Conservation on a Regional Scale: Assessing the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

Organizing an Effective Partnership for the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

We analyze the “Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative,” an innovative landscape-scale conservation initiative in the Northern Rocky Mountains of North America organized by environmental advocates and conservation biologists. We find a shared problem definition in the aggregate among diverse participants, yet a great deal of diversity among individual participants’ values, perspectives, a...

Ranchland Ownership Change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 1990–2001: Implications for Conservation

Most of the public lands protected for conservation in the western United States are surrounded by working landscapes of various types, typically in agro-pastoral ownership and use. How these working landscapes evolve over time and how their inhabitants respond to various conservation goals will in large measure determine the success or failure of efforts to maintain regional biodiversity. This...

Distribution patterns of Convolvulaceae in Iran: priorities for conservation

Assessing priorities is the most important action in conservation programs. Rudimentary, mapping of diversity, and distribution patterns have been used to set priorities on diverse scales. The distribution patterns of plant taxa, largely reflect an actual ecological niche. Convolvulaceae s.str exhibits cosmopolitan dispersal of diverse life forms and includes 50–60 genera comprising 1600–1700 s...

Use of empirically derived source-destination models to map regional conservation corridors.

The ability of populations to be connected across large landscapes via dispersal is critical to long-term viability for many species. One means to mitigate population isolation is the protection of movement corridors among habitat patches. Nevertheless, the utility of small, narrow, linear features as habitat corridors has been hotly debated. Here, we argue that analysis of movement across cont...

Assessing the Potential of the River Otter to Promote Aquatic Conservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: A Unique Approach for Developing a Long-Term Aquatic Flagship