Despite extensive anthropogenic degradation of most wetlands and other aquatic habitats
associated with large rivers in the Midwest, the region still supports continentally important …

In the Northern Rockies of the United States, predators like wolves (Canis lupus) and
mountain lions (Puma concolor) have been implicated in fluctuations or declines in …

Duckling survival is an important component of mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) recruitment
and population growth, yet many factors regulating duckling survival are poorly understood …

Unoccupied aerial systems (UASs) may provide cheaper, safer, and more accurate and
precise alternatives to traditional waterfowl survey techniques while also reducing …

Aim A raw count of the species encountered across surveys usually underestimates species
richness. Statistical estimators are often less biased. Nonparametric estimators of species …

Conservation programs for breeding ducks in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of the United
States and Canada require effective means of evaluating and characterizing breeding …

The extraction of oil and natural gas from reserves in the Bakken Formation has increased
from 2004 to 2017 in North Dakota and northeast Montana, USA. High development areas …

In the context of wildlife population declines, increasing computer power over the last 20
years allowed wildlife managers to apply advanced statistical techniques that has improved …

Aim Traditional approaches for including species' distributions in conservation planning
have presented them as long‐term averages of variation. Like these approaches, the main …

Two nonnative Caribbean frogs, the Puerto Rican coqui and the Cuban greenhouse frog,
recently invaded Hawaii. Because of its louder breeding call, management efforts have …