Large‐bodied predators are well represented among the world's threatened and
endangered species. A significant body of literature shows that in terrestrial and marine …

Freshwater biodiversity of the United States has long been recognized for its high level of
species richness. The US crayfish fauna is richer than that found in any other country or …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

Ecosystem engineering, the physical modification of the environment by organisms, is a
common and often influential process whose significance to food web structure and …

Why do we study crayfish? Answers may range from their cultural or economic value (Jones
et al. 2006) to ecological importance (Usio and Townsend 2004) to the high conservation …

We evaluated whether ecosystem engineers can accomplish two conservation goals
simultaneously:(1) indirectly maintain populations of an endangered animal through habitat …

Positive interactions are sensitive to human activities, necessitating synthetic approaches to
elucidate broad patterns and predict future changes if these interactions are altered or lost …

Detection of environmental DNA (eDNA) has become a commonly used surveillance
method for threatened or invasive vertebrates in both aquatic and terrestrial environments …

Crayfishes are both a highly imperiled invertebrate group as well as one that has produced
many invasive species, which have negatively affected freshwater ecosystems throughout …

There has been substantial growth of interest in the concept of physical ecosystem
engineering by organisms since the publication of Jones et al. 1994 and 1997a. The …