Understanding predator–prey relationships can be pivotal in the conservation of species. For
2 decades, desert tortoise Gopherus agassizii populations have declined, yet quantitative …

Many of the threats to the persistence of populations of sensitive species have physiological
or pathological mechanisms, and those mechanisms are best understood through the …

We translocated 120 Agassiz's desert tortoises to 5 sites in Nevada and Utah to evaluate the
effects of translocation on tortoise survivorship, reproduction, and habitat use. Translocation …

Conservation planning and biodiversity management require information on landscape
connectivity across a range of spatial scales from individual home ranges to large regions. …

Aim We explored lineage diversification within desert‐dwelling fauna. Our goals were (1) to
determine whether phylogenetic lineages and population expansions were consistent with …

Wildlife managers consider animal translocation a means of increasing the viability of a local
population. However, augmentation may disrupt existing resident disease dynamics and …

Habitat modeling is an important tool used to simulate the potential distribution of a species
for a variety of basic and applied questions. The desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) is a …

Hypolithic microbes, primarily cyanobacteria, inhabit the highly specialized microhabitats
under translucent rocks in extreme environments. Here we report findings from hypolithic …

Our ability to study threatened and endangered species depends on locating them readily in
the field. Recent studies highlight the effectiveness of trained detector dogs to locate wildlife …

Most directly transmitted infections require some form of close contact between infectious
and susceptible hosts to spread. Often disease models assume contacts are equal and use …