Research – Land Use

Land use change is currently the largest threat to biodiversity, and exacerbates the detrimental effects of climate change. We are interested in novel types of land use change, such as housing growth in the WUI, and widespread land abandonment after socioeconomic shocks, and how such changes affect biodiversity.

Changing fire regimes due to WUI growth in Mediterranean landscapes
August 23, 2023
How has half a century of land cover changes altered habitats of ungulates in the biologically diverse Caucasus?
August 22, 2023
The global Wildland-Urban Interface and associated wildfire risk to people
August 22, 2023
Mapping the human footprint in the forests of Argentina
August 11, 2023
Land cover and land abandonment maps of the Eurasian Steppe for biological research
April 13, 2021
Land cover mapping in the Caucasus for the 1960s from Corona satellite imagery
February 8, 2021
What is driving land degradation in the Caucasus Mountains?
February 6, 2019
Large land cover and land use change mapping in the Caucasus Mountains since 1987
January 17, 2019
Monitoring the dynamics of abandoned agriculture and fallow with Landsat and Sentinel 2 time series
December 13, 2018
Quantifying the spatial distribution and socio-economic drivers of small holder tree planting in Tanzania
November 14, 2018
Should I stay or should I go? Patterns of building and re-building after wildfires
January 28, 2016
Measuring trail use with remote detectors
January 7, 2016
Finding critical habitat for jaguars when potential distributions of species is not enough: Connectivity to the rescue
January 7, 2016
The differential importance of aquatic insect productivity on terrestrial, insectivorous bird guilds
January 7, 2016
Satellite Classification of Tree Species
January 6, 2016
Forest Changes in the Altay
January 14, 2015
Why do some houses burn and others do not when a wildfire hits?
January 1, 2015
The dynamic habitat index and biodiversity in Thailand
April 1, 2014
Recreational trails are affecting bird reproduction
March 31, 2014
Change in alpine wetlands of Southwest China and its implications for wintering Black-necked Cranes
March 31, 2014
Forest degradation in Mexico and spectral mixture analysis
January 16, 2014
Birds that Love Insects that Love Lakes: How Insect Populations and Lake Characteristics Impact Avian Aerial Insectivores in Northern Wisconsin
January 16, 2014
Using Bayesian statistics to predict housing growth in the U.S.
January 15, 2014
Always on the bright side of life: removing clouds and their shadows in satellite imagery
April 2, 2013
Helping to train the next generation of conservation scientists: running the IGERT on biodiversity conservation in novel ecosystems
February 28, 2013
Future land use changes and their potential impact on the Nation’s areas of biodiversity significance
February 26, 2013
Conservation conflicts: Housing growth in conservation priority areas in Wisconsin
February 25, 2013
Assessing landscape suitability for reintroduction of American marten (Martes americana) using an agent-based model
February 4, 2013
Massaging the U.S. Census to look at the WUI and at housing growth trends
January 28, 2013
It’s all a game – Land Use and Conservation in everyone’s hands
January 28, 2013
Housing development is eroding the value of protected lands
January 28, 2013
Hot moments for biodiversity conservation – Social and political transitions as opportunities for conservation
January 28, 2013
Monitoring of deforestation and forest degradation in Mexico
January 24, 2013
Park-people relationships: are we using a glass half empty approach?
January 17, 2013
Monitoring forest disturbance and re-growth from dense time series of satellite imagery stacks in the Carpathians
January 17, 2013
Magic inspires science: documenting forest pattern change in Mexico’s Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve and what it means for its biodiversity and its people
August 3, 2011
Habitat connectivity of European Bison in the Carpathians- bringing together subpopulations of an almost extinct species in the wild
August 2, 2011
Going, going, going – gone! The loss of alpine meadows in Yunnan
August 2, 2011
Housing Growth, Conservation Corridors, and the United States National Wildlife Refuge System
July 28, 2011
Change in and near Kavkaskzy Nature Reserve in the Caucasus Mountains
July 28, 2011
Deforestation patterns in Mexico, and the effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services programs
July 27, 2011
Conservation planning for two of Wisconsin’s most treasured landscapes: the Baraboo Hills and the Northwest pine barrens
November 15, 2010
Weaving the conservation landscape: habitat connectivity and the future of the National Wildlife Refuge System
November 10, 2010
New multi-scale landscape indices for spatial pattern analysis
September 28, 2010
Land use scenarios and effects on bird habitat in Northern Wisconsin
August 9, 2010
Institutional change and logging in post-Soviet Russia
August 9, 2010
If you build it, they will come – but can you still conserve biodiversity?
August 9, 2010
Zoning has heterogeneous effects on housing growth, but in most cases is not strong enough to affect ecosystem functions
July 15, 2010
Housing growth and road density in and near Park Service holdings in the Midwest
July 15, 2010
Studying Intertwined Networks of Human-Natural Relationships in Northwest Yunnan, China
March 4, 2010
Post-USSR Land Cover Change in Eastern Europe – Socioeconomic Forcings, Effects on Biodiversity, and Future Scenarios
January 28, 2010
The Legacy of Past Housing Patterns is Important to Explain Today’s Plant Invasions
January 27, 2010