Search Results - "McKerrow, Alexa J."

Identifying monitoring information needs that support the management of fish in large rivers by Counihan, Timothy D, Bouska, Kristen L, Brewer, Shannon K, Jacobson, Robert B, Casper, Andrew F, Chapman, Colin G, Waite, Ian R, Sheehan, Kenneth R, Pyron, Mark, Irwin, Elise R, Riva-Murray, Karen, McKerrow, Alexa J, Bayer, Jennifer M

“…Management actions intended to benefit fish in large rivers can directly or indirectly affect multiple ecosystem components. Without consideration of the…”
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Applying Biodiversity Metrics as Surrogates to a Habitat Conservation Plan by Kenneth G. Boykin, William G. Kepner, Alexa J. McKerrow

“…Unabated urbanization has led to environmental degradation and subsequent biodiversity loss across the globe. As an outcome of unmitigated land use,…”
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Projected gains and losses of wildlife habitat from bioenergy‐induced landscape change by Tarr, Nathan M., Rubino, Matthew J., Costanza, Jennifer K., McKerrow, Alexa J., Collazo, Jaime A., Abt, Robert C.

“…Domestic and foreign renewable energy targets and financial incentives have increased demand for woody biomass and bioenergy in the southeastern United States…”
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Patterns of species richness hotspots and estimates of their protection are sensitive to spatial resolution by McKerrow, Alexa J., Tarr, Nathan M., Rubino, Matthew J., Williams, Steven G.

“…Aim: Species richness is a measure of biodiversity often used in spatial conservation assessments and mapped by summing species distribution maps. Commission…”
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Bioenergy production and forest landscape change in the southeastern United States by Costanza, Jennifer K., Abt, Robert C., McKerrow, Alexa J., Collazo, Jaime A.

“…Production of woody biomass for bioenergy, whether wood pellets or liquid biofuels, has the potential to cause substantial landscape change and concomitant…”
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Protected areas lacking for many common fluvial fishes of the conterminous USA by Cooper, Arthur R., Tsang, Yin-Phan, Infante, Dana M., Daniel, Wesley M., McKerrow, Alexa J., Wieferich, Daniel

“…Aim To assess the effectiveness of protected areas in two catchment scales (local and network) in conserving regionally common fluvial fishes using modelled…”
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Modeling climate change, urbanization, and fire effects on Pinus palustris ecosystems of the southeastern U.S by Costanza, Jennifer K., Terando, Adam J., McKerrow, Alexa J., Collazo, Jaime A.

“…Managing ecosystems for resilience and sustainability requires understanding how they will respond to future anthropogenic drivers such as climate change and…”
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Future land-use scenarios and the loss of wildlife habitats in the southeastern United States by Martinuzzi, Sebastián, Withey, John C, Pidgeon, Anna M, Plantinga, Andrew J, McKerrow, Alexa J, Williams, Steven G, Helmers, David P, Radeloff, Volker C

“…Land-use change is a major cause of wildlife habitat loss. Understanding how changes in land-use policies and economic factors can impact future trends in land…”
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Normalized burn ratios link fire severity with patterns of avian occurrence by Rose, Eli T., Simons, Theodore R., Klein, Rob, McKerrow, Alexa J.

“…Context Remotely sensed differenced normalized burn ratios (DNBR) provide an index of fire severity across the footprint of a fire. We asked whether this index…”
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Linking state-and-transition simulation and timber supply models for forest biomass production scenarios by K. Costanza, Jennifer, C. Abt, Robert, J. McKerrow, Alexa, A. Collazo, Jaime

“…We linked state-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) with an economics-based timber supply model to examine landscape dynamics in North Carolina through…”
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Long‐Term Fish Monitoring in Large Rivers: Utility of “Benchmarking” across Basins by Ward, David L., Casper, Andrew F., Counihan, Timothy D., Bayer, Jennifer M., Waite, Ian R., Kosovich, John J., Chapman, Colin G., Irwin, Elise R., Sauer, Jennifer S., Ickes, Brian S., McKerrow, Alexa J.

“…In business, benchmarking is a widely used practice of comparing your own business processes to those of other comparable companies and incorporating…”
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Simulating the effects of the southern pine beetle on regional dynamics 60 years into the future by Costanza, Jennifer K., Hulcr, Jiri, Koch, Frank H., Earnhardt, Todd, McKerrow, Alexa J., Dunn, Rob R., Collazo, Jaime A.

“…► We modeled long-term joint dynamics of southern pine beetles and pine forests. ► Beetle activity and forest management both influence landscape dynamics. ►…”
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Use of Occupancy Models to Evaluate Expert Knowledge-based Species-Habitat Relationships by Iglecia, Monica N., Collazo, Jaime A., McKerrow, Alexa J.

“…Expert knowledge-based species-habitat relationships are used extensively to guide conservation planning, particularly when data are scarce. Purported…”
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scientific foundations of habitat conservation plans: a quantitative assessment by Harding, E.K, Crone, E.E, Elderd, B.D, Hoekstra, J.M, McKerrow, A.J, Perrine, J.D, Regetz, J, Rissler, L.J, Stanley, A.G, Walters, E.L

“…The number of habitat conservation plans (HCP) has risen dramatically since the first plan was written over 18 years ago. Until recently, no studies have…”
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Integrating Recent Land Cover Mapping Efforts to Update the National Gap Analysis Program's Species Habitat Map by McKerrow, A. J., Davidson, A., Earnhardt, T. S., Benson, A. L.

“…Over the past decade, great progress has been made to develop national extent land cover mapping products to address natural resource issues. One of the core…”
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