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Climate change encompasses changes in both the means and the extremes of climatic variables, but the population consequences of the latter are intrins...

Bioclimate envelope models are widely used to predict the potential distribution of species under climate change, but they are conceptually also suita...

Metrics have become a standard way for summarizing environmental monitoring results. Different metrics react differently to natural variations and hum...

Habitat degradation is a major reason for species extinctions. For parasite-host interactions, the decline of a parasite may not only be related to th...

The future of tropical forest species depends in part on their ability to survive in human-modified landscapes. Forest strips present a priority area ...

Wolves Canis lupus recently recolonized the Western Alps through dispersal from the Italian Apennines, representing one of several worldwide examples ...

Calcareous grasslands are diversity hotspots for plant and butterfly species in Europe, but connectivity of these grasslands has been reduced by habit...

There is considerable evidence for the negative impacts of habitat alteration on pollinators in highly disturbed regions of the world. However, it rem...

Plantings of pollinator-dependent crops vary from large, intensively managed fields to small fields that are managed less intensively, yet there is re...

Vegetation fires can have major social, economic and ecological consequences. Research into fire behaviour has aimed to give managers greater ability ...