Humans are transforming the biosphere in unprecedented ways, raising the important
question of how these impacts are changing biodiversity. Here we argue that our …

Executive summary This report consists of a critical review and synthesis of recent
information on the status of the Northern Spotted Owl. The report has been prepared to …

New technologies are rapidly changing the way we collect, archive, analyze, and share
scientific data. For example, over the next several years it is estimated that more than one …

Broad‐scale variation in taxonomic richness is strongly correlated with climate. Many
mechanisms have been hypothesized to explain these patterns; however, testable …

We present a general framework for characterizing the ecological and societal
consequences of biodiversity loss and applying it to the global avifauna. To investigate the …

One of the most striking and persistent ways humans dominate Earth is by changing land-
cover as we settle a region. Much of our ecological understanding about this process comes …

The status of sage grouse populations and habitats has been a concern to sportsmen and
biologists for> 80 years. Despite management and research efforts that date to the 1930s …

This is a guide to rails, a relatively homogenous family of birds spread throughout the world.
Most species are solitary and somewhat secretive, and therefore high on the wanted lists of …

Climate change, habitat degradation, and direct exploitation are thought to threaten
biodiversity. But what makes some species more sensitive to global change than others …

Although many new diseases have emerged within the past 2 decades [Cohen, ML (1998)
Brit. Med. Bull. 54, 523–532], attributing low numbers of animal hosts to the existence of …