Nature in cities and beyond is essential both to species conservation and to provide fulfilling environments for people. But natural spaces in urban places require management, both the protect species and to maintain human health. Research on urban nature often involves those species that can persist within a city and in urban fragments. It also includes the urban forest, which is not necessarily natural, but provides valuable habitat for wildlife and irreplaceable ecosystems services.
Updates
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The Californians: Western Gray Squirrel edition
Things have to be a bit dire to take hope from a roadkilled squirrel, but today, that’s where I found it, north of Sunset, between the 405 and the 101.
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New paper: taking toxoplasmosis seriously
We cover the natural history of Toxoplasma gondii (it is a parasite that only reproduces in the gut of members of the cat family), then lay out the impacts on humans, domestic animals, and wild animals. The take-home message here is that the effects of toxoplasmosis are worse than you imagine and certainly worse than…
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Not your usual correction
Colleagues Scott Loss, Tom Will, Pete Marra and I published an article a month or so in Biological Invasions, titled “Responding to misinformation and criticisms regarding United States cat predation estimates.” The purpose of the article was to address the spurious criticisms that have been leveled against estimates of predation by free-roaming cats published by…
Publications
| Peng, W., D. López-Carr, C. Wu, X. Wang, and T. Longcore. 2020. What factors influence the willingness of Protected Area residents to relocate? China’s ecological relocation policy for Dashanbao Protected Area. Science of the Total Environment 727:138364. | |
| Peng, W., D. Kong, C. Wu, A.P. Møller, and T. Longcore. 2020. Predicted effects of Chinese national park policy on wildlife habitat provisioning: experience from plateau wetland ecosystem. Environmental Indicators 115:106346. | |
| Aguirre, A., T. Longcore, M. Barbieri, H. Dabritz, D. Hill, P. Klein, C. Lepczyk, E. Lilly, R. McLeod, J. Milcarsky, C. E. Murphy, C. Su, E. VanWormer, R. Yolken, and G. C. Sizemore. 2019. The One Health approach to toxoplasmosis: epidemiology, control and prevention in humans, animals, and ecosystems. EcoHealth 16(2):378-390. | |
| Longcore, T., and P. A. Smith. 2013. On avian mortality associated with human activities [guest editorial]. Avian Conservation and Ecology 8(2):1. | |
| Longcore, T., L. Almaleh, B. Chetty, K. Francis, R. Freidin, C.-S. Huang, B Pickett, D. Schreck, B. Scruggs, E. Shulman, A. Swauger, A. Tashnek, M. Wright, and E. E. Boydston. 2018. Wildlife corridor use and environmental impact assessment: a southern California case study. Cities and the Environment 11(1):art4. | |
| Longcore, T. 2012. No-kill movement means death for birds. Bird Calls 16(3):3. | |
| Bartos, M., S. Dao, D. Douk, S. Falzone, E. Gumerlock, S. Hoekstra, K. Kelly-Reif, D. Mori, C. Tang, C. Vasquez, J. Ward, S. Young, A. Morzillo, S.P.D. Riley, and T. Longcore. 2012. Use of anticoagulant rodenticides in single-family neighborhoods along an urban-wildland interface in California. Cities and the Environment 4(1):art12. | |
| Longcore, T., C. Rich, and L. M. Sullivan. 2009. Critical assessment of claims regarding management of feral cats by trap–neuter–return. Conservation Biology 23(4):887-894. | |
| Longcore, T., C. Rich, and D. Müller-Schwarze. 2007. Management by assertion: beavers and songbirds at Lake Skinner (Riverside County, California). Environmental Management 39:460–471. | |
| Longcore, T. 2006. Prioritizing multiple-benefit watershed projects: dollars or sense? Watershed Wise 10(2):6–7. |