Every year, millions of households provide huge quantities of supplementary food to wild
birds. While alteration of the natural dynamics of food supply represents a major intervention …

Large avian scavengers are among the most vulnerable vertebrates, and many of their
populations have declined severely in recent decades. To help mitigate this marked …

The science and practice of ecological restoration are increasingly being called upon to
compensate for the loss of biodiversity values caused by development projects. Biodiversity …

Wild bird feeding is one of the most common forms of human‐wildlife interactions in the
Western world. Originally a practice providing nutritional assistance to over‐wintering birds …

Feeding stations are commonly used to sustain conservation programs of scavengers but
their impact on behaviour is still debated. They increase the temporal and spatial …

Provisioning of wildlife with food, water and breeding sites is a globally ubiquitous
phenomenon. While some provisioning is targeted at single species of conservation …

A keystone species is one that is crucial in maintaining the organization and diversity of their
ecological communities. We tested the idea that rabbits act as a keystone species in …

Background Human-predator conflicts are directly or indirectly threatening many species
with extinction. Thus, biologists are urged to find simple solutions to complex situations while …

As wildlife populations are declining, conservationists are under increasing pressure to
measure the effectiveness of different management strategies. Conventional conservation …

The joint effects of interacting environmental factors on key demographic parameters can
exacerbate or mitigate the separate factors' effects on population dynamics. Given ongoing …