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Studies have shown that many adult and immature insects are able to maintain body temperature well above, and often independently of, ambient temperat...

In recent years bovine tuberculosis (TB) incidence in cattle has been increasing in south-west England. The European badger Meles meles is implicated ...

Where biocontrol programmes for invasive plants are in place, only one-third are fully successful. Integrated weed management (IWM) emphasizes the use...

The ecto-parasitic mite Varroa destructor is a serious world-wide pest of the honeybee Apis mellifera and has being linked with the death of millions ...

This study presents statistical methodology that uses spatial explanatory variables to improve simpler estimates of transition probabilities from cate...

Cyclical outbreaks of pests can impact the functioning of entire ecosystems. An eminent example is outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS; Acanth...

Adaptive management involves the development of predictive models, strategic manipulation of management actions to gain information, and subsequent up...

For migratory birds the implications of environmental change may be difficult to predict because they use multiple sites during their annual cycle. Mo...

Red-billed queleas Quelea quelea are major pests of small-grain crops throughout sub-Saharan Africa. When conditions permit, birds breed in vast colon...

The increased deposition of nitrogen (N) from the atmosphere over the last century has been associated in Europe with changes in species composition, ...