Wildfires underpin the dynamics and diversity of many ecosystems worldwide, and plants
show a plethora of adaptive traits for persisting recurrent fires. Many fire-prone ecosystems …

Animal populations have developed multiple strategies to deal with environmental change.
Among them, the demographic buffering strategy consists in constraining the temporal …

Context Land-use change is one of the main threats to biodiversity on the global scale.
Legacy effects of historical land-use changes may affect population dynamics of long-lived …

Context Passive habitat rewilding after rural abandonment can affect wildlife differently
depending on the type of habitats that it generates. Objective Evaluate and compare the …

Reptiles in urban remnants are threatened with extinction by increased fire frequency,
habitat fragmentation caused by urban development, and competition and predation from …

Age‐related telomere length (TL) variation is relatively well‐described for mammals, birds
and other model organisms. Nevertheless, it remains largely unknown in ectotherms …

Ectotherms exhibit varying geographic size patterns shaped by environmental and
evolutionary factors. This variability is noticeable within taxonomic groups. For instance …

A reliable estimation of individuals' age is helpful to conduct demographic studies on wildlife
populations. In tortoises, many studies have estimated individuals' age by counting growth …

Identifying key evolutionary strategies that support population persistence remains a
challenging task for biodiversity conservation. Here we assess if animal adaptations to cope …

Survival is a key parameter in species' management and conservation. Most methods for
estimating survival require time series data, large sample sizes and, overall, costly …