Actual and potential use of population viability analyses in recovery of plant species listed under the US Endangered Species Act

SL Zeigler, JP CHECASTALDO… - Conservation …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Use of population viability analyses (PVAs) in endangered species recovery planning has
been met with both support and criticism. Previous reviews promote use of PVA for setting …

Species recovery in the United States: increasing the effectiveness of the Endangered Species Act

DM Evans, JP Che-Castaldo, D Crouse… - Issues in …, 2016 - escholarship.org
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) has succeeded in shielding hundreds of species from
extinction and improving species recovery over time. However, recovery for most species …

[HTML][HTML] Demographic and life history traits explain patterns in species vulnerability to extinction

H Hernández-Yáñez, SY Kim, JP Che-Castaldo - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
As ecosystems face disruption of community dynamics and habitat loss, the idea of determining
ahead of time which species can become extinct is an important subject in conservation …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the contribution of North American zoos and aquariums to endangered species recovery

JP Che-Castaldo, SA Grow, LJ Faust - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The challenge of recovering threatened species necessitates collaboration among diverse
conservation partners. Zoos and aquariums have long partnered with other conservation …

[HTML][HTML] Teaching socio-environmental synthesis with the case studies approach

CA Wei, WR Burnside, JP Che-Castaldo - Journal of Environmental …, 2015 - Springer
… Prioritizing Endangered Species Conservation, we focused on conservation and recovery
planning for US endangered species, the subject of coauthor Judy Che-Castaldo's research. …

[HTML][HTML] Critical Risk Indicators (CRIs) for the electric power grid: a survey and discussion of interconnected effects

JP Che-Castaldo, R Cousin, S Daryanto… - … Systems and Decisions, 2021 - Springer
The electric power grid is a critical societal resource connecting multiple infrastructural
domains such as agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing. The electrical grid as an …

A standard protocol to report discrete stage‐structured demographic information

…, DL Buss, H Caswell, JP CheCastaldo… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stage‐based demographic methods, such as matrix population models (MPMs), are powerful
tools used to address a broad range of fundamental questions in ecology, evolutionary …

Interspecific competition between a non-native metal-hyperaccumulating plant (Noccaea caerulescens, Brassicaceae) and a native congener across a soil-metal …

JP Che-Castaldo, DW Inouye - Australian Journal of Botany, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
Adaptive traits are hypothesised to incur fitness trade-offs, and a classical example is metal-tolerant
plants that exhibit reduced competitive ability when grown on low-metal substrates. …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-specific median life expectancies from ex situ populations for 330 animal species

JP Che-Castaldo, A Byrne, K Perišin, LJ Faust - Scientific data, 2019 - nature.com
We present life expectancy estimates for hundreds of vertebrate species based on carefully
vetted studbook data from North American zoos and aquariums. These data include sex-…

Species‐level persistence probabilities for recovery and conservation status assessment

JP CheCastaldo, MC Neel - Conservation Biology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recovery planning for species listed under the US Endangered Species Act has been
hampered by a lack of consistency and transparency, which can be improved by implementing a …