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The red-footed falcon is a near threatened species, which breeds mainly in agricultural landscapes, typically nesting in empty corvid nests on trees. ...

Insectivorous birds are key suppliers of crucial ecosystem services, especially important for pest control in agricultural systems, and are globally d...

As biting lice (Mallophaga) pass their whole life on the host, they have little opportunity for dispersal, except during direct contact between host i...

Growth-stage optimization (GSO) offers a new approach to biodiversity conservation in fire-prone regions by estimating the optimal distribution of veg...

The expanding use of selective pest-control agents provides a unique opportunity to study food web interactions in the field while addressing major en...

Effective evidence-based conservation requires full quantification of the impacts of targeted management interventions on focal populations. Such impa...

In many parts of the world, changes in agricultural land-use have led to significant declines of bird species, including aerial insectivores such as b...

UK agri-environment schemes rarely address within-crop biodiversity yet this habitat is used almost exclusively by some taxa. With the removal of set-...

The eradication of invasive species from islands yields significant conservation returns. However, novel challenges continue to arise as projects expa...

Insufficient reproduction as a consequence of predation on eggs and chicks is a major determinant of population decline in ground-nesting birds, inclu...