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Aggregating three sources of long-term trends of swallows and martins to identify priority conservation areas in the Great Lakes region

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Delineating priority habitat areas for the conservation of Andean bears in northern Ecuador

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Range-wide connectivity of priority areas for Greater Sage-Grouse: Implications for long-term conservation from graph theory

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Longleaf Pine forest in Florida

Turning the Science of Connectivity into Action: Finding Model Consistency and Identifying Priority Habitats for Conservation

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Identification of conservation and restoration priority areas in the Danube River based on the multi-functionality of river-floodplain systems

Data Release
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State-and-Transition Simulation Models to explore post-fire habitat restoration in three greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) Priority Areas for Conservation, USA (2018-2068)

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Integrating habitat status, human population pressure, and protection status into biodiversity conservation priority setting

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Columbia River Gorge

Climate Refugia and Resilience Atlas: Identifying Priority Areas for Conserving Species of Concern in a Changing Climate

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Range-wide network of priority areas for greater sage-grouse - a design for conserving connected distributions or isolating individual zoos?

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Evaluating approaches for integrating species distributions in spatial conservation planning

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Fellow Project: Climate Change Refugia for Appalachian Mammals of Conservation Concern--Identifying High Priority Areas and Creating an Open Access Dashboard for the Management and Integration of Private Land into the Protected Area Network

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USGS monitoring station at Edge of Field runoff from event

Edge Of Field And Priority Watershed (Waterville) Monitoring

Presentations and Events

Transboundary Connectivity Conservation for a Changing Climate
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Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative: Baseline Synthesis

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Research to support conservation of America’s national mammal, the bison

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Assessing vulnerability and threat from housing development to Conservation Opportunity Areas in State Wildlife Action Plans across the United States

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Columbia River overlook

Spatial Conservation Priorities for Riverine and Riparian Systems in the Columbia Plateau Ecoregion

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Turtle biogeography: Global regionalization and conservation priorities

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Habitat Connectivity: Assessing Threats and IDing Conservation Actions
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Blue bonnets, outside of Austin, Texas

USGS Technical Support for Coastal/Wetlands Ecology: Spatial Analysis and Application for the Gulf Coast Prairie Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GCP LCC)

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Forests in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley Lacking Sufficient Conservation Protection

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Prioritizing restoration areas to conserve multiple sagebrush-associated wildlife species

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An intertebrate ecosystem engineer likely covered under the umbrella of sage-grouse conservation

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Using occupancy models of forest breeding birds to prioritize conservation planning

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A watershed moment: Analysis of sub-basins refocuses the geography of turtle conservation across the globe

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The ties that bind the sagebrush biome: Integrating genetic connectivity into range-wide conservation of greater sage-grouse

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An assessment of the representation of ecosystems in global protected areas using new maps of World Climate Regions and World Ecosystems

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optimTFE

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A range-wide model of contemporary, omnidirectional connectivity for the threatened Mojave desert tortoise

Presentations and Events
Title card with text: NABat Training Webinar (2023): Planning, Partner Portal Prep, & Protocols for Mobile Acoustic Surveys

Planning, Partner Portal Prep, & Protocols for Mobile Acoustic Surveys
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