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In managing plant diseases, there is often tension between a regulator seeking to destroy infected plants to prevent further infection on a national s...

Pathogen transmission from open net-pen aquaculture facilities can depress sympatric wild fish populations. However, little is known about the effects...

Field surveys of egg populations of Cryptophlebia leucotreta and the egg parasitoid Trichogrammatoidea cryptophlebiae native to southern Africa, were ...

Active restoration to rehabilitate degraded tropical lands often involves planting tree seedlings, an effective but expensive approach if large areas ...

Most studies in applied ecology use measures of α-diversity measures, i.e. the mean diversity on a site, to compare biodiversity effects of different ...

Some studies have shown that mixed forest stands can develop more biomass or basal area than pure stands when the component species occupy different s...

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires that all European waterbodies are assigned to one of five ecological classes, based primarily on...

Light-demanding trees and thorny shrubs in temperate plant communities may reflect adaptations to now-extinct large grazers, such as aurochs and tarpa...

Land abandonment promotes forest expansion into abandoned agricultural lands in Europe. This process leads to changes that affect several ecosystem se...

Possible determinants of seasonal vegetation community selection by cattle, red deer, goats and ponies on the Isle of Rhum, Scotland are described and...