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The conservation of biodiversity is increasingly justified by claims that human livelihoods are improved through its protection. Nature's ecosystem se...

Biodiversity data are needed for conservation and management of tropical habitats, but the high diversity of these ecosystems makes comprehensive surv...

Relational values have recently been proposed as a concept to expand our understanding of environmental values from the categories previously dominati...

Anthropogenic activities that degrade natural ecosystems may also impact human health. However, research on the links between human and environmental ...

Polar bear Ursus maritimus population dynamics under conditions of climate change has become a controversial topic. A survey of expert opinion based o...

It is widely appreciated that management shapes the dynamics of many ecological systems, but ecologists rarely consider the reverse interaction, that ...

Concepts of ecosystem stability, resilience and resistance have been discussed theoretically for nearly three decades. Understanding the effects of ha...

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...

To date, there has been a focus on biological aspects of invasion rather than landscape-scale processes within human-modified landscapes. Applying a m...