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Invasive mammals are a major threat to biodiversity. Understanding how their distributions and abundance could be affected by different temporal and s...

Pollination is an ecosystem service that directly contributes to agricultural production, and can therefore provide a strong incentive to conserve nat...

1. Invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA), in combination with high throughput sequencing, has been proposed as a cost-efficient and powerful tool to survey ...

Grazing can significantly impact spatial heterogeneity and conservation value of ecosystems. Earlier work revealed that overgrazing may stimulate pers...

The outcome of the ongoing biodiversity crisis depends on the capacity of the Earth's wildlife to persist in working landscapes. Yet, the species that...

The selection of plant provenance for ecological restoration is an intensively debated topic. Throughout this debate, arguments mostly focus on plant ...

Semi-natural habitats (SNH) are considered essential for pest-suppressive landscapes, but their influence on crop pests and natural enemies can be hig...

Landscape composition and local diversification practices such as polyculture, cover cropping and hedgerows may promote natural pest control by benefi...

There is an increasing awareness of the need to evaluate critically the effectiveness of environmental conservation measures, and to ensure that agri-...

Although application of fertilizers and pesticides to farmland is known to impact non-target organisms in adjacent semi-natural habitats, little is kn...