COVER PHOTO: Pictured is a dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) photographed in July 2021 in the central Sierra Nevada, California, USA. In their study published in this issue, Kuntze et al. (Article e2908; doi:10.1002/eap.2908) demonstrated that landscape-scale heterogeneity in vegetation types including young forest refuges increased the abundance and availability of woodrats that, in turn, provided energetic and potentially reproductive benefits to mature forest-associated California spotted owls (Strix occidentalis occidentalis). These findings offer empirical evidence that promoting landscape heterogeneity may provide co-benefits to both predator and prey populations and constitute an effective strategy for conserving endangered predators. Photo credit: Corbin Kuntze.

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封面照片：图为2021 年 7 月在美国加利福尼亚州内华达山脉中部拍摄的暗足林鼠 ( Neotoma fuscipes )。Kuntze 等人在本期发表的研究中。（Article e2908；doi:10.1002/eap.2908）表明，包括年轻森林保护区在内的植被类型的景观尺度异质性增加了林鼠的丰富度和可用性，反过来，这又为成熟的与森林相关的加州发现提供了活力和潜在的繁殖效益猫头鹰（Strix occidentalis occidentalis）。这些发现提供了经验证据，表明促进景观异质性可能为捕食者和猎物种群提供共同利益，并构成保护濒危捕食者的有效策略。照片来源：Corbin Kuntze。