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Despite a rich history of theoretical and empirical work showing that increasing biodiversity results in higher ecosystem function, this research has ...

The intensification of agriculture has resulted in the decline of many plant species of nutrient-poor wet grasslands. At some sites local populations ...

The interruption of plant-pollinator interactions may threaten global plant diversity, food security and ecosystem stability. Recent reports of strong...

The effects of habitat changes caused by the spraying of herbicides on the breeding birds of regenerating clearcut mixed woodland (comprising Picea ru...

Place names are an important but vanishing part of cultural diversity, and their relevance for environmental sciences is increasingly acknowledged. St...

Accumulation of recovering vegetation is often the principal mechanism limiting nutrient loss following large-scale disturbance of forest ecosystems. ...

Climate change may increase the occurrence of droughts and fires in the Amazon. Most of our understanding on how fire affects tropical ecosystems is b...

Piecemeal changes in land use might have cumulative effects on regional biodiversity. However, this hypothesis is difficult to test experimentally at ...

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...

The ongoing changes to climate challenge the conservation of forest biodiversity. Yet, in thermally limited systems, such as temperate forests, not al...