Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle

EM McCluskey, V Lulla, WE Peterman… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context Regional conservation efforts should incorporate fine scale landscape genetic and
habitat suitability data for management decisions. This information permits conservation …

Genetic signatures of small effective population sizes and demographic declines in an endangered rattlesnake, Sistrurus catenatus

M Sovic, A Fries, SA Martin… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Endangered species that exist in small isolated populations are at elevated risk of losing
adaptive variation due to genetic drift. Analyses that estimate short‐term effective population …

From archived historical aerial imagery to informative orthophotos: A framework for retrieving the past in long-term socioecological research

AT Pinto, JA Gonçalves, P Beja, J Pradinho Honrado - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Aerial photographs have been systematically collected from as early as the 1930s, providing
a unique resource to describe changes in vegetation and land cover over extended periods …

Land use suitability analysis for town development planning in Nanjing hilly areas: A case study of Tangshan new town, China

Y Yang, X Tang, Z Li - Journal of Mountain Science, 2021 - Springer
Land use suitability analysis plays an important role in sustainable land use and solving
environmental problems caused by rapid urban development. A land use suitability mapping …

Inferring population connectivity in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus) using landscape genetics

SA Martin, WE Peterman, GJ Lipps Jr… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Assessing the environmental factors that influence the ability of a threatened species to
move through a landscape can be used to identify conservation actions that connect isolated …

Pedigree‐based assessment of recent population connectivity in a threatened rattlesnake

SA Martin, GJ Lipps Jr, HL Gibbs - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Managing endangered species in fragmented landscapes requires estimating dispersal
rates between populations over contemporary timescales. Here, we developed a new …

Using Ecological Niche Models for Population and Range Estimates of a Threatened Snake Species (Crotalus oreganus) in Canada

DA Kirk, S Karimi, JR Maida, JA Harvey, KW Larsen… - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
Modelling the distribution and abundance of species at risk is extremely important for their
conservation and management. We used ecological niche models (ENMs) to predict the …

Intact landscape promotes gene flow and low genetic structuring in the threatened Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake

N Kudla, EM McCluskey, V Lulla… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic structuring of wild populations is dependent on environmental, ecological, and life‐
history factors. The specific role environmental context plays in genetic structuring is …

Habitat and history influence abundance of bog turtles

TSM Stratmann, TM Floyd… - The Journal of Wildlife …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation of rare and endangered species requires assessment of factors that influence
the current habitat associations of a species and the role of past habitat degradation in …

Assessing the impact of binary land cover variables on species distribution models: A North American study on water birds

L Gabor, J Cohen, W Jetz - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Aim: Species distribution models (SDMs) are an important tool for predicting species
occurrences in geographic space and for understanding the drivers of these occurrences …