Abstract The first National Wetland Condition Assessment (NWCA) was conducted in 2011
by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and its federal and state partners …

A conceptual framework is helpful to understand what types of ecosystem services (ES)
information is needed to support decision making. Principles of structured decision making …

Airborne remote sensing offers unprecedented opportunities to efficiently monitor
vegetation, but methods to delineate and classify individual plant species using the collected …

Broad‐scale studies have improved our ability to make predictions about how freshwater
biotic and abiotic properties will respond to changes in climate and land use intensification …

Conservation practitioners are increasingly looking to species translocations as a tool to
recover imperiled taxa. Quantitative predictions of where animals are likely to move when …

Population models can be an important tool in regulatory decision-making processes
regarding natural resources, such as fisheries and rare species. Regulators presented with …

The current mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, 1902)
outbreak has reached more than 25 million hectares of forests in North America, affecting …

In general, it is not feasible to collect enough empirical data to capture the entire range of
processes that define a complex system, either intrinsically or when viewing the system from …

For ecosystem models to be applicable outside their context of development, temporal and
spatial transferability must be demonstrated. This presents a challenge for modeling …

With growing public awareness that wetlands are important to society, there are intensifying
efforts to understand the ecological condition of those wetlands that remain, and to develop …