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Resource competition is an important process governing the impact of livestock on native wild mammalian herbivores, an issue acknowledged to be of glo...

Maintaining developmental heterogeneity of ecological communities within landscapes is crucial for sustainable native forest management. Consequently,...

The açaí palm Euterpe oleracea Mart. in the Amazon river delta has seen rapid expansion to meet increased demand for its fruit. This has been achieved...

Private lands contain much of the world's biodiversity. Conservation of private land, especially agricultural land, is urgent yet challenging because ...

Small-size, directed networks are relevant for many biological applications, from meta-populations to food webs, from transport flows to evolutionary ...

Desertification is of critical concern because it may affect 40% of the global land area inhabited by more than 1 billion people. During the process o...

There is great interest among policy makers in the potential of carbon-based payments for ecosystem services (PES) to reduce carbon emissions from def...

At coastal sites adjacent to the Hudson Bay lowlands, intensive foraging by increasing numbers of lesser snow geese Anser caerulescens caerulescens ha...

Recent work has shown that the dynamics of woody and herbaceous vegetation mosaics under grazing or browsing can be strongly affected by the spatial p...

Aggressive behaviour of top predators may have strong effects on the distribution and abundance of mesopredator species. Such interactions between pre...