Carlos Ramirez-Reyes,^1,*,** Garrett Street,^1,*** Francisco J. Vilella,^2,**** D. Todd Jones-Farrand,^3,***** M. Scott Wiggers,^4,****** Kristine O. Evans<sup>1,*******

1</sup>Quantitative Ecology & Spatial Technologies Laboratory, Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, Box 9690, Mississippi State, MS 39760
²U.S. Geological Survey, Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Box 9691, Mississippi State, MS 39762
³U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 302 Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
⁴U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mississippi Field Office, 6578 Dogwood View Parkway, Jackson, MS 39213

^*Corresponding author: c.ramirez@msstate.edu; 608-520-1362
^**Carlos Ramirez-Reyes is a conservation scientist with expertise in landscape ecology and land use science.
^***Garrett Street is a quantitative ecologist specializing in species distributions, animal movement and statistical model development and interpretation. His work emphasizes the mechanisms linking individuals to populations and linking ecological theory to emergent phenomena.
^****Francisco J. Vilella is Assistant Unit Leader of the Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Professor of Conservation Biology in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University.
^*****D. Todd Jones-Farrand is a science coordinator working in the South Atlantic Gulf and Mississippi Basin regions. His primary roles are supporting Species Status Assessments and landscape-scale conservation planning.
^******M. Scott Wiggers is a botanist with expertise in threatened and endangered species recovery and policy, conservation and fire ecology of longleaf pine savannas, and private lands conservation.
^*******Kristine Evans is an Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology and co-director of the Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies Lab in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University.