The limits of demographic buffering in coping with environmental variation

RC Rodríguez‐Caro, P Capdevila, E Graciá… - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Animal populations have developed multiple strategies to deal with environmental change.
Among them, the demographic buffering strategy consists in constraining the temporal …

Problems seeded in the past: lagged effects of historical land-use changes can cause an extinction debt in long-lived species due to movement limitation

MV Jiménez-Franco, E Graciá, RC Rodríguez-Caro… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context Land-use change is one of the main threats to biodiversity on the global scale.
Legacy effects of historical land-use changes may affect population dynamics of long-lived …

[HTML][HTML] Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery

F Marolla, T Aarvak, S Hamel, RA Ims, M Kéry… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation actions is challenging for migratory species
because a population can be impacted anywhere along its route. Conservation actions for …

Shorter telomeres are associated with shell anomalies in a long‐lived tortoise

A Mira‐Jover, RC Rodríguez‐Caro… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Age‐related telomere length (TL) variation is relatively well‐described for mammals, birds
and other model organisms. Nevertheless, it remains largely unknown in ectotherms …

Bigger is better: age class‐specific survival rates in long‐lived turtles increase with size

JG Otten, JM Refsnider - The Journal of Wildlife Management, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Vital rates for small, non‐breeding individuals are important components of population
dynamics for many species, but often individuals of these sizes are difficult to locate, capture …

Growth and Survival of Wild and Head-Started Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii)

CK Golba, GA Glowacki… - Ichthyology & …, 2022 - meridian.allenpress.com
Blanding's Turtles (International Union for Conservation of Nature [IUCN] Endangered) are
long-lived reptiles with delayed sexual maturity. Anthropogenic landscape changes have …

Assessment of the key evolutionary traits that prevent extinctions in human-altered habitats using a spatially explicit individual-based model

E Graciá, RC Rodríguez-Caro, A Sanz-Aguilar… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Identifying key evolutionary strategies that support population persistence remains a
challenging task for biodiversity conservation. Here we assess if animal adaptations to cope …

Alternative vegetation trajectories through passive habitat rewilding: opposite effects for animal conservation

MV Jiménez-Franco, E Graciá, RC Rodríguez-Caro… - Landscape …, 2024 - Springer
Context Passive habitat rewilding after rural abandonment can affect wildlife differently
depending on the type of habitats that it generates. Objective Evaluate and compare the …

Del movimiento individual a los cambios de distribución: Integración de datos de movimiento en modelos basados en el individuo para evaluar los efectos …

E Graciá, RC Rodríguez-Caro… - …, 2023 - revistaecosistemas.net
El estudio del movimiento de los individuos informa directamente sobre los tamaños de las
áreas de campeo, las rutas migratorias o la selección de hábitat. Pero, además, la …

Sperm storage reduces the strength of the mate‐finding Allee effect

MV Jiménez‐Franco, A Giménez… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mate searching is a key component of sexual reproduction that can have important
implications for population viability, especially for the mate‐finding Allee effect. Interannual …