The COVID-19 pandemic zoonosis has determined extensive lockdowns worldwide that
provide an unprecedented opportunity to understand how large-scale shifts of human …

Many avian species have long been exposed to loud natural sounds such as streams,
waterfalls, and wind. However, anthropogenic noise pollution is a relatively recent …

Humans have drastically changed much of the world's acoustic background with
anthropogenic sounds that are markedly different in pitch and amplitude than sounds in …

Biodiversity is threatened by the growth of urban areas. However, it is still poorly understood
how animals can cope with and adapt to these rapid and dramatic transformations of natural …

Biodiversity conservation faces a methodological conundrum: Biodiversity measurement
often relies on species, most of which are rare at various scales, especially prone to …

Little is known about the population status of many marsh-dependent birds in North America
but recent efforts have focused on collecting more reliable information and estimates of …

Interest in, and opportunities to include functional and phylogenetic attributes of species in
community ecology and biogeography are rapidly growing and seen as vital for the …

The effects of roads on wildlife populations are widespread and well documented. Many
studies have shown that bird abundance, occurrence and species richness are reduced …

Background Human-generated noise pollution now permeates natural habitats worldwide,
presenting evolutionarily novel acoustic conditions unprecedented to most landscapes …

We show that occupancy models are more difficult to fit than is generally appreciated
because the estimating equations often have multiple solutions, including boundary …