Connecting with Our Waterways: Public Access and Its Stewardship in the New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary

Report

A Novel Tool for Making Policy Recommendations Based on PVA: Helping Theory Become Practice

Mathematical models that inform conservation efforts always have underlying uncertainty. We show that in many applied cases, this uncertainty results in a non-trivial probability that management action will have no benefit to conservation. We encourage future use of population viability analysis (PVA) to explicitly account for this uncertainty when considering whether or not to implement management actions.

A modeling methodology to evaluate the efficacy of predator exclosures versus predator control

Endangered species face many threats, including from invasive predators. Here, we developed a modelling method to compare different management options for controlling predators. We then applied this method to compared management options for the endangered shorebird, the piping plover, which faces predation threats from the red fox along New Jersey beaches.

Effects of Land Development on Water Resources of the Pinelands Region

Report detailing the extent to which water and water-related resources are modified by land development in the protected Pinelands region of New Jersey, USA.