A fundamental goal of population ecologists is to identify drivers responsible for temporal
variation in abundance. Understanding whether variation is associated with environmental …

Identifying the relevant spatial scale at which species respond to features in a landscape
(scale of effect) is a pressing research need as managers work to reduce biodiversity loss …

Increased wildfire frequency and associated replacement of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) with
invasive annual grasses contribute to declines of greater sage‐grouse (Centrocercus …

Wildlife populations are increasingly affected by natural and anthropogenic changes that
negatively alter biotic and abiotic processes at multiple spatiotemporal scales and therefore …

Understanding wildlife population structure and connectivity can help managers identify
conservation strategies, as structure can facilitate the study of population changes and …

Programs and initiatives aiming to protect biodiversity and ecosystems have increased over
the last decades in response to their decline. Most of these are based on monitoring data to …

On the Ground• Available rangeland data, from field-measured plots to remotely sensed
landscapes, provide much needed information for mapping and modeling wildlife habitats.• …

1. Background Most ecological or environmental datasets, collected by individual
researchers or small projects, are viewed as being from the “long tail of science” because …

Identifying habitat needs for species with large distributions is challenging because species-
habitat associations may vary across scales and regions (spatial nonstationarity) …

Estimates of species abundance are of key importance in population and ecosystem level
research but can be hard to obtain. Study designs using camera traps are increasingly being …