Several hundred species are hunted for wild meat in the tropics, supporting the diets,
customs, and livelihoods of millions of people. However, unsustainable hunting is one of the …

Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand
challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and …

Cancer is a ubiquitous disease of metazoans, predicted to disproportionately affect larger,
long-lived organisms owing to their greater number of cell divisions, and thus increased …

The rates and patterns of somatic mutation in normal tissues are largely unknown outside of
humans,,,,,–. Comparative analyses can shed light on the diversity of mutagenesis across …

Is senescence inevitable and universal for all living organisms, as evolutionary theories
predict? Although evidence generally supports this hypothesis, it has been proposed that …

Is it possible to slow the rate of ageing, or do biological constraints limit its plasticity? We test
the 'invariant rate of ageing'hypothesis, which posits that the rate of ageing is relatively fixed …

Life history strategies, which combine schedules of survival, development, and reproduction,
shape how natural selection acts on species' heritable traits and organismal fitness …

Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems will become increasingly severe
as the magnitude of climate change increases. Climate change adaptation interventions to …

Age-related changes in fertility have increasingly been documented in wild animal
populations: In many species the youngest and oldest reproducers are disadvantaged …

In conservation, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) carrying various sensors and
the use of deep learning are increasing, but they are typically used independently of each …