Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective
strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the …

Landscape connectivity, the extent to which a landscape facilitates the flow of ecological
processes such as organism movement, has emerged as a central focus of landscape …

Establishing and maintaining protected areas (PAs) are key tools for biodiversity
conservation. However, this approach is insufficient for many species, particularly those that …

Globally accelerating frequency and extent of wildfire threatens the persistence of specialist
wildlife species through direct loss of habitat and indirect facilitation of exotic invasive …

Population ecology, the discipline that studies the dynamics of species' populations and how
they interact with the environment, has been one of the most prolific fields of ecology and …

Context Simulation models are increasingly used in both theoretical and applied studies to
explore system responses to natural and anthropogenic forcing functions, develop …

According to the ideal‐free distribution (IFD), individuals within a population are free to
select habitats that maximize their chances of success. Assuming knowledge of habitat …

Aim Biogeographic approaches usually have been developed apart from population
ecology, resulting in predictive models without key parameters needed to account for …

Assessing the source–sink status of populations and habitats is of major importance for
understanding population dynamics and for the management of natural populations …

Seabirds are considered bioindicators of bottom-up ecosystem processes, owing to
seabirds' dependence on marine prey. However, ground-nesting seabirds are susceptible to …