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Macroalgal blooms caused by marine nutrient changes resulting from human activities.

Published online: 26 Dec 2020

Authors: Wang Hui & Wang GuangCe & Gu WenHui

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Macroalgal blooms (green tides) are occurring more frequently in many regions of the world, leading to significant impacts on marine ecology and econo...

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Use of grassland and field selection by brent geese Branta bernicla.

Published online: 15 Dec 1990

Authors: Summers, R. W. & Critchley, C. N. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Around Scolt Head Island, N. Norfolk 43.7%, 57.7% and 65.5% of the cumulative total number of observations of brent geese (Branta b. bernicla) were ma...

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Biological survey of the intertidal sediments of the south shore of Solway Firth, 2014.

Published online: 16 Aug 2022

Published by: Natural England

Authors: Cutts, N. D. & Hemingway, K. L. & Bailey, M. & Thomson, S.

Content type: Miscellaneous

The ecological survey work was designed to monitor and assess the mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide (intertidal mudflats and ...

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Do changes in the frequency, magnitude and timing of extreme climatic events threaten the population viability of coastal birds?

Published online: 04 Aug 2010

Authors: Pol, M. van de & Ens, B. J. & Heg, D. & Brouwer, L. & Krol, J. & Maier, M. & Exo, K. M. & Oosterbeek, K. & Lok, T. & Eising, C. M. & Koffijberg, K.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Climate change encompasses changes in both the means and the extremes of climatic variables, but the population consequences of the latter are intrins...

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Vertical migrations of fish schools determine overlap with a mobile tidal stream marine renewable energy device.

Published online: 27 Nov 2020

Authors: Whitton, T. A. & Jackson, S. E. & Hiddink, J. G. & Scoulding, B. & Bowers, D. & Powell, B. & Jackson, T. D. & Gimenez, L. & Davies, A. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Large increases in the generation of electricity using marine renewable energy (MRE) are planned, and assessment of the environmental impacts of novel...

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Hurricane Sandy impacts on coastal wetland resilience.

Published online: 04 Sep 2019

Authors: Cahoon, D. R. & Olker, J. H. & Yeates, A. G. & Guntenspergen, G. R. & Grace, J. B. & Adamowicz, S. C. & Anisfeld, S. C. & Baldwin, A. H. & Barrett, N. & Beckett, L. & Benzecry, A. & Blum, L. K. & Burdick, D. M. & Crouch, W. & Ekberg, M. C. & Fernald, S. & Grimes, K. W. & Grzyb, J. & Hartig, E. K. & Kreeger, D. A. & Larson, M. & Lerberg, S. & Lynch, J. C. & Maher, N. & Maxwell-Doyle, M. & Mitchell, L. R. (et al)

Content type: Bulletin

The goal of this research was to evaluate the impacts of Hurricane Sandy on surface elevation trends in estuarine marshes located across the northeast...

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The mangrove swamps of Kaneba, lower Gambia river basin. I. Descriptive notes on the climate, the mangrove swamps and the physical composition of their soils.

Published online: 22 May 1965

Authors: Giglioli, M. E. C. & Thornton, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

The swamps consist mainly of areas under Rhizo-phora racemosa and Avicennia germinans mangroves, Sesuvium portulacastrum lawns, and barren mud flats. ...

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Predicting shorebird mortality and population size under different regimes of shellfishery management.

Published online: 17 Oct 2001

Authors: Stillman, R. A. & Goss-Custard, J. D. & West, A. D. & Durell, S. E. A. le V. dit & McGrorty, S. & Caldow, R. W. G. & Norris, K. J. & Johnstone, I. G. & Ens, B. J. & Meer, J. van der & Triplet, P.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Human interests often conflict with those of wildlife. In the coastal zone humans often exploit shellfish populations that would otherwise provide foo...

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Recovering subtidal forests in human-dominated landscapes.

Published online: 06 Jan 2010

Authors: Gorman, D. & Connell, S. D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Policy initiatives that seek to recover lost habitats require the capacity to anticipate and suppress the mechanisms that drive loss. The replacement ...

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Spatiotemporal variation in disturbance impacts derived from simultaneous tracking of aircraft and shorebirds.

Published online: 08 Jan 2021

Authors: Kolk, H. J. van der & Allen, A. M. & Ens, B. J. & Oosterbeek, K. & Jongejans, E. & Pol, M. van de

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Assessing the impacts of disturbance over large areas and long time periods is crucial for nature management, but also challenging since impacts depen...

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