In tropical regions, the extent of agricultural land is rapidly increasing at the expense of
natural forest with associated losses of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Agroforestry …

It is almost certainly the case that many populations have always existed as
metapopulations, leading to the conclusion that local extinctions are common and normally …

Forests managed for timber have an important role to play in conserving global biodiversity.
We evaluated the most common timber production systems worldwide in terms of their …

Human-driven land-use changes increasingly threaten biodiversity, particularly in tropical
forests where both species diversity and human pressures on natural environments are …

Abstract In 1985, Michael Soulé asked,“What is conservation biology?” We revisit this
question more than 25 years later and offer a revised set of core principles in light of the …

Stephen Gliessman's complementary volumes, Agroecology: The Ecology of Sustainable
Food Systems, Third Edition and Field and Laboratory Investigations in Agroecology, Third …

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

Protected areas are extremely important for the long term viability of biodiversity in a densely
populated country like India where land is a scarce resource. However, protected areas …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

Land use intensification can greatly reduce species richness and ecosystem functioning.
However, species richness determines ecosystem functioning through the diversity and …