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Understanding how emergent pathogens successfully establish themselves and persist in previously unaffected populations is a crucial problem in diseas...

A simple but general model of density-dependent dispersal in an arthropod population is used to explain the relationship between the density and the s...

Conventionally, agent host specificity has been the major concern in the selection of prospective agents for biological control of weeds. However, sub...

The British uplands are internationally important for their unique plant and bird communities. They have considerable economic, nature conservation, l...

Our current inability to estimate precisely the population sizes of chimpanzees and gorillas across much of the Congo Basin has been detrimental to th...

Polyphagous predators, such as spiders and beetles, perform a fundamental ecosystem service as regulators of agricultural pests, particularly aphids. ...

Species that depend on anthropogenic waste for food can remove pathogens that pose health risks to humans and livestock, thereby saving lives and mone...

Many long-term wildlife population monitoring programmes rely on citizen scientists for data collection. This can offer several benefits over traditio...

In Latin America, the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus is the primary reservoir of rabies, a zoonotic virus that kills thousands of livestock annu...

Land use (e.g. urbanization, agriculture, natural lands management) may directly affect populations by habitat loss and fragmentation, and indirectly ...