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Research overview: stepping-stone habitat for felid range shifts
OverviewWhere continuous corridors are impossible, smaller patches of habitat can act as stepping stones that let animals move across otherwise inhospitable terrain. This overview surveys the role of stepping…
Research overview: systematic conservation planning under climate uncertainty
OverviewSystematic conservation planning uses optimization to select areas that efficiently meet biodiversity targets, and it is being adapted to account for climate change. This overview surveys how planning…
Research overview: telemetry-based functional connectivity for cats
OverviewFunctional connectivity, whether animals actually move between habitat patches, is best assessed with movement data from collared cats. This overview surveys how GPS telemetry, step-selection function…
Research overview: the Jaguar Corridor Initiative under climate change
OverviewThe Jaguar Corridor Initiative aims to keep jaguar populations connected from Mexico to Argentina by conserving linkages between core areas. This overview surveys how the initiative's corridor framewo…
Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint
PaperThis study mapped the global human footprint, a composite index of human pressure on land, and tracked its change over time, revealing where pressures intensified and where they eased. The human footp…
Venter, O., Sanderson, E.W., Magrach, A., Allan, J.R., Beher, J., Jones, K.R., et al. · Nature Communications · 2016
Status and ecological effects of the world's largest carnivores
ReviewThis influential review synthesized the global status of the largest carnivores, including big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars, documenting widespread range contraction and populatio…
Ripple, W.J., Estes, J.A., Beschta, R.L., Wilmers, C.C., Ritchie, E.G., Hebblewhite, M., et al. · Science · 2014