The identification of population bottlenecks is critical in conservation because populations
that have experienced significant reductions in abundance are subject to a variety of genetic …

Natural history museums and the specimen collections they curate are vital scientific
infrastructure, a fact as true today as it was when biologists began collecting and preserving …

It has been proposed that in slow‐growing vertebrate populations survival generally has a
greater influence on population growth than reproduction. Despite many studies cautioning …

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Scientific and historical knowledge of worldwide animal‐population decline is fragmentary at
best. However, understanding historical population trends is essential for informing best …

Applied ecological research is increasingly inspired by the open science movement.
However, new challenges about how we define our science when biodiversity data are …

Abstract Natural History Collections (NHCs) represent the world's largest repositories of long-
term biodiversity datasets. Specimen collection and voucher deposition has been the …

Sensitivity analyses that assess the impact of changing vital rates on population growth have
been widely used to guide conservation. If implemented with caution, they can provide …

Abstract The~ 1.97 million egg sets (~ 5 million eggs) housed in museums have not been
used in proportion to their availability. We highlight the wide variety of scientific disciplines …

Source–sink dynamics have been suggested to characterize the population structure of
many species, but the prevalence of source–sink systems in nature is uncertain because of …