Plants will experience considerable changes in climate within their geographic ranges over
the next several decades. They may respond by exhibiting niche flexibility and adapting to …

Increasing connectivity is an important strategy for facilitating species range shifts and
maintaining biodiversity in the face of climate change. To date, however, few researchers …

Aim We may be able to buffer biodiversity against the effects of ongoing climate change by
prioritizing the protection of habitat with diverse physical features (high geodiversity) …

Private lands are critical for conservation of ecosystem diversity and sustaining large-scale
ecological processes. Increasingly, conservation easements (CE) are used as a tool to …

Systematic conservation planning, a widely used approach to identify priority lands and
waters, uses efficient, defensible, and transparent methods aimed at conserving biodiversity …

Kentucky is one of the largest coal producing states in the US Large portions of eastern
Kentucky's land has been impacted by surface mining. These lands are part of the …

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations are impacting long-term
regeneration across eastern United States forests. Deer distribution and resulting herbivory …

Environmental heterogeneity is increasingly being used to select conservation areas that
will provide for future biodiversity under a variety of climate scenarios. This approach …

The southern Cumberland Plateau is a resilient landscape, meaning one that can resist or
rebound from a suite of interacting disturbances such as climate change, herbivore release …

Ecological forestry is the product of simultaneous evolutions of ecological science and
conservation ethics over the past century. The early development of forest science and …