We evaluated an emerging smartphone application, iNaturalist, to increase taxonomic
identification and engage first-year undergraduate biology majors in outdoor laboratories of …

Context Road infrastructure construction is integral to economic development, but negatively
affects biodiversity. To mitigate the negative impacts of infrastructure, various types of wildlife …

Predation is a fundamental ecological process that shapes communities and drives
evolutionary dynamics. As the world rapidly urbanizes, it is critical to understand how human …

Urbanization is rapidly expanding across the globe, leading to increasing threats to wildlife
in and around cities. Wildlife corridors are one strategy used to connect fragmented wildlife …

Natural landscape heterogeneity and barriers resulting from urbanization can reduce
genetic connectivity between populations. The evolutionary, demographic, and ecological …

Context Wildlife avoid human disturbances, including roads and development. Avoidance
and displacement of wildlife into less suitable habitat due to human development can affect …

Dispersal is a key biological process serving several functions including connectivity among
populations. Habitat fragmentation caused by natural or anthropogenic structures may …

The Indian subcontinent has witnessed disproportionate declines in large mammalian
herbivore communities. The northern swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii duvaucelii) …

Context Introduced populations of sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) and rusa deer (Cervus
timorensis) are present across south-eastern Australia and are subject to local population …

Urbanisation alters landscapes, introduces wildlife to novel stressors, and fragments
habitats into remnant 'islands'. Within these islands, isolated wildlife populations can …