Animal tuberculosis, caused by bacteria of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC), poses major economic and socio-ecological challenges in Europe. In Mediterranean ecosystems, water scarcity co...

Current Conservation The Silent Impact: How Roads Are Eroding Europe’s Food Webs

Ecological Niche - The concept "Ecological niche" is on of the most used expressions in Ecological literature. But, what is it? What are we talking about when we talk about Ecological Niche? Would it be useful to define an ecological niche for biotic interactions rather than for isolated species? I think so, considering that formalising such a concept would help us guide the ecological interpretation of the ecological context in which two species interact.

From Wallace to modern species distribution models, biodiversity science has become extraordinarily good at mapping life across the planet. However, a forest is not just trees, birds, fungi, and insects occupying the same coordinates on a map. It is pollination, predation, competition, parasitism, decomposition, seed dispersal, scavenging, facilitation, and countless flows of energy and matter connecting organisms into functioning ecological systems…

This book is the first to comprehensively present both the current state of knowledge and future directions in the emerging discipline of Road Ecology.

Roads promote different positive and negative effects on biodiversity, and consequently on species interactions (mutualism, predation, parasitism, competition, commensalism, and amensalism). Yet, such...

Vessels and marine species are, quite literally, on a collision course... and sometimes an image is worth a thousand words. Recently, Greenpeace has shared in Instagram at least a small reel depicting a blue whale trying to navigate heavy traffic in the Gulf od Ancud, Chile (the video was created by Luis Bedriñana-Romano, a researcher at the Austral University of Chile.

The Iberian Peninsula is the world's largest olive (Olea europaea subsp. europaea L.) producing region due to its high environmental suitability for o…

Aim Assess the structural importance of threatened and non-threatened species within European food webs by quantifying their roles in maintaining network connectivity. Location Europe. Methods W...

Conservation efforts have traditionally been focused on saving the rarest, most threatened species, and for good reason. But what if our singular focus on endangered species is causing us to overlo…

This book is the first to comprehensively present both the current state of knowledge and future directions in the emerging discipline of Road Ecology.

El crecimiento del tráfico marítimo global representa una serie de amenazas crecientes para la biodiversidad marina, tales como la contaminación, las colisiones con embarcaciones y las perturbaciones ...

Shipping sustains global trade but poses escalating threats to marine biodiversity, with wildlife-vessel collisions, noise, and pollution endangering species such as cetaceans (whales and dolphins), s...

This list focuses on (what I’m calling) scientific dialogues—in which researchers respond to each other’s work using published papers as messengers. Often, a paper sparks a reply, which may, …

Danish Scientist, Prof. Sven Erik Jørgensen, founded the international journal Ecological Modelling and Systems Ecology (ECOMOD) in 1975 with the support of Elsevier Publishers. The journal, which was...

Humans dominate the Earth—we inhabit it, we disrupt it, and we traverse it. Ecologists have dedicated themselves to studying the impact of roads on terrestrial systems since the end of the 20th cen…

The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity, including vessel collisions, behavioural disturbances, and poll…

Current Conservation The Silent Impact: How Roads Are Eroding Europe’s Food Webs

Our study reveals that roads and traffic not only cause direct wildlife mortality but also destabilise entire ecological networks by altering predator-prey interactions. By mapping high-risk areas for...

Roads stand as major threats to biodiversity because they affect the functioning of ecosystems and the provision of ecosystem services. Understanding how the effects of roads affect the dynamics of e...

YouTube video by Frederico Mestre

The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity including vessel collisions, disturbance, and pollution. Protecting areas

A bióloga e pesquisadora Talita Menger aborda uma nova metodologia para escolher qual rodovia deve receber ações para reduzir fragmentação de hábitat.

We have developed a new version of the gDefrag package. The previous version has been retired from CRAN due to dependencies on outdated packages. This updated version is still under development and…