7 Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch 8 University, Matieland 7602, South Africa; Department of Biology, Juniata College, Huntingdon, 9 Pennsylvania 16652, USA; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Stellenbosch 10 University, Matieland 7602, South Africa; Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and 11 Zoology, St...

Ulrich G. Mueller, Nicole M. Gerardo, Duur K. Aanen, Diana L. Six, and Ted R. Schultz 1Section of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712; email: [email protected] 2Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama 3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0088; email: nge...

Ecological patterns and processes are characteristically scale dependent, and research findings often cannot be translated easily from one scale to another. Conservation biology is challenged by a lack of congruence between the spatial scales of ecological research (typically involving small plots) and land management (typically involving whole landscapes). Here, I discuss spatial scaling issue...

Graham D. Raby*, Michael R. Donaldson, Scott G. Hinch, David A. Patterson, Andrew G. Lotto, David Robichaud, Karl K. English, William G. Willmore, Anthony P. Farrell, Michael W. Davis and Steven J. Cooke Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Dr., Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, ...

Conservation Biogeography and Macroecology Programme, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK, CE3C – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes / Azorean Biodiversity Group and Universidade dos Açores – Departamento de Ciências Agrárias, 9700-042, Angra do Heroísmo, Açores, Portugal, IRD Laboratoire Écologie des Systèmes ...

Functional and phylogenetic diversity are increasingly quantified in various fields of ecology and conservation biology. The need to maintain diversity turnover among sites, so-called beta-diversity, has also been raised in theoretical and applied ecology. In this study, we propose the first comprehensive framework for the large-scale mapping of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity ...

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and folklore are repositories of large amounts of information about the natural world. Ideas, perceptions and empirical data held by human communities regarding local species are important sources which enable new scientific discoveries to be made, as well as offering the potential to solve a number of conservation problems. We documented the gecko-related...