[HTML][HTML] Degradation of river ecological quality in Tibet plateau with overgrazing: A quantitative assessment using biotic integrity index improved by random forest

L Niu, Y Guo, Y Li, C Wang, Q Hu, L Fan, L Wang… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The river ecosystem in fragile regions is especially vulnerable to environmental or
anthropogenic stressors. The ecological quality and stability of rivers in fragile regions …

Identifying priority areas for bat conservation in the Western Ghats mountain range, peninsular India

S Raman, TT Shameer, U Pooja… - Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Understanding patterns of species distribution and diversity plays a vital role in biodiversity
conservation. Such documentation is frequently lacking for bats, which are relatively little …

Using stacked SDMs with accuracy and rarity weighting to optimize surveys for rare plant species

H Rosner-Katz, JL McCune, JR Bennett - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020 - Springer
Effective conservation of rare species requires reasonable knowledge of population
locations. However, surveys for rare species can be time-intensive and therefore expensive …

[HTML][HTML] Fine-grained topographic diversity data improve site prioritization outcomes for bees

KD Doherty, MP Kuhlman, RA Durham, PW Ramsey… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biodiversity hotspots are often found in areas of high environmental diversity. This may be
explained by an abundance of varying niche space promoting coexistence, buffering effects …

Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States

V Vijay, JRB Fisher, PR Armsworth - Conservation Letters, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation organizations seek to achieve multiple benefits for biodiversity and ecosystem
services through protected area expansion, necessitating an understanding of potential co …

Prioritizing imperiled native aquatic species for conservation propagation

MAH Webb, CS Guy, HB Treanor… - Journal of Fish and …, 2023 - meridian.allenpress.com
Native aquatic species are in decline, and hatcheries can play an important role in stemming
these losses until larger ecological issues are addressed. However, as more federal and …

When macroecological transitions are a fiction of sampling: comparing herbarium records to plot‐based species inventory data

GR Guerin, AN Andersen, M Rossetto… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Natural history collections are alternative data sources to plot‐based species inventories for
analysing macroecological species turnover. Herbarium records sample diversity well at …

Applying conservation reserve design strategies to define ecosystem monitoring priorities

I Martín‐Forés, GR Guerin, SEM Munroe… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In an era of unprecedented ecological upheaval, monitoring ecosystem change at large
spatial scales and over long‐time frames is an essential endeavor of effective environmental …

Towards an understanding of the drivers of broad-scale patterns of rarity-weighted richness for vertebrates

F Albuquerque, Y Astudillo-Scalia, R Loyola… - Biodiversity and …, 2019 - Springer
To combat biodiversity loss, conservation planners prioritize sites with high complementarity
(ability to represent all or most species in a few sites), but little work has been done to …

Partitioning tree diversity patterns to prioritize conservation investments

PF McKenzie, GD Iacona, ER Larson… - Environmental …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The available tools and approaches to inform conservation decisions commonly assume
detailed distribution data. We examine how well-established ecological concepts about …