Range-wide declines of northern spotted owl populations in the Pacific Northwest: A meta-analysis

AB Franklin, KM Dugger, DB Lesmeister, RJ Davis… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) inhabits older coniferous forests in the
Pacific Northwest and has been at the center of forest management issues in this region …

Broad‐scale climate variation drives the dynamics of animal populations: A global multi‐taxa analysis

X Wan, M Holyoak, C Yan, Y Le Maho… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate is a major extrinsic factor affecting the population dynamics of many organisms. The
Broad‐Scale Climate Hypothesis (BSCH) was proposed by Elton to explain the large‐scale …

Is your ad hoc model selection strategy affecting your multimodel inference?

DJ Morin, CB Yackulic, JE Diffendorfer… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists routinely fit complex models with multiple parameters of interest, where hundreds
or more competing models are plausible. To limit the number of fitted models, ecologists …

Workflow and convolutional neural network for automated identification of animal sounds

ZJ Ruff, DB Lesmeister, CL Appel, CM Sullivan - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
The use of passive acoustic monitoring in wildlife ecology has increased dramatically in
recent years as researchers take advantage of improvements in autonomous recording units …

Effects of human impacts on habitat use, activity patterns and ecological relationships among medium and small felids of the Atlantic Forest

P Cruz, ME Iezzi, C De Angelo, D Varela, MS Di Bitetti… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Competition theory and niche theory suggest that two morphologically similar species may
coexist by reducing the overlap of at least one dimension of their ecological niche. The …

Automated identification of avian vocalizations with deep convolutional neural networks

ZJ Ruff, DB Lesmeister, LS Duchac… - Remote Sensing in …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring is an emerging approach to wildlife monitoring that leverages
recent improvements in automated recording units and other technologies. A central …

Invader removal triggers competitive release in a threatened avian predator

JD Wiens, KM Dugger, JM Higley… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Changes in the distribution and abundance of invasive species can have far-reaching
ecological consequences. Programs to control invaders are common but gauging the …

[BOOK][B] Understanding ExtrACTIVISM: Culture and power in natural resource disputes

AJ Willow - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Understanding ExtrACTIVISM surveys how contemporary resource extractive industry works
and considers the responses it inspires in local citizens and activists. Chapters cover a …

Twenty‐five years of the Northwest Forest Plan: what have we learned?

TA Spies, JW Long, S Charnley… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) has guided the management of 17 federal forests in the
US Pacific Northwest for the past 25 years. The existing management plans for these …

Accumulating evidence in ecology: Once is not enough

JD Nichols, WL Kendall, GS Boomer - Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
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 …