Range-wide declines of northern spotted owl populations in the Pacific Northwest: A meta-analysis

AB Franklin, KM Dugger, DB Lesmeister, RJ Davis… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) inhabits older coniferous forests in the
Pacific Northwest and has been at the center of forest management issues in this region …

Twenty‐five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned?

TA Spies, JW Long, S Charnley… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has guided the management of 17 federal forests in the
US Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. The existing management plans for these …

Workflow and convolutional neural network for automated identification of animal sounds

ZJ Ruff, DB Lesmeister, CL Appel, CM Sullivan - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of passive acoustic monitoring in wildlife ecology has increased dramatically in
recent years as researchers take advantage of improvements in autonomous recording units …

Automated identification of avian vocalizations with deep convolutional neural networks

ZJ Ruff, DB Lesmeister, LS Duchac… - Remote Sensing in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring is an emerging approach to wildlife monitoring that leverages
recent improvements in automated recording units and other technologies. A central …

Invader removal triggers competitive release in a threatened avian predator

JD Wiens, KM Dugger, JM Higley… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Changes in the distribution and abundance of invasive species can have far-reaching
ecological consequences. Programs to control invaders are common but gauging the …

Using passive acoustic monitoring to estimate northern spotted owl landscape use and pair occupancy

CL Appel, DB Lesmeister, A Duarte, RJ Davis… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Managing forests for biodiversity conservation while maintaining economic output is a major
challenge globally and requires accurate and timely monitoring of imperiled species. In the …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and forest management on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest, USA: Managing for dynamic landscapes

WL Gaines, PF Hessburg, GH Aplet, P Henson… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan signified a watershed moment for natural resource
management on federal lands in the Pacific Northwest. It established clear priorities for …

Fire ecology and management in Pacific Northwest forests

MJ Reilly, JE Halofsky, MA Krawchuk… - Fire Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Fire has been an important catalyst of change in Pacific Northwest forests throughout the
Holocene. The role of fire varied across this biophysically diverse region prior to European …

Range‐wide sources of variation in reproductive rates of northern spotted owls

JT Rockweit, JM Jenkins, JE Hines… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted a range‐wide investigation of the dynamics of site‐level reproductive rate of
northern spotted owls using survey data from 11 study areas across the subspecies …

Integrating new technologies to broaden the scope of northern spotted owl monitoring and linkage with USDA forest inventory data

DB Lesmeister, JMA Jenkins - Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Wildlife monitoring programs designed to inform forest management and conservation
decisions in the face of climate change benefit from long-term datasets with consistent …