Understanding the relative strengths of intrinsic and extrinsic factors regulating populations
is a long‐standing focus of ecology and critical to advancing conservation programs for …

Conversion and fragmentation of wildlife habitat often leads to smaller and isolated
populations and can reduce a species' ability to disperse across the landscape. As a …

Reintroduction of species at sites where populations have been extirpated has become a
common technique in wildlife conservation. To track progress towards reintroduction …

For endangered species persisting in a few populations, reintroductions to unoccupied
habitat are a popular conservation action to increase viability in the long term. Identifying the …

An inherent challenge in managing rare or cryptic species is data deficiency. For this reason,
ancillary data is a potentially valuable resource for generating key population estimates for …

Local extinction and undetected presence are two very different biological phenomena, but
they can be challenging to differentiate. Stochastic environments hamper the development …

Modeling population dynamics in response to various threats or potential management
actions has become an increasingly common aspect of conservation programs for imperiled …

Krysko et al.(2016a) used analyses of DNA sequence data to reveal two genetic lineages of
Drymarchon couperi. The Atlantic lineage contained specimens from southeastern Georgia …

Abstract The Eastern Indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi; EIS) is a federally threatened
species of colubrid snake endemic to the US Southeastern Coastal Plain for which …