[HTML][HTML] The lost road: do transportation networks imperil wildlife population persistence?

R Barrientos, F Ascensão, M D'Amico, C Grilo… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2021 - Elsevier
The global road network is rapidly growing associated with human economic development.
This growth also entails a high toll for biodiversity, with several well-documented negative …

Long-term turtle declines: protected is a verb, not an outcome

HJ Howell, RH Legere Jr, DS Holland, RA Seigel - Copeia, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
Long-term studies on wildlife populations are necessary to track population abundance and
shifts in demography over time, yet such studies are difficult to plan, fund, and conduct and …

Demographic evidence that development is not compatible with sustainability in semi‐urban freshwater turtles

AC Auge, G Blouin‐Demers, CT Hasler… - Animal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Balancing urban development with environmental sustainability is a major challenge that is
increasingly recognized in planning decisions. Urban development proposals are often …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat suitability models for the imperiled wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) raise concerns for the species' persistence under future climate change

CC Mothes, HJ Howell, CA Searcy - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of ecological niche models to predict how future climate change may impact habitat
suitability is a critical component of imperiled species management. These models allow for …

Assessing habitat connectivity of rare species to inform urban conservation planning

EM McCluskey, FC Kuzma, HD Enander… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is commonly associated with biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation.
However, urban environments often have greenspaces that can support wildlife populations …

Importance of water availability for amphibian roadkill in a mediterranean landscape

T Pinto, SM Santos, A Mira, N Sillero - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2023 - Springer
Roads can negatively impact ecosystems by fragmenting habitats and affecting animal
movements and behaviour. One of the major noticeable effects of roads is animal mortality …

Bigger is better: age class‐specific survival rates in long‐lived turtles increase with size

JG Otten, JM Refsnider - The Journal of Wildlife Management, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Vital rates for small, non‐breeding individuals are important components of population
dynamics for many species, but often individuals of these sizes are difficult to locate, capture …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating road mortality hotspots while accounting for imperfect detection: a case study with amphibians and reptiles

N Hallisey, SW Buchanan, BD Gerber, LS Corcoran… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wildlife road mortality tends to aggregate spatially at locations commonly referred to as road
mortality hotspots. Predictive models can be used to identify locations appropriate for …

Blanding's turtle demography and population viability

RB King, CK Golba, GA Glowacki… - Journal of Fish and …, 2021 - meridian.allenpress.com
In anticipation of US federal status classification (warranted, warranted but precluded, not
warranted), scheduled for 2023, we provide population viability analysis of the Blanding's …

Lost reproductive value reveals a high burden of juvenile road mortality in a long‐lived species

MG Keevil, N Noble, SP Boyle… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Adult mortality is often the most sensitive vital rate affecting at‐risk wildlife populations.
Therefore, road ecology studies often focus on adult mortality despite the possibility for …