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Advancing the scientific basis for insect eradication

Analysis of historical insect eradication programs

Interacting Allee effects and eradication strategies

Optimizing insect eradication through bioeconomic approaches

Developing a systematic 'science of the past' to create our future

Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology

Conditions Under Which Nitrogen Can Limit Steady-State net primary production in a general class of ecosystem models

Size, species,and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon

Anthropogenic understory fires have affected large areas of tropical forest in recent decades, particularly during severe droughts. Yet, the mechanisms that control fire-induced mortality of tropical trees and lianas remain ambiguous due to the challenges associated with documenting mortality given variation in fire behavior and forest heterogeneity. In a seasonally dry Amazon forest, we conducted a burn experiment to quantify how increasing understory fires alter patterns of stem mortality.

Comment on the incidence of fire in Amazonian forests with implications for REDD

Aragão and Shimabukuro (Reports, 4 June 2010, p. 1275) reported that fires increase in agricultural frontiers even as deforestation decreases and concluded that these fires lead to unaccounted carbon emissions under the United Nations climate treaty's tropical deforestation and forest degradation component. Emissions from post-deforestation management activities are, in fact, included in these estimates—but burning of standing forests is not.

Prioritizing land and sea conservation investments to protect coral reefs