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Climate change is altering disturbance regimes and recovery rates of forests globally. The future of these forests will depend on how climate change i...

Human relationships with nature may sometimes manifest through fear, disgust and other disease-avoidance mechanisms. While there is an evolutionary ut...

Zoonoses constitute a major risk to human health. Comprehensive assessments on the potential emergence of novel disease outbreaks are essential to ens...

The intensification of agriculture has resulted in the decline of many plant species of nutrient-poor wet grasslands. At some sites local populations ...

Masses of vegetation, litter and humus and their C and N contents, population densities of bacteria, fungi and arthropods, and respiration rates, mois...

To ensure the successful detection, control and eradication of invasive plant species, we need information that can identify areas prone to invasions ...

The need to address wildlife conservation outside of protected areas has become more urgent than ever before to meet environmental and socio-economic ...

A hill pasture on an iron podzol in NE Scotland comprising areas of heather-dominated vegetation and Deschampsia flexuosa grassland was grazed by shee...

The long-term persistence of fragmented plant populations is predicted to be threatened by a loss of genetic variability and increasing inbreeding, wh...

The practice of deliberately moving animals from one site to another for conservation is increasing as a tool to re-establish extirpated populations. ...