In cooperation with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, the University of Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership, and the Missouri Department of conservation, NatureServe conducted a pilot project to develop and evaluate ways to assess the benefits of NRCS conservation practices to at-risk wildlife species and habitats in Missouri.PublicationScientific Report
A discussion of the decades-old disconnect between land-use planners and conservation scientists.PublicationJournal ArticleLasting Landscapes: Reflections on the Role of Conservation Science in Land Use Planning
What are we losing when we fail to regulate wetlands with legally debatable connections to navigable waters? NatureServe researchers offer a new, concrete, and sobering response.PublicationJournal ArticleNational Wetlands Newsletter
The purpose of this report was to help the National Park Service develop a standing data exchange protocol intended to ensure that data acquired by either NatureServe, the member programs, or the National Park Service NETN is shared. This protocol would ensure that the datasets held by either organization contains the most current available information.PublicationScientific Report
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.PublicationJournal ArticleEcography
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.PublicationJournal ArticleConservation Biology
Long the forgotten river in the Washington D.C. region, the Anacostia River is increasingly the focus of efforts designed to protect and restore the river and its associated watershed.PublicationScientific Report
Seventeen years ago, the Monteverde harlequin frog and the golden toad vanished from the mountains of Costa Rica. This article traces those and other extinctions to a fungal outbreak spurred by global warming.PublicationJournal ArticleNature
Overview and detailed descriptions for nearly 70 conservation sites throughout Nevada, sites that have been identified as harboring significant populations of rare species at highest risk of loss or serious decline without immediate new protection. PublicationScientific Report
