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Indigenous people have been managing fire-prone landscapes for millennia, especially in tropical savannas, thereby maintaining carbon stocks and pyrod...

1. Global targets to halt biodiversity losses and mitigate climate change will require protecting rainforest beyond current protected area networks, n...

Measurements at monthly intervals showed that leaf-fall in the Mora excelsa rain forests of Trinidad was much greater in Aug. Oct. and in Feb. April t...

Agricultural intensification reduces ecological resilience of land-use systems, whereas paradoxically, environmental change and climate extremes requi...

Two Casuarina equisetifolia plantation stands of age 5 and 8 yr, located in dry tropical climate of the Vindhyan plateau have been studied in order to...

The brown locust Locustana pardalina is a major agricultural pest in southern Africa, with populations periodically reaching plague proportions. Manag...

Anthropogenic activities and climate change are affecting marine ecosystems world-wide, but systematic biodiversity assessments through periodic biomo...

The outcome of the ongoing biodiversity crisis depends on the capacity of the Earth's wildlife to persist in working landscapes. Yet, the species that...

The seed-to-seedling transition may be a critical stage in determining the dynamics of plant populations. Insects which kill seeds either before or af...

Seed dormancy and factors affecting dormancy breakdown were studied in 15 accessions of Cenchrus ciliaris of near-equatorial origin and 6 of near-trop...