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Palm oil is the most traded vegetable oil worldwide. Production is concentrated in Southeast Asia, where established oil palm plantations dominate the...

Habitat restoration aims to improve local habitat conditions for threatened species. While such restorations are widespread, rigorous evaluations of t...

The mesopredator release theory predicts that the density of subordinate predators will increase as dominant predators decline. Persistent debate arou...

The Juan Fernandez Archipelago is a global biodiversity hotspot, where 67% of plant species are endemic, but competition with invasive plants threaten...

Vulpia (Vulpia bromoides and V. myuros) and barley grass Hordeum murinum are prevalent annual grass weeds of native grasslands and grazed pastures in ...

The assessment of the environmental hazards posed by chemical pollutants typically results from single-species tests that are extrapolated to ecosyste...

Ecological intensification seeks to achieve crop yield increases by intensifying complementary or facilitative interactions between plant species or v...

Fire-herbivory feedbacks strongly influence the formation of grazing lawns in savanna ecosystems. Preliminary findings suggest that small-scale (< ...

Conservation bias towards flagship species sometimes threatens other species of chief concern. Long-term studies of potential harm by favoured species...

Desertification is of critical concern because it may affect 40% of the global land area inhabited by more than 1 billion people. During the process o...