In general, males mate with multiple females to increase individual reproductive success.
Whether or not, and under what circumstances, females benefit from multiple mating has …

The concept of mating systems refers to all the strategies through which animals interact in
the context of breeding. Animal social interactions, and consequently their mating strategies …

Reproduction of the pancake tortoise in the wild has remained poorly known over the
decades. This study fills the knowledge gap by investigating the reproductive ecology of the …

Characterizing how frequently, and at what life stages and spatial scales, dispersal occurs
can be difficult, especially for species with cryptic juvenile periods and long reproductive life …

Multi‐species approaches provide valuable insight for conservation planning, yet most
studies focus on only one species while generalizing across taxa. Here, we employed 5–14 …

Based on a long-term dataset, this paper is part of a series exploring the influence of
environmental spatial and temporal heterogeneity on reproduction, recruitment, survival …

Mate searching is a key component of sexual reproduction that can have important
implications for population viability, especially for the mate‐finding Allee effect. Interannual …

The ability to produce viable offspring without recently mating, either through sperm storage
or parthenogenesis, can provide fitness advantages under a suite of challenging ecological …

Many mammals have a promiscuous mating system with multiple sired litters. Promiscuity
can increase the genetic variability, reduce the risk of inbreeding, and increase the effective …

T urtles are compelling animals to study because they are charismatic, many species are
easy to catch, and their life histories are both diverse and unusual. Turtles also serve as …