Conservation resources are limited, and prioritizing species based on their relative
vulnerability and risk of extinction is a fundamental component of conservation planning. In …

Ensuring that conservation decisions are informed by the best available data is a
fundamental challenge in the face of rapid global environmental change. Too often, new …

Forest management affects conditions for both early‐and late‐seral organisms, and
managers and conservationists require information for balancing the ostensibly opposing …

Partners in Flight (PIF) was created in 1990 in response to concern for declining populations
of Neotropical migratory songbirds (Robbins et al. 1986, Askins et al. 1990) and in the …

This is the third assessment of the population status of birds in the UK. The listing criteria are
based on global conservation status, historical population declines, recent population …

Conservationists must develop new strategies and adapt existing tools to address the
consequences of anthropogenic climate change. To support statewide climate change …

We present a method for estimating density of nesting birds based on double sampling. The
approach involves surveying a large sample of plots using a rapid method such as …

The last word in ignorance is the man who says ofan animal or plant:'What good is it?'If the
land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or …

Wind power generation is likely to constitute one of the most extensive human physical
exploitation activities of European marine areas in the near future. The many millions of …

Open canopy conditions in southeastern pine (Pinus spp.) forests were historically
maintained by frequent fire and other disturbances, without which midstory hardwoods …