Humans now play a major role in altering Earth and its biota. Finding ways to ameliorate
human impacts on biodiversity and to sustain and restore the ecosystem services on which …

Impacts of debris on marine fauna occur throughout the marine ecosystems, with adverse
impacts documented on over 1,400 species; impacts can be divided into those arising from …

Inadequate funding levels are a major impediment to effective global biodiversity
conservation and are likely associated with recent failures to meet United Nations …

Humans have moved organisms around the world for centuries but it is only relatively
recently that invasion ecology has grown into a mainstream research field. This book …

Limited conservation resources mean that management decisions are often made on the
basis of scarce biological information. Species distribution models (SDMs) are increasingly …

Global biodiversity is under accelerating threats, and species are succumbing to extinction
before being described. Madagascar's biota represents an extreme example of this …

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: It is becoming increasingly clear that
ethnopharmacology cannot be disassociated from food production, human nutrition and the …

Introduction: The use of triage systems is one of the most important measures in response to
mass-casualty incidents (MCIs) caused by emergencies and disasters. In these systems …

Many animal populations are in decline as a result of human activity. Conservation
practitioners are attempting to prevent further declines and loss of biodiversity as well as to …

Protected area managers often fail to use empirical evidence for their management
decisions, yet it is unclear whether this arises from a lack of available data, difficulty in …