A5051939532- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Geotourism and Geoheritage Conservation
- Forest Management and Policy
- Regional Development and Innovation
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Forest ecology and management
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
NatureServe
2015-2024
Clovis Oncology (United States)
2024
Colorado Sleep Institute
2022
University of Michigan
2016
University of Maine
1997
Tampere University
1997
Michigan Department of Natural Resources
1994
An understanding of risks to biodiversity is needed for planning action slow current rates decline and secure ecosystem services future human use. Although the IUCN Red List criteria provide an effective assessment protocol species, a standard global higher levels currently limited. In 2008, initiated development risk support ecosystems. We present new conceptual model founded on synthesis relevant ecological theories. To model, we review key elements definition introduce concept collapse,...
Abstract In response to growing demand for ecosystem‐level risk assessment in biodiversity conservation, and rapid proliferation of locally tailored protocols, the IUCN recently endorsed new Red List criteria as a global standard ecosystem assessment. Four qualities were sought design criteria: generality; precision; realism; simplicity. Drawing from extensive consultation, we explore trade‐offs among these when dealing with key challenges, including classification, measuring dynamics,...
International agreements, environmental laws, resource management agencies, and nongovernmental organizations all establish objectives that define what they hope to accomplish. Unfortunately, quantitative in conservation are typically set without consistency scientific rigor. As a result, conservationists failing provide credible answers the question “How much is enough?” This serious problem because profoundly shape where how limited resources spent, help create shared vision for future. In...
The Andes-Amazon basin of Peru and Bolivia is one the most data-poor, biologically rich, rapidly changing areas world. Conservation scientists agree that this area hosts extremely high endemism, perhaps highest in world, yet we know little about geographic distributions these species ecosystems within country boundaries. To address need, have developed conservation data on endemic biodiversity (~800 birds, mammals, amphibians, plants) terrestrial ecological systems (~90; groups vegetation...
A vegetation classification approach is needed that can describe the diversity of terrestrial ecosystems and their transformations over large time frames, span full range spatial geographic scales across globe, provide knowledge reference conditions current states required to make decisions about conservation resource management. We summarize scientific basis for EcoVeg, a physiognomic‐floristic‐ecological applies existing vegetation, both cultural (planted dominated by human processes)...
Knowledge products comprise assessments of authoritative information supported by standards, governance, quality control, data, tools, and capacity building mechanisms. Considerable resources are dedicated to developing maintaining knowledge for biodiversity conservation, they widely used inform policy advise decision makers practitioners. However, the financial cost delivering this is largely undocumented. We evaluated costs funding sources four global conservation products: The IUCN Red...
In a rapidly changing climate, conservation practitioners could better use geodiversity in broad range of decisions. We explored selected avenues through which this integration might improve decision making and organized them within the adaptive management cycle assessment, planning, implementation, monitoring. Geodiversity is seldom referenced predominant environmental law policy. With most natural resource agencies mandated to conserve certain categories species, agency personnel are...
In support of natural resource agencies in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, we report on a series component analyses an updated Landscape Conservation Design for temperate grassland conservation. We targeted 12 major ecosystem types that occur across Great Plains Chihuahuan Desert regions. Component included (1) documenting long-term trends extent by type, (2) identifying species concern associated with types, (3) current protected areas including each (4) assessing landscape...
Mature and old-growth forests (MOG) of the conterminous United States collectively support exceptional levels biodiversity but have declined substantially from logging development. National-scale proposals to protect 30 50% all lands waters are useful in assessing MOG conservation targets given precarious status these forests. We present first coast spatially explicit assessment based on three structural development measures—canopy height, canopy cover, above-ground living biomass assess...
A new map of standardized, mesoscale (tens to thousands hectares) terrestrial ecosystems for the conterminous United States was developed by using a biophysical stratification approach. The delineated in this top-down, deductive modeling effort are described NatureServe's classification ecological systems States. were mapped as physically distinct areas and associated with known distributions vegetation assemblages standardized methodology first South America. This approach follows...
Geodiversity has been used as a surrogate for biodiversity when species locations are unknown, and this utility can be extended to situations where in flux. Recently, scientists have designed conservation networks that aim explicitly represent the range of geophysical environments, identifying network physical stages could sustain while allowing change composition response climate change. Because there is no standard approach designing such networks, we compiled 8 case studies illustrating...
Observed ecological responses to climate change are highly individualistic across species and locations, understanding the drivers of this variability is essential for management conservation efforts. While it clear that differences in exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity all contribute heterogeneity vulnerability, predicting these features at macroecological scales remains a critical challenge. We explore multiple heterogeneous vulnerability distributions 96 vegetation types...
Despite its successes, the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) has proven challenging to implement due funding limitations, workload backlog, and other problems. As threats species survival intensify as more come under threat, need for ESA similar conservation laws policies in countries function efficiently grown. Attempts by Fish Wildlife Service (USFWS) streamline decisions include multispecies recovery plans habitat plans. We address status assessment (SSA), a USFWS process inform from...
Documenting temporal trends in the extent of ecosystems is essential to monitoring their status but combining this information with degree protection helps us assess effectiveness societal actions for conserving ecosystem diversity and related services. We demonstrated indicators Tropical Andes using both potential (pre-industrial) recent (~2010) distribution maps terrestrial types. measured long-term loss, representation types within current protected areas, quantifying additional offered...
Abstract The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Ecosystems (RLE) is an emerging global standard ecosystem risk assessment that integrates data and knowledge to document the relative status types. Here, we summarize initial findings from applying four IUCN RLE criteria 655 terrestrial ecosystems in temperate tropical North America, or 8.5% land surface. A series indicators are measured each criterion address trends extent (A), restricted nature its distribution...
Documenting changes in ecosystem extent and protection is essential to understanding status of biodiversity related services have direct applications measuring Essential Biodiversity Variables, Targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), IUCN Red List Ecosystems. We developed both potential current distribution maps terrestrial types for temperate tropical Americas; with "potential" estimating where a type would likely occur today had there not been prior land conversion...
We applied a framework to assess climate change vulnerability of 52 major vegetation types in the Western United States provide spatially explicit input adaptive management decisions. The addressed exposure and ecosystem resilience; latter derived from analyses sensitivity capacity. Measures used observed (1981–2014) then projections for mid-21st century (2040–2069 RCP 4.5). resilience included (under sensitivity) landscape intactness, invasive species, fire regime alteration, forest insect...