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Flying foxes Pteropus spp. play a key role in forest regeneration as seed dispersers and are also the reservoir of many viruses, including Nipah virus...

Rural communities in Amazonia rely on harvesting Mauritia flexuosa fruit, a dominant peatland palm, for their subsistence and income. However, these p...

Active restoration to rehabilitate degraded tropical lands often involves planting tree seedlings, an effective but expensive approach if large areas ...

When mammalian herbivores are present at high densities their browsing activity can have a negative effect on establishment or regeneration of native ...

Secondary and plantation forests are becoming increasingly widespread in the tropics. A recent meta-analysis on the impacts of land-use change on trop...

The numbers of deer (Capreolus capreolus, Cervus elaphus and Dama dama [fallow deer]) are rising throughout Britain and population densities frequentl...

Tropical forest understories tend to be light-limited. The red-to-far-red ratio (R:FR) is a useful and reliable index of light quality and its spatial...

Variation in the spatial arrangement of plants can lead to differences in the rates and trajectories of change in the composition, structure and funct...

Fire is an important process in Mediterranean-ecosystem shrublands, and prescribed burning is often used to manage these ecosystems. Analyses of past ...

Postfire salvage logging is the most commonly applied forestry practice in burned forests world-wide, mainly for economic reasons. However, it strongl...