Conservation translocations: a review of common difficulties and promising directions

O Berger‐Tal, DT Blumstein… - Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Translocations are a common conservation and management strategy, but despite their
popularity, translocations are a high‐cost endeavor with a history of failures. It is therefore …

A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation

P Brakes, EL Carroll, SRX Dall… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A key goal of conservation is to protect biodiversity by supporting the long-term persistence
of viable, natural populations of wild species. Conservation practice has long been guided …

A predictive timeline of wildlife population collapse

F Cerini, DZ Childs, CF Clements - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Contemporary rates of biodiversity decline emphasize the need for reliable ecological
forecasting, but current methods vary in their ability to predict the declines of real-world …

Should we consider individual behavior differences in applied wildlife conservation studies?

MJ Merrick, JL Koprowski - Biological Conservation, 2017 - Elsevier
Individually distinctive behavioral traits, or personalities, contribute to population-level
processes and ecological interactions important in applied wildlife conservation research …

Behavior change in urban mammals: a systematic review

K Ritzel, T Gallo - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As cities expand to accommodate a growing human population, their impacts to natural
ecosystems and the wildlife residing within them increase. Some animals that persist in …

Animal agency in wildlife conservation and management

É Edelblutte, R Krithivasan, MN Hayek - Conservation Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife conservation and management (WCM) practices have been historically drawn from
a wide variety of academic fields, yet practitioners have been slow to engage with emerging …

Listening to animal behavior to understand changing ecosystems

WK Oestreich, RY Oliver, MS Chapman, M Go… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Interpreting sound gives powerful insight into the health of ecosystems. Beyond detecting
the presence of wildlife, bioacoustic signals can reveal their behavior. However, behavioral …

Macrobehaviour: behavioural variation across space, time, and taxa

SA Keith, JP Drury, BJ McGill, GF Grether - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - cell.com
We explore how integrating behavioural ecology and macroecology can provide
fundamental new insight into both fields, with particular relevance for understanding …

Review of hyperdispersal in wildlife translocations

J Bilby, K Moseby - Conservation Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Species translocation is a common tool to reverse biodiversity loss, but it has a high failure
rate. One factor that contributes to failure is postrelease hyperdispersal, which we define as …

Wildlife conservation: The importance of individual personality traits and sentience

KA Owens, G Bryja, M Bekoff - Animal Sentience, 2024 - wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org
Individual differences in personality types within the same species have been studied much
less than differences between species and populations. Personality differences are related …