The secretive behavior and life history of snakes makes studying their biology, distribution,
and the epidemiology of venomous snakebite challenging. One of the most useful, most …

Natural habitat plays an important role in maintaining biodiversity. Both cropland expansion
and urban expansion have an influence on natural habitat. However, it is not clear which …

Blooming citizen science in China creates opportunities to update distribution maps of
threatened birds and contributes to decision making for conservation. 46,073 records …

Many publications make use of opportunistic data, such as citizen science observation data,
to infer large‐scale properties of species' distributions. However, the few publications that …

Understanding how traits affect species responses to threats like habitat loss may help
prevent extinctions. This may be especially true for understudied taxa for which we have little …

Habitat loss and road mortality pose severe threats to wildlife by reducing available
resources, increasing mortality rates, and fragmenting remaining habitat into smaller …

As cities adopt mandates to protect, maintain and restore urban biodiversity, the need for
urban ecology studies grows. Species-specific information on the effects of urbanization is …

The loss of natural wetland habitats along China's coasts has contributed to population
declines in waterbirds, especially migratory shorebirds. Identifying important shorebird sites …

Determining the spatial scale at which landscape features influence population persistence
is an important task for conservation planning. One challenge is that sampling biases …

Large areas of unsuitable habitat are often included within the extent of occurrence (EOO) of
species, such as the EOO defined by the IUCN (EOOiucn), because the techniques used to …