Inclusion of local, expert, or Indigenous knowledge about wildlife populations and their
habitats can inform wildlife research, while also increasing knowledge holder engagement …

Urban environments are important for west European hedgehogs Erinaceus europaeus. The
species has been recorded in 73% of large urban areas throughout its geographic range …

Context Many terrestrial mammals have undergone substantial distribution changes in
recent decades; yet collecting broad-scale occurrence data for carnivores is difficult due to …

For the conservation of wild species, it is important to understand how landscape change
and land management can affect gene flow and movement. Landscape genetic analyses …

Wildlife managers need reliable information on species distributions (ie patterns of
occurrence and abundance) to make effective decisions. Historically, managers have relied …

Indices of relative abundance are routinely used to monitor and manage wildlife, yet all
indices contain observation error and have unknown relationships with true abundance …

Oak decline is a general term used for the progressive dieback and eventual mortality of oak
trees due to many compounding stressors, typically a combination of predisposing, inciting …

Hunter populations can provide a tremendous workforce of citizen scientists afield when
queried for data. Soliciting incidental observations of non‐target species from hunters may …

Interspecific interactions among predators can shape ecological communities across trophic
levels, including among predator guilds. The strength and directions of these interactions …

The world's largest extant fish, the whale shark Rhincodon typus, is one of the most-studied
species of sharks globally. The discovery of predictable aggregation sites where these …