ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Integral Ecology Research Center. The Integral Ecology Research Center is a nonprofit scientific organization dedicated to understanding and conserving wildlife and the ecosystems they depend on. Its interdisciplinary research spans wildlife ecology, disease ecology, habitat conservation and the environmental impacts of human activity, combining field studies with tools such as molecular and spatial analysis to inform science-based conservation and resource management.
Tracking 56 barred owls in northwestern California, researchers found each bird claiming large territories in the tallest, oldest forest, with nearly two-thirds of an average home range overlapping spotted owl habitat. Removing resident owls reopened habitat, but only where control is sustained.