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During the past three decades, conservation and restoration biologists have increasingly recognized that ecological communities are likely to exhibit ...

Many species are adapted to landscapes with characteristic dynamics generated by ongoing habitat destruction and creation. Climate change and human la...

Biodiversity can insure ecosystems against declines in their functioning by increasing the mean level of ecosystem processes and decreasing the spatia...

Energy production from wind power is increasing rapidly in Europe to help combat the threats from global warming. For example, the European Commission...

Climate change has been inducing range shifts for many species as they follow their suitable climate space and further shifts are projected. Whether s...

Managers must understand the effects of stressors on ecosystems in order to identify thresholds of harm but, to be meaningful, thresholds will usually...

The identification of species associated with or indicative of groups of samples is a common aspect of ecological research, including studies of envir...

Ecological systems are prone to disturbances and perturbations. For stage-structured populations, communities and ecosystems, measurements of system m...

Conservation and natural resource management challenges are as much social problems as biological ones. In recognition of this fact, ecologists and ec...

Answering many of the critical questions in conservation, development and environmental management requires integrating the social and natural science...