G. W. Mitchell

Balancing conservation priorities for grassland and forest specialist bird communities in agriculturally dominated landscapes

The paper identifies landscapes in eastern Ontario and southwestern Quebec that balance habitat needs of grassland and forest bird specialists through land cover diversity.

Extent of similarity between agricultural and natural land covers shapes how biodiversity responds to agricultural expansion at landscape scales

The study examines how ecosystem context influences biodiversity responses to agricultural expansion, finding that species diversity declines at lower agricultural extents in ecosystems with less similarity between natural and agricultural land covers.