Assessing the impacts of ongoing climate and anthropogenic-induced change on wildlife
populations requires understanding species distributions and abundances across large …

Conservation science strives to inform management decisions. Applying niche models in
concert with future climate projections to project species vulnerability to extinction, range …

All questions in ecology and problems in conservation play out in space. This simple fact
has generated a long-standing interest from scientists and practitioners, and it is now well …

Early calls for robust long-term time series of amphibian population data, stemming from
discussion following the first World Congress of Herpetology, are now being realized after …

Intensifying global change is propelling many ecosystems toward irreversible
transformations. Natural resource managers face the complex task of conserving these …

Most conservation challenges are complex and possess all the characteristics of so called
“wicked” problems. Despite widespread recognition of this complexity conservationists …

The challenges currently facing resource managers are large-scale and complex, and
demand new approaches to balance development and conservation goals. One approach …

Ecosystem transformation can be defined as the emergence of a self‐organizing, self‐
sustaining, ecological or social–ecological system that deviates from prior ecosystem …

Many published studies in ecological science are viewed as stand‐alone investigations that
purport to provide new insights into how ecological systems behave based on single …

Managing resources under climate change is a high-stakes and daunting task, especially
because climate change and associated complex biophysical responses engender …