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Green tree retention and prescribed burning are the practices used to mitigate negative effects of boreal forestry. Beside their effects on biodiversi...

Urban forests provide important ecosystem services to city residents, including pollution removal and carbon storage. Climate change and urbanization ...

The açaí palm Euterpe oleracea Mart. in the Amazon river delta has seen rapid expansion to meet increased demand for its fruit. This has been achieved...

Short-term experiments cannot characterize how long-lived, invasive shrubs influence ecological properties that can be slow to change, including nativ...

Human activities have been a significant driver of environmental changes with tremendous consequences for carbon (C) dynamics. Peatlands are critical ...

Current models estimating impact of habitat loss on biodiversity in the face of global climate change usually project only percentages of species 'com...

Resilience-based approaches are increasingly being called upon to inform ecosystem management, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. This requir...

Sea turtles and sea birds generally have high conservation importance world-wide and are often difficult to survey except when present on nesting grou...

White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease of hibernating North American bats that is caused by the cold-growing fungus Geomyces destructans. Si...

Agricultural land use threatens ecosystem services such as biological control by natural enemies because of simplification of habitat structure and in...