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View article: Tracking species recovery status to improve U.S. endangered species act decisions
Tracking species recovery status to improve U.S. endangered species act decisions Open
Currently 1677 species are listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), yet only a small percentage have been delisted due to recovery. In the fall of 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed delisting 23 species due to ext…
View article: Recovery units under the Endangered Species Act should be used more widely
Recovery units under the Endangered Species Act should be used more widely Open
Recovering species is the main goal of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In the face of limited conservation budgets, diverse tools are needed to efficiently recover species. Recovery units may be one such tool - designated portions of a s…
View article: Targeting current species ranges and carbon stocks fails to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate: opportunities to support climate adaptation under 30 × 30
Targeting current species ranges and carbon stocks fails to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate: opportunities to support climate adaptation under 30 × 30 Open
Protecting areas for climate adaptation will be essential to ensuring greater opportunity for species conservation well into the future. However, many proposals for protected areas expansion focus on our understanding of current spatial pa…
View article: Coproduce Conservation Technology With Conservation Decision Makers and Practitioners to Increase Its Impact
Coproduce Conservation Technology With Conservation Decision Makers and Practitioners to Increase Its Impact Open
Addressing the biodiversity crisis will mean developing and adopting new resources and methods that effectively improve public conservation efforts. Technologies have a long track record of increasing the efficiency of carrying out time-co…
View article: Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30 × 30 in the United States
Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30 × 30 in the United States Open
Achieving ambitious goals to conserve at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030 (“30 × 30”) will require a multiscale baseline understanding of current protections, key decisionmakers, and policy tools for moving forward. To help conse…
View article: Coproduce conservation technology with conservation decisionmakers and practitioners to increase its impact
Coproduce conservation technology with conservation decisionmakers and practitioners to increase its impact Open
Addressing the biodiversity crisis will mean developing and adopting new resources and methods that effectively improve public conservation efforts. Technologies have a long track record of increasing the efficiency of carrying out time-co…
View article: Status of the Recovery Mandate Under Section 7(a)(1) of the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Status of the Recovery Mandate Under Section 7(a)(1) of the U.S. Endangered Species Act Open
The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) is widely considered to be one of the strongest laws for protecting imperiled wildlife, with nearly all species protected under the law still existing today. Among the ESA's strongest provisions, at le…
View article: Linking mountaintop removal mining to water quality for imperiled species using satellite data
Linking mountaintop removal mining to water quality for imperiled species using satellite data Open
Environmental laws need sound data to protect species and ecosystems. In 1996, a proliferation of mountaintop removal coal mines in a region home to over 50 federally protected species was approved under the Endangered Species Act. Althoug…
View article: A Database of Habitat Conservation Plans and Related Documents Developed Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
A Database of Habitat Conservation Plans and Related Documents Developed Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act Open
Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, non-federal parties may be permitted to “take,” or harm, listed threatened and endangered species provided they develop an appropriate “habitat conservation plan” that details how the applicant will m…
View article: Status of the recovery mandate under section 7(a)(1) of the U.S. Endangered Species Act
Status of the recovery mandate under section 7(a)(1) of the U.S. Endangered Species Act Open
The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) is widely considered to be one of the strongest laws for 10 protecting imperiled wildlife, with nearly all species protected under the law still existing today. 11 Among the ESA’s strongest provisions,…
View article: Targeting current species ranges and carbon stocks fails to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate: opportunities to support climate adaptation under 30×30
Targeting current species ranges and carbon stocks fails to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate: opportunities to support climate adaptation under 30×30 Open
Protecting areas for climate adaptation will be essential to ensuring greater opportunity for species conservation well into the future. However, many proposals for protected areas expansion focus on our understanding of current spatial pa…
View article: Issue Information ‐ TOC
Issue Information ‐ TOC Open
The Americas, excluding Canada & Mexico), US$1,400 (Canada/Mexico), US$2,352 (Rest of World), €1,527 (Europe), £1,203 (UK
View article: Tracking Species Recovery Status to Improve Endangered Species Act Decisions
Tracking Species Recovery Status to Improve Endangered Species Act Decisions Open
The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects over 2,000 species, but no concise, standardized metrics exist for assessing changes in species recovery status. Tracking these changes is crucial to understanding species status, adjusting co…
View article: Better Representation Is Needed in U.S. Endangered Species Act Implementation
Better Representation Is Needed in U.S. Endangered Species Act Implementation Open
In the United States, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service uses the concepts of resilience, redundancy, and representation—often known as the “3Rs”—to guide implementation of the Endangered Species Act, which requires the U.S. government to …
View article: Identifying key federal, state and private lands strategies for achieving 30x30 in the US
Identifying key federal, state and private lands strategies for achieving 30x30 in the US Open
Achieving ambitious conservation goals to conserve at least 30% of US lands and waters by 2030 (“30x30”) will require a multi-scale baseline understanding of current protections, key decision makers, and policy tools for moving forward. To…
View article: Degradation of Visible Autumn Icons and Conservation Opportunities: Trends in Deciduous Forest Loss in the Contiguous US
Degradation of Visible Autumn Icons and Conservation Opportunities: Trends in Deciduous Forest Loss in the Contiguous US Open
Temperate deciduous forests are one of the most visible biomes on Earth because of their autumn aesthetics and because they harbor some of the most heavily populated regions. Their ability to attract visitors may increase opportunities for…
View article: Benchmark for the ESA: Having a Backbone Is Good for Recovery
Benchmark for the ESA: Having a Backbone Is Good for Recovery Open
To forestall the current rate of global extinction, we need to identify strategies that successfully recover species. In the last decade, the recovery record for the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) has improved. Our aim was to r…
View article: ESA Habitat Conservation Plans document db
ESA Habitat Conservation Plans document db Open
A corpus of documents related to over 600 Habitat Conservation Plans created under the US Endangered Species Act.
View article: LPC habitat loss 2020
LPC habitat loss 2020 Open
A report on habitat loss for Lesser Prairie-Chickens since ESA delisting.
View article: Southeast US Imperiled Species Planning
Southeast US Imperiled Species Planning Open
Final report on using open data to rank the importance of all 875 counties in the Southeast United States based on the number of ESA-listed species, expected human population growth through 2040, and the amount of protected land per county.
View article: Imperiled species threat and demography scoring
Imperiled species threat and demography scoring Open
Data for the PeerJ manuscript, A simple, sufficient, and consistent method to score the status of threats and demography of imperiled species. Preprint at https://peerj.com/preprints/1860/.Consists of four tab-separated files written direc…
View article: NWRS expenditures app
NWRS expenditures app Open
Extracted and refined data for 2019 Annual Report Data Tables. Reuploaded data table to include table 10!
View article: Linking mountaintop removal mining to water quality for imperiled species using satellite data
Linking mountaintop removal mining to water quality for imperiled species using satellite data Open
Environmental laws need sound data to protect species and ecosystems. In 1996, a proliferation of mountaintop removal coal mines in a region home to over 50 federally protected species was approved under the Endangered Species Act. Althoug…
View article: Better representation is needed in Endangered Species Act implementation
Better representation is needed in Endangered Species Act implementation Open
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service uses the concepts of resilience, redundancy, and representation—often known as the “3Rs”—to guide implementation of the Endangered Species Act. The Service has done little, however, to relate the 3Rs to t…
View article: A Monitoring Policy Framework for the United States Endangered Species Act
A Monitoring Policy Framework for the United States Endangered Species Act Open
Biodiversity is deteriorating at a global level as human actions like development, overexploitation, climate change, pollution, and other factors have led to a dramatic increase in the rate of extinction. The U.S. Endangered Species Act is…
View article: Defining Habitat to Promote Conservation Under the Endangered Species Act
Defining Habitat to Promote Conservation Under the Endangered Species Act Open
The Supreme Court in Weyerhaeuser Co. v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service ruled that “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) must first be “habitat,” but it did not attempt to define exactly what habitat is or how …
View article: Same law, diverging practice: Comparative analysis of Endangered Species Act consultations by two federal agencies
Same law, diverging practice: Comparative analysis of Endangered Species Act consultations by two federal agencies Open
Evaluating how wildlife conservation laws are implemented is critical for safeguarding biodiversity. Two agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (FWS and NMFS; Services collectively), are responsi…
View article: Recovery Units under the Endangered Species Act could be used more widely
Recovery Units under the Endangered Species Act could be used more widely Open
Recovering species is one of the main goals of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In the face of limited budgets, diverse tools are needed to find efficient solutions. Recovery units may be one such tool - designated portions of a species’ …