As habitat loss and fragmentation place growing pressure on endangered nonhuman primate populations, researchers find increasing evidence for novel responses in behavior. In western Uganda between the Budongo and Bugoma Forests, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) inhabit a mosaic...

Introduced plants are often identified as the major conservation concern worldwide, however, they also may offer conservation benefits, among others, provide habitat and/or food resources to protected animals. Here we aimed to assess the ability of the great Capricorn beetle Cerambyx cerdo, a...

Landscape ecological networks (ENs) consist of landscape-scale conservation corridors that connect areas of high natural value within a production mosaic with protected areas (PAs). In South Africa, ENs have been implemented on a large spatial scale to offset the negative impacts of plantation...

The Korean fir (Abies koreana), a subalpine cold-adapted climatic relict, has declined in the Republic of Korea (ROK) since the 1980's, and IUCN 3.1 has assessed it as a species endangered by global warming. We projected thermal habitat suitability for Korean fir at the subalpine zone of Mt. Halla...

In spite of growing concerns about the invasion of the sun-coral Tubastraea coccinea along the tropical Southwestern Atlantic, the biological interactions mediating this species' establishment and spread are largely unknown. Here, we identified species associations with T. coccinea by comparing...

Floodplain river systems are extremely dynamic environments, where alternating dry and flooded periods affect the availability of food resources for fish. For piscivores, during drought years, a decreased availability of prey is expected, resulting in diets dominated by fewer items, narrower...

The bleak Alburnus alburnus (L., 1758) is a limnophilic fish native to most of Europe. This cyprinid species is a successful invader in the Iberian Peninsula, where it threatens the highly endemic fish fauna. However, studies on bleak autoecology are scarce in this region, with few data on foraging ...

Pollinators are declining worldwide and possible underlying causes include disease, invasive pest species and large scale land use changes resulting in habitat loss and degradation. One particular cause of habitat degradation is the increased inflow of nutrients due to anthropogenic combustion...

The quantity and distribution of freshwater are fundamental to many ecosystem services, including water supply, flood attenuation, habitat provision, electricity generation, navigation, and recreation. Non-native plants and animals can degrade hydrological functions through their physiology,...

Non-native species can affect the quality of habitats available to other organisms and, in turn, the ecosystem services they provide or regulate. Although much research to date has focused on the impacts of non-native species on habitats, the links between habitat impacts and the provision or...