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In mine spoil reclamation, the establishment of a sustainable plant cover requires the improvement of limiting conditions and the re-initiation of car...

Pollen beetles (Brassicogethes spp.) are the main pests of oilseed rape (OSR, Brassica napus) in Europe and responsible for massive yield losses. Upco...

Phenological overlap between crop flowering and pollinators is a crucial trait for the pollination of more than 75% of the world's crops. However, cro...

Agricultural intensification has simplified landscape composition and configuration, which has led to biodiversity declines. Increasing landscape-wide...

Despite a rich history of theoretical and empirical work showing that increasing biodiversity results in higher ecosystem function, this research has ...

1. River regulation for hydropower is undertaken worldwide, causing profound alterations to hydrological regimes and running water habitats. Regulated...

In Europe, grassland agriculture is one of the dominant land uses. A major aim of European agri-environment policy is the management of grassland for ...

The canopy of a Tarchonanthus/Acacia thicket on Kenya grazing land was opened up by a series of controlled burns. Two burns killed >50% of the orig...

Ecosystem-based fisheries management aims to ensure ecologically sustainable fishing while maximising socio-economic benefits. Achieving this goal for...

Areas dedicated to shrimp aquaculture have increased dramatically over the last 50 years. Resultant land-use changes directly threaten the extent of m...