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Studies, mainly from the UK, show that many farmland birds have declined as a result of recent agricultural intensification. We tested this idea by an...

Rodents are maintenance hosts of numerous pathogens, and both their density and the pathogen prevalence determine the risk they pose to other animals ...

To assess recovery of endangered species, reliable information on the size and density of the target population is required. In practice, however, thi...

Climate change is driving changes in fire frequency and intensity, making it more urgent for conservation managers to understand how species and ecosy...

The colonization of suitable yet unoccupied habitat due to natural dispersal or human introduction can benefit recovery of threatened species. Predict...

The effective management of invasive plants requires an understanding of their invasiveness in contrasting environments. The effects of disturbance on...

Rodents and other small mammals cause an increasing number of negative economic and environmental impacts worldwide. In the UK, the non-native grey sq...

Management boundaries are often delimited by political and social factors, whereas animal movements are affected by ecological and geophysical constra...

Pesticides constitute a major threat to biodiversity, but our understanding of the complex interactions between local and landscape factors influencin...

Human relationships with nature may sometimes manifest through fear, disgust and other disease-avoidance mechanisms. While there is an evolutionary ut...