At moderate densities, small mammalian herbivores can enhance livestock weight gains by suppressing toxic plants and improving both the abundance and nutritional quality of palatable forage in rangela...

The rise of America’s largest native fruit

The local effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on plants are well established, yet a global empirical analysis of nitrogen deposition effects on vegetation dynamics is missing. Here, we assess ...

Opening access to the products of scientific research is widely considered a key step toward both fairness and better science worldwide. Since the 1990s, different forms of open access (OA) to journa...

Scientists say climate change is driving the extraordinary fire conditions gripping western Europe, but that the scale of those fires cannot be understood without looking at how humans drastically cha...

The local effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on plants are well established, yet a global empirical analysis of nitrogen deposition effects on vegetation dynamics is missing. Here, we assess ...

Toksisk. Egeprocessionsspinderens giftige hår stikker os som chili og brandmænd. Det er virkelig dårligt nyt, hvis man vil udvikle en modgift.

Egeprocessionsspindere kan bekæmpes på flere fronter. Men vi slipper aldrig helt af med dem, siger en biolog fra Holland, hvor larven i længere tid har generet.

99% of plant distributions in Europe show signs of disequilibrium. The surprise? Climate change was only part of the story. Disturbance emerged as an even more pervasive force shaping where species oc...

Nativeness is a concept central to biodiversity conservation and invasion biology, but there are several problems related to a classic binary nativeness definition. Dilemmas arise from the dynamic na....

Ecological constraints may prevent species from occupying potentially suitable areas. Here the authors show that disturbance is a widespread predictor of range disequilibrium in the vascular flora of ...

ALT: Jaguar Hunt

Urban forests are not merely green amenities; they support critical ecosystem functioning and services vital for healthy, resilient cities. Recognising urban forests as core infrastructure is essentia...

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2

New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, and ...

Defining an Anthropocene epoch from the mid-1900s allows representing human environmental impacts’ triphasic nature within the International Geological Timescale. Such an epoch captures humanity’s cur...