Publications
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AMBIO - Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Published on December 1, 2007
Humans have continuously interacted with naturalsystems, resulting in the formation and development ofcoupled human and natural systems - CHANS -
Household Location Choices: Implications for Biodiversity Conservation
Published on November 27, 2007
We conducted a case study that explored relationships between sociodemographic variables, environmental attitudes, and the environmental impact of household location choices. -
PNAS - Environmental Impacts of Divorce
Published on October 30, 2007
A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows that a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, that, in turn, take up more space and gobble up more energy and water. -
SCIENCE - Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Published on September 14, 2007
Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and complex patterns and processes not evident when studied separately. Synthesis of six case studies show that CHANS vary across space, time, and organizational units -
Human Impacts on Regional Avian Diversity and Abundance
Published on September 3, 2007
Taking a look at "Conservation Biology". -
Impacts of Religion on Environmental Worldviews: The Teton Valley Case
Published on June 17, 2007
Taking a look at "Society and Natural Resources". -
A household perspective for biodiversity conservation
Published on June 1, 2007
We propose that hypotheses implicating human population density in wildlife endangerment at global and national scales owe their public and academic currency as thoroughly to inductive reasoning and repetition as to scientific experimentation. -
Temporal changes in giant panda habitat connectivity across boundaries of Wolong Nature Reserve, China
Published on June 1, 2007
This study analyzed the changes in habitat for the giant panda inside Wolong Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China, and in a 3-km buffer area outside its boundaries, through a time series of classified satellite imagery and field observations. -
Land Use Change Around Protected Areas: Management to Balance Human Needs and Ecological Function
Published on June 1, 2007
Protected areas throughout the world are key for conserving biodiversity, and land use is key for providing food, fiber, and other ecosystem services essential for human sustenance. -
The Impact of Water Security on Freshwater Fisheries Management: A Multinational Perspective
Published on January 1, 2007
Freshwater resources are rapidly decreasing in quantity and quality, thereby becoming stressed and, in many cases, becoming scarce for human and ecosystem use -
Reconciling Wildlife Management's Conflicted Purpose With a Land Community Worldview
Published on January 1, 2007
To reach its potential wildlife management needs a coherent purpose. -
Spatial Distribution of Attitudes Toward Proposed Management Strategies for a Wildlife Recovery
Published on January 1, 2007
We assessed the spatial distribution (clustering) of attitudes toward several management strategies for the recovery of black bear in and around Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. -
Effects of Zoonotic Disease Attributes on Public Attitudes Towards Wildlife Management
Published on December 1, 2006
Our results suggest 2 critical management needs: solicitation and consideration of public input for type A zoonotic disease management and promotion of hunting or developing a viable lethal management alternative. -
Progress toward Restoring the Everglades
Published on September 25, 2006
The nation has formed a partnership to restore the remaining Everglades ecosystem as nearly as possible to pre-drainage hydrologic conditions, under the reasonable assumption that if we “get the water right” a positive ecological response will follow. -
Assessment of giant panda habitat in the Daxiangling Mountain Range, Sichuan, China
Published on April 15, 2006
The status of giant panda habitat is related directly to the panda’s survival and breeding -
Designing a conservation plan for protecting the habitat for giant pandas in the Qionglai mountain range, China
Published on January 1, 2006
This study assessed the overall habitat suitability for the species in the Qionglai mountain range (Sichuan, China) using Landsat TM imagery acquired in 2001, geographical data, field surveys, and information acquired in previous researches. -
Linking Land-Change Science and Policy: Current Lessons and Future Integration
Published on January 1, 2006
Human use of the land and oceans is at the center of some of the most complicated and pressing problems faced by policy makers around the world today -
A New Spatial-Attribute Weighting Function For Geographically Weighted Regression
Published on November 29, 2005
In this study, we proposed a new weighting function that combines the “geographical space” and “attribute space” between the subject tree and its neighbors. -
Interactive Effects Of Natural And Human Disturbances On Vegetation Dynamics Across Landscapes
Published on June 21, 2005
A study on the complex interactions of humans and landscapes, we developed an integrated spatiotemporally explicit model of household activities, natural vegetation dynamics, and their impacts on panda habitat. -
Local spatial modeling of white-tailed deer distribution
Published on June 4, 2005
Complex spatial heterogeneity of ecological systems is difficult to capture and interpret using global models alone