Gray seals were historically distributed along the northeastern coast of the United States, but
bounties and lack of protection reduced numbers and they were rarely observed for most of …

The health of the world's oceans is intrinsically linked to the biodiversity of the ecosystems
they sustain. The importance of protecting and maintaining ocean biodiversity has been …

Abstract The Bermuda petrel Pterodroma cahow is an island endemic seabird that belongs
to the Procellariiformes, one of the most endangered orders of birds. Historical records …

In ancient times, the distribution range of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus
monachus) extended all over the coasts of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and parts of the …

The Red Sea is particularly biodiverse, hosting high levels of endemism and numerous
populations whose extinction risk is heightened by their relative isolation. Elasmobranchs …

Disentangling the impact of Late Quaternary climate change from human activities can have
crucial implications on the conservation of endangered species. We investigated the …

Population increases over the past several decades provide natural settings in which to
study the evolutionary processes that occur during bottleneck, growth, and spatial …

The positive relationship between number of introduced individuals and introduction
success has been widely proposed in invasion biology on theoretical and empirical …

ABSTRACT Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, seals have recolonized
historic ranges along the New England coast after near extirpation from bounty hunting in …

Individual variation in quantitative traits clearly influence many ecological and evolutionary
processes. Moderate to high heritability estimates of personality and life-history traits …