The current extinction and climate change crises pressure us to predict population dynamics with ever‐greater accuracy. Although predictions rest on the well‐advanced theory of age‐structured populations, two key issues remain poorly explored. Specifically, how the age‐dependency in demographic rates and the year‐to‐year interactions between survival and fecundity affect stochastic population growth rates. We use inference, si...

In arid regions of the developing world, pastoralists and livestock commonly inhabit protected areas, resulting in human–wildlife conflict. Conflict is inextricably linked to the ecological processes shaping relationships between pastoralists and native herbivores and carnivores. To elucidate relationships underpinning human–wildlife conflict, we synthesized 15 years of ecological and ethnographic data from Ikh Nart Nature Res...

Developed for carrying out risk assessments under the European Commission ( EC ) Council Regulation No 708/2007 concerning the use of alien and locally absent species in aquaculture ( ASR ), the European Non‐native Species in Aquaculture Risk Assessment Scheme ( ENSARS ) is briefly summarised, and the ‘Organism’ module is applied to the 24 species listed in ASR 's Annex IV . Four other ENSARS modules (Infectious Agent, Facilit...

Herpesvirus anguillae ( HVA ) was detected during disease investigations of E uropean eel, A nguilla anguilla L . at two stillwater fisheries in central E ngland. These represent the first records of HVA from UK eels. Both mortalities were eel‐specific and took place during August 2009 and July 2010 at water temperatures between 17 and 19.4 °C. Pathological changes consistent with HVA infection included haemorrhaging in the fi...