Sex-based differences affect conservation | Science

The world’s ecosystems, and the organisms that inhabit them, face unprecedented threats, including a changing climate and anthropogenic disturbances. Understanding the baseline habitat requirements of living organisms is essential to developing effective conservation strategies (1). Nonetheless, studies often fail to consider the biological sex of organisms, an oversight that could substantially impede conservation efforts (2). The world’s ecosystems, and the organisms that inhabit them, face unprecedented threats, including a changing climate and anthropogenic disturbances. Understanding the baseline habitat requirements of living organisms is essential to developing effective conservation strategies (1). Nonetheless, studies often fail to consider the biological sex of organisms, an oversight that could substantially impede conservation efforts (2).  Science