Varun R. Goswami

TL;DR: This editorial can only be a snapshot of a quickly evolving situation, but it hopes that it can offer some encouragement and insights for colleagues in lockdown and how the conservation community must be ready to respond.

TL;DR: Here, the objectives are to raise awareness of how these megafauna are imperiled and to stimulate broad interest in developing specific recommendations and concerted action to conserve them.

TL;DR: This work suggests shifting the focus of connectivity modelling from locating where animals potentially disperse to a process-based approach directed towards understanding and mapping factors that limit successful dispersal, and proposes a constraint-based framework that will facilitate a mechanistic approach to understanding and conserving connectivity.

TL;DR: Factors associated with increased crop accessibility and availability (e.g., distance to forests and rainfall patterns) were key drivers of elephant crop depredation dynamics, allowing more reliable inference on mechanisms underlying observed conflict patterns.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed systematic individual identification protocols and integrated them into capture-recapture sampling designs to obtain capture histories and thereby estimate the abundance of adult bull elephants in a globally important population in southern India.