1. Anthropogenic activities influence ongoing selective regimes leading to changes in phenotypic variation of plants and animals. The reduction of phenotypic variation may decrease populations' ability to cope with environmental changes. To counteract the increasing risk of extinction of affected populations it is important to rescue intraspecific variability, assuring higher success of establishment

1. Tropical floodplains secure the protein supply of millions of people, but only sound management can ensure the long‐term continuity of such ecosystem services. Overfishing is a widespread threat to multitrophic systems, but how it affects ecosystem functioning is poorly understood, particularly in tropical freshwater foodwebs. Models based on temperate lakes frequently assume that primary producers

1. Hunting and culling are frequently used to combat infectious wildlife diseases. The aim is to markedly lower population density in order to limit disease transmission or to eradicate the host. Massive host culling can yield a trade‐off when combating wildlife disease; it follows that intrusive actions may have unintended behavioural side‐effects, leading to the geographic spread of disease. The

Invasive plants are key drivers of global environmental changes leading to the disruption of ecosystems. Many invasive species engage in novel niche construction through plant‐soil feedbacks facilitated by inputs of secondary compounds, which help their further spread and survival. These compounds can persist in the soil even after removing the invader, thus creating a legacy effect that inhibits the

Many long‐term wildlife population monitoring programmes rely on citizen scientists for data collection. This can offer several benefits over traditional monitoring practices as it is a cost‐effective, large‐scale approach capable of providing long time series data and raising public environmental awareness. Whilst there is a debate about the quality of citizen science data, a standardised sampling

1. Biological pest control has become one of the central principles of ecological intensification in agriculture. However, invertebrate natural enemies within agricultural ecosystems are exposed to a myriad of different pesticides at both lethal and sub‐lethal doses, that may limit their capacity to carry out pest control. An important question is how underlying diversity in invertebrate predator species

There is an increased focus on the role of Indigenous and local people and organizations in knowledge gathering, knowledge synthesis and decision‐making. This is occurring at a range of scales from international policy formation to local and regional management and decision‐making (Hausner, Engen, Brattland, & Fauchald, 2020; McElwee et al., 2020; Rayne et al., 2020; Tengö et al., 2017, all this feature)

Julie A.O. Miller, Robert W. Furness, Mark Trinder and Jason Matthiopoulos. The sensitivity of seabird populations to density‐dependence, environmental stochasticity and anthropogenic mortality. Journal of Applied Ecology, 2019, 56, 2118–2130. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13448 Following publication, the authors highlight an error in the equation used to describe productivity in the Supporting

1. Effective pollination is a complex phenomenon determined by the outcome of the interaction between pollen transfer and a plants’ pollinator dependency, yet most studies investigate pollinator effectiveness without consideration of plant mating system differences.

1. Artificial reefs are used around the world for many purposes, including widespread deployment to increase fishery yields. These reefs are well‐studied from a direct fisheries‐based perspective, drawing largely on traditional theory and methodological approaches from population and community ecology.

1. Given the public health, economic, and conservation implications of zoonotic diseases, their effective surveillance is of paramount importance. The traditional approach to estimating pathogen prevalence as the proportion of infected individuals in the population is biased because it fails to account for imperfect detection. A statistically robust way to reduce bias in prevalence estimates is to

1. Land‐use intensification leads to loss and degradation of habitats and is thus a major driver of biodiversity loss. Restoration strategies typically focus on promoting biodiversity but often neglect that land‐use intensification could have changed the underlying mechanisms of community assembly. Since assembly mechanisms determine the diversity and composition of communities, we propose that evaluation