The research program of historical ecology

W Balée - Annu. Rev. Anthropol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Historical ecology is a new interdisciplinary research program concerned with
comprehending temporal and spatial dimensions in the relationships of human societies to …

Conservation of grassland birds in North America: understanding ecological processes in different regions:" Report of the AOU Committee on Conservation"

RA Askins, F Chávez-Ramírez, BC Dale… - Ornithological …, 2007 - JSTOR
Many species of birds that depend on grassland or savanna habitats have shown
substantial overall population declines in North America. To understand the causes of these …

Area sensitivity in North American grassland birds: patterns and processes

CA Ribic, RR Koford, JR Herkert, DH Johnson… - The Auk, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Vol. No. April evidence for area sensitivity in grassland birds?() What are the
historical explanations for area sensitivity?() What ecological processes could produce …

Avoidance of unconventional oil wells and roads exacerbates habitat loss for grassland birds in the North American Great Plains

SJ Thompson, DH Johnson, ND Niemuth… - Biological Conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
Oil development in the Bakken shale region has increased rapidly as a result of new
technologies and strong demand for fossil fuel. This region also supports a particularly high …

Distance to edges, edge contrast and landscape fragmentation: interactions affecting farmland birds around forest plantations

L Reino, P Beja, PE Osborne, R Morgado… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
Afforestation often causes direct habitat losses for farmland birds of conservation concern,
but it is uncertain whether negative effects also extend significantly into adjacent open land …

Woody plant encroachment restructures bird communities in semiarid grasslands

EM Andersen, RJ Steidl - Biological Conservation, 2019 - Elsevier
The abundance and distribution of woody plants have increased in grassland ecosystems
worldwide. Robust generalizations about the consequences of this transformative process …

Effects of grazing and prescribed fire on resource selection and nest survival of upland sandpipers in an experimental landscape

BK Sandercock, M Alfaro-Barrios, AE Casey… - Landscape …, 2015 - Springer
Context Conservation of grassland vertebrates requires a mechanistic understanding of the
effects of landscape heterogeneity on habitat selection and demographic performance …

Impacts of tree rows on grassland birds and potential nest predators: a removal experiment

KS Ellison, CA Ribic, DW Sample, MJ Fawcett… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Globally, grasslands and the wildlife that inhabit them are widely imperiled. Encroachment
by shrubs and trees has widely impacted grasslands in the past 150 years. In North America …

Habitat availability is a more plausible explanation than insecticide acute toxicity for US grassland bird species declines

JM Hill, JF Egan, GE Stauffer, DR Diefenbach - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Grassland bird species have experienced substantial declines in North America. These
declines have been largely attributed to habitat loss and degradation, especially from …

Multi-scale models of grassland passerine abundance in a fragmented system in Wisconsin

RB Renfrew, CA Ribic - Landscape Ecology, 2008 - Springer
Fragmentation of grasslands has been implicated in grassland bird population declines.
Multi-scale models are being increasingly used to assess potential factors that influence …