More than half of the land in the United States is privately owned. Private lands harbor a
great amount of biodiversity, including at least some habitat for 95% of the federally listed …

Corridor Ecology presents guidelines that combine conservation science and practical
experience for maintaining, enhancing, and creating connectivity between natural areas with …

Managing ecosystem services is critical to human survival, yet we do not know how large
natural areas must be to support these services. We investigated how crop pollination …

Urbanization has been recognized as one of the most widespread threats to biodiversity.
However, the response of wildlife to urbanization differs among groups, with many species …

Land use change can adversely affect water quality and freshwater ecosystems, yet our
ability to predict how systems will respond to different land uses, particularly rural‐residential …

Relationships between land use or land cover and embeddedness, a measure of fine
sediment in spawning gravels, were examined at multiple scales across 54 streams in the …

Introduction () ak woodlands and savannas occupy 4 million ha in California (Griffin 1977;
Bolsinger 1988; FRAP 2003). These areas have an overstory tree canopy, predominantly in …

One of the fastest growing types of land-use change is exurban development—low-density
housing outside urban service boundaries. However, how individual species are responding …

We used a statistical modeling technique called logistic regression analysis, and a
geographic information system (GIS), to map areas of possible future vineyard expansion in …

Conservation of biodiversity on private lands has become increasingly important, particularly
in regions where most of the land is privately owned. This study examined the effects of rural …