A5003788306- Forest Management and Policy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Forest ecology and management
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Transportation Systems and Infrastructure
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
2019-2021
Harvard University
2019-2021
HighScope
2019
Hudson Institute
2019
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2019
Yale University
2013-2016
University of Maine
2012-2015
Abstract Land protection, whether public or private, is often controversial at the local level because residents worry about lost economic activity. We used panel data and a quasi‐experimental impact‐evaluation approach to determine how key indicators were related percentage of land protected. Specifically, we estimated impacts private protection based on area employment housing permits from 5 periods spanning 1990–2015 for all major towns cities in New England. To generate rigorous impact...
Understanding the response of tree regeneration following commercial thinning treatments can improve planning in managed forests dependent on natural regeneration. We used long-term experiments eastern spruce–fir stands Maine, USA, to test two hypotheses: (1) increases density and (2) with increasing intensity. A decade after thinning, densities softwood hardwood were 10 times greater thinned than unthinned stands. The abundance small (0.11–0.60 m tall) was highest lower intensity...
To expand our understanding of the hallmarks allosteric control we used directed-evolution to engineer alternate cooperative communication in lactose repressor protein (LacI) scaffold. Starting with an Is type LacI mutant D88A (i.e. a variant that is insensitive exogenous ligand isopropyl-β-d-thiogalactoside (IPTG) and remains bound operator DNA, + or −IPTG) error-prone polymerase chain reaction introduce compensatory mutations restore modulated DNA binding function allosterically 'dead'...
Abstract Voluntary, permanent land protection is a key conservation process in many countries. Concerns with the effectiveness of such decentralized processes exist due to potential for (1) selection bias, that is, parcels whose cover would have been conserved absence protection, and (2) local spillover effects, increasing likelihood adjacent lose additional conversion. We examine validity both concerns using quasi‐experimental approach dataset 220,187 26 years land‐cover change...
Landscape ecology theory provides insight about how large assemblages of protected areas (PAs) should be configured to protect biodiversity. We adapted these theories evaluate whether the emergence decentralized land protection in a largely private landscape followed principles reserve design. Our objectives were determine: (1) Are there distinct clusters PAs time and space? (2) becoming more spatially clustered through time? (3) Does resulting PA portfolio have traits characteristic ideal...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes This research was supported by National Science Foundation award EPS-0904155 Maine EPSCoR Sustainability Solutions Initiative at the University of Maine, and McIntire-Stennis grant number MEO-M-7-00510-13 from USDA Institute Food Agriculture. Additional support provided Agricultural Forest Experiment Station (Publication No. 3323), Center for Research on Sustainable Forests. 1. G. Godbey, DeJong, V. Sasidharan, C. Yarnal, "The...