A5041459981- Urban Green Space and Health
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Forest Management and Policy
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Water resources management and optimization
- Cultural Differences and Values
University of Helsinki
2023
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
2020-2023
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
2023
University of Florida
2021-2023
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2020-2023
University of Illinois Chicago
2023
Arizona State University
2017-2021
University of Illinois System
2021
The draft Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework commits to achievement of equity and justice outcomes represents a "relational turn" in how we understand inclusive conservation. Although "inclusivity" is drawn on as means engage diverse stakeholders, widening the framing inclusivity can create new tensions with regard manage protected areas. We first offer set that emerge light relational turn biodiversity Drawing global case examples applying multiple methods conservation, then...
Larson, K., E. Corley, R. Andrade, S. J. Hall, A. York, Meerow, P. Coseo, D. L. Childers, and Hondula. 2019. Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services disservices: an approach to creating analyzing robust survey scales. Ecology Society 24(2):7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10888-240207
Problem, research strategy, and findings: Planners lack clarity about how they can promote the subjective wellbeing (SWB) of communities serve. In this we use descriptive econometric methods to explore interconnections between three aspects objective perceived neighborhood built environment (NBE)—walkability, transit, parks—and one aspect SWB—life satisfaction—drawing on a survey 496 people in Phoenix (AZ) region. Respondents who were more satisfied with quantity parks lived objectively...
The relationship between biodiversity and stability, or its inverse, temporal variability, is multidimensional complex. Temporal variability in aggregate properties, like total biomass abundance, typically lower communities with higher species diversity (i.e., the diversity-stability [DSR]). At broader spatial extents, regional-scale also regional (in plant systems) synchrony. However, focusing exclusively on properties of may overlook potentially destabilizing compositional shifts. It not...
Global loss of biodiversity and its associated ecosystem services is occurring at an alarming rate predicted to accelerate in the future. Metacommunity theory provides a framework investigate multi-scale processes that drive change across space time. Short-term ecological studies have progressed our understanding through metacommunity lens, however, such snapshots time been limited their ability explain which processes, scales, generate observed spatial patterns. Temporal dynamics...
Abstract The science of urban ecology has increasingly grappled with the long‐term ramifications a globally urbanized planet and impacts on biodiversity. Some researchers have suggested that places high species diversity in cities simply reflect an extinction debt populations are doomed to but not yet disappeared. longitudinal studies conducted date found composition shifting urbanization always documented continued extirpations post‐urbanization. We used monitoring data birds from greater...
The active participation of local stakeholders in governing protected areas is increasingly recognized biodiversity conservation. While progress has been made countries to facilitate inclusivity conservation decision-making, there limited practical guidance participatory mechanisms enabling stakeholder engagement. Disentangling formal and informal governance arrangements within illuminates how decision-making shaped potentially improved. Here, we provide an analytical framework...
Snakes are globally threatened due to anthropogenic pressures. Conflicts between snakes and people occur when residents encounter in their home environments. In collaboration with a local business that provides snake removal services, we examined records from over 2000 removals Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, United States 2018 2019. We locations relation neighborhood-level socioeconomic attributes the American Community Survey individual demographics social survey of 494 respondents....
The impacts of urbanization on bird biodiversity depend human-environment interactions that drive land management. Although a commonly studied group, less attention has been given to public perceptions birds close home, which can capture people's direct, everyday experiences with urban biodiversity. Here, we used ecological and social survey data collected in the metropolitan region Phoenix, Arizona, USA, determine how species traits are related local communities. We trait-based approach...
Abstract Aim Seasonally dry tropical forest ( SDTF ) of the Caribbean Islands (primarily West Indies) is floristically distinct from Neotropical in Central and South America. We evaluate whether tree species composition was associated with climatic gradients or geographical distance. Turnover (dissimilarity) different islands among more distant sites would suggest communities structured by speciation dispersal limitations. A nested pattern be consistent a steep resource gradient. Correlation...
There is increasing interest in measuring ecological stability to understand how communities and ecosystems respond broad‐scale global changes. One of the most common approaches quantify variation through time community or ecosystem aggregate attributes (e.g. total biomass), referred as variability. It now widely recognized that variability represents only one aspect ecosystems, compositional variability, changes relative frequency species an assemblage, equally important. Recent...
Abstract The success of conservation initiatives often depends on the inclusion diverse stakeholder interests in decision‐making process. Yet, there is a paucity empirical knowledge concerning factors that explain why stakeholders do—or do not— believe they are meaningfully represented by government agencies. Our study provides insight into relationship between trust and perceptions inclusivity public land management decisions. Here, we focus U.S. state Alaska, where almost two‐thirds area...
Land change due to urbanization often results in the loss of desert ecosystems. The land affects ecological and social processes arid cities, such as habitat provisioning, extent intensity urban heat island, outdoor recreation opportunities. Understanding human–environment dynamics associated with environmental is critical understanding managing implications growth. Few studies, however, have empirically examined people’s attitudes about hot, environments deserts. primary objectives our...
Although the value of urban ecological infrastructure (UEI) is widely recognized, insufficient research has investigated how people perceive wide variety UEI. To address this gap, we residents' perceptions coupled aesthetic and biological qualities as related to diverse UEI other environmental social factors (including personal beliefs demographics), collectively referred bio-cultural services disservices. We evaluated whether positively view their neighborhood environments natural looking...
This longitudinal study explores evidence of learning and reflexivity among experts involved in the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment from 2018 to 2022. As part an online survey administered at yearly intervals, self-reported their views on: i) aims they attributed Assessment, ii) epistemic worldviews, iii) definition multiple values nature, iv) personal experiences assessment process. The represented worldviews...