Editor's Choice
Read the editor's choice papers published in each issue:
Selected paper: A systems approach to restoring degraded drylands
February 2013
Editor's Choice: Macroecological patterns of disease outbreak for aquaculture
Selected Paper: More rapid and severe disease outbreaks for aquaculture at the tropics: implications for food security
December 2012
Editor's Choice: Tools for integrating climate change adaptation into conservation planning
Selected paper: A decision framework for considering climate change adaptation in biodiversity conservation planning
October 2012
Editor's Choice: The biodiversity audit approach
Selected paper: The biodiversity audit approach challenges regional priorities and identifies a mismatch in conservation
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August 2012
Editor's Choice: Monitoring and evaluating the ecological impact of agri-environment schemes
Selected paper: Landscape-scale responses of birds to agri-environment management: a test of the English Environmental Stewardship scheme

Selected paper: Multi-level functional responses for wildlife conservation: the case of threatened caribou in managed boreal forests
April 2012
Editor's Choice: Towards understanding the population-level effects of wind farms on birds

February 2012
Editor's Choice: Predators also live in landscapes of fear
Selected paper: Behavioural adjustments of a large carnivore to access secondary prey in a human-dominated landscape

December 2011
Editor's Choice: The impact of small-scale fisheries on non-target marine organisms
Selected paper: Small-scale fisheries of Peru: a major sink for marine turtles in the Pacific
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October 2011
Editor’s Choice: Urban ecosystem services
Selected paper: Mapping an urban ecosystem service: quantifying above-ground carbon storage at a city-wide scale

August 2011
Editor's Choice: Harnessing ecosystem services to enhance agricultural sustainability
Selected paper:National-scale regulation of the weed seedbank by carabid predators
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Selected paper: Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments using microphone arrays: applications, technological considerations and prospectus.
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Selected paper: Effect of biodiversity on economic benefits from communal lands in Namibia
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February 2011
Editor's Choice: Action versus Research
Selected paper: Optimising search strategies for invasive pests: learn before you leap
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December 2010
Editor's Choice: Linking modelling, monitoring and management
Selected paper: Linking modelling, monitoring and management: an integrated approach to controlling overabundant wildlife
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October 2010
Editor's Choice: Assessing the risks of the spread of avian influenza through long-distance bird migration
August 2010
Editor's Choice: Cadmium pollution triggers a positive biodiversity-productivity relationship
Selected paper: Cadmium pollution triggers a positive biodiversity-productivity relationship: evidence from a laboratory microcosm experiment
June 2010
Editor's Choice: Challenges in Reintroducing Carnivores
Selected paper: Evaluating the lynx reintroduction programme in Colorado: patterns in mortality
April 2010
Editor's Choice: Habitat offsets in the face of agricultural intensification: why ’business as usual’ banking does not work
Selected paper: Can offsets really compensate for habitat removal? The case of the endangered red-tailed black-cockatoo
February 2010
Editor's Choice: The efficacy of ecological restoration
Selected paper: Spontaneous succession in limestone quarries as an effective restoration tool for endangered arthropods and plants
December 2009
Editor's Choice: Predicting invader success requires integrating ecological and land-use patterns
Selected paper: Interacting effects of management and environmental variability at multiple scales on invasive species distributions
October 2009
Editor's Choice: Landscape-level vegetation recovery from herbivory
Selected paper: Landscape-level vegetation recovery from herbivory: progress after four decades of invasive red deer control
August 2009
Editor's Choice: Assessing biodiversity by remote sensing in mountainous terrain
Selected paper: Assessing biodiversity by remote sensing in mountainous terrain: the potential of LiDAR to predict forest beetle assemblages
Selected paper: Disease dynamics in marine metapopulations: modelling infectious diseases on coral reefs
April 2009
Editor's choice: Where the buffalo roam – bison and brucellosis in Yellowstone
Selected paper: Wildlife–livestock conflict: the risk of pathogen transmission from bison to cattle outside Yellowstone National Park
February 2009
Editor's choice: Unintended trophic cascades from feral cat eradication
Selected paper: Indirect effects of invasive species removal devastate World Heritage Island
December 2008
Editor's choice: New research on wind farms
Selected paper: Minimal effects of wind turbines on the distribution of wintering farmland birds
October 2008
Editor's Choice
Selected paper: Thresholds in landscape connectivity and mortality risks in response to growing road networks
August 2008
Editor's Choice
Selected paper: Can oil palm plantations be made more hospitable for forest butterflies and birds?
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