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Populations of large grazing birds have increased in Europe during the past five decades, raising conflicts between conservation and farming interests...

Tidal energy converters (turbines) are being developed in many countries as part of attempts to reduce reliance on hydrocarbon fuels. However, the mov...

Seasonal changes in relative growth rate (RGR) and its components, net assimilation rate (NAR) and leaf area ratio (LAR), were measured in Mediterrane...

Seed predation can reduce the abundance and spread of unwanted vegetation in agricultural and other semi-natural ecosystems. However, knowledge of how...

Rivers are dynamic ecosystems in which both human impacts and climate-driven drying events are increasingly common. These anthropogenic and natural st...

Landscape composition and local diversification practices such as polyculture, cover cropping and hedgerows may promote natural pest control by benefi...

Environmental stochasticity and low demographic rates may cause delayed extinctions of habitat-specialist species that were initially retained within ...

Like many ecosystem functions in marine and terrestrial environments, nutrient processing varies dramatically over small spatial scales, making effort...

Our current inability to estimate precisely the population sizes of chimpanzees and gorillas across much of the Congo Basin has been detrimental to th...

There is an increasing awareness of the need to evaluate critically the effectiveness of environmental conservation measures, and to ensure that agri-...