A5059056876- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Plant and animal studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Economic Growth and Productivity
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Forest ecology and management
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Stanford University
2024
University of Minnesota
2019-2023
Abstract Natural infrastructure such as parks, forests, street trees, green roofs, and coastal vegetation is central to sustainable urban management. Despite recent progress, it remains challenging for decision-makers incorporate the benefits of natural into design planning. Here, we present an approach support greening cities by quantifying mapping diverse now in future. The relies on open-source tools, within InVEST (Integrated Valuation Ecosystem Services Tradeoffs) software, that compute...
In an increasingly urbanized world, the concepts of ecosystem services and nature-based solutions can help tackle grand challenges. However, ambiguity in their definitions relationship between two complicates comprehensive research efforts as well effective application policy planning urban systems. This paper presents a framework to clarify explicitly relate concepts, enhancing applicability management Within framework, addressing challenges serves starting point for development...
With more than half the world's population living in urban areas, most of people's potential to receive ecosystem service benefits occurs cities. However a straightforward, replicable approach quantifying multiple services has yet emerge, so planning decisions often overlook value nature could provide people. Urbanization is likely increase development pressure on many forms green spaces across cities, particularly for golf courses that represent substantial part areas United States. Here,...
The increasing pressure on land resources for food and energy production along with efforts to maintain natural systems necessitates the development of compatible uses that maximize co-benefits multiple ecosystem services. One such sharing opportunity is restoration management native grassland vegetation beneath ground-mounted solar facilities, which can both protect biodiversity restore related In this paper, we applied InVEST modeling framework investigate potential response four services...
Abstract. Understanding the cooling service provided by vegetation in cities is important to inform urban policy and planning. However, performance of decision-support tools estimating heat mitigation for greening strategies has not been evaluated systematically. Here, we further develop a calibration algorithm evaluate model developed within open-source InVEST (Integrated Valuation Ecosystem Services Tradeoffs) software. The estimates air temperature reduction due based on four predictors,...
Sustaining native pollinator populations and reversing declines in species such as the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) will require enhancing maintaining habitats across many regions land use sectors. Rights-of-way, areas surrounding roads, have long been regarded important habitat for pollinators due to their ubiquitous nature management herbaceous including nectar plants larval host plants. With better information regarding quality of roadside rights-of-way, managers can identify...
Abstract Vegetation along roadside edges, while posing some risks, can also provide breeding habitat for monarch butterflies. We investigated how landscape and site‐specific factors affect the quality of roadsides as habitat. surveyed more than 250 sites throughout Minnesota milkweeds, floral resources eggs larvae. found that milkweed distribution was affected by adjacent land use geography, with milkweeds likely to be present in crop grassland south west state. The presence density larvae...
Abstract. Understanding the cooling service provided by vegetation in cities is important to inform urban policy and planning. However, performance of decision-support tools estimating heat mitigation for greening strategies not systematically evaluated. Here, we develop a calibration algorithm evaluate Urban Cooling model developed within open-source InVEST (Integrated Valuation Ecosystem Services Tradeoffs) software. The estimates air temperature reduction due based on four predictors:...