A 2018 study using the Climate Change Vulnerability IndexPublicationScientific ReportClimate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Species in the Ontario Great Basin
Conservation status and threat assessments evaluate species’ relative risks of extinction globally, regionally, nationally, or locally and estimate the degree to which populations of species are already safeguarded in existing conservation systems, with the aim of exposing the critical gaps in current conservation.PublicationJournal ArticleNorth American Crop Wild Relatives: Conservation and Use
New study published in prestigious journalPublicationJournal ArticleSpecies diversity as a surrogate for conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity in terrestrial vertebrates across the Americas
Windthrow plays a critical role in maintainingspecies diversity in temperate forests. Do large-scale strongwind events (i.e., tropical cyclones, including hurricanes,typhoons and severe cyclonic storms) increase tree diver-sity in severely damaged forest areas?PublicationJournal ArticleHurricane disturbances, tree diversity, and succession in North Carolina Piedmont forests, USA
This report identifies National Park Service programs for which the proposed methodology would provide a complementary or significantly expanded set of tools to guide the conservation of biological and ecological resourcesPublicationScientific Report
In support of natural resource agencies in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, we report on a series of component analyses and an updated Landscape Conservation Design for temperate grassland conservation.PublicationJournal ArticleNatural Areas Journal
Methods for selecting places at regional scales to conserve biodiversity have advanced in recent decades.PublicationJournal ArticleThe Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
Forests in California have changed dramatically during the 20th century. Shifts in forest structure including densification, declines in large trees and tree basal area have altered the function, productivity, and resilience of modern day forests.PublicationJournal Article Forest Ecology and Management
Increasing attention to pollinators and their role in providing ecosystem services has revealed a paucity of studies on long-term population trends of most insect pollinators in many parts of the world. Because targeted monitoring programs are resource intensive and unlikely to be performed on most insect pollinators, we took advantage of existing collection records to examine long-term trends in northeastern United States populations of 26 species of hawk moths (family Sphingidae) that are presumed to be pollinators.PublicationJournal ArticlePLOS ONE
This report provides an update to our 2005 analysis of the conservation status of Canadian plants and animals in a global context, finding that 6.3 percent — 333 species and subspecies — are of global conservation concern. The assessment draws mostly on data from NatureServe and the network of Canadian conservation data centres. PublicationScientific ReportNatureServe Canada
