Aquatic invasive alien rodents (AIAR) pose a serious threat to ecosystems leading to significant economic, environmental, and public health concerns. In France, AIAR populations are well established, and eradication is not possible. Thus, a permanent control program has been implemented in several regions to mitigate their impacts. However, comprehensive assessment of the current management strategies and field implementation...

In theory, biased adult sex ratios combined with high population densities in physically coercive mating systems could trigger an extinction vortex, regardless of external factors such as predation or habitat loss. However, this has never been documented in the wild. In an exceptionally dense island population of Hermann's tortoises in Lake Prespa in North Macedonia, sexually coercive males dramatically overnumber females, inf...