Stakeholder engagement has become an important aspect of sustainable natural resources management. This study analysed a landscape performance assessment by local and ‘external’ stakeholders in a transfrontier conservation ...

Nothing is known about the age of wild Giant Bullfrogs (Pyxicephalus adspersus); yet this information has important conservation implications for this regionally threatened species. We quantified and compared the age, ...

Conservation of rare and declining species requires reliable information about life-history traits and population growth characteristics. Unfortunately, long-term studies necessary to obtain such data are often difficult ...

Sexual selection often involves female preference for males of a certain age, and a body of theory predicts preference for old males. We measured a comprehensive set of traits from the acoustic sexual display of male ...

Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) are critical biodiversity areas for the conservation and sustainable use of biological and cultural resources while promoting regional peace, cooperation, and socio-economic ...

AIM: To assess the relative importance of environmental (climate, habitat heterogeneity and topography), human (population density, economic prosperity and land transformation) and spatial (autocorrelation) influences, and ...

Research collaboration between developed countries from the northern hemi- sphere and developing countries in the southern hemisphere is essential for the under- standing and protection of the major proportion of biodiversity ...