Shorebirds are declining to a greater extent than many other avian taxa around the world. In
North America, shorebirds, along with aerial insectivores and grassland birds, have some of …

Conservation planning requires extensive amounts of data, yet data collection is expensive,
and there is often a trade‐off between the quantity and quality of data that can be collected …

A robust understanding of the mechanisms driving demographic change in wild animal
populations is fundamental to the delivery of effective conservation interventions …

Aim Understanding and addressing the global biodiversity crisis requires ecological
information compiled continuously from across the globe. Data from citizen science …

Delineating effects of climate change on biological communities is an urgent conservation
challenge, as climate models predict increases in frequency and magnitude of climatic …

As pollinators, hummingbirds play a critical role for both the function of ecological
communities and in providing ecosystem services for people. To examine the conservation …

Ecological predictions are necessary for testing whether processes hypothesized to regulate
species population dynamics are generalizable across time and space. In order to …

Assessing invertebrate species for the IUCN Red List under Criterion A frequently involves
fitting an appropriate statistical model to available abundance data and calculating a 10 …

Multi-species indicators (MSIs) have been useful tools for reflecting the state of taxa and
ecosystems at global, regional, and national levels. However, most indicators are from …

Abstract The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is the primary ecological
monitoring program used to assess the population, status, and trend of North American …