If habitat destruction or overexploitation of populations is severe, species loss can occur
directly and abruptly. Yet the final descent to extinction is often driven by synergistic …

Biodiversity provides to humankind enormous direct economic benefits, an array of indirect
essential services through natural ecosystems, and plays a prominent role in modulating …

The human race faces many global to local challenges in the near future. Among these are
massive biodiversity losses. The 2012 IUCN/SSC Red List reported evaluations of~ 56% of …

Monitoring the response of wild mammal populations to threatening processes is
fundamental to effective conservation management. This is especially true for infectious …

We developed a database of 10 wild vertebrate populations whose declines to extinction
were monitored over at least 12 years. We quantitatively characterized the final declines of …

Direct estimates of extinction risk are frequently unavailable, so surrogate indicators are
used in threatened species categorizations, but there is inadequate information on which …

Tanzania is one of the most biologically diverse nations in the world. Traveling from west to
east across Tanzania, one encounters an incredible array of ecosystems and species …

As anthropogenic environmental changes spread and intensify across the planet,
conservation biologists have to analyze dynamics at large spatial and temporal scales …

Amphibians are declining worldwide, and one cause of this is infectious disease
emergence. Mass mortalities caused by a virus or a group of viruses belonging to the genus …

Are the dynamics of most ecological processes fundamentally increased in frequency or
magnitude in fragmented habitats? Hyperdynamism could alter a wide range of population …