Monica L. Bond

TL;DR: The authors examined effects of fire on 7 radiomarked California spotted owls from four territories by quantifying use of habitat for nesting, roosting, and foraging according to severity of burn in and near a 610-km2 fire in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA, 4 years after fire.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that wildfires may have little short-term impact on survival, site fidelity, mate fidelity, and reproductive success of spotted owls, and prescribed burning could be an effective tool in restoring habitat to natural conditions with minimal short- term impact on resident spotted Owls.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-method approach for delineating and validating wildlife corridors using multiple data sources, which can be used conserve landscape connectivity, is presented, which is used to delineate and validate migration corridors for wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus).

TL;DR: It is concluded that space use by males is influenced by intrasexual competition and access to females with an upper limit of overlap with either sex.

TL;DR: This paper used 11 years of breeding-season survey data from 41 California Spotted Owl sites burned in six forest fires and 145 sites in unburned areas throughout the Sierra Nevada, California, to compare probabilities of local extinction and colonization at burned and un-burned sites while accounting for annual and site-specific variation in detectability, finding no significant effects of fire on these probabilities, suggesting that fire, even fire that burns on average 32% of suitable habitat at high severity within a California spotted owl site, does not threaten the persistence of the subspecies on the landscape.