Ecologists and managers are motivated to predict the distribution of animals across
landscapes as well as understand the mechanisms giving rise to that distribution. Satisfying …

Retention harvesting, or the approach of leaving live mature trees behind during forest
harvest, is used in natural disturbance‐based management to mitigate the effects of logging …

Aim In the face of global change, understanding causes of range limits are one of the most
pressing needs in biogeography and ecology. A prevailing hypothesis is that abiotic stress …

The persistence of cold-adapted species along their equatorial range edge (ie, southern
range edge for species in the Northern Hemisphere and northern range edge for species in …

The application of species distribution models (SDMs) to areas outside of where a model
was created allows informed decisions across large spatial scales, yet transferability …

Wildfires are increasing in scale and impact on the landscape, altering large amounts of
wildlife habitat and forest ecosystems. The reduction of fuels through forest management is …

Snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) are an ecologically important herbivore because they
modify vegetation through browsing and serve as a prey resource for multiple predators. We …

Protected areas are the cornerstone of conservation strategies for threatened and
endangered species. Because protected areas often are insulated from many anthropogenic …

Connecting forest management with the conservation of forest-associated animals requires
an understanding of habitat quality, as well as identifying long-term silvicultural strategies …

Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) occupy cold wet forests (boreal and subalpine forest) that
were structured by natural disturbance processes for millennia. In the Southern Rocky …