Human activities are the main current driver of global change. From hunter‐gatherers
through to Neolithic societies–and particularly in contemporary industrialised countries …

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

Determining the form of key predator-prey relationships is critical for understanding marine
ecosystem dynamics. Using a comprehensive global database, we quantified the effect of …

Stable isotopes are now used widely in ecological studies, including diet reconstruction,
where quantitative inferences about diet composition are derived from the use of mixing …

The evidence for anthropogenically induced climate change is overwhelming with the
production of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels being a key driver. In response …

Abstract Barrett, RT, Camphuysen, CJ, Anker-Nilssen, T., Chardine, JW, Furness, RW,
Garthe, S., Hüppop, O., Leopold, MF, Montevecchi, WA, and Veit, RR 2007. Diet studies of …

It has been widely acknowledged that fishery discard practices constitute a purposeless
waste of valuable living resources, which plays an important role in the depletion of marine …

The large amount of discards produced by commercial fisheries can have major impacts on
marine predator populations: this abundant food may increase populations of some …

Climate change is taking place more rapidly and severely in the Arctic than anywhere on the
globe, exposing Arctic vertebrates to a host of impacts. Changes in the cryosphere dominate …

The UK and Europe have seen successive outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza
across the 2020/21 and 2021/22 autumn/winter seasons. Understanding both the …