Conservation

Recent Papers

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Does Evolutionary History Correlate with Contemporary Extinction Risk by Influencing Range Size Dynamics?

Andrew J. Tanentzap, Javier Igea, Matthew G. Johnston, and Matthew J. Larcombe

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Mar-Tanentzap.html

Evolutionary Rescue from a Wave of Biological Invasion

J. David Van Dyken

Spatial Population Structure Determines Extinction Risk in Climate-Induced Range Shifts

Christopher Weiss-Lehman and Allison K. Shaw

Blog: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Jan-Weiss-Lehman.html

Soil microbiomes underlie population persistence of an endangered plant species

Aaron S. David, Pedro F. Quintana-Ascencio, Eric S. Menges, Khum B. Thapa-Magar, Michelle E. Afkhami, and Christopher A. Searcy

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Oct-David.html

Intraspecific Variation in Worker Body Size Makes North American Bumble Bees (Bombus spp.) Less Susceptible to Decline

Matthew W. Austin and Aimee S. Dunlap

Summary: https://amnat.org/an/newpapers/Sep-Austin.html

The Critical Role of Infectious Disease in Compensatory Population Growth in Response to Culling

Eleanor Tanner, Andy White, Peter W. W. Lurz, Christian Gortázar, Iratxe Díez-Delgado, and Mike Boots

When Do Shifts in Trait Dynamics Precede Population Declines?

Gaurav Baruah, Christopher F. Clements, Frédéric Guillaume, and Arpat Ozgul

Resolving the Measurement Uncertainty Paradox in Ecological Management

Milad Memarzadeh and Carl Boettiger

Meeting Yield and Conservation Objectives by Harvesting Both Juveniles and Adults

Niklas L. P. Lundström, Nicolas Loeuille, Xinzhu Meng, Mats Bodin, and Åke Brännström

Lay summary: https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/MarLundstrom.html