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Changes in large-scale land use may fragment and degrade habitats, affecting animal species adapted to these habitats. In the UK uplands for example, ...

Edge effects of native forest fragmentation have been well studied, but there are few studies of open-ground habitats fragmented by plantation forests...

Large predator attacks on humans often provoke calls for animal population reduction, assuming it will reduce such incidents. Whilst this seems logica...

Urbanization is a growing threat to ecological communities and has become a leading cause of population extirpations in a wide range of taxa. Because ...

Urbanization has been identified as a global threat to biodiversity. Human population growth in coastal areas, including estuaries, is expected to inc...

More than a quarter of the world's carnivores are threatened, often due to multiple and complex causes. Considerable research efforts are devoted to r...

Negative interactions between large terrestrial predators, such as wolves, bears and felids, and livestock are a global phenomenon. The resultant conf...

Invasive parasitoids and predators, both accidentally and purposefully introduced, have variously altered native insect communities worldwide, sometim...

Nutrient availability varies widely in aquatic systems and is likely to profoundly affect the outcomes of plant-herbivore interactions in aquatic envi...

The dynamics of many populations is strongly affected by immigrants. However, estimating and modelling immigration is a real challenge. In the past, s...