Landscape connectivity planning for adaptation to future climate and land-use change

JK Costanza, AJ Terando - Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review We examined recent literature on promoting habitat connectivity
in the context of climate change (CC) and land-use change (LUC). These two global change …

Is fire “for the birds”? How two rare species influence fire management across the US

SL Stephens, LN Kobziar, BM Collins… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The US Endangered Species Act has enabled species conservation but has differentially
impacted fire management and rare bird conservation in the southern and western US. In …

The southern megalopolis: using the past to predict the future of urban sprawl in the Southeast US

AJ Terando, J Costanza, C Belyea, RR Dunn… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The future health of ecosystems is arguably as dependent on urban sprawl as it is on human-
caused climatic warming. Urban sprawl strongly impacts the urban ecosystems it creates …

US imperiled species are most vulnerable to habitat loss on private lands

AJ Eichenwald, MJ Evans… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To stem the ongoing loss of biodiversity, conservation practitioners must distinguish
between effective and ineffective approaches for protecting species habitats. Using Google …

Connectivity analysis as a tool for assessing restoration success

XK Volk, JP Gattringer, A Otte, S Harvolk-Schöning - Landscape Ecology, 2018 - Springer
Context Methods for measuring restoration success that include functional connectivity
between species' populations are rare in landscape ecology and restoration practices. We …

Connectivity conservation priorities for individual patches evaluated in the present landscape: how durable and effective are they in the long term?

L Rubio, Ö Bodin, L Brotons, S Saura - Ecography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most widespread approaches for setting spatially‐explicit priorities for
connectivity conservation consists in evaluating the effects of the individual removal of each …

Determination of 129 I/127 I isotope ratios in liquid solutions and environmental soil samples by ICP-MS with hexapole collision cell

AV Izmer, SF Boulyga, JS Becker - Journal of Analytical Atomic …, 2003 - pubs.rsc.org
The determination of 129I in environmental samples at ultratrace levels is very difficult by
ICP-MS due to a high noise caused by Xe impurities in argon plasma gas (interference of …

Factors influencing ranchers' intentions to manage for vegetation heterogeneity and promote cross-boundary management in the northern Great Plains

MS Sliwinski, ME Burbach, LA Powell, WH Schacht - Ecology and Society, 2018 - JSTOR
Most private grasslands in the Great Plains are managed with the goal to optimize beef
production, which tends to homogenize rangeland habitats. The subsequent loss of …

Species specialization limits movement ability and shapes ecological networks: the case study of 2 forest mammals

O Dondina, V Orioli, G Chiatante, A Meriggi… - Current …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
To counteract the negative effects of forest fragmentation on wildlife, it is crucial to maintain
functional ecological networks. We identified the ecological networks for 2 mammals with …

Occupancy of potential overwintering habitat on protected lands by two imperiled snake species in the Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States

JM Bauder, DJ Stevenson… - Journal of …, 2017 - meridian.allenpress.com
Abstract Eastern Indigo Snakes (EIS, Drymarchon couperi) and Eastern Diamondbacked
Rattlesnakes (EDB, Crotalus adamanteus) are species of conservation concern, in large part …