A5002740479- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Forest Management and Policy
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Virology and Viral Diseases
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Marine animal studies overview
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
Center for Large Landscape Conservation
2012-2024
Waterton Lakes National Park
2021
Berkeley College
2021
University of California, Berkeley
2021
Dalhousie University
2021
The Nature Conservancy
2021
International Union for Conservation of Nature
2020
International Union for Conservation of Nature (Guinea-Bissau)
2020
Agence des Aires Marines Protégées
2020
Biographics (United States)
2020
Climate change is expected to impact ecosystems directly, such as through shifting climatic controls on species ranges, and indirectly, for example changes in human land use that may result habitat loss. Shifting patterns of agricultural production response climate have received little attention a potential pathway ecosystems. Wine grape provides good test case measuring indirect impacts mediated by agriculture, because viticulture sensitive concentrated Mediterranean regions are global...
The rapid global spread and human health impacts of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, show humanity's vulnerability to zoonotic disease pandemics. Although anthropogenic land use change is known be major driver pathogen spillover from wildlife populations, scientific underpinnings use-induced have rarely been investigated landscape perspective. We call for interdisciplinary collaborations advance knowledge on implications emergence with a view toward informing decisions needed...
Hendra virus (HeV) is a lethal paramyxovirus which emerged in humans 1994. Poor understanding of HeV dynamics Pteropus spp. (flying fox or fruit bat) reservoir hosts has limited our ability to determine factors driving its emergence. We initiated longitudinal field study little red flying foxes (LRFF; scapulatus ) and examined individual population risk for infection, probable modes intraspecific transmission. also investigated whether seasonal changes host behaviour, physiology demography...
As natural resource management agencies and conservation organizations seek guidance on responding to climate change, myriad potential actions strategies have been proposed for increasing the long-term viability of some attributes systems. Managers need practical tools selecting among these develop a tailored approach specific targets at given location. We developed present one such tool, participatory Adaptation Conservation Targets (ACT) framework, which considers effects change in...
Abstract Connectivity conservation is an emergent approach to counteracting landscape fragmentation and enhancing resilience climate change at local, national, global scales. While policy that promotes connectivity advancing, there has been no systematic, evidence-based study assesses whether plans (CCPs) resulted in outcomes, identifies specific plan attributes may favor successful implementation. To fill this gap, we gathered 263 terrestrial CCPs from around the world, characterized of 109...
Many of the world’s most biodiverse regions are found in poorest and second populous continent Africa; a facing exceptional challenges. Africa is projected to quadruple its population by 2100 experience increasingly severe climate change environmental conflict—all which will ravage biodiversity. Here we assess conservation threats consider how these be affected human growth, economic expansion, change. We then evaluate current capacity infrastructure available conserve continent’s four key...
Abstract: Integrating knowledge from across the natural and social sciences is necessary to effectively address societal tradeoffs between human use of biological diversity its preservation. Collaborative processes can change ways decision makers think about scientific evidence, enhance levels mutual trust credibility, advance conservation policy discourse. Canada has responsibility for a large fraction some major ecosystems, such as boreal forests, Arctic tundra, wetlands, temperate oceans....
Ecological restoration should be regarded as a public health service. Unfortunately, the lack of quantitative linkages between environmental and human has limited recognition this principle. The advent COVID-19 pandemic provides impetus for further discussion. We propose ecological countermeasures highly targeted, landscape-based interventions to arrest drivers land use-induced zoonotic spillover. provide examples activities that reduce disease risk five-point action plan at human-ecosystem...
Abstract Anthropogenic land use change is a major driver of zoonotic pathogen spillover from wildlife to humans. According the use‐induced model, alters environmental conditions that in turn alter dynamics between pathogens and their hosts. Thus, response global spread SARS‐CoV‐2 virus (the agent COVID‐19 disease), there have been renewed calls for landscape conservation as disease preventive measure, including by G7 Ministers responsible Climate Environment. Landscape immunity, new...
Abstract Measuring connectivity is key to track progress toward broad conservation goals, such as the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity's proposed Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The framework includes an area‐based target for protection of 30% lands and seas globally—through well‐connected systems protected areas. Although field science has grown rapidly, limited been made in tracking practice. This part due lack a standardizing clarify different purposes,...
Landscape genetics is increasingly being used in landscape planning for biodiversity conservation by assessing habitat connectivity and identifying barriers, using intraspecific genetic data quantification of heterogeneity to statistically test the link between variation variability. In this study we understand how features environmental factors influence demographic connectedness Europe's largest brown bear population assist mitigating planned infrastructure development Romania. Model-based...
Ecological connectivity should be an important consideration in environmental assessment (EA). How often and how thoroughly the analysis of ecological is integrated EA process is, however, unknown. We surveyed actors stakeholders regarding their perceptions of, experiences with, context EA. 134 practitioners, regulators, consultants, researchers, interest groups from all inhabited continents participated. Over 72% respondents stated that always considered; it considered too late process, at...