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Restoration of high plant species diversity to sites where it has been reduced by intensive grassland management requires identification of appropriat...

Within Europe, agri-environment schemes are the key delivery mechanism for biodiversity conservation outside protected areas. Schemes have a range of ...

At Rothamsted in southern England from 1973 to 1977, alate cereal aphids (Sitobion avenae (F.), Metopolophium dirhodum (Wlk.), and in some years S. fr...

Conservation issues and a potential role in disease transmission generate the continued need to census Eurasian badgers Meles meles, but direct counts...

Two different vegetation communities, Acacia mellifera bushland and associated grassland in a drier, more northerly zone, and A. seyall Balanites aegy...

The habitat use and diet of skylarks (Alauda arvensis) wintering on lowland farms were studied to assess whether changes in agricultural practice coul...

There is often a perceived conflict between recreational access and wildlife conservation. Although many studies have investigated the potential effec...

Experimental manipulations have shown positive impacts of increased species richness on ecosystem productivity, but there remain some questions about ...

Many grasslands in north-west Europe are productive but species-poor communities resulting from intensive agriculture. Reducing the intensity of manag...

The following is based on the authors summary of this account of investigations on the changes in the soil arthropod fauna of an area of dry grassland...