Traditionally, information on the postglacial history of plant species has been gained from the
analysis of fossil pollen data. More recently, surveys of present patterns of genetic variation …

Assessing the scope and severity of threats is necessary for evaluating impacts on populations
to inform conservation planning. Quantitative threat assessment often requires monitoring …

Earthworms play a major role in many aspects of soil fertility, food web ecology and
ecosystem functioning, and hence are frequently the subjects of, for example, ecological and …

Predators can provide a valuable ecosystem service by suppressing crop pests. However,
intraguild predation, where predators compete for the same prey resource whilst consuming …

The carabid beetle Pterostichus melanarius is a major natural enemy of pests, such as aphids
and slugs in agricultural systems. Earthworms are a dominant non‐pest component of the …

White-nose syndrome, a novel fungal pathogen spreading quickly through cave-hibernating
bat species in east and central North America, is responsible for killing millions of bats. We …

Establishing status and trend for an endangered species is critical to recovery, especially
when it is faced with a nascent extinction agent. We calculated, with hierarchical log-linear …

Vibrational signalling is a widespread form of animal communication and, in the form of
sexual communication, has been generally regarded as inherently short‐range and a private …

In agricultural systems, polyphagous beetles and spiders are abundant components of the
beneficial arthropod community. Although data on the dietary ranges of these groups is …

Species‐ and group‐specific PCR primers were developed to study predation on pest and
nonpest invertebrate species by generalist carabid predators in agroecosystems. To ensure …