In tropical forests, soil-borne plant pathogens are thought to regulate diversity by driving negative plant-soil feedbacks and promoting density-dependent mortality of seedlings close to parent trees. Pathogens interact ...

If you are illiterate, a library is at best a tempting storehouse of thin sheets of firewood. If you are bioilliterate, that great green mass is simply something in the way, something to be replaced, turned to compost, ...

This is the fifth issue in the Global Re-introduction Perspectives series and has been produced in the same standardized format as the previous four to maintain the style and quality. The case-studies are arranged in ...

Across the globe amphibian populations are declining due to chytrid disease, climate change and habitat loss. However, the rate of this decline in terms of the numbers of species lost is difficult to determine, due to the ...

Throughout their range, wild felids in the Americas prey on livestock and this sometimes leads to retaliatory killing. Recently, conservation and research programs focused on such conflicts have recommended mitigation and ...

Por su posición geográfica, Centroamérica posee una mezcla de especies de origen Neártico (provenientes de Norteamérica) y otras de origen Neotropical (provenientes de Suramérica), además de algunas especies endémicas ...

La relación entre los Estados Unidos y las naciones al sur del Rio Grande siempre ha sido compleja. Desde el siglo diecinueve, con su doctrina del “Destino Manifiesto”, los Estados Unidos consolidaron su hegemonía en ...

Los bosques tienen la capacidad de almacenar el dióxido de carbono atmosférico en la biomasa, cumpliendo así una función muy importante en la regulación del cambio climático. El cambio climático es quizás el mayor problema ...