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Agriculture around the world needs to become more environmentally sustainable to limit further environmental degradation and impacts of climate change...

With the global loss of natural wetlands, waterbirds have become increasingly dependent on alternative and artificial habitats, but the use of such we...

The concept of 'peopled landscapes' is based on the notion that it is not possible, nor socially or politically desirable, to remove people from the e...

The concept of resilience has gained immense popularity as a way to frame social and environmental challenges. However, its empirical operationalizati...

The concept of the 'shifting baseline syndrome' has assisted researchers in understanding how expectations for the health of the environment deteriora...

The abundance and distribution of a species are affected by processes which operate at multiple scales. Large-scale dynamics are increasingly recogniz...

Water availability was the most important limiting factor to tea growth. Monthly averages of tea yields for estates were correlated with soil water in...

Present land use in China is described. Problems include: desertification; erosion; salinization; underdeveloped land; and mining dereliction. Remedia...

There exists a wealth of philosophical, sociological and anthropological literature on environmental values; yet, few studies have investigated the va...

Wildlife research by citizen scientists, involving the capture and handling of animals, provides clear scientific benefits, but also potential risks t...