing predict restoration success in a semi‐arid ecosystem	11
Preserving large blocks of primary forest is critical to conserve forest‐dependent bird species in the Amazon	11
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Considering variation in bee responses to stressors can reveal potential for resilience	11
Balanced spatial distribution of green areas creates healthier urban landscapes	11
After the ‘Black Summer’ fires: Faunal responses to megafire depend on fire severity, proportional area burnt and vegetation type	11
Dung beetles maintain phylogenetic divergence but functional convergence across a highly fragmented tropical landscape	11
Parasite spillover to native hosts from more tolerant, supershedding invasive hosts: Implications for management	11
Plant water‐use strategies predict restoration success across degraded drylands	11
Protecting our streams by defining measurable targets for riparian management in a forestry context	11
Community reorganization stabilizes freshwater ecosystems in intensively managed agricultural fields	11
Predictors of outplanted marine bivalve survival in restoration: A review and synthesis	11
The effects of a decade of agri‐environment intervention in a lowland farm landscape on population trends of birds and butterflies	11
Reanalysis indicates little evidence of reduction in eagle mortality rate by automated curtailment of wind turbines	11
Chronic anthropogenic disturbance mediates the biodiversity‐productivity relationship across stand ages in a large temperate forest region	11
Reanalysis ignores pertinent data, includes inappropriate observations, and disregards realities of applied ecology: Response to Huso and Dalthorp (2023)	11
Fallow deer foraging alone does not preserve the vegetation of traditionally sheep‐grazed calcareous grasslands	11
Grassland extensification enhances nest densities of ground‐nesting wild bees	11
Perennial flower margins reduce orchard fruit damage by rosy apple aphid, Dysaphis plantaginea (Homoptera: Aphididae)	11
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Crop heterogeneity is positively associated with beneficial insect diversity in subtropical farmlands	11
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Impacts of wild herbivores on soil seed banks are explained by precipitation conditions in protected areas across semi‐arid to arid regions	11
Reintroduction affects demographic rates but not their interannual correlations in an endangered shrub	11
Species richness: A pivotal factor mediating the effects of land use intensification and climate on grassland multifunctionality	11
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Agroecological farming, flowering phenology and the pollinator–herbivore–parasitoid nexus regulate non‐crop plant reproduction	10
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