Society for conservation biology conference
...ld ecosystems collide, according to an analysis of census and vegetation data to be presented by researchers from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the U.S. Forest Service. This "wildland-urban interface" is where human-wildlife conflicts, exotic species invasions, and forest treatments to reduce ...... abundance of species. Comparing that data to U.S. census data and the National Landcover Dataset, a satellite survey of land cover in the U.S., the Wisconsin and Forest Service team was able to sketch a broad picture of human pressures on native forest bird species. "We have found in the Midwestern United ......ogical Survey (1910-1912), an extensive biological census of the region to be covered by Lake Gatun, the Pan...istory and Samuel F. Hildebrand, his assistant, to census the fish fauna of the Canal area. They made lists of fish in the Chagres River on the Atlantic slo...