The concept of the ecological trap, a low‐quality habitat that animals prefer over other
available habitats of higher quality, has appeared in the ecological literature irregularly for …

The role of inbreeding depression in the extinction of wild populations is controversial,
largely because there are no quantitative estimates of its impact using realistic levels of …

Population size is a major determinant of extinction risk. However, controversy remains as to
how large populations need to be to ensure persistence. It is generally believed that …

Wild populations face threats both from deterministic factors, eg, habitat loss,
overexploitation, pollution, and introduced species, and from stochastic events of a …

The recovery of the grey wolf in Yellowstone National Park is an outstanding example of a
successful reintroduction. A general question concerning reintroduction is the degree to …

Using computer simulations, we evaluate the effects of genetic purging of inbreeding load in
small populations, assuming genetic models of deleterious mutations which account for the …

Animals that must hunt and kill for at least part of their living are inherently interesting to
many people and the role that carnivores play in biological communities attract interest from …

Demography is the study of individuals as members of a population. The dynamics of a
population are determined by collectively analyzing individual schedules of survival, growth …

Risk assessments can be used to identify threats, which vary both in space and time, to
declining species. Just as hot spots describe locations where threat processes operate at a …

The Port Stephens Koala Phascolarctos cinereus population has been regarded as one of
the strongholds for Koalas in New South Wales. This study applied population viability …