Mega‐disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California

ZL Steel, GM Jones, BM Collins, R Green… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mature forests provide important wildlife habitat and support critical ecosystem functions
globally. Within the dry conifer forests of the western United States, past management and …

Detecting small changes in populations at landscape scales: a bioacoustic site-occupancy framework

CM Wood, VD Popescu, H Klinck, JJ Keane… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Occupancy modeling based on detection/non-detection data has become a common
approach for monitoring changes in the populations of both sensitive and invasive species …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating population size for California spotted owls and barred owls across the Sierra Nevada ecosystem with bioacoustics

KG Kelly, CM Wood, K McGinn, HA Kramer… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Monitoring population size at ecosystem scales is difficult for most species of conservation
concern. While assessing site occupancy at broad scales has proven feasible, rigorous …

Broadening applications of stochastic patch occupancy models over three decades

C Gutiérrez‐Arellano, EE Crone… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Stochastic patch occupancy models (SPOMs) are a type of spatial population
simulation. They are arguably well‐suited to guide conservation in human‐altered …

Fuels reduction can directly improve spotted owl foraging habitat in the Sierra Nevada

ME Wright, MZ Peery, J Ayars, BP Dotters… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wildfire has been an important force in shaping biological diversity in forests of western
North America. Patterns of reburning helped to maintain heterogenous landscapes with low …

Cryptic wide‐ranging movements lead to upwardly biased occupancy in a territorial species

WJ Berigan, GM Jones, SA Whitmore… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Occupancy modelling is useful for inferring population status and dynamics when
occupancy reflects the presence of established individuals or populations, such as residents …

Framing management of social-ecological systems in terms of the cost of failure: the Sierra Nevada, USA as a case study

CM Wood, GM Jones - Environmental Research Letters, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Managing complex social-ecological systems in an era of rapid climate change and
changing human pressures represents a major challenge in sustainability science. The …

Optimizing landscape‐scale monitoring programmes to detect the effects of megafires

CM Wood - Diversity and Distributions, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim By virtue of their spatial extent, landscape‐scale monitoring programmes may be well‐
suited to support before‐after/control‐impact (BACI) studies of major disturbances such as …

Site occupancy and reproductive dynamics of California spotted owls in a mixed-ownership landscape

BK Hobart, KN Roberts, BP Dotters, WJ Berigan… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodiversity conservation in mixed-ownership landscapes often depends on contributions
from privately-owned lands, where natural resource development can alter and produce …

Folgerungen für den Schutz der Biodiversität

W Härdtle - Biodiversität, Ökosystemfunktionen und Naturschutz, 2024 - Springer
Das Kap. 7 zeigt auf, welche Schlussfolgerungen für einen langfristigen Schutz der
Biodiversität gezogen und wie Erkenntnisse der funktionellen Biodiversitätsforschung im …