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Carabid beetles are important functional components of many terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we describe the first long-term, wide-scale and quantitative...

Although the importance of the soil microbiome in mediating plant community structures and functions has been increasingly emphasized in ecological st...

Understanding seasonal patterns of activity, or phenology, of vector species is fundamental to determining seasonality of disease risk and epidemics o...

Earthworms are an important prey for the endangered meadow birds of northwest Europe. Although intensive grassland management with high manure inputs ...

Estimating the basic reproductive rate (R₀) of disease and/or the related threshold population density (K_T) for disease establishment is fundamental t...

A computer model is described which simulates the spread of barley yellow dwarf luteovirus (BYDV) by aphids in winter cereals in SW England. The model...

Exchange of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from soils can contribute significantly to the global warming potential (GWP) of agro-ecosystems. Due to variations i...

Concern about climate change and energy security is stimulating land-use change, which in turn precipitates social, economic and environmental respons...

Multistate capture-recapture models are frequently used to estimate the survival and state transition parameters needed to parameterize stage-structur...

Genetically modified (GM), herbicide-tolerant crops have been adopted extensively worldwide, resulting in increased homogenization of agricultural pra...