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Despite the benefits of a diverse approach to crop pollination, global food production remains reliant on a low diversity of managed pollinators, espe...

Resource competition is an important process governing the impact of livestock on native wild mammalian herbivores, an issue acknowledged to be of glo...

Biodiversity conservation strategies increasingly target maintaining evolutionary history and the resilience of ecosystem function, not just species r...

Forest recovery following management interventions is important to maintain ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services. It remains,...

The açaí palm Euterpe oleracea Mart. in the Amazon river delta has seen rapid expansion to meet increased demand for its fruit. This has been achieved...

Many developing countries harbour large numbers of species that face little-understood, gradual changes in their environment, including chronic anthro...

There is great interest among policy makers in the potential of carbon-based payments for ecosystem services (PES) to reduce carbon emissions from def...

South-east Asia has the highest relative rate of habitat loss and degradation in the humid tropics. The responses of less 'charismatic' groups, includ...

Habitat conversion for agriculture is a major driver of biodiversity loss, but our understanding of the demographic processes involved remains poor. W...

Shrubland ecosystems are often inherently flammable due to a canopy structure favourable for fire propagation. At the same time, the fuel bed is not s...