Tropical forests house over half of Earth's biodiversity and are an important influence on the
climate system. These forests are experiencing escalating human influence, altering their …

Alien herpetofauna have a broad diversity of ecological and evolutionary impacts, involving
seven mechanisms. Ecological impacts usually result from trophic disruptions and may be …

For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for
the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds' beauty and extraordinary …

Wild large herbivores are declining worldwide. Despite extensive use of exclosure
experiments to investigate herbivore impacts, there is little consensus on the effects of wild …

Several recent meta-analyses have aimed to determine whether natural regeneration is
more effective at recovering tropical forests than active restoration (for example, tree …

Invasive vertebrate predators are directly responsible for the extinction or decline of many
vertebrate species, but their indirect impacts often go unmeasured, potentially leading to an …

Aim The world's islands support disproportionate levels of endemic avian biodiversity
despite suffering numerous extinctions. While intensive recent research has focused on …

Dispersal is thought to be a key process underlying the high spatial diversity of tropical
forests. Just how important dispersal is in structuring plant communities is nevertheless an …

Tropical secondary forests are increasingly important for carbon sequestration and
biodiversity conservation worldwide; yet, we still cannot accurately predict community …

Seed dispersal sets the stage for the suite of biotic and abiotic interactions that determine
the fate of individual seeds. In this review, we first focus on how dispersal influences the …