Agriculture and development transform forest ecosystems to human‐modified landscapes.
Decades of research in ecology have generated myriad concepts for the appropriate …

BACKGROUND Biodiversity is under siege, with greatly enhanced rates of local and global
extinction and the decline of once-abundant species. Current rates of human-induced …

Human–wildlife conflict (HWC) is a key topic in conservation and agricultural research.
Decision makers need evidence‐based information to design sustainable management …

Biodiversity is essential to human well-being, but people have been reducing biodiversity
throughout human history. Loss of species and degradation of ecosystems are likely to …

Assesses a promising new approach to restoring the health of our bodies and our planet
Most of us are familiar with probiotics added to milk or yogurt to improve gastrointestinal …

Human interactions with wildlife are a defining experience of human existence. These
interactions can be positive or negative. People compete with wildlife for food and …

Positive effects of habitat patch size on biodiversity are often extrapolated to infer negative
effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity at landscape scales. However, such cross …

There is a pressing need to integrate large carnivore species into multi-use landscapes
outside protected areas. However, an unclear understanding of coexistence hinders the …

Trophic rewilding is an ecological restoration strategy that uses species introductions to
restore top-down trophic interactions and associated trophic cascades to promote self …

Large herbivores and carnivores (the megafauna) have been in a state of decline and
extinction since the Late Pleistocene, both on land and more recently in the oceans. Much …