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View article: Long‐term monitoring reveals the long lifespans of Neotropical forest landbirds
Long‐term monitoring reveals the long lifespans of Neotropical forest landbirds Open
Longevity, or maximum lifespan, is a trait that has fascinated ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and geneticists for centuries and has featured prominently in the development of life history, aging, and senescence theories (Lankester, 1…
View article: Environmental impact assessments should include rigorous scientific peer review
Environmental impact assessments should include rigorous scientific peer review Open
Twenty USA states or jurisdictions and 125 nations have modeled national environmental policies after the National Environmental Policy Act. That act mandates that federal agencies initiate environmental impact statements (EISs) when subst…
View article: Global concerns related to water biology and security: The need for language and policies that safeguard living resources versus those that dilute scientific knowledge
Global concerns related to water biology and security: The need for language and policies that safeguard living resources versus those that dilute scientific knowledge Open
Increasingly, scientists and non-scientists, especially employees of government agencies, tend to use weak or
\nequivocal language when making statements related to science policy and governmental regulation. We use recent
\npublications t…
View article: Long-term monitoring reveals widespread and severe declines of understory birds in a protected Neotropical forest
Long-term monitoring reveals widespread and severe declines of understory birds in a protected Neotropical forest Open
Significance We leveraged a 44-y population study of Neotropical understory birds from a protected forest reserve in central Panama to document widespread and severe declines in bird abundance. Our findings provide evidence that tropical b…
View article: Ecological integrity is both real and valuable
Ecological integrity is both real and valuable Open
Ecological integrity has been criticized as a “bad fit as a value” for conservation biology and restoration ecology. But work over the past four decades centered on ecological integrity—especially biological integrity—has given rise to eff…
View article: Bird based Index of Biotic Integrity: Assessing the ecological condition of Atlantic Forest patches in human-modified landscape
Bird based Index of Biotic Integrity: Assessing the ecological condition of Atlantic Forest patches in human-modified landscape Open
View article: Environmental Impact: Concept, Consequences, Measurement ☆
Environmental Impact: Concept, Consequences, Measurement ☆ Open
View article: Correction: DellaSala, D.A., et al. Building on Two Decades of Ecosystem Management and Biodiversity Conservation under the Northwest Forest Plan, USA. Forests, 2015, 6, 3326
Correction: DellaSala, D.A., et al. Building on Two Decades of Ecosystem Management and Biodiversity Conservation under the Northwest Forest Plan, USA. Forests, 2015, 6, 3326 Open
We discovered two typos and a change in a sentence needed in our published manuscript.[...]
View article: Building on Two Decades of Ecosystem Management and Biodiversity Conservation under the Northwest Forest Plan, USA
Building on Two Decades of Ecosystem Management and Biodiversity Conservation under the Northwest Forest Plan, USA Open
The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) shifted federal lands management from a focus on timber production to ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. The plan established a network of conservation reserves and an ecosystem manage…