Conserving intraspecific variation for nature's contributions to people

S Des Roches, LH Pendleton, B Shapiro… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
The rapid loss of intraspecific variation is a hidden biodiversity crisis. Intraspecific variation,
which includes the genomic and phenotypic diversity found within and among populations …

Building essential biodiversity variables (EBV s) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale

WD Kissling, JA Ahumada, A Bowser… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the
scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends. The concept of E ssential …

Decline of the North American avifauna

KV Rosenberg, AM Dokter, PJ Blancher, JR Sauer… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Species extinctions have defined the global biodiversity crisis, but extinction begins with loss
in abundance of individuals that can result in compositional and functional changes of …

Assessing data quality in citizen science

M Kosmala, A Wiggins, A Swanson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological and environmental citizen‐science projects have enormous potential to advance
scientific knowledge, influence policy, and guide resource management by producing …

Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn–soybean croplands

LA Schulte, J Niemi, MJ Helmers… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services from agricultural lands remain
important challenges in the United States despite decades of spending on natural resource …

Neonicotinoids and decline in bird biodiversity in the United States

Y Li, R Miao, M Khanna - Nature Sustainability, 2020 - nature.com
Neonicotinoid insecticides are being widely used and have raised concerns about negative
impacts on non-target organisms. However, there has been no large-scale, generalizable …

The first 50 years of the North American breeding bird survey

JR Sauer, KL Pardieck, DJ Ziolkowski Jr… - The Condor …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The vision of Chandler (Chan) S. Robbins for a continental-scale omnibus survey of
breeding birds led to the development of the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) …

Long-term and large-scale multispecies dataset tracking population changes of common European breeding birds

V Brlík, E Šilarová, J Škorpilová, H Alonso, M Anton… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
Around fifteen thousand fieldworkers annually count breeding birds using standardized
protocols in 28 European countries. The observations are collected by using country-specific …

Surveying wild animals from satellites, manned aircraft and unmanned aerial systems (UASs): A review

D Wang, Q Shao, H Yue - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
This article reviews studies regarding wild animal surveys based on multiple platforms,
including satellites, manned aircraft, and unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), and focuses on …

The potential for citizen science to produce reliable and useful information in ecology

ED Brown, BK Williams - Conservation Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We examined features of citizen science that influence data quality, inferential power, and
usefulness in ecology. As background context for our examination, we considered topics …