▪ Abstract Estimates of global wetland area range from 5.3 to 12.8 million km2. About half the
global wetland area has been lost, but an international treaty (the 1971 Ramsar Convention) …

There is increasing interest in develo** better predictive tools and a broader conceptual
framework to guide the restoration of degraded land. Traditionally, restoration efforts have …

Vegetation recovery in disturbance‐driven ecosystems is difficult to predict. We demonstrate
a concept to analyse time series for short‐term variability in external forcing that can identify …

Scientists rely on food webs—complex networks that trace the flow of nutrients and energy
between species and through ecosystems—to understand the infrastructure of ecological …

Abstract The Mid‐Continent Population of the lesser snow goose, which breeds in the
eastern and central Canadian Arctic and sub‐Arctic, and winters in the southern United …

Recent theoretical developments involving community assembly on the one hand, and
invasion biology on the other, suggest a gradual convergence in thought between what …

1 Herbivores may initiate small changes to plant-soil systems that trigger positive feedbacks
leading to rapid catastrophic shifts in vegetative states, including irreversible changes in soil …

Ungulates have reached such high densities in some natural ecosystems that culling is
frequently used to reduce their impacts on vegetation. However, much is still unknown about …

Summary 1 The need to rehabilitate and restore ecological resources degraded by overuse
was already established when the Journal of Applied Ecology was launched in 1964. In the …

Coastal habitats provide the link between the land and the sea. They are dynamic, combine
to form ecosystems of great complexity and provide significant areas for wildlife. Their …