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Mangroves are significant carbon (C) sinks and ecological engineers as they accumulate sediments and increase soil surface elevation. Thus, the forest...

Pine (genus Pinus) species are planted extensively for forestry purposes in areas where they are non-native, with the result that biological invasions...

Apple is considered the most important fruit crop in temperate areas and profitable production depends on multiple ecosystem services, including the r...

Liana cutting is a management practice currently applied to encourage seedling regeneration and tree growth in some logged tropical forests. However, ...

Birds may respond to habitat at multiple scales, ranging from microhabitat structure to landscape composition. North American grassland bird distribut...

Since the mid-20th Century, Europe has experienced an unprecedented forest expansion associated with the abandonment of rural landscapes. Secondary fo...

Climate change is rarely taken into consideration in conservation management strategies aimed at protecting biodiversity from other threats. We examin...

With world-wide changes in human land use, an important challenge for conservation biologists is to develop frameworks to predict how species will res...

There is increasing evidence that passive faunal recolonisation of restored areas can take decades or even centuries, reducing benefits to biodiversit...

Evidence-based conservation can benefit substantially from multiple knowledge sources and different knowledge systems. While traditional ecological kn...