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Sporti: The Species Originality And Rarity Index Combines Phylogenetic And Functional Originality With Rarity Metrics To Provide A New Perspective On Species Rarity, Michael Cunningham-Minnick, Joan Milam, David I. King
Sporti: The Species Originality And Rarity Index Combines Phylogenetic And Functional Originality With Rarity Metrics To Provide A New Perspective On Species Rarity, Michael Cunningham-Minnick, Joan Milam, David I. King
Environmental Conservation Faculty Publication Series
Methods used to assign rarity among species are fundamental to our ecological understanding and conservation of species that are most vulnerable to extinction or extirpation. Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) are at the forefront of declines in pollinator diversity and a comprehensive understanding of their conservation requirements in any landscape is essential. Rarity is generally defined in terms of numerical abundance and geographical distribution, though aspects of species life history, such as degree of specialization and taxonomic relatedness, are also widely recognized as important. Incomplete information on the life histories of many taxa obliges ecologists to rely on species-level classifications of …
Breaking Down Barriers To Consistent, Climate-Smart Regulation Of Invasive Plants - A Case Study Of Northeast States, Bethany A. Bradley, Evelyn M. Beaury, Emily Fusco, Lara Munro, Carrie Brown-Lima, William Coville, Benjamin Kesler, Nancy Olmstead, Jocelyn Parker
Breaking Down Barriers To Consistent, Climate-Smart Regulation Of Invasive Plants - A Case Study Of Northeast States, Bethany A. Bradley, Evelyn M. Beaury, Emily Fusco, Lara Munro, Carrie Brown-Lima, William Coville, Benjamin Kesler, Nancy Olmstead, Jocelyn Parker
Environmental Conservation Faculty Publication Series
Efforts to prevent the introduction and spread of new invasive plants are most effective when regulated species are consistent across jurisdictional boundaries and proactively prohibit species before they arrive or in the earliest stages of invasion. Consistent and proactive regulation is particularly important in the northeast U.S. which is susceptible to many new invasive plants due to climate change. Unfortunately, recent analyses of state regulated plant lists show that regulated species are neither consistent nor proactive. To understand why, we focus on two steps leading to invasive plant regulation across six northeast states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, …
The Contribution Of Canopy Samples To Assessments Of Forestry Effects On Native Bees, Joan Milam, Michael Cunningham-Minnick, Henry Patrick Roberts, Christopher Buelow, David I. King
The Contribution Of Canopy Samples To Assessments Of Forestry Effects On Native Bees, Joan Milam, Michael Cunningham-Minnick, Henry Patrick Roberts, Christopher Buelow, David I. King
Environmental Conservation Faculty Publication Series
Forest management is often practiced to enhance conditions for wildlife, including native bees. Evaluations of the effects of forest management on bees have shown that abundance and diversity are higher in newly created early-successional conditions. To date, studies have restricted sampling to the forest understory; however, recent research finds that bee abundance is as high or higher in forest canopies than in understories, suggesting that previous observations of substantially greater bee abundance and diversity in recently managed areas could be an artifact of incomplete sampling of the vertical gradient within forests. To examine the potential implications of sampling biases associated …