Seth P. D. Riley

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined movements of two highly mobile carnivores across the Ventura Freeway near Los Angeles, one of the busiest highways in the United States, and found that carnivores can cross the freeway and that 5-32% of sampled carnivores crossed over a 7-year period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the ecology and behavior of domestic cats and coyotes relative to development in a fragmented landscape in southern California from 1996 to 2000, and determined home ranges for 35 bobcats and 40 coyotes, and measured their exposure to development (urban association) as the percentage of each home range composed of developed or modified areas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used remotely triggered cameras and gypsum track stations to determine if underpasses and drainage culverts beneath highways are used by wildlife as movement corridors, and found that passages were used by a variety of species, including carnivores, mule deer, small mammals, and reptiles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined the distribution and abundance of native amphibians and exotic predators and characterized stream habitat and invertebrate communities in 35 streams in an urbanized landscape north of Los Angeles (U.S.A.).

TL;DR: Investigation of trends of occupancy for 81 species of amphibians across North America finds greater sensitivity to water availability during breeding and winter conditions than mean climate, and a general framework for measuring climate impacts on species richness is found.