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Integrating presence-only and detection/non-detection data to estimate distributions and expected abundance of difficult-to-monitor species on a landscape-scale, 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) - 6
Propensity score matching mitigates risk of faulty inferences in observational studies of effectiveness of restoration trials, 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) - 5
Geese migrating over the Pacific Ocean select altitudes coinciding with offshore wind turbine blades, 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) - 5
Adaptive resource management: Achieving functional eradication of invasive snakes to benefit avian conservation, 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) - 4
Accounting for spatiotemporal sampling variation in joint species distribution models, 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (61) - 1
Leveraging the strengths of citizen science and structured surveys to achieve scalable inference on population size, 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) - 11
Reanalysis ignores pertinent data, includes inappropriate observations, and disregards realities of applied ecology: Response to Huso and Dalthorp (2023), 2023, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) - 10
Reanalysis indicates little evidence of reduction in eagle mortality rate by automated curtailment of wind turbines, 2023, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) - 10
Incorporating metapopulation dynamics to inform invasive species management: Evaluating bighead and silver carp control strategies in the Illinois River, 2023, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) - 9
Conserving habitat for migratory ungulates: How wide is a migration corridor?, 2023, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) - 9
Abiotic and biotic factors reduce the viability of a high-elevation salamander in its native range, 2023, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) - 8
Compensatory recruitment unlikely in high-elevation amphibian populations challenged with disease, 2023, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) - 1
Plant water-use strategies predict restoration success across degraded drylands, 2023, Journal of Applied Ecology (60) - 6
Herbaceous production lost to tree encroachment in United States rangelands, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) - 12
The effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage depend on interactions between plant community composition, precipitation seasonality, and soil climate regime, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) - 11
NABat ML: Utilizing deep learning to enable crowdsourced development of automated, scalable solutions for documenting North American bat populations, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) - 11
Early treatment of white-nose syndrome is necessary to stop population decline, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) - 10
Quantifying the relationship between prey density, livestock and illegal killing of leopards, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) - 6
Epidemiological differences between sexes affect management efficacy in simulated chronic wasting disease systems, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) - 4
Behavioral state-dependent habitat selection and implications for animal translocations, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) - 2
Does restoration of plant diversity trigger concomitant soil microbiome changes in dryland ecosystems?, 2022, Journal of Applied Ecology (59) - 2
Integrating socioecological suitability with human-wildlife conflict risk: Case study for translocation of a large ungulate, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 12
American eel personality and body length influence passage success in an experimental fishway, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 12
The spatial-temporal relationship of blue-winged teal to domestic poultry: Movement state modeling of a highly mobile avian influenza host, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 10
Forest thinning in the seaward fringe speeds up surface elevation increment and carbon accumulation in managed mangrove forests, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 9
Assessing the population impacts and cost‐effectiveness of a conservation translocation, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 8
Weighing the unknowns: Value of information for biological and operational uncertainty in invasion management, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 8
Biodiversity effects on grape quality depend on variety and management intensity, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 7
Long‐term surveys support declines in early‐season forest plants used by bumblebees, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 7
The changes in species composition mediate direct effects of climate change on future fire regimes of boreal forests in northeastern China, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 6
Across borders: External factors and prior behaviour influence North Pacific albatross associations with fishing vessels, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 6
Waterfowl use of wetland habitats informs wetland restoration designs for multi‐species benefits, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 9
Human activities and weather drive contact rates of wintering elk, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 3
Eagle fatalities are reduced by automated curtailment of wind turbines, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 3
Adaptive monitoring in action: Reconsidering design-based estimators reveals underestimation of whitebark pine disease prevalence in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 2021, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 5
Estimating population-specific predation effects on Chinook salmon via data integration, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology (58) - 2
A multi-state occupancy modelling framework for robust estimation of disease prevalence in multi-tissue disease systems, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology (57) - 12
RestoreNet: An emerging restoration network reveals controls on seeding success across dryland ecosystems, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology (57) - 11
Low stand density moderates growth declines during hot droughts in semi-arid forests, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology (57) - 6
Parsing the effects of demography, climate, and management on recurrent brucellosis outbreaks in elk, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology (2) - 57
Anthropogenic land‐use change intensifies the effect of low flows on stream fishes, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology (57) - 1
Body shape is related to the attempt rate and passage success of brook trout at in-stream barriers, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology (57) - 1
Balancing sampling intensity against spatial coverage for a community science monitoring programme, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 10
Filling knowledge gaps in a threatened shorebird flyway through satellite tracking, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 10
Negative frequency-dependent foraging behaviour in a generalist herbivore (Alces alces) and its stabilizing influence on food-web dynamics, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (88) - 9
The contribution of road-based citizen science to the conservation of pond-breeding amphibians, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 4
The application of oyster reefs in shoreline protection: Are we over‐engineering for an ecosystem engineer?, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 7
Fish culling reduces tapeworm burden in Arctic charr by increasing parasite mortality rather than by reducing density‐dependent transmission, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 6
Multi-species duck harvesting using dynamic programming and multi-criteria decision analysis, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology
Size-specific apparent survival rate estimates of white sharks using mark-recapture models, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (76) - 11
Flow-ecology relationships are spatially structured and differ among flow regimes, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 2
Trophic implications of a phenological paradigm shift: Bald eagles and salmon in a changing climate, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 3
Landscape pivot points and responses to water balance in national parks of the southwest US, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 1
Synchrony — An emergent property of recreational fisheries, 2019, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 6
Integrating encounter theory with decision analysis to evaluate collision risk and determine optimal protection zones for wildlife, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (56) - 5
Broad‐scale occurrence of a subsidized avian predator: reducing impacts of ravens on sage‐grouse and other sensitive prey, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 6
Applying a Bayesian weighted surveillance approach to detect chronic wasting disease in white‐tailed deer, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 6
Decision making for mitigating wildlife diseases: From theory to practice for an emerging fungal pathogen of amphibians, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 4
A framework for identifying and characterising coral reef “oases” against a backdrop of degradation, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 6
Coastal wetland adaptation to sea level rise: Quantifying potential for landward migration and coastal squeeze, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 6
Environmental conditions synchronize waterbird mortality events in the Great Lakes, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 3
Nest survival modelling using a multi-species approach in forests managed for timber and biofuel feedstock, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 2
Improving estimation of flight altitude in wildlife telemetry studies, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 4
Pulsed flows, tributary inputs, and food web structure in a highly regulated river, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 4
Determinants of Pseudogymnoascus destructans within bat hibernacula: Implications for surveillance and management of white-nose syndrome, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 2
Managing individual nests promotes population recovery of a top predator, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 3
Are ranger patrols effective in reducing poaching-related threats within protected areas?, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 1
Oak habitat recovery on California's largest islands: Scenarios for the role of corvid seed dispersal, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 3
Linking spring phenology with mechanistic models of host movement to predict disease transmission risk, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 2
Novel application of explicit dynamics occupancy models to ongoing aquatic invasions, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 2
Defining and classifying migratory habitats as sources and sinks: The migratory pathway approach, 2018, Journal of Applied Ecology (55) - 1
Safari Science: Assessing the reliability of citizen science data for wildlife surveys, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 6
Examining the occupancy–density relationship for a low-density carnivore, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 6
Harvesting wildlife affected by climate change: a modelling and management approach for polar bears, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 5
Using a full annual cycle model to evaluate long-term population viability of the conservation-reliant Kirtland's warbler after successful recovery, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 2
Density-dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 6
How will predicted land-use change affect waterfowl spring stopover ecology? Inferences from an individual-based model, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 3
Combining citizen science species distribution models and stable isotopes reveals migratory connectivity in the secretive Virginia rail, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 2
Climate, invasive species and land use drive population dynamics of a cold-water specialist, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 2
Disentangling density-dependent dynamics using full annual cycle models and Bayesian model weight updating, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 2
Habitat drives dispersal and survival of translocated juvenile desert tortoises, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 2
Climate adaption and post-fire restoration of a foundational perennial in cold desert: Insights from intraspecific variation in response to weather, 2017, Journal of Applied Ecology (54) - 1
Overwintering strategies of migratory birds: a novel approach for estimating seasonal movement patterns of residents and transients, 2016, Journal of Applied Ecology (53) - 4
Waterfowl populations are resilient to immediate and lagged impacts of wildfires in the boreal forest, 2016, Journal of Applied Ecology (53) - 3
Quantifying resilience, 2016, Journal of Applied Ecology (53) -
Aquatic pollution increases use of terrestrial prey subsidies by stream fish, 2016, Journal of Applied Ecology (53) - 1
Integrating spatially explicit indices of abundance and habitat quality: an applied example for greater sage-grouse management, 2016, Journal of Applied Ecology (53) - 1
Toward a mechanistic understanding of human-induced rapid environmental change: A case study linking energy development, avian nest predation, and predators, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (52) - 6
FORUM: Effective management of ecological resilience – are we there yet?, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (52) - 5
Spatial occupancy models for predicting metapopulation dynamics and viability following reintroduction, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (52) - 5
Managing more than the mean: Using quantile regression to identify factors related to large elk groups, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (52) - 6
Food web heterogeneity and succession in created saltmarshes, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (52) - 5
Consequences of habitat change and resource selection specialization for population limitation in cavity-nesting birds, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (52) - 2
On formally integrating science and policy: walking the walk, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (52) - 3
Management applications of discontinuity theory, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (53) -
How much is new information worth? Evaluating the financial benefit of resolving management uncertainty, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (52) - 1
Forecasting the combined effects of urbanization and climate change on stream ecosystems: from impacts to management options, 2015, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 1
Accounting for false-positive acoustic detections of bats using occupancy models, 2014, Journal of Applied Ecology (51) - 5
Long-term effects of seeding after wildfire on vegetation in Great Basin shrubland ecosystems, 2014, Journal of Applied Ecology (51) - 5
Using a network modularity analysis to inform management of a rare endemic plant in the northern Great Plains, USA, 2014, Journal of Applied Ecology (51) - 4
Controls of vegetation structure and net primary production in restored grasslands, 2014, Journal of Applied Ecology (51) - 4
Ecological feedbacks can reduce population-level efficacy of wildlife fertility control, 2014, Journal of Applied Ecology (51) - 1
Relative influence of human harvest, carnivores, and weather on adult female elk survival across western North America, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 2
Modelling interactions of toxicants and density dependence in wildlife populations, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 6
Conditions favouring Bromus tectorum dominance of endangered sagebrush steppe ecosystems, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 4
Measuring the relative resilience of subarctic lakes to global change: redundancies of functions within and across temporal scales, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 3
Taming wildlife disease: bridging the gap between science and management, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 3
Estimating transmission of avian influenza in wild birds from incomplete epizootic data: implications for surveillance and disease spreac, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 1
Invasive species management restores a plant-pollinator mutualism in Hawaii, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 1
Evaluating a multispecies adaptive management framework: Must uncertainty impede effective decision-making?, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 6
A framework for understanding semi-permeable barrier effects on migratory ungulates, 2013, Journal of Applied Ecology (50) - 1
Environmental conditions associated with bat white-nose syndrome in the north-eastern United States, 2012, Journal of Applied Ecology (49) - 3
Restoration of the fire-grazing interaction in Artemisia filifolia shrubland, 2012, Journal of Applied Ecology (49) - 1
Modelling community dynamics based on species-level abundance models from detection/nondetection data, 2011, Journal of Applied Ecology (48) - 1
Restoration of the fire-grazing interaction in Artemisia filifolia shrubland of the Southern Great Plains, North America, 2011, Journal of Applied Ecology (49) - 1
Exploring sensitivity of a multistate occupancy model to inform management decisions, 2011, Journal of Applied Ecology (48) - 4
Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change, 2011, Journal of Applied Ecology (48) - 2
Monitoring carnivore populations at the landscape scale: occupancy modelling of tigers from sign surveys, 2011, Journal of Applied Ecology (48) - 4
Compensatory effects of recruitment and survival when amphibian populations are perturbed by disease, 2011, Journal of Applied Ecology (48) - 4
Influence of harvesting pressure on demographic tactics: Implications for wildlife management, 2011, Journal of Applied Ecology (48) - 4
Potential spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 by wildfowl: dispersal ranges and rates determined from large-scale satellite telemetry, 2010, Journal of Applied Ecology (47) - 5
Occupancy dynamics in a tropical bird community: Unexpectedly high forest use by birds classified as non‐forest species, 2010, Journal of Applied Ecology (47) - 3
Modelling detection probabilities to evaluate management and control tools for an invasive species, 2010, Journal of Applied Ecology (47) - 1
Quantifying restoration success and recovery in a metal-polluted stream: A 17-year assessment of physicochemical and biological responses, 2010, Journal of Applied Ecology (47) - 4
Hierarchical spatial models for predicting pygmy rabbit distribution and relative abundance, 2010, Journal of Applied Ecology (47) - 2
Trend estimation in populations with imperfect detection, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 6
Occupancy estimation and the closure assumption, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 6
Impacts of forest fragmentation on species richness: A hierarchical approach to community modelling, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 4
A cautionary note on substituting spatial subunits for repeated temporal sampling in studies of site occupancy, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 6
A hierarchical model for estimating density in camera-trap studies, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 1
Bird population density estimated from acoustic signals, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 6
Forecasting the combined effects of urbanization and climate change on stream ecosystems: from impacts to management options, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 1
Disease, predation and demography: Assessing the impacts of bovine tuberculosis on African buffalo by monitoring at individual and population levels, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 2
Patterns and determinants of mammal species occurrence in India, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 6
Evaluation of trap capture in a geographically closed population of brown treesnakes on Guam, 2009, Journal of Applied Ecology (46) - 1
A double-observer method for reducing bias in faecal pellet surveys of forest ungulates, 2008, Journal of Applied Ecology (45) - 5
Importance of sampling design and analysis in animal population studies: a comment on Sergio et al, 2008, Journal of Applied Ecology (45) - 3
Multi-scale occupancy estimation and modelling using multiple detection methods, 2008, Journal of Applied Ecology (45) - 5
Hierarchical Bayes estimation of species richness and occupancy in spatially replicated surveys, 2008, Journal of Applied Ecology (45) - 2
Desert bird associations with broad-scale boundary length: Applications in avian conservation, 2008, Journal of Applied Ecology (45) - 3
Using conservation value to assess land restoration and management alternatives across a degraded oak savanna landscape, 2008, Journal of Applied Ecology (45) - 1
Quantifying the impact of longline fisheries on adult survival in the black-footed albatross, 2007, Journal of Applied Ecology (44) - 5
Concerns regarding a call for pluralism of information theory and hypothesis testing, 2007, Journal of Applied Ecology (44) - 2
Shorebird roost-site selection at two temporal scales: Is human disturbance a factor?, 2007, Journal of Applied Ecology (44) - 1
Remote sensing-based predictors improve distribution models of rare, early successional and broadleaf tree species in Utah, 2007, Journal of Applied Ecology (44) - 5
Assessments of habitat preferences and quality depend on spatial scale and metrics of fitness, 2007, Journal of Applied Ecology (44) - 5
Linking resources with demography to understand resource limitation for bears, 2007, Journal of Applied Ecology (44) - 6
Multiple-species analysis of point count data: A more parsimonious modelling framework, 2007, Journal of Applied Ecology (44) - 2
Correlates of biological soil crust abundance across a continuum of spatial scales: Support for a hierarchical conceptual model, 2006, Journal of Applied Ecology (43) - 1
Designing occupancy studies: General advice and allocating survey effort, 2005, Journal of Applied Ecology (42) - 6
Spring hunting changes the regional movements of migrating greater snow geese, 2003, Journal of Applied Ecology (40) - 3
Soil seed banks and the potential restoration of forested wetlands after farming, 2003, Journal of Applied Ecology (40) - 6
Effects of increased soil nitrogen on the dominance of alien annual plants in the Mojave Desert, 2003, Journal of Applied Ecology (40) - 2
Using satellite telemetry to define spatial population structure in polar bears in the Norwegian and western Russian Arctic, 2002, Journal of Applied Ecology (39) - 1
Excavation of red squirrel middens by grizzly bears in the whitebark pine zone, 1997, Journal of Applied Ecology (34) - 4
Effects of substrate disturbance on secondary plant succession; Mojave Desert, California., 1987, Journal of Applied Ecology (24) - 1
Reproduction by an altricial songbird, the red-winged blackbird, in fields treated with the organophosphate insecticide fenthion, 1984, Journal of Applied Ecology (21) - 1
Effects of roads on small mammals, 1983, Journal of Applied Ecology (20) - 2
Care of nestlings by wild female starlings exposed to an organophosphate pesticide, 1982, Journal of Applied Ecology (19) - 2
Persistence in earthworms and potential hazards to birds of soil applied DDT, dieldrin, and heptachlor, 1980, Journal of Applied Ecology (17) - 2
Insecticide contaminations in wetland habitats and their effects on fish- eating birds, 1966, Journal of Applied Ecology (3) - Suppl
Contamination of the freshwater ecosystem by pesticides, 1966, Journal of Applied Ecology (3) -