Globally, agriculture has intensified during the past 50 years due to increased
mechanization, changes in the timing of farming operations, grassland conversion to …

Worldwide declines in wetland birds and turtles are attributed to landscape-scale habitat
loss, habitat fragmentation and anthropogenic land use. However, due to multi-collinearity …

Conservation management of wetland‐dependent species generally focuses on preserving
or increasing wetland habitat. However, the quality of the landscape matrix (the intervening …

Habitat selection often involves choices made at different spatial scales, but the underlying
mechanisms are still poorly understood, and studies that investigate the relative importance …

Using data from 21,546 point counts conducted by volunteers in Bird Studies Canada's
Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program, I assessed whether occupancy of 15 breeding …

Habitat restoration can help mitigate the extensive loss and degradation of estuarine and
coastal wetlands that have consequently eroded the integrity of many migratory flyways and …

Active conservation management is crucial for maintaining and recovering populations of
threatened species. Yet, there are remarkably few studies quantifying the benefits of …

The elusive nature of many marsh-breeding birds presents a challenge for effective
population monitoring. The Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program (GLMMP), delivered by …

Human activity surrounding the Laurentian Great Lakes basin has significantly degraded
coastal wetland habitats, resulting in severe marsh bird population declines and reduced …

Consequences of habitat fragmentation for species occurrence are amongst the most
important issues in landscape and conservation ecology. Empirical and theoretical studies …