North American Dipteran Pollinators: Assessing Their Value and Conservation Status

Conserving Pollinators in North American Forests: A Review

A Contribution to the International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Pollinators: Rapid Assessment of Pollinators’ Status

1. The Executive Secretary is please to circulate herewith, for the information of participants in the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, an information a document entitled “A contribution to the international initiative for the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators: rapid assessment of pollinators’ status” submitted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

The Potential Impact of White-Nose Syndrome on the Conservation Status of North American Bats

White-Nose syndrome (WNS) is an emergent infectious disease that has already killed around six million bats in North America and has spread over two thousand kilometers from its epicenter. However, only a few studies on the possible impacts of the fungus on bat hosts were conducted, particularly concerning its implications for bat conservation. We predicted the consequences of WNS spread by gen...

Conservation Status of North American Birds in the Face of Future Climate Change

Human-induced climate change is increasingly recognized as a fundamental driver of biological processes and patterns. Historic climate change is known to have caused shifts in the geographic ranges of many taxa and future climate change is expected to result in even greater redistributions of species. As a result, predicting the impact of climate change on future patterns of biodiversity will g...

North America’s Most Vulnerable Pollinators

Using tracking dogs to locate wild Florida panthers, Howard and other National Zoo researchers conducted reproductive exams on many free-ranging panthers and animals that had been killed. Results indicated that the animals had severe reproductive problems, including extremely poor semen quality with low sperm numbers and high sperm abnormalities. The Florida pumas also had severe health problem...