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Application of science to climate adaptation

Application of conservation science to management of public and private lands in the western United States

Applying principles of conservation reliance to maintain species at risk

Use of results chains to test assumptions about coastal conservation strategies

CyberInfrastructure for the analysis of ecological acoustic sensor data: A use case study in grid deployment

Protected area needs in a changing climate

Planning for climate change: Identifying minimum-dispersal corridors for the cape proteaceae

NCEAS: Promoting creative collaborations

Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record?

This paper tests whether the most common fossil brachiopod, gastropod, and bivalve genera also have intrinsically more durable shells. Commonness was quantified using occurrence frequency of the 450 most frequently occurring genera of these groups in the Paleobiology Database (PBDB). Durability was scored for each taxon on the basis of shell size, thickness, reinforcement (ribs, folds, spines), mineralogy, and microstructural organic content.

Extinction trajectories of benthic organisms across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary