Museum collections are critical to contemporary biological research, but museum
acquisitions have declined in recent decades, hampering researchers' ability to use …

Plastic pollution, and especially plastic ingestion by animals, is a serious global issue. This
problem is well documented in marine systems, but it is relatively understudied in freshwater …

Freshwater biodiversity is imperiled across the globe, and multiple stressors such as habitat
alteration, non‐native species invasion, disease, and climate change can act in concert to …

Context Transportation and wildlife agencies may consider the need for barrier structures
and safe wildlife road-crossings to maintain the long-term viability of wildlife populations. In …

Globally, biodiversity is declining, and a major driver of this decline is climate change;
consequently, we need ways to evaluate the vulnerability of species to this change. We …

The red-eared slider turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans; RES) is often considered one of the
world's most invasive species. Results from laboratory and mesocosm experiments suggest …

Genomic data have the potential to inform high resolution landscape genetic and biological
conservation studies that go far beyond recent mitochondrial and microsatellite analyses …

The northwestern pond turtle, Actinemys marmorata, and its recently recognized sister
species, the southwestern pond turtle, A. pallida, are the sole aquatic testudines occurring …

Aim Ecological niche modelling is one of the main tools that allows for the incorporation of
climate change effects into conservation planning. For example, ecological niche model …

Accurate status assessments of long-lived, widely distributed taxa depend on the availability
of long-term monitoring data from multiple populations. However, monitoring populations …