The circulation of seed among farmers is central to agrobiodiversity conservation and
dynamics. Agrobiodiversity, the diversity of agricultural systems from genes to varieties and …

Cultivated species diversity can provide numerous benefits to agricultural systems. Many
ecological theories have been proposed to understand the relationships between plant …

Formal models are commonly used in natural resource management (NRM) to study human-
environment interactions and inform policy making. In the majority of applications, human …

Simultaneous environmental changes challenge biodiversity persistence and human
wellbeing. The science and practice of restoration ecology, in collaboration with other …

Understanding social-ecological systems (SES) is crucial to supporting the sustainable
management of resources. Agent-based modelling is a valuable tool to achieve this …

Research on the interactions between human behaviour and ecological systems tends to
focus on the direct effects of human activities on ecosystems, such as biodiversity loss …

The successful conservation of bird species relies upon our understanding of their habitat
use and requirements. In the coming decades the importance of such knowledge will only …

In the last decade, probably in response to global changes and the environmental crisis, the
use of the term “social-ecological system”(SES) in scientific literature has grown. This is …

The difficulty to spatially link the process levels of organizing agricultural management with
those of investigating biodiversity preservation creates a spatial scale mismatch which …

Farmland throughout the world is frequently likened to a mosaic or patchwork and this
heterogeneity is widely recognised as strongly influencing the abundance and diversity of …