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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...

Identifying the ecological and life-history correlates of local extinction may elucidate mechanisms by which species traits and the environment intera...

Economic forces are recognized as an important driving factor behind current biodiversity losses. This study investigates whether such factors have be...

In applied population ecology, simulation models are often used to predict the likely consequences of different management options and to inform polic...

In much of the world, fauna has been adversely affected by human actions, including conversion of forests to farmland, logging and regulation of river...

Little is known of farmer responses to environmental education, and where practices aimed at improving stream health are adopted, comparisons are gene...

The addition of large water storage dams to rivers in California's Central Valley blocked access to spawning habitat and has resulted in a dramatic de...

Increasingly, river managers are turning from hard engineering solutions to ecologically based restoration activities in order to improve degraded wat...

Clearcutting has been identified as a main threat to forest biodiversity. In the last few decades, alternatives to clearcutting have gained much inter...

The development of shade-grown agro-ecosystems has increasingly been identified as a strategy for conserving tropical biodiversity. While biodiversity...