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Ecological carryover effects complicate conservation.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Carryover Effects on Reproduction Can Buffer Against Mortality-Driven Population Declines at Elevated Developmental Temperatures.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- The Breeding Distribution of a Migratory Bird Fluctuates With Nonbreeding Season Rainfall Over the Last Century.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Selection for Growth Performance inAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Longer days, larger grays: carryover effects of photoperiod and temperature in gray treefrogs,Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Spatial and life history variation in a trait-based species vulnerability and impact model.PloS one · 2024Article
- Applied winter biology: threats, conservation and management of biological resources during winter in cold climate regions.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Using physiology to better support wild bee conservation.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Context-dependent carryover effects of hypoxia and warming in a coastal ecosystem engineer.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2021Article
- A "Population Dynamics" Perspective on the Delayed Life-History Effects of Environmental Contaminations: An Illustration with a Preliminary Study of Cadmium Transgenerational Effects over Three Generations in the CrustaceanInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Conservation planning for freshwater-marine carryover effects on Chinook salmon survival.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Wetland salinity induces sex-dependent carry-over effects on the individual performance of a long-distance migrant.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- How experimental biology and ecology can support evidence-based decision-making in conservation: avoiding pitfalls and enabling application.Conservation physiology · 2017Article
- Carryover effects drive competitive dominance in spatially structured environments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Conservation physiology of animal migration.Conservation physiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Ecological carryover effects occur when an individual's previous history and experiences explain their current performance. It is becoming clear that ecological carryover effects are a common phenomenon across taxa, and have the potential to play an important role in governing individual fitness and population dynamics. Carryover effects may reduce the success of conservation efforts aimed at slowing or reversing biodiversity loss. Failure to consider carryover effects might lead to erroneous conclusions about the effectiveness of conservation measures. We suggest that carryover effects are considered explicitly in threat assessment and conservation planning, in order to understand the long-term consequences of stressors, target efforts more effectively, and ensure that the success or failure of conservation efforts is tracked more accurately. We encourage proactive research focused on the proximate mechanisms underlying carryover effects, so that predictive measures of carryover effects in wild populations can be developed and refined. Finally, we suggest that in some cases, positive carryover effects could be exploited for conservation benefit. We conclude that the failure to consider carryover effects in conservation science and practice may put imperiled populations at further risk.
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