According to recent empirical studies, reproductive senescence, the decline in reproductive
success with increasing age, seems to be nearly ubiquitous in the wild. However, a clear …

Estimation of demographic parameters is central to research questions in wildlife
management, conservation, and evolutionary ecology. I review the 7 major classes of mark …

1. A major current challenge in ageing research is to understand why senescence rates vary
between individuals, populations and species in wild populations. 2. Recent studies clearly …

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal
used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant “Nature's greatest masterpiece …

How does an animal age in natural conditions? Given the multifaceted nature of
senescence, identifying the effects of age on physiology and behavior remains challenging …

Mountain goats have been among the least studied of North American ungulates, leaving
wildlife managers with little information on which to base harvest strategies or conservation …

The artificial selection of traits in wildlife populations through hunting and fishing has been
well documented. However, despite their rising popularity, the role that artificial selection …

Tradeoffs between reproduction and somatic maintenance are a frequently cited explanation
for reproductive senescence in long‐lived vertebrates. Between‐individual variation in …

Large herbivores have strongly age‐structured populations. Because recruitment often
decreases as population density increases, in unexploited populations the proportion of …

In polygynous species, adult mortality is generally higher in males than in females, and
theory predicts that this should result in the evolution of faster rates of senescence in males …