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The recent dramatic decline in farmland biodiversity is often attributed to agricultural intensification and structural changes in the agricultural la...

The concept of assessing forests for carbon sequestration is well established. Operationally, estimating a forests' potential to sequester carbon requ...

Commercial forests represent an important but often neglected biological resource. This study related the understorey plant species composition of a c...

Loss in forest cover associated with human activities leads to forest islands within a fragmented landscape. Anthropogenic disturbance may also direct...

Tropical rainforests are potential reservoirs of insects that could enhance crop pollination, but only a few instances of the provision of such servic...

In the Horn of Africa, frankincense (an aromatic hardened wood resin) is obtained by tapping Boswellia papyrifera. World-wide, frankincense is of grea...

It is important to understand the pollination processes that generate landscape-scale gene dispersal in plants, particularly in crop plants with genet...

The consequences of the movement of transgenes from genetically modified (GM) crops into wild populations of plants continues to be of concern to ecol...

In recent years the use of species distribution models by ecologists and conservation managers has increased considerably, along with an awareness of ...

Traditionally, restoration ecologists and land managers have used the trial-and-error method to select candidate restoration species. This method, how...