Most ecosystems are increasingly being degraded and reduced by human activities at the
local and global scales. In contrast, urban environments are expanding as increasing …

Urban environments are high risk areas for large carnivores, where anthropogenic
disturbances can reduce fitness and increase mortality risk. 1 When catastrophic events like …

Roads pose a major, and growing, challenge for the conservation of endangered species.
However, very little is known about how endangered species behaviorally respond to roads …

Highlights•The COVID-19 closures decoupled human activity from the urban landscape.•An
urban songbird population maintained novel nest site selection during closures.•Nest …

Ecological niche models use presence-only data, which is often affected by lack of true
absences leading to sampling bias. Over the last decade, there has been an uptick in the …

Understanding spatial and temporal behavior of large carnivores is critical to developing
conservation strategies that mitigate the limiting factors of prey availability and human …

Quantifying animal abundance, density, and distributions affords the opportunity to
understand the effects of landscape structure and change on species of conservation …

Understanding the spatial ecology of small populations at the periphery of their range is
important for identifying factors limiting population growth and developing sound …

Anthropogenic change alters environments and introduces novel stressors to multiple
species and communities. Understanding how populations shift and cope in response to …

Wildlife rehabilitation is a widespread practice, but it is rarely provided for research animals
in wild settings when injuries such as bone fractures occur during field work. Integrating …