The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well
documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in …

Many ecosystems can be viewed as lying within a continuum between grassland and forest,
where ground coverage by woody plants (trees and shrubs) ranges from non‐existent to …

Remote sensing enables the quantification of tropical deforestation with high spatial
resolution,. This in-depth mapping has led to substantial advances in the analysis of …

Woody vegetation in grasslands and savannas has increased worldwide over the past 100–
200 years. This phenomenon of “woody plant encroachment”(WPE) has been documented …

This new edition of Invasion Ecology provides a comprehensive and updated introduction to
all aspects of biological invasion by non-native species. Highlighting important research …

They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

We develop methods for quantifying habitat connectivity at multiple scales and assigning
conservation priority to habitat patches based on their contribution to connectivity. By …

Can physics be an appropriate framework for the understanding of ecological science? Most
ecologists would probably agree that there is little relation between the complexity of natural …

All species' ranges are the result of successful past invasions. Thus, models of species'
invasions and their failure can provide insight into the formation of a species' geographic …

Aims To identify approaches to improve our understanding of, and predictive capability for,
mixed tree–grass systems. Elucidation of the interactions, dynamics and determinants, and …