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Eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris ) restoration throughout east Texas has occurred since the 1930s with variable success. Historically, little work focused upon improving survey techniques, and regional population status is of concern as 9 of the 18 counties co…

Wildlife is important to humans, offering economic, nutritional, ecological, and socio-cultural value. However, vertebrate biodiversity is being lost at rates 100 times greater than the background extinction rate, threatening human livelihood via the loss of ecosystem services. …

The global loss of biodiversity calls for robust large-scale diversity assessment. Biological diversity is a multi-faceted concept; defined as the “variety of life”, answering questions such as “How much is there?” or more precisely “Have we succeeded in reducing the rate of its…