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- Protected Areas: Goals, Limitations, and Design
- This reference focuses on the functions, design, and limitations of protected areas and the processes of conservation planning.
- Applying ecological criteria to marine reserve design: A case study from the California Channel Islands
- Reference which describes the steps involved in designing a network of marine reserves for conservation and fisheries management.
- Plan for the Population Restoration and Conservation of Imperiled Freshwater Mollusks of the Cumberland Region
- The goal of this Plan is to provide a framework for the restoration of freshwater mollusk resources and their ecological functions to appropriate reaches of ...
- Six Common Mistakes in Conservation Priority Setting
- A vast number of prioritization schemes have been developed to help conservation navigate tough decisions about the allocation of finite resources. However, ...
- Toward rigorous use of expert knowledge in ecological research
- Practicing ecologists who excel at their work (‘‘experts’’) hold a wealth of knowledge. This knowledge offers a wide range of opportunities for application in ...
- Three new darter species of the Etheostoma percnurum species complex (Percidae, subgenus Catonotus) from the Tennessee and Cumberland River Drainages
- The federally endangered Duskytail Darter, Etheostoma percnurum Jenkins, is known from only six highly disjunct populations in the Tennessee and Cumberland ...
- Temporal dynamics of a commensal network of cavity-nesting vertebrates: increased diversity during an insect outbreak
- Network analysis offers insight into the structure and function of ecological communities, but little is known about how empirical networks change over time ...
- Palaeodata-informed modelling of large carbon losses from recent burning of boreal forests
- Wildfires play a key role in the boreal forest carbon cycle(1,2), and models suggest that accelerated burning will increase boreal C emissions in the coming ...
- A Review of Climate-Change Adaptation Strategies for Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Conservation
- We reviewed the literature and climate- change adaptation plans that have been developed in United States, Canada, England, Mexico, and South Africa and ...
- Pragmatic population viability targets in a rapidly changing world
- To ensure both long-term persistence and evolutionary potential, the required number of individuals in a population often greatly exceeds the targets proposed ...
- Stakeholder participation for environmental management: A literature review
- The complex and dynamic nature of environmental problems requires flexible and trans- parent decision-making that embraces a diversity of knowledges and ...
- Stream channel geomorphology influences mussel abundance in southern Appalachian streams, U.S.A.
- We quantified freshwater mussel abundance and species richness and their physical habitat at 24 sites in eight streams in southern Appalachian catchments in ...
- Freshwater Mussels of the Powell River, Virginia and Tennessee: Abundance and Distribution in a Biodiversity Hotspot
- Historically, the Powell River had a diverse freshwater mussel fauna of 46 species. Various surveys conducted over the past century have recorded a decline in ...
- National Geographic Framework for Guiding Conservation on a Landscape Scale
- In 2009, a new map of ecologically based conservation regions in which to organize capacity and implement strategic habitat conservation was developed using ...
- Climate Change: Future Federal Adaptation Efforts Could Better Support Local Infrastructure Decision Makers
- The federal government invests billions of dollars annually in infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, facing increasing risks from climate change. ...
- National Fish, Wildlife, & Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy
- The purpose of the National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy is to inspire and enable natural resource administrators, elected officials, ...
