Gladiolus aureus is a geophyte species endemic to the South African Cape Peninsula. Pressures including land-use change and invasion by alien plants have caused severe population declines, leading to its classification as Critically Endangered (CR). Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (NBG) maintains the largest ex situ collection of this species. During plant health surveys conducted as part of a sentinel plant research pr...

Ecological disturbances are discrete events that alter or transform the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of ecosystems. Disturbance can cause animal populations to decline and, according to the risk‐disturbance hypothesis and population collapse framework, these declines can be predicted by declines in animal body condition. However, no research has empirically examined the general relationship between body co...