A5021256205- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Islamic Studies and History
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Education and Islamic Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Algebraic structures and combinatorial models
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Christian Theology and Mission
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
The Nature Conservancy
2015-2025
Elon University
2016-2025
Oxford Brookes University
2019
University of California, Davis
2016
University of Wyoming
2016
Akita University
2014-2015
University of Colorado Boulder
2015
Akita International University
2014
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
2014
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2010-2013
Conservation priority-setting schemes have not yet combined geographic priorities with a framework that can guide the allocation of funds among alternate conservation actions address specific threats. We develop such framework, and apply it to 17 world's 39 Mediterranean ecoregions. This offers an improvement over approaches only focus on land purchase or species richness do account for discover one could protect many more plant vertebrate by investing in sequence targeted towards threats,...
The distribution of non-ant arthropods was examined in 40 urban habitat fragments coastal San Diego County, California, USA, to look for effects fragmentation, proximity developed edge, and the non-native Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Arthropods were sampled with pitfall traps by vacuum sampling from California buckwheat shrubs (Eriogonum fasciculatum). Individual identified order Recognizable Taxonomic Unit (RTU), or morphospecies. At fragment scale we looked correlations point...
Citizen science, big data, and a habitat marketplace enable dynamic for migratory birds in California’s Central Valley.
Abstract The evolutionary mechanisms generating the tremendous biodiversity of islands have long fascinated biologists. Genetic drift and divergent selection are predicted to be strong on both could drive population divergence speciation. Alternatively, genetic may preclude adaptation. We conducted a genomic analysis test roles in causing differentiation among populations island fox ( Urocyon littoralis ). This species consists six subspecies, each which occupies different California Channel...
Population size and habitat‐specific abundance estimates are essential for conservation management. A major impediment to obtaining such is that few statistical models able simultaneously account both spatial variation in heterogeneity detection probability, still be amenable large‐scale applications. The hierarchical distance‐sampling model of J. A. Royle, D. K. Dawson, S. Bates provides a practical solution. Here, we extend this estimate rangewide population bird species management...
In the last decade, social media have become important tools for educator professional development, learning and community. While education has traditionally proven to be an isolating profession, technologies such as Twitter offer opportunities educators collaborate beyond their school, district, region nation. Education-related hashtags play a key role in facilitating connections interactions between geographically-dispersed with common interests needs. To better understand this phenomenon,...
Wide-ranging large carnivores pose myriad challenges for conservation, especially in highly fragmented landscapes. Over a 13-year period, we combined monitoring of radio collared pumas (Puma concolor) with complementary multi-generational genetic analyses to inform puma conservation southern California, USA. Our goals were generate survivorship estimates, determine causes mortality, identify barriers movement, and the demographic persistence among >20,000,000 people extensive urban,...
Conventional wisdom identifies biodiversity hotspots as priorities for conservation investment because they capture dense concentrations of species. However, density species does not necessarily imply 'efficiency'. Here we explicitly consider efficiency in terms protected per dollar invested.We apply a dynamic return on approach to global biome and compare it with three alternate priority setting approaches random allocation funding. After twenty years acquiring habitat, the protects between...
Island endemics are typically differentiated from their mainland progenitors in behavior, morphology, and genetics, often resulting long-term evolutionary change. To examine mechanisms for the origins of island endemism, we present a phylogeographic analysis whole mitochondrial genomes endangered fox (Urocyon littoralis), endemic to California's Channel Islands, gray foxes (U. cinereoargenteus). Previous genetic studies suggested that first appeared on islands >16,000 years ago, before human...
Pumas (Puma concolor; also known as mountain lions and cougars) in southern California live among a burgeoning human population of roughly 20 million people. Yet little is the consequences attendant habitat loss fragmentation, human-caused puma mortality to viability genetic diversity. We examined status pumas coastal mountains within Peninsular Ranges south Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Orange counties. The Santa Ana Mountains are bounded by urbanization west, north, east, separated...
Abstract Groundwater is a critical resource not only for human communities but also many terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic ecosystems species. Yet groundwater planning management decisions frequently ignore or inadequately address the needs of these natural systems. As consequence, dependent on have been threatened, degraded, eliminated, especially in arid regions. There growing acknowledgment that governmental protections ecological resources are necessary, current legal, regulatory...
A major challenge facing pest-eradication efforts is determining when eradication has been achieved. When the pest can no longer be detected, managers have to decide whether actually eliminated and hence terminate program. For most programs, this decision entails considerable risk largest single issue of such programs. We addressed for an program feral pigs (Sus scrofa) from Santa Cruz Island, California. Using a Bayesian approach, we estimated degree confidence in success at point...
Biometricians have made great strides in the generation of reliable estimates demographic rates and their uncertainties from imperfect field data, but these are rarely used to produce detailed predictions dynamics or future viability at‐risk populations. Conversely, population analysis (PVA) modelers increased sophistication complexity approaches, most do not adequately address parameter model assessments include important ecological drivers. Merging advances two fields could enable more...
The impact of human land uses on ecological systems typically differ relative to how extensively natural conditions are modified. Exurban development is intermediate‐intensity residential that often occurs in landscapes. Most species‐habitat models do not evaluate the effects such intermediate levels and even fewer predict future patterns might affect amount configuration habitat. We addressed these deficiencies by interfacing a habitat model with spatially‐explicit housing‐density study...
The rapid pace of climate change poses a major threat to biodiversity. Utility-scale renewable energy development (>1 MW capacity) is key strategy reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but those facilities also can have adverse effects on Here, we examine the synergy between generation goals and for biodiversity conservation in 13 M ha Mojave Desert southwestern USA. We integrated spatial data value, solar potential, land surface slope angle (a determinant feasibility) found there be sufficient...