Because forest width is thought to be the most relevant metric to ecological communities, it
has persisted as the dominant paradigm and focus of management recommendations for …

Little is known about factors that structure biodiversity on landscape scales, yet current land
management protocols, such as forest certification programs, place an increasing emphasis …

For several decades, many grassland bird species have been declining in abundance
throughout the Midwest and Great Plains regions of the United States, possibly due to loss of …

Conservation of endangered species requires comprehensive understanding of their
distribution and habitat requirements, in order to implement better management strategies …

Although the negative impacts of urbanization on ecological communities are usually
emphasized in the literature, urban parks may make positive contributions to conservation …

The effects of habitat-management practices in coastal marshes have been poorly
evaluated. We summarize the extant literature concerning whether these manipulations …

We utilized landscape and breeding bird assemblage data from three Breeding Bird Survey
(BBS) routes sampled from 1965–1995 to develop and test a grassland integrity index (GII) …

Abstract The Rainwater Basin (RWB) region in south-central Nebraska, which currently
contains approximately 400 wetlands, is one of the most threatened and least studied …

Landscape connectivity is considered important for species persistence, but linkages among
landscape populations (metalandscape connectivity) may be necessary to ensure the long …

Aerial photographs from 1949 and 1997 were used to conduct spatial vegetation pattern and
transition analyses of 287,000 ha of the montane ecoregion in Jasper National Park, Alberta …