Context:
Functional connectivity—the facilitation of individual movements among habitat patches—is essential for species’ persistence in fragmented landscapes. Evaluating functional connectivity is critical for predicting range shifts, developing conservation plans, and anticipating effects of disturbance, especially for species affected by climate change.
Objectives:
We examined whether simplifying forest structure influenced animal...
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snow
cover to influence functional connectivity for Pacific martens. Landscape Ecology,
30(10), 1865
Substantial investments in fuel management activities on national forests in the western US are part of a
national strategy to reduce human and ecological losses from catastrophic wildfire and create fire
resilient landscapes. Prioritizing these investments within and among national forests remains a challenge,
partly because a comprehensive assessment that...
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Gallatin 1 GAL 872,716
GiffordPinchot 6 GIP 815,840
Gila 3 GIL 1,370,800
Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and
Fishery management production models tend to stress only the elements directly linked to fish (i.e. fish, fish food, and fish predators). Large coastal jellyfish are major consumers of plankton in heavily fished ecosystems; yet, they are frequently not included as model components. We explore the relationship between gulf menhaden (Brevoortia...
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and DWT:WWT of 0.2) for phytoplankton (S.
Strom WWU and D. Gifford URI, pers. comm.). The depth