Large herbivores play unique ecological roles and are disproportionately imperiled by
human activity. As many wild populations dwindle towards extinction, and as interest grows …

Two major environmental challenges of our time are responding to climate change and
reversing biodiversity decline. Interventions that simultaneously tackle both challenges are …

Ecological data are collected over vast geographic areas using digital sensors such as
camera traps and bioacoustic recorders. Camera traps have become the standard method …

Afrotropical forests host much of the world's remaining megafauna, although these animals
are confined to areas where direct human influences are low. We used a rare long-term …

Biodiversity conservation strategies may prioritise certain values of nature over others.
Whilst there will likely always be a need for compromise in conservation planning, the …

Camera traps are widely used for wildlife monitoring and making informed conservation and
land-management decisions, but the resulting 'big data'are laborious to process. Deep …

Ecosystems function in a series of feedback loops that can change or maintain vegetation
structure. Vegetation structure influences the ecological niche space available to animals …

That humans originated from Africa is well-known. However, this is widely regarded as a
chance outcome, dependant simply on where our common ancestor shared the land with …

Aim Biomes can diverge substantially in plant functional traits and disturbance regimens
among regions. Given that Neotropical and Afrotropical regions have contrasting histories of …

Megaherbivores exert strong top-down influence on the ecosystems they inhabit, yet little is
known about the foraging impacts of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) on the structure of …