Area of Focus: Landscape Ecology

Scientists provide a framework for including habitat connectivity into environmental impact assessments

Managers can close roads in the backcountry to benefit grizzlies but leave others open for recreation

Climate change and past fire suppression had led to damaging wildfires

Black-backed woodpeckers prefer a mosaic of burns after a fire

The felines follow their primary prey—snowshoe hares

After rapid glacier melt, mammals that disperse farther are quicker to move into newly vegetated areas

In a Wisconsin forest, deer weren't the main culprit

Researchers tracked mule deer across Wyoming to find what drives their movements