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The far-reaching impacts of livestock grazing in terrestrial grasslands are widely appreciated, but how livestock affect the structure and functions o...

Community-based conservation, despite being more inclusive than fortress conservation, has been criticized for being a top-down implementation of exte...

Herbivores make decisions at different spatial levels in response to food plant quality and quantity. Although experiments have examined the responses...

Despite concern about the effects of fragmentation on biodiversity, quantitative studies are still scarce with respect to many major groups and import...

Applied ecology, like conservation research, may deal with societal issues if its scientifically based interventions have societal consequences. Human...

Retention forestry, in which trees and tree patches are set aside at harvest to promote biodiversity, has been proven to have positive effects on biod...

Low phosphorus (P) availability limits plant biomass production in fens, which is a prerequisite for the persistence of many endangered plant species....

Reliance on ecosystem services instead of synthetic, non-renewable inputs is increasingly seen as key to achieving food security in an environmentally...

Biological control of crop pests is a major ecosystem service affected by several variables acting at multiple spatial scales. Among these variables, ...

At present, there is limited knowledge of how best to reconcile urban development with biodiversity conservation, and in particular whether population...