a Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany b Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK), Telegraphenberg A 31, 14473 Potsdam, Germany c Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany d Department of Conservation Social...

Simon M. Smart*, Aaron M. Ellison, Robert G. H. Bunce, Robert H. Marrs, Keith J. Kirby, Adam Kimberley, Andy W. Scott and David R. Foster NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK; Harvard Forest, Harvard University, 324 North Main St, Petersham, MA 01366, USA; Estonian University of Life Sciences, Freidrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi 1, 51014 Tartu, Estonia...

Department of GIS, Cartography and Remote Sensing, Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland Geography Department, Humboldt-University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), PO Box 60 12 03, Telegraphenberg A62, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany Carpa...

Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden. Umeå Marine Sciences Centre, Umeå University, SE-910 20 Hörnefors, Sweden. Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden. Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden. Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers Univer...

Between April 2000 and March 2007, the Canadian Ecology Centre – Forestry Research Partnership funded, directed, or catalyzed approximately 145 projects. Most of these focused on knowledge and data acquisition, providing a solid foundation for a series of sensitivity and gap analyses to determine whether a long-term goal of enhancing productivity on 6 forest management units in Ontario was achi...

Biodiversity surrogates are commonly used in conservation biology. Here we review how fungi have been used as such in forest conservation, emphasizing proposed surrogate roles and practical applications. We show that many fungal surrogates have been suggested based on field experience and loose concepts, rather than on rigorously collected scientific data. Yet, they have played an important rol...

We conducted a prospective study of bacterial transmission among humans, nonhuman primates (primates hereafter), and livestock in western Uganda. Humans living near forest fragments harbored Escherichia coli bacteria that were approximately 75% more similar to bacteria from primates in those fragments than to bacteria from primates in nearby undisturbed forests. Genetic similarity between human...

a Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, United States b Geography Department, Humboldt-University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany c Earth System Analysis, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), PO Box 60 12 03, Telegraphenberg A62, D-14412 Potsdam, Germany d Biodiversity Impact Assessment, Rese...

Wenming Bai*, Dali Guo, Qiuying Tian, Nana Liu, Weixin Cheng, Linghao Li and Wen-Hao Zhang* State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Synthesis Research Center of Chinese Ecosystem Research Network, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Re...

Guang-You Hao, Lawren Sack, Ai-Ying Wang, Kun-Fang Cao* and Guillermo Goldstein* Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province 666303, China; Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los ...