Insular populations offer excellent opportunities to study the factors that influence
phenotypes. We observed island dwarfism in a widespread snake, the nose-horned viper …

Zoo‐based (ex situ) conservation breeding programs provide invaluable opportunities to
uncover enigmatic behaviors and traits of focal species under managed care, which can …

Understanding age‐dependent patterns of survival is fundamental to predicting population
dynamics, understanding selective pressures, and estimating rates of senescence …

Survival is a key vital rate for projecting the viability of wild populations. Estimating survival is
difficult for many rare or elusive species because recapture rates of marked individuals are …

Many imperiled species face increasing extinction risk that requires interventional
management like translocation or captive rearing. The use of translocations to successfully …

Reintroduction of species at sites where populations have been extirpated has become a
common technique in wildlife conservation. To track progress towards reintroduction …

Conservation translocations are often used to connect disjunct populations or reintroduce
them to otherwise suitable areas from which they have become locally extinct …

Modeling somatic growth of animals whose growth rates are seasonally variable is a
challenge. Seasonal variation in growth reduces model fit and precision if not accounted for …

Conservation-reliant species require perpetual management by humans to persist. But do
species that persist largely in human-dominated landscapes actually require conditions …

Many aquatic organisms are experiencing increasingly severe and frequent droughts and
drying events. Simultaneously, drought effects are carrying over to nondrought years as …