By: Pilliod D; January 31, 2013
The actively developing technologies to detect environmental DNA (i.e., e-DNA) show a lot of promise for various fields of wildlife research. However, as with any technology, there are technical and statistical assumptions that shape what we can infer from the data.By: Muths E; October 30, 2012
This story first appeared at http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Blackrock/ as a science feature for the Fort Collins Science Center.By: Evan H. Campbell Grant; August 07, 2012
The ability to accurately predict patterns of species’ occurrences is fundamental to the successful management of animal communities. To determine optimal management strategies, it is essential to understand species-habitat relationships and how species habitat use is related to natural or human-induced environmental changes. Using five years of monitoring data in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Nat(...more)