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Conservation biology faces the challenge of ensuring species persistence in increasingly modified landscapes. Agriculture covers a large proportion of...

The colonization of suitable yet unoccupied habitat due to natural dispersal or human introduction can benefit recovery of threatened species. Predict...

The eastern North American monarch butterfly is at risk of quasi-extinction due, in part, to the loss of breeding habitat in agricultural landscapes o...

In addition to acute transformations of ecosystems caused by deforestation, old-growth forests world-wide are being increasingly altered by low-intens...

The application of deicing road salts began in the 1940s and has increased drastically in regions where snow and ice removal is critical for transport...

Large carnivores often exhibit high survival rates in protected areas, whereas intentional and unintentional human-caused mortality may be greater in ...

Many species are adversely affected by human activities at large spatial scales and their conservation requires detailed information on distributions....

Citizen science has become a popular way to collect biodiversity data and engage the wider public in scientific research. It has the potential to impr...

Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) seeds are an important food of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) wherever whitebark pine is abundant in the co...

1. Conventional distance sampling approaches rely on the design assumption (i.e. uniform distribution of individuals in relation to transects) to ensu...