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Optimization methods are routinely used for landscape-level conservation planning, but still underused in supporting species recovery programs. A poss...

The UN decade on ecosystem restoration calls for the preservation of global biodiversity. Safeguarding biological diversity is crucial for the well-be...

The traditional grasslands that characterize the cultural landscapes of the Palaeartic mountain massifs represent biodiversity hotspots. Yet, they are...

A principal goal of protected-area networks is to maintain viable populations of as many species as possible, particularly those that are vulnerable t...

Reintroductions are commonly used for re-establishing self-sustainable populations in formerly inhabited areas. Reintroductions are expensive, and thu...

Open population mark-recapture analysis of unbounded populations accommodates some types of closure violations (e.g. emigration, immigration). In cont...

Shallow groundwater aquifers regularly support drought refuges for water-dependent ecosystems. However, many aquifers are impacted by over-extraction ...

Human population pressure is placing huge demands on China's environment. In recent years, the Chinese government has established a suite of programme...

The maintenance of habitat heterogeneity in agricultural landscapes has been promoted as a key strategy to conserve biodiversity. Animal response to g...

Modern agricultural landscapes are dynamic systems with interannually changing proportions of different crop types. However, the effects of spatiotemp...