Pricila Iranah,^1,* Kristin Davis,^2,3,** Drew Bennett,^4,*** Erica Fleishman,^5,**** Julie Heinrichs,^6,***** Liba Pejchar<sup>2,3,******,*******

1</sup>Department of Biology, University of Nebraska Kearney, Kearney, NE
²Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
³Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
⁴Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
⁵College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
⁶Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

^*Pricila Iranah is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Biology at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and a fellow with the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. She has interdisciplinary research interests in environmental economics biodiversity conservation on tropical islands and North American private lands. Ongoing projects include using systems thinking-system dynamics to assess ecosystem service provision on production lands in Nebraska, and investigating community reliance on mangroves for food resiliency in the Republic of Mauritius.
^**Kristin Davis is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology and the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on population responses of birds to land cover and management at local and continental extents. She is eager to conduct collaborative research to support conservation and natural resource management.
^***Drew Bennett is the Whitney MacMillan Professor of Practice in the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, where he leads the MacMillan Private Lands Stewardship Program. His interdisciplinary research and outreach focuses on strategies to balance agricultural production and the conservation of wildlife and other natural resources on private lands in the American West.
^****Erica Fleishman is Director, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, and Professor, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University. Her work focuses on ecological responses to changes in climate and land use across the western United States. She has participated in numerous initiatives to conserve endangered species on private and public lands and conducted research on multiple rare and endangered species.
^*****Julie Heinrichs is a Research Scientist in the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University. Her work assesses species responses to landscape-level environmental change and management actions. She specializes in developing spatially explicit population models to identify efficient actions that support species conservation.
^******Corresponding author: liba.pejchar@colostate.edu
^*******Liba Pejchar is a Professor in the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services in the places where people live and work. Among other projects, she and her terrific students study the loss and recovery of birds on invasion-prone Pacific islands, bison reintroduction in western North America, and innovative ways to sustain nature and human well-being in agroecosystems and areas undergoing residential and energy development.