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Ungulates influence ecosystem services in important ways, including by altering the amount of standing plant biomass and species composition. Browsing...

Because biological systems are complex, management interventions occasionally have unintended adverse consequences. For example, attempts to control b...

Understanding the ecological and human factors that shape the loss of livestock to wild carnivores can help target conservation efforts. We used 5 yea...

Quantifying interactive effects of environmental drivers on population dynamics can be critical for a robust analysis of population viability. Fire re...

Knowledge of the link between a vector population's pathogen-transmission potential and its biotic environment can generate more realistic forecasts o...

According to the threat-sensitivity hypothesis, prey avoidance behaviour should reflect the magnitude of predation risk. Since predation can strongly ...

Hundreds of recent studies have voiced concern over the negative impacts of non-target pesticides on pollinator health. However, pesticide loads are h...

Abandonment of agricultural land is widespread in many parts of the world, leading to shrub and tree encroachment. The increase of flammable plant bio...

Managed systems harvested at intermediate time-scales have advantages over annual short-cycled systems in maintaining top-down control of insect herbi...

Social connections among individuals are essential components of social-ecological systems (SESs), enabling people to take actions to more effectively...