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Although it is widely assumed that protected areas conserve species that would not survive elsewhere, this assumption is seldom tested. The aim of the...

Increasingly, river managers are turning from hard engineering solutions to ecologically based restoration activities in order to improve degraded wat...

Increasing degradation of ecological conditions in streams because of human activities has prompted widespread restoration attempts; however, the ecol...

In recent years, interest has grown in restoring floodplain function of regulated rivers. Successful rehabilitation of riparian systems requires knowl...

The combined attack by leaf mining larvae of the argid, Schizocerella pilicornis, and the curculionid, Hypurus bertrandi, typically resulted in >80...

Many species have highly localized distributions in the British Isles and have persisted for considerable periods of time in isolation from their main...

Timber harvesting exemplifies many aspects of experimental manipulation in applied ecology. Evaluation of the research approaches used to assess ecolo...

Management of rangelands has long operated under the paradigm of minimizing spatially discrete disturbances, often under the objective of reducing inh...

Despite the fact that fire is considered an important disturbance in savannas across the world and is used widely as a management tool in conservation...

The use of off-season burns to control exotic vegetation shows promise for land managers. In California, wildfires tend to occur in the summer and aut...