How climate constrains species’ distributions through time and space is an important question in the context of conservation planning for climate change. Despite increasing awareness of the need to incorporate mechanism into species distribution models ( SDM s), mechanistic modeling of endotherm distributions remains limited in this literature. Using the American pika ( Ochotona princeps ) as an example, we present a framework...

Integration of conservation partnerships across geographic, biological, and administrative boundaries is increasingly relevant because drivers of change, such as climate shifts, transcend these boundaries. We explored successes and challenges of established conservation programs that span multiple watersheds and consider both social and ecological concerns. We asked representatives from a diverse set of 11 broad‐extent conserv...

Recent research on mountain‐dwelling species has illustrated changes in species' distributional patterns in response to climate change. Abundance of a species will likely provide an earlier warning indicator of change than will occupancy, yet relationships between abundance and climatic factors have received less attention. We tested whether predictors of counts of American pikas ( Ochotona princeps ) during surveys from the G...

The threat status of New Zealand's bryophytes (currently 13 hornwort species, 608 liverwort species and 520 moss species) has been re‐evaluated, using revised New Zealand Threat Classification System criteria. Threatened or uncommon status has been applied to 269 taxa (c. 24% of the total number of species) and to 25 entities that are either described but disputed or are undescribed. No taxa are known to be extinct. Forty‐one...

The aquatic moss Hypnobartlettia fontana Ochyra was described, and placed in its own family, the Hypnobartlettiaceae, based on material collected at Te Waikoropupuu (“Pupu Springs”), Takaka, Nelson, New Zealand. It is known only from the type locality. Based on morphological evidence, we conclude Hypnobartlettia fontana is an environmentally induced form of the very variable Cratoneuropsis relaxa (Hook.f. & Wilson) Broth, modi...

The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) allows listing of subspecies and other groupings below the rank of species. This provides the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service with a means to target the most critical unit in need of conservation. Although roughly one‐quarter of listed taxa are subspecies, these management agencies are hindered by uncertainties about taxonomic standards during listi...

A review of bryophyte records from New Zealand lakes showed a “deep‐water” assemblage occurred at ≥ 10 m depths within 16 lakes all of which possessed high water clarity (1/ K d >3). Bryophyte depth limits ranged from 12 to 70 m. Depth limit was significantly related to water clarity and extended to where the level of irradiance was 0.2–1% of light incident on the lake surface. Deep‐water bryophytes were generally absent from...