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In epidemiological studies of wildlife parasites, faecal genotyping has been introduced to prevent bias in estimates of parasite prevalence from faeca...

When tuberculosis outbreaks have occurred in cattle in the UK, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) has culled badgers (Meles meles)...

To evaluate progress on political biodiversity objectives, biodiversity monitoring provides information on whether intended results are being achieved...

Wildlife management and conservation programmes often require accurate information on population density, but this can be difficult to obtain, particu...

Fire is an important disturbance in African savannas where it is generally assumed that high levels of pyrodiversity (variation in aspects of the fire...

For most ecological assemblages, compiling complete inventories of species is difficult, if not impossible. Various methods have been developed to est...

Effective biodiversity management can only be implemented if data are available on assemblage-environment relationships. The level of detail needs to ...

Environmental surveillance can allow early detection of diseases, which increases management options and can improve disease trajectories. Chronic was...

Earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) were sampled on four occasions (spring, summer, autumn and winter) at 14 sites along two transects from a primary l...

Gene flow from domesticated to wild populations is a major threat to wild salmonid fish. However, few studies have addressed how populations could be ...