Area(s) of Expertise

Conservation Genetics, Landscape Ecology, Forest Health, Landscape Genetics, Biodiversity, Evolutionary Ecology

Education

B.A. Drake University (1993)
M.S. North Carolina State University (2002)
Ph.D. North Carolina State University (2006)

Research Interests

Landscape genetics; Evolutionary ecology; Forest tree population genetics; Gene conservation; Landscape ecology; Biodiversity; Forest health; Invasive species.

Publications

• Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii, 2014 (2016)
• Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2014 (2016)
• Introduction (2016)
• Forest health monitoring: National status, trends and analysis, 2015 (2016)
• Exploring climate niches of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex Lawson) haplotypes in the Western United States: Implications for evolutionary history and conservation (2016)
• Macrosystems ecology: novel methods and new understanding of multi-scale patterns and processes (2016)
• Evidence of biotic resistance to invasions in forests of the Eastern USA (2016)
• Data, data everywhere: Detecting spatial patterns in fine-scale ecological information collected across a continent (2016)
• Data, data everywhere: Detecting spatial patterns in fine-scale ecological information collected across a continent (2016)
• Evidence of biotic resistance to invasions in forests of the Eastern USA (2016)

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