Humans provide supplemental food to wildlife under many contexts, ranging from
professional feeding areas for game species to backyard bird feeders. Such resources …

Offspring sex ratios in wild bird populations, and the extent to which they vary from the
equality expected by random genotypic sex determination, have received much recent …

Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the
biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for …

A fully updated guide to the increasingly prevalent use of molecular data in ecological
studies Molecular ecology is concerned with how molecular biology and population genetics …

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex
allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female …

Studies on the effects of anthropogenic activity on wildlife aim to provide a sound scientific
basis for management. However, misinterpretation of the theoretical basis for these studies …

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

Holdaway (1989) described three phases of historical extinctions and declines in New
Zealand avifauna, the last of which (Group III, declining 1780–1986) was associated with …

Phenotypic plasticity may help species to persist in the face of rapid change, yet we lack a
management-friendly framework for incorporating plasticity into conservation practice. Here …

In species where offspring fitness is sex-specifically influenced by maternal reproductive
condition, sex allocation theory predicts that poor-quality mothers should invest in the …