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Displaying 1 - 10 of 63,061 Publications- To reverse range-wide population declines, managers of black-tailed and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) require information on the vital rates and life stages most influential to population growth to target effective management actions. We extracted black-tailed and mule deer vital rates from a range-wide literature review and used hierarchical models to summarize vital rates, their variability, and how they correlate with one another. We then used matrix models and life-stage simulation analysis to determine the individual vital rates that contributed most to annual population growth rate (i....AuthorsJoel Ruprecht, Tavis D. Forrester, Darren A. Clark, Michael J. Wisdom, Joshua B. Smith, Taal LeviKeywordsSourceThe Journal of Wildlife Management. 89(2): e22690.Year2025
Spatial and temporal partitioning between eastern gray and fox squirrels in a Central Hardwood forest
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Congeneric fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) and eastern gray squirrels (S. carolinensis) compete for resources within North American temperate forests. Both species exhibit regional variation in morphology and behavior—potentially due to differences in geography, community composition, or ecological pressures between forested regions. While many have studied these species in other forested regions of the United States, recent assessments of partitioning between these species in Central Hardwood forests remain scarce. We investigated spatial and temporal partitioning between squirrel species using...AuthorsJustin Remmers, Damon Lesmeister, Clayton K. NielsenSourceJournal of Mammalogy. 106(2): 323-338.Year2025- Evidence appears to be building that direct exposure to natural landscapes characterized by significant green cover, such as forests, can help to reduce chronic health conditions such as obesity, stress, hypertension, chronic cardiovascular conditions, depression, anxiety, cancer, and diabetes. One way to encourage greater exposure to nature may be through the use of nature prescriptions, whereby clinicians formally recommend (or prescribe) time in nature to their patients. Based on self-reported data, we describe the implementation and lessons learned from a pilot field experiment examining t...AuthorsRandall Bluffstone, Ma Chan, Cort Cox, Melinda M. Davis, Caitlin Dickinson, Sahan T.M. Dissanayake, Jeffrey Kline, Citlactli Carrera Lopez, Himani Ojha, Sterling Stokes, Saurabh S. Thosar, Srilakshmi VedantamKeywordsSourceForests. 16(5): 752.Year2025
- Conservation easements have become a prevalent method for conserving forestland in the United States in the face of housing and other development. In this study, we used data from the National Woodland Owner Survey conducted by the USDA Forest Service in 2017–2018 to examine patterns and determinants of conservation easement adoption on individual forestland parcels. A total of 9349 landowners are included in the analysis, covering all 50 states. We used a spatial binary probit model to consider potential spatial dependence in conservation decisions among adjacent landowners. Our results revea...AuthorsChangyou Sun, Jeffry D. Kline, Xiaofei LiKeywordsSourceLand Use Policy. 154(1): 107579.Year2025
- Adaptive evolution requires both natural selection and genetic variation. In introduced species, the selective dynamics of range expansion are predicted by theory to lead to differences between the core and the leading edge, with edge individuals evolving to be more fecund (under r-selection) and have greater dispersal ability than core individuals. In arthropods, both fecundity and dispersal ability are often positively correlated with body size. Here, we quantify genetic variation available for evolution of body size in a beetle (Diorhabda carinulata) introduced into North America as a biolo...AuthorsEliza I Clark, Dan W. Bean, Ellyn V Bitume, Amanda R. Stahlke, Paul A. Hohenlohe, Ruth A. HufbauerKeywordsSourceCurrent Research in Insect Science. 7: 100112.Year2025
- Tree spacing during reforestation is a critical decision that influences the trajectory and rate of stand development over time, but there is limited quantification of responses at meaningful time scales for management. Here we report on ∼40 year response of coast Douglas-fir (DF, Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii), noble fir (NF, Abies procera) and western white pine (WWP, Pinus monticola) to five or six spacing treatments that ranged from 1 to 6 m in the western Cascades of Washington, USA. Spacing effects were tested separately for each species in completely randomized designs applied to...AuthorsRobert A. Slesak, Michelle Agne, Constance A. Harrington, Matthew D. PowersKeywordsSourceForest Ecology and Management. 586(3): 122724.Year2025
- Whitebark pine, a geographically widespread upper subalpine tree species, exists largely within federally designated Wilderness areas (herein, wilderness) that are afforded greater protection from direct human manipulation as compared to surrounding public and privately owned lands. Nevertheless, climate change, associated disturbances, historical fire suppression, disease, and other factors are causing an increase in tree mortality of this federally threatened foundation species in parts of its range. The 1964 Wilderness Act mandates that wilderness areas are preserved in their “natural” cond...AuthorsKira Hefty, Jaclyn Fox Rushing, Sean Parks, Teresa HollingsworthKeywordsSourceNutcracker Notes. 47: 6-9.Year2025
Spatiotemporal patterns of diversity and diversity‑stability relationships as a function of compounding disturbances and forest management
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Context: Consistent with the diversity-stability hypothesis, high wildlife diversity has been associated with increased resilience and stability of ecosystem services and functions. Nevertheless, ecological non-stationarity associated with climate change challenges the concept of stability. Furthermore, ambiguity surrounding appropriate diversity metrics to usehas hindered the ability of natural resource managers to leverage the potential benefits of biodiversity conservation.Objectives and methods: We aimed to infer how diversity and compositional stability might be affected by multiple clima...AuthorsKira L. Hefty, Nicholas A. Povak, Patricia N. Manley, Samuel W. Flake, Katherine A. ZellerSourceLandscape Ecology. 40: 84.Year2025- Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allow the measurement and prediction of organismal movements at multiple scales. We provide a definition of connectivity that links movement to persistence and ecological function. Connectivity science can guide planning for biodiversity, ecosystem services, ecological restoration, and climate adaptation. Ongoing climate change and land and sea use are closing the window of opportunity for connectivit...AuthorsJedediah F. Brodie, Andrew Gonzalez, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan, Cara R. Nelson, Gary Tabor, Divya Vasudev, Katherine A. Zeller, Robert J. Jr..FletcherSourceScience. 388: eadn2225.Year2025
- Pyrotown is a serious game developed as an educational tool for the Master-level course 'Integrated Fire Management' at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). It is a role-playing game (or social simulation) designed to support social learning amongst Master students regarding the challenges that face multi-stakeholder groups and communities that attempt to create an integrated fire management strategy in a complex and changing world. It includes two surprise crisis events that interrupt the game in real time to add new elements and heighten the urgency for decision-making. After playing the ...AuthorsJasper R. de Vries, Michael A. Cacciapaglia, David Flores, Cathelijne R. StoofKeywordsSourceZenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15318803.Year2025
