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Biological pest control has become one of the central principles of ecological intensification in agriculture. However, invertebrate natural enemies w...

According to the threat-sensitivity hypothesis, prey avoidance behaviour should reflect the magnitude of predation risk. Since predation can strongly ...

Two experiments were used to investigate the relationship between feral pig density and the rate of lamb predation and the differential susceptibility...

1. In regions where sheep are kept in fenced pastures and do not graze unattended in carnivore habitats, sheep losses vary greatly between sites and l...

1. Wild predators sometimes kill livestock. In Australia the red fox kills lambs, but there are limited experimental data to demonstrate the effects o...

Predators can provide a valuable ecosystem service by suppressing crop pests. However, intraguild predation, where predators compete for the same prey...

Large gulls (Larus) spp. are voracious predators of eggs and chicks of other colonial birds and may threaten rare or endangered species. We tested the...

European farmland bird populations have fallen dramatically and sympathetic management of key habitats is one crucial way to help boost these populati...

Post-dispersal seed losses in annual arable weed species are poorly quantified, but may be of significance for natural population control, especially ...

The decline of Arvicola terrestris in the UK has been attributed to the spread of the introduced Mustela vison. Understanding the causes and dynamics ...