Invasive annual grasses are a severe risk to native vegetation of the intermountain West. We developed a regional spatial model encompassing eight ecoregions to indicate the relative abundance of invasive annual grass at five levels of canopy cover. PublicationJournal ArticleRangeland Ecology & Management
The purpose of this document is to present a replicable model for mangrove ecosystem management based on collaborative planning efforts in the mangrove forests of the Ramsar designated Alvarado Lagoon System (ALS), Veracruz, Mexico.PublicationScientific ReportIntegrating Stakeholders in Mangrove Assessment and Management Planning, A Model Based on Collaborative Planning in Veracruz Mexico
To understand how climate change will impact the National Capital Region, the National Park Service partnered with experts at NatureServe to conduct climate change vulnerability assessments.PublicationScientific ReportClimate Change Vulnerability of Terrestrial Areas of the National Capital Region
Preserving the evolutionary history and ecological functions that different species embody, in addition to species themselves, is a growing concern for conservation. Recent studies warn that conservation priority regions identified using species diversity differ from those based on phylogenetic or functional diversity.PublicationJournal ArticleNature Ecology and Evolution
A New Framework to Monitoring Global Biodiversity.PublicationScientific ReportEssential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations
Outside of protected areas, environmental regulation is a vital policy tool for conserving at-risk species. An underappreciated potential for citizen science is to augment locality databases used in regulatory review to provide greater certainty to regulatory decisions.PublicationJournal ArticleUsing citizen science data to support conservation in environmental regulatory contexts
We applied a framework to assess climate change vulnerability of 52 major vegetation types in the Western United States to provide a spatially explicit input to adaptive management decisions. The framework addressed climate exposure and ecosystem resilience; the latter derived from analyses of ecosystem sensitivity and adaptive capacity.PublicationJournal ArticleHabitat Climate Change Vulnerability Index Applied to Major Vegetation Types of the Western Interior United States
This report identifies National Park Service programs for which the proposed methodology would provide a complementary or significantly expanded set of tools to guide the conservation of biological and ecological resourcesPublicationScientific Report
In support of natural resource agencies in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, we report on a series of component analyses and an updated Landscape Conservation Design for temperate grassland conservation.PublicationJournal ArticleNatural Areas Journal
Methods for selecting places at regional scales to conserve biodiversity have advanced in recent decades.PublicationJournal ArticleThe Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene
