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Biodiversity assessments usually rely on indicators as surrogates for direct measures. Although the ecological validity of indicators has been extensi...

Studies of landscape change are seldom conducted at scales commensurate with the processes they purport to investigate. Landscape change is a landscap...

Many animal taxa respond strongly to spatial and temporal variation in vegetation structure and floristic composition, suggesting that changes in vege...

Soil quality is an important determinant of primary productivity and species occurrence patterns. Therefore, plant species composition can be used as ...

Heavy livestock grazing in Namaqualand, South Africa, is threatening the region's unique diversity of succulent shrubs. This is especially true in the...

A physiologically based mechanistic model of the dynamic interaction between plants and animals is used to consider the role of differences in growth ...

Drought is an increasing risk to the biodiversity within rivers-ecosystems which are already impacted by human activities. However, the long-term spat...

In the temperate mixed oak forests of Central Europe, outbreaks of insects such as the spongy moth, Lymantria dispar, can cause severe defoliation and...

Contemporary forest management strives to satisfy contrasting demands on forest ecosystems by promoting multiple ecosystem services. These services ar...

European forests are facing a rapid decline in light-demanding biota. This has prompted active interventions to re-establish and maintain partial habi...