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Forests are becoming increasingly fragmented world-wide, creating forest patches with reduced area and greater exposure to human land uses along fragm...

Introduced carnivores are often cryptic, making it difficult to quantify their presence in ecosystems, and assess how this varies in relation to manag...

The loss of floral resources is a leading cause of wild bee decline in agricultural landscapes, but little is known about the temporal aspects of flor...

The benthic invertebrate communities of 4 man-made brackish (mixo-oligohaline) lagoons in the Humber Estuary, England, were investigated. The communit...

Despite covering a relatively small area on a global scale, estuarine tidal flats are vital to many aquatic bird species during much of the yearly cyc...

Non-crop (segetal) plants in arable systems are commonly perceived simply as 'weeds', that is, harmful at worst and undesirable at best. The increase ...

Increasing land abandonment in many areas of the world presents an opportunity for ecosystem recovery, which is often driven by seed dispersal by vert...

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

Attempts to quantify the impact of non-native plants on the vegetation of invaded habitats have often been criticized because of the frequent use of o...

The understanding of large-scale patterns in expanding populations of alien invasive plants can be used to infer the environmental limiting factors, h...