Thomas J. Meier

TL;DR: This study highlights the importance of reproductive individuals in maintaining group cohesion in social species, but at the population level socially complex species may be resilient to disruption and harvest through strong compensatory mechanisms.

TL;DR: Assessment of the role of anthropogenic mortality should include individual-based hazard estimation as a complement to traditional population-level approaches because the observed compensatory mortality and hazard heterogeneity in this study implies that demographic responses to mortality risk may be complex and more subtle than previously thought.

TL;DR: Comparing kin encounter rate and the proportion of related breeding pairs in noninbred and highly inbred canid populations suggests that the rate of inbreeding in canids is related to the proximity of close relatives, which could explain the high degree of in breeding depression observed in some populations.