It is now widely recognized that mating systems contain both social and genetic components, where social components describe patterns of social associations while genetic components reflect patterns of mating activities. ...

In this note I want to point out a potentially concerning bias in evolutionary hypothesis testing. In evolutionary research, deductive hypothesis testing is the most common way of achieving information on causal relationships ...

Predation strategies in response to altering prey abundances can dramatically influence the demographic effects of predation. Despite this, predation strategies of humans are rarely incorporated into quantitative assessments ...

Humans are altering their living environment to an extent that could cause environmental collapse. Promoting change into environmentally sustainability is therefore urgent. Despite a rapid expansion in conservation ...

The ecological effects of consumer guilds are strongly driven by the relative resource use of included species. Here we use stable isotopes in faecal samples from 6 co-occurring mammalian herbivores in an African savanna ...

There are considerable challenges in the conservation of large carnivores, caused by large area requirements, low reproduction rates and low population densities coupled with their tendency to cause conflict with humans. ...