Anthropogenically-induced ecosystem transformations, like land-use change and biological invasions, have accelerated throughout the 20th century with significant impact on rivers and associated ripari...

The large-scale, illegal commercial extraction of peat is widespread in Ireland and the sector does not operate within planning or environmental laws.

Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...

Course on reproducible workflows to manage, produce, use, and reuse FAIR data

Galway County Council has approved plans by Coillte to carry out an environmental restoration project in Conamara.

Satellite data show declining global forest recovery from tree mortality since the 1990s, driven by warming and water scarcity. Canopy water recovers slower than greenness, stressing the need for a mu...

Temperate forest plants favour heterogeneous semi-open woodlands associated with high herbivore densities, rather than uniform closed-canopy forests. Herbivore loss is therefore a probable driver of e...

Senckenberg schreibt aus: Stellen für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler.

A comparison of alpha diversity (number of plant species) and dark diversity (species that are currently absent from a site despite being ecologically suitable) demonstrates the negative effects of re...

Lixin Lyu, Ulf Büntgen, Mai-He Li, Kailiang Yu, Audrey Palosse, Qi-Bin Zhang, Paolo Cherubini. This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology article which can be found here. In this stud…

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries.   Global efforts to restore forests are gathering pace, driven by...

PeatNeeds is back for financial support of peatland ECR during spring 2025! We are able to provide Peat ECR with micro-funds, with help from the peatland-loving community. Thanks to some very generous...

The worst affected was the Caherdaniel area where crews from Sneem were joined by those from Cahersiveen and Killarney

Wildflowers bloom on the banks of the Emscher River in Germany. Such nature-based solutions to ecosystem restoration can bring numerous benefits to both people and nature. Image: MERLIN As the ongo…

We should seize the opportunity to create a greatly expanded National Park using Coillte and other public lands where rewilding and nature restoration could be undertaken at an impressive scale, says ...