Transportation infrastructures such as roads, railroads and canals can have major
environmental impacts. Ecological road effects include the destruction and fragmentation of …

Monitoring the population trends of multiple animal species at a landscape scale is
prohibitively expensive. However, advances in survey design, statistical methods, and the …

Habitat corridors are important tools for maintaining connectivity in increasingly fragmented
landscapes, but generally they have been considered in single‐species approaches …

The concept of ecological integrity is increasingly being used to guide monitoring efforts
across North American public land agencies. We provide a history of this concept and …

Determining the geographic scale at which to apply ecosystem‐based management (EBM)
has proven to be an obstacle for many marine conservation programs. Generalizations …

The impact of landscape changes on the quality and connectivity of habitats for multiple
wildlife species is of global conservation concern. In the southwestern United States, pumas …

Context Land use changes have modified the extent and structure of native vegetation,
resulting in fragmentation of native species habitat. Connectivity is increasingly seen as a …

In recent years, conflicts between ecological conservation and economic growth forced a
reassessment of the motivations and goals of wildlife and forestry management. Focus …

Indicator species concepts have a long history in conservation biology. Arguments in favor of
these approaches generally stress expediency and assume efficacy. We tested the premise …

Identification of refugia from climate change is increasingly considered important for
biodiversity conservation, but the distribution of putative refugia may vary across alternative …