Simple Summary Populations of many marine species are threatened by a number of
interacting factors, including anthropogenic activities, climate change, and biodiversity loss …

Competition is a widespread interaction among carnivores, ultimately manifested through
one or more dimensions of the species' ecological niche. One of the most explicit …

Substantial research and conservation resources are invested towards studying, protecting,
and managing carnivore populations, globally. But scholarly investigations that link the …

Checklists represent a basic tool for conservation and management of regional faunas.
However, our knowledge on species composition in a territory changes over time due to …

Although much can be deduced from fossils alone, estimating abundance and preservation
rates of extinct species requires data from living species. Here, we use the relationship …

Humans have been altering the Mediterranean landscapes for millennia. To diminish the
probability of encounters with domestic animals, humans and their activities, many species …

The phylum Microsporidia encompasses a diverse group of obligate, intracellular, and spore-
forming organisms able to infect a wide range of animal hosts. Among them, Enterocytozoon …

Context The expansion of exotic plantations can impose conservation challenges on wildlife,
and the Iberian Peninsula has one of the widest planted areas of exotic Eucalyptus sp. in …

The replacement of natural areas with forestry plantations is a worldwide expanding process
with direct consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem functionality. In the Mediterranean …

Human population growth leads to drastic changes in landscape structure that often result in
fragmentation. Fragmentation modifies the landscape and divides it into smaller habitat …