Agricultural intensification has led to the decrease of the diversity of wild and domestic
pollinators. For instance, honeybees declined by 59% in 61 years in the USA. About 35% of …

Biodiversity continues to decline, despite the implementation of international conservation
conventions and measures. To counteract biodiversity loss, it is pivotal to know how …

Agri-environmental management (AEM) is heralded as being key to biodiversity
conservation on farmland, yet results of these schemes have been mixed, making their …

Ecosystem services are natural processes that benefit humans. Birds contribute the four
types of services recognized by the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment—provisioning …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 858–869 Abstract There is increasing recognition that
ecosystems and their services need to be managed in the face of environmental change …

Collaborative research by networks of amateurs has had a major role in ornithology and
conservation science and will continue to do so. It has been important in establishing the …

Distribution models are used to predict the likelihood of occurrence or abundance of a
species at locations where census data are not available. An integral part of modelling is the …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 406–414 Abstract Incentive payments to private landowners
provide a common strategy to conserve biodiversity and enhance the supply of goods and …

Species distribution models (SDMs) provide insights into species' ecology and distributions
and are frequently used to guide conservation priorities. However, many uses of SDMs …

Sophisticated statistical analyses are common in ecological research, particularly in species
distribution modeling. The effects of sometimes arbitrary decisions during the modeling …