This first quantitative assessment of bird community change at La Selva drives home the need to more deeply study the mechanisms and consequences of biological diversity change in tropical forest fragments.
The Bioclim, Doman, GARP and Maxent modeling methods are put to the test across 18 different species, with Maxent emerging as the best for small sample sizes.
This report classifies and maps the natural vegetation of Voyageurs National Park --which contains 54,243 hectares of terrestrial, sub-boreal habitat -- using the USNVC, with ‘alliance’ and ‘association’ as base units.
This paper highlights types of expertise, data, and tools that can be used to help transportation and environmental practitioners trying to keep pace with policy and technology advancements.
The invasion of true clover into New Zealand is the focus of this analysis of the human role in the introduction and proliferation of nonnative species.
NatureServe's project “Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Conditions across Landscape Regions – a Multi-metric Approach” was conducted with the natural heritage programs of Indiana and Michigan, and included assessment of roughly 360 wetland sites in those two states.
With environmental change wreaking widespread shifts in species distribution, some plant communities will likely disappear while entirely new ones will appear within our lifetime. This reality requires an understanding of the distribution of plants species and careful definition within a consistent typological framework.
This 72-page report answers the call for stronger ecological performance standards for guiding the wetland mitigation process. Here we present two methods for setting those standards: a) a watershed approach and b) an approach based on ecological integrity assessment methods.