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1. Estimating population abundance is a key objective of surveillance programmes, particularly for vector species of public health interest. For mosqu...

Limited attention from the modelling community has been given to ecological approaches which aim to predict geographical patterns of malaria by accoun...

Trajectories of plant communities can be described by different models of plant succession. While a Clementsian (gradual continuum model) or Gleasonia...

Much concern has been expressed about the sustainability of fuelwood harvesting in Africa. Most models predict that demand will outstrip supply within...

Some biosecurity systems aimed at reducing the impacts of invasive alien species that employ sentinel trapping systems to detect the presence of unwan...

Managing wildlife populations for conservation, control or harvesting involves uncertainty. Nevertheless, decisions need to be made based on the avail...

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is one of the world's most important livestock diseases and pigs Sus scrofa are highly susceptible. In countries with sig...

Climate and land-use changes will require species to move large distances following shifts in their suitable habitats, which will frequently involve t...

The dynamics of many populations is strongly affected by immigrants. However, estimating and modelling immigration is a real challenge. In the past, s...

Ancient trees have important ecological, historical and social connections, and are a key source of dead and decaying wood, a globally declining resou...