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The traditional grasslands that characterize the cultural landscapes of the Palaeartic mountain massifs represent biodiversity hotspots. Yet, they are...

Top-down regulation of ecosystems by large herbivores is a topic of active debate between scientists and managers, and a prime example is the interact...

Moose (Alces alces) is the most important game species in Sweden and the fall-out after the Chernobyl accident has severely affected hunting of this a...

A field study of the seasonal growth of Nardus stricta showed that leaf turnover was slow, averaging 2.5 leaves per tiller over the growing season. Pe...

Culling wildlife hosts is often implemented as a management technique to control pathogen transmission from wildlife to domestic or other economically...

Between 1996 and 2000 the appearance of bovine spongiform encephalopathy swiftly became one of the most serious public health and political crises con...

The population of great cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis breeding in northern Europe has increased from 5000 pairs during around 1970 to c. 100...

Data from 168 soil and vegetation samples were examined using a combination of association-analysis and principal component analysis. Cluster analysis...

Impacts of nitrogen (N) enrichment on soil carbon (C) budgets in terrestrial ecosystems have been well documented by numerous field experiments and sy...

Invasive alien plant species (IAPs) in urban areas can have detrimental effects on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Urban areas ...