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Many developing countries harbour large numbers of species that face little-understood, gradual changes in their environment, including chronic anthro...

Monitoring abundance is essential for vector management, but it is often only possible in a fraction of managed areas. For vector control programmes, ...

Flying foxes Pteropus spp. play a key role in forest regeneration as seed dispersers and are also the reservoir of many viruses, including Nipah virus...

Natural and human-generated disturbances are widely acknowledged as key drivers of biological invasions. Understanding the role of spatial patterns of...

Bees are exposed to pesticides when foraging in agricultural areas and growing evidence suggests that such compounds can be harmful to managed and wil...

Helisoma duryi has been suggested as a biological control agent against the snail intermediate hosts of schistosomes, Biomphalaria and Bulinus species...

The following is based largely on the author's partly hypothetical interpretation of existing data on the zoonosis caused by Leishmania mexicana in Br...

The following is based largely on the author's summary of this account of a study of the fauna of stones in the Vaal River in the north-east of Cape P...

The largest land use change in Europe is woodland expansion, through planting and natural regeneration. Unforeseen consequences of this could include ...

Bees are key pollinators, and thus declines in their populations around the world may lead to negative consequences for both the environment and agric...