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Conversion of natural habitats to human use can affect the abundance and distribution of predators and parasites, create population sinks, and reduce ...

Disease epidemics typically begin as an outbreak of a relatively small, spatially explicit population of infected individuals (focus), in which diseas...

Predicting how populations may respond to climate change and anthropogenic pressures requires detailed knowledge of demographic traits, such as surviv...

Pest eradication is an important facet of conservation and ecological restoration and has been applied successfully to invasive rat species on offshor...

Because of changing land-use practices and abandonment, many European calcareous grasslands are under increasing threat. In order to protect those gra...

Private lands contain much of the world's biodiversity. Conservation of private land, especially agricultural land, is urgent yet challenging because ...

1. Estimates of species abundance are of key importance in population and ecosystem level research but can be hard to obtain. Study designs using came...

Better tools are needed to predict population connectivity in complex landscapes. 'Least-cost modelling' is one commonly employed approach in which di...

These two parts of a series deal with studies in an apple orchard in south-eastern England in 1953-59 on the effect of routine sprays of winter wash (...

The ecological effects of harvesting from wild populations are often uncertain, especially since the sensitivity of populations to harvesting can vary...