The researchers apply a new approach to understand human-black bear conflicts in Durango, Colorado. Successfully limiting human-wildlife conflicts requires an understanding of the roles of both animal ...

Many of the world’s impoverished communities rely on the environment for their livelihoods. Dominant livelihood approaches focus on increasing incomes and trigger processes that disregard underlying ...

Shifts in phenology that are driven by climate change have substantial impacts on ecosystems, but the effects of these ecological shifts on coupled social–ecological systems remain largely unexplored.

In his Millennium Essay (Nature 408, 293; 2000), Jim Smith proposes that ecological theory is generally untestable, and therefore that ecology should concentrate less on theoretical explanation and ...

While tropical land clearing provides for the livelihoods of Brazilians from many socioeconomic backgrounds, it also affects climatological and ecological processes. To develop sustainable forest use, ...