Richard Schuster

Conservation prioritization using integer programming techniques. To solve large-scale problems, users should install the 'gurobi' optimizer (available from <http://www.gurobi.com/>).

by Richard Schuster, Amanda D. Rodewald, Joseph Bennett, Peter Arcese And Scott Wilson, The Conversation Bank swallows, like this juvenile, may become endangered unless habitat loss and other threats are reduced. Credit: Shutterstock Many bird populations are crashing, largely because they migrate such long distances and are at risk from human influence at every link in their migratory chain. One favourite, the tiny Canada warbler, is among those that find themselves in trouble.

Many bird populations are crashing, largely because they migrate such long distances and are at risk from human influence at every link in their migratory chain. One favourite, the tiny Canada warbler, is among those that find themselves in trouble. Although this bird weighs only as much as a AAA battery, each spring it flies more than 5,500 kilometres from its winter home in South America to breed in Canada, stopping in Mexico, Texas and Michigan along the way.