Despite ongoing conservation efforts, populations of the Salt Creek tiger beetle ( Ellipsoptera nevadica lincolniana ) remain critically low. Using a 30-year dataset of adult counts and historical climatic and creek water flow records, we investigated which, if any, Salt Creek tiger beetle life stages are sensitive to means and extremes in temperature, precipitation, and creek flow. Our analyses revealed that eggs are particul...

An individual's susceptibility to attack can be influenced by conspecific and heterospecifics neighbors. Predicting how these neighborhood effects contribute to population‐level processes such as competition and evolution requires an understanding of how the strength of neighborhood effects is modified by changes in the abundances of both consumers and neighboring resource species. We show for the first time that consumer dens...