2026

February

An integrated model improves inferences about survival in the Mojave desert tortoise

2025

August

Late season frosts and changing snowpack may exacerbate human-bear conflicts

May

We need better ways to re-evaluate conservation policies when they’re founded on flawed research

2024

August

Common-garden experiment reveals outbreeding depression and region-of-origin effects in a frequently translocated tortoise

Asymmetric mate preference and reproductive interference mediate climate-induced changes in mate availability in a small mammal hybrid zone

July

Inflated predictions from a flawed model influenced the decision to deny federal protection to the gopher tortoise

2020

May

Tail bifurcation in Plestiodon skiltonianus

Dr. Kevin Shoemaker

April

Modeling critical habitat breadth for Gopherus tortoises

March

Using light-level geolocators to model waterfowl movements and breeding propensity

February

Conservation of bog turtle metapopulations in the eastern USA

January

Simulation modeling to support restoration of extinct Galapagos giant tortoise populations

Miranda Crowell

Understanding the conservation status and habitat needs of the pygmy rabbit

Margarete Walden

2019

October

Danielle C Miles

September

Modeling population growth of COTS in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

2018

October

Predictive modeling of plague die-offs in prairie dog colonies

Dr. Elizabeth Hunter

January

Understanding the potential for widespread plague resistance in prairie dogs

2016

October

Understanding the broader ecological impacts of PJ removal