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1. Functional and numerical responses are key components in the selection of predators for biological control. We examined the relevance of these resp...

1. Hole-nesting birds are frequently faced with a shortage of suitable nest sites in regions of intensive forest management. Nest boxes are sometimes ...

Agricultural developments over recent decades have had significant negative effects on wildlife. Modern European agriculture faces many further develo...

Agricultural intensification is perceived to be a major cause of the decline in many European bat populations. Because organic farming prohibits the u...

Management decisions regarding invasive plants often have to be made quickly and in the face of fragmentary knowledge of their population dynamics. Ho...

The initiation of an invasion event is rarely dated in studies of alien plants. Data from aerial photographs documenting the invasion from the outset ...

Human disturbance of natural habitats has increasingly promoted hybridization between previously isolated species. Coffee trees (Coffea canephora, C. ...

Virulent virus was introduced in 1977 to a feral cat population on the 290-km² Marion Island, South Africa, where the cats were killing some 450 000 p...

Predicting biological invasions remains a challenge to applied ecologists and limits pre-emptive management of biosecurity threats. In the last decade...

There is increasing interest in the use of food supplements in agriculture to enhance the performance of parasitoids as part of conservation biologica...