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Meeting fundamental human needs while also maintaining ecosystem function and services is the central challenge of sustainability science. In the dens...

Acacia nilotica is a spinescent woody legume that has become highly invasive in several parts of the world, including Australia where it has been decl...

Cassava is consumed by 800 million people and is a staple crop in Africa. Its production may increase under climate change due to its high drought tol...

Numerous studies describe thresholds at which transitions between alternate ecosystem states occur but few quantitatively delimit these conditions and...

Cut-over peatlands cover large surfaces of high potential value for enhancing biodiversity and carbon sequestration if successfully restored. Unfortun...

The benthic invertebrate communities of 4 man-made brackish (mixo-oligohaline) lagoons in the Humber Estuary, England, were investigated. The communit...

The effects of anthropogenic disturbance upon the stability of wildlife communities depend on the heterogeneity and connectivity of habitat remnants o...

Mature urban trees improve air quality, reduce storm water run-off and sequester carbon. Municipal agencies establish forests of native juvenile trees...

The nutrient input in rainfall was determined at three colliery spoil heaps in Yorkshire and at a rural site. The only major difference between sites ...

1. Research on interactions between humans and deadly snakes has focused on situations that result in high rates of snakebite; but we can also learn f...