Abstract Fauna of North America's Great Plains evolved strategies to contend with the
region's extreme spatiotemporal variability in weather and low annual primary productivity …

Abstract Grassland birds in North America have declined sharply over the last 60 years,
driven by the widespread loss and degradation of grassland habitats. Climate change is …

Droughts are among the costliest natural hazards in the US and globally. The severity of the
hazard is closely related to a region's ability to cope and recover from the event, an ability …

Context Agricultural expansion is a principal driver of biodiversity loss, but the impacts on
community assembly in agro-ecosystems are less clear, especially across regional scales at …

Global climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of weather extremes,
including severe droughts in many regions. Drought can impact organisms by inhibiting …

Variation in offspring development is expected to be driven by constraints on resource
allocation between growth and maintenance (eg thermoregulation). Rapid post‐natal …

The status and trend estimates derived from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS)
are critical sources of information for bird conservation. However, the estimates are partly …

Rangelands are temporally and spatially complex socioecological systems on which the
predominant land use is livestock production. In North America, rangelands also contain …

Stemming biodiversity loss requires strategic conservation guided by well articulated targets,
whether they be proactive (eg, protect biodiverse areas) or reactive (eg, protect threatened …

Ecological predictions are necessary for testing whether processes hypothesized to regulate
species population dynamics are generalizable across time and space. In order to …