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Decomposition of slash residues in thinned regrowth eucalypt forest in Western Australia.

Published online: 04 Jul 1997

Authors: O'Connell, A. M.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Stand thinning is being used increasingly by forest managers to maximize wood production from regrowth eucalypt forests in Australia. Many of the ecol...

Using life-cycle assessment to evaluate environmental impacts of briquette production from forest residues.

Published online: 17 Jul 2019

Authors: Alanya-Rosenbaum, S. & Bergman, R.

Content type: Bulletin

This report presents a life-cycle impact assessment analysis of near-woods processing of post-harvest forest residues into wood briquettes as an alter...

Using life-cycle assessment to evaluate environmental impacts of torrefied briquette production from forest residues.

Published online: 17 Jul 2019

Authors: Alanya-Rosenbaum, S. & Bergman, R.

Content type: Bulletin

This report presents life-cycle impact assessment analysis of near-woods processing of post-harvest forest residues (a biomass raw material) into torr...

Do wood-pigeons avoid pesticide-treated cereal seed?

Published online: 08 Jul 1999

Authors: McKay, H. V. & Prosser, P. J. & Hart, A. D. M. & Langton, S. D. & Jones, A. & McCoy, C. & Chandler-Morris, S. A. & Pascual, J. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Pesticides applied to seeds before sowing may present a high risk to seed-eating birds. Some of these chemicals are highly toxic but are avoided by ca...

Occurrence and consequences of DDT residues in woodland birds following tsetse fly spraying operations in NW Zimbabwe.

Published online: 17 May 1996

Authors: Douthwaite, R. J.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Concentrations of DDT and its metabolites were compared over space, time, feeding strategy and diet in the striped kingfisher (Halcyon chelicuti), red...

Recovery of a sparrowhawk population in relation to declining pesticide contamination.

Published online: 03 Apr 1993

Authors: Newton, I. & Wyllie, I.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus) found dead in eastern England showed a significant reduction in HEOD (organochlorine pesticide residues derived from al...

Some ecological effects of the use of paraquat for the control of weeds in small lakes.

Published online: 07 Sep 1972

Authors: Way, J. M., Et Al.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In 2 experimental lakes at Oxton, Nottinghamshire, paraquat at 0.5 rng/litre eradicated Elodea canadensis and all other submerged and floating plants ...

Evaluating the effects of a biopesticide on populations of the variegated grasshopper, Zonocerus variegatus.

Published online: 25 Apr 1997

Authors: Thomas, M. B. & Langewald, J. & Wood, S. N.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

A field trial was conducted in 1994 near Ketou, Ouemé, Benin, to investigate the efficacy of an oil formulation of the fungal entomopathogen, Metarhiz...

Control of bracken and the restoration of heathland. III. Bracken litter disturbance and heathland restoration.

Published online: 06 Jun 1992

Authors: Lowday, J. E. & Marrs, R. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

In trials in the Breckland region (Norfolk/Suffolk border) UK in 1978-88 on Calluna vulgaris heathland and grass heathland (dominated by Festuca ovina...