Many sea turtle stocks are in decline worldwide due to excessive harvesting and destruction
of nesting and foraging habitats.^ Yet population abundance for many stocks can display …

Hunting by humans played a major role in extirpating terrestrial megafauna on several
continents and megafaunal loss continues today in both terrestrial and marine ecosystems …

We examine why demographic models should be used cautiously in Population Viability
Analysis (PVA) with endangered species. We review the structure, data requirements, and …

Matrix population models require the population to be divided into discrete stage classes. In
many cases, especially when classes are defined by a continuous variable, such as length …

As more reptiles find their way onto endangered species lists, it is increasingly important to
identify management alternatives that can be applied across taxa. I have compared life …

Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for
contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges. And yet, much …

It is a collection of short yet detailed scientific reviews which were all subject to peer review.
The conference was designed to bring together a wide range of biologists to compare and …

The depletion of fish stocks from global fisheries has been a long‐standing concern. More
recently, incidental catch of non‐target (termed bycatch) vertebrates also has been …

The green turtle, Chelonia mydas, is a circumglobal species and a primary herbivore in
marine ecosystems. Overexploitation as a food resource for human populations has resulted …

Elasticity is a perturbation measure in matrix projection models that quantifies the
proportional change in population growth rate as a function of a proportional change in a …