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Influence of camera model and alignment on the performance of paired camera stations
The probability of obtaining images of target species may vary across camera models or relative position of cameras at survey locations. Alignment of cameras within paired camera stations (hereafter, stations) could affect species detection due to…
Survivorship and mortality patterns of double-crested cormorants at Spider Island, Wisconsin, 1988–2006
Banding records were examined to identify changes in mortality causes and locations of Double-crested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) in Door County, Wisconsin. In 14 out of 18 years between 1988 and 2005, a total of 22,469 birds were banded (300…
Keystone structures maintain forest function for Canada lynx after large-scale spruce beetle outbreak
Central to species conservation in an era of increased disturbance from climate change is understanding the primary mechanisms that facilitate how forest-dependent species respond to changes in forest structure and composition. Here, we leveraged a…
Winter recreation and Canada lynx: reducing conflict through niche partitioning
Outdoor recreationists are important advocates for wildlife on public lands. However, balancing potential impacts associated with increased human disturbance with the conservation of sensitive species is a central issue facing ecologists and land…
A specialized forest carnivore navigates landscape-level disturbance: Canada lynx in spruce-beetle impacted forests
Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) occupy cold wet forests (boreal and subalpine forest) that were structured by natural disturbance processes for millennia. In the Southern Rocky Mountains, at the species’ southern range periphery, Canada lynx habitat…
Sources of measurement error, misclassification error, and bias in auditory avian point count data
Avian point counts vary over space and time due to actual differences in abundance, differences in detection probabilities among counts, and differences associated with measurement and misclassification errors. However, despite the substantial time,…
Asynchronous vegetation phenology enhances winter body condition of a large mobile herbivore
Understanding how spatial and temporal heterogeneity influence ecological processes forms a central challenge in ecology. Individual responses to heterogeneity shape population dynamics, therefore understanding these responses is central to…
Epidemiological differences between sexes affect management
efficacy in simulated chronic wasting disease systems
Sex-based differences in physiology, behaviour and demography commonly result in differences in disease prevalence. However, sex differences in prevalence may reflect exposure rather than transmission, which could affect disease control programmes.…
Using genetic diversity to inform conservation efforts for native Cutthroat Trout of the Southern Rocky Mountains
Recent research on native Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarkii of the southern Rocky Mountains suggests a convoluted taxonomy confused by stocking in the early 1900s that obscured the native distributions of these fish. DNA recovered from the few…
From gold mining to gold medal fishery: evaluating the fishery response to stream restoration on the Upper Arkansas River in Colorado
Over a century of metals pollution and channel disturbance associated with historical mining, land use, and water development contributed to degradation of aquatic and riparian habitat within the upper Arkansas River watershed near Leadville,…