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Assessing the impacts of disturbance over large areas and long time periods is crucial for nature management, but also challenging since impacts depen...

Several European thistle species of the genus Onopordum have become naturalized in Australia and are considered serious pasture weeds, leading to a pr...

Wolves Canis lupus recently recolonized the Western Alps through dispersal from the Italian Apennines, representing one of several worldwide examples ...

Given the current debate on the global food crisis, conservation in Europe is expected to shift from maximizing biodiversity at the expense of yield t...

Habitat restoration aims to improve local habitat conditions for threatened species. While such restorations are widespread, rigorous evaluations of t...

Mass effect, allowing species to persist in unfavourable habitats, and dispersal limitation, preventing species from reaching favourable habitats, are...

Coexistence between humans and wildlife is necessary for many conservation goals but is difficult to achieve in landscapes with increasing human popul...

Local and landscape features influence the spatial distribution of biodiversity. At the landscape scale, heterogeneity has compositional and configura...

Tropical old-growth forests continue to decline worldwide, resulting in a huge loss of biodiversity. The extent to which the expansion of second-growt...

The understanding of large-scale patterns in expanding populations of alien invasive plants can be used to infer the environmental limiting factors, h...