Quantifying the relative impacts of top‐down vs. bottom‐up control of ecosystems remains a
controversial issue, with debate often focusing on the perennial question of how predators …

Developmental stressors are increasingly recognised for their pervasive influence on the
ecology and evolution of animals. In particular, many studies have focused on how …

Field naturalists have observed the activities of weasels for centuries. Their descriptions
were often accurate but sometimes misinterpreted the animals' behaviors and underlying …

Analysis of factors influencing the success or failure of translocation programmes is crucial
to understand broadly the process of establishment of new populations (Seddon et al., 2007) …

Since reintroduction programmes involve moving animals from captive or wild environments
and releasing them into novel environments, there are sure to be a number of challenges to …

Translocations have become one of the most commonly used tools for biodiversity
restoration worldwide, however one out of three re-introduction plans fails to create a viable …

The success of reintroduction programs greatly depends on the amount of mortality and
dispersal of the released individuals. Although local environmental pressures are likely to …

Conservation translocation is a common strategy to offset mounting rates of population
declines through the transfer of captive‐or wild‐origin organisms into areas where …

Wild carnivores in zoos, conservation breeding centres, and farms commonly live in
relatively small, unstimulating enclosures. Under these captive conditions, in a range of …

As part of a conservation initiative, captive-bred individuals of the endangered European
mink Mustela lutreola were released to a Baltic island 'sanctuary', Hiiumaa Island (Estonia) …