Poisoning of wild birds following ingestion of lead from ammunition has long been
recognised and considerable recent research has focused on terrestrial birds, including …

Amphibians across the planet face the threat of population decline and extirpation caused
by the disease chytridiomycosis. Despite consensus that the fungal pathogens responsible …

Many published studies in ecological science are viewed as stand‐alone investigations that
purport to provide new insights into how ecological systems behave based on single …

Adaptive management (AM) and evidence-based conservation (EBC) have emerged as
major decision-making frameworks for conservation management. AM deals with complexity …

1 Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, David
Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, UK; 2RSPB Centre for …

In the final decades of the nineteenth century, concern was building about the status of
migratory bird populations in North America. In this literature review, we describe how that …

Effectively managing take of wildlife resulting from human activities poses a major challenge
for applied conservation. Demographic data essential to decisions regarding take are often …

The process of setting waterfowl hunting regulations is conducted annually in the United
States (US; Blohm 1989) and involves a number of meetings where the status of waterfowl is …

The management of sustainable harvest of animal populations is of great ecological and
conservation importance. Development of formal quantitative tools to estimate and mitigate …

Automated acoustic monitoring of wildlife has been used to characterize populations of
sound‐producing species across large spatial scales. However, false negatives and false …