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Pathogen transmission from open net-pen aquaculture facilities can depress sympatric wild fish populations. However, little is known about the effects...

Desertification is of critical concern because it may affect 40% of the global land area inhabited by more than 1 billion people. During the process o...

Harvest methods (peak standing crop, and the methods of Milner and Hughes, Smalley, Valiela, Teal & Sass, and Wiegert & Evans) were used to es...

Management recommendations intended to reduce rangeland degradation and increase livestock productivity often assume equilibrium conditions wherein ve...

We do not know which aspects of community structure and ecosystem processes are restorable for most ecosystems, yet this information is crucial for ac...

Auchenorrhyncha were sampled from control, fertilizer- and sewage sludge-treated plots within an agricultural field (annual wheat field) and a field w...

Grassland restorations often lack rare forb and grass species that are found in intact grasslands. The possible reasons for low diversity include seed...

Net ecosystem gas exchange (NEE), a balance between gross ecosystem primary productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER), is an important indicat...

Functional trait-based ecological research has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of natural plant community dynamics. However, to date,...

Fire is an important disturbance in African savannas where it is generally assumed that high levels of pyrodiversity (variation in aspects of the fire...