Biodiversity is threatened, and conservation is urgent. The reality of limited resources for conservation requires prioritization among actions, species, and places, and the building of capacity in countries where threats are high.
Sarah Carter uses projections of future housing development to identify those sites requiring immediate conservation attention in order to successfully conserve Wisconsin’s biodiversity.
Identifying potential sites for the successful reintroduction of a species is difficult. Post-doc Steve Wangen applies an agent-based method to the reintroduction of the American marten into northern Wisconsin.
When it comes to creating protected areas for conservation, ecologists tend to focus on the where. However, to establish new protected areas, the question of when may be just as important.
Locations in and around natural areas are especially appealing for housing development. Unfortunately, this development may have undesirable consequences.
Do we know how climate change and extreme weather conditions affect wildlife in particular bird populations?
What if someone told you that you could be of great help to science in general and conservation in particular and have fun at the same time? Forward Trails is a Massive Multiplayer Online Game that allows you to do just that!
Dave Helmers sits down with me and gives the skinny on how he turns U.S. Census data into ecologically relevant products for answering some of the most pressing questions in land-change conservation science.
How do you find stopover habitat of migrants moving under the cover of night? David La Puma uses weather radar to see in the dark and identify sites across the southeastern U.S.
Carlos Ramirez Reyes develops a way to monitor deforestation in Mexico using satellite images from 1990 to present.
Global climate change is increasing the incidence of extreme weather events. Jessica Gorzo, PhD candidate, is studying how these extreme events are affecting the abundance, geographical distribution, and breeding habits of forest songbirds.
