South Africa's moist grassland harbours globally significant biodiversity, supplies essential
ecosystem services, supports crop and livestock agriculture, forestry and settlement, yet is …

This paper documents the origin and conceptual ambiguity of the terms Sustainable,
Ecological and Agroecological Intensification. It defines the concept of Ecological …

Due to deforestation, intact tropical forest areas are increasingly transformed into a mixture
of remaining forest patches and human modified areas. These forest fragments suffer from …

Context Connectivity between habitat patches is vital for ecological processes at multiple
scales. Traditional metrics do not measure the scales at which individual habitat patches …

This study explores the implications of spatial scale for conservation planning in the Agulhas
Plain, South Africa. Regional planning relies on broad-scale data but fine-scale data are …

Floras serve as the basic reference of the plant biota of an area; they are critical tools that
serve botanists, conservationists, ecologists, foresters, gardeners, agronomists, researchers …

The destruction of natural habitats and the associated loss of Ecosystem Services (ES) are
rarely jointly assessed and quantified in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Based on …

Reference conditions are difficult to find in the Anthropocene but essential for effective
biodiversity conservation. Aquatic ecosystems in the Andes‐Amazon transition zone of …

Protected areas are a central strategy for achieving global conservation goals, but their
continued existence depends heavily on maintaining sufficient social and political support to …