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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...

Tidally energetic habitats are used by a range of marine mammals, including pinnipeds. These areas are also important to the tidal energy industry, le...

The increasing frequency and severity of disturbances to coastal dune ecosystems requires developing and implementing restoration strategies that rapi...

Coexistence between humans and wildlife is necessary for many conservation goals but is difficult to achieve in landscapes with increasing human popul...

The largest land use change in Europe is woodland expansion, through planting and natural regeneration. Unforeseen consequences of this could include ...