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 Selected Publications

Journal Articles

Cushman, J.H. and Meentemeyer, R.K. 2008. Multi-scale patterns of human activity and the incidence of an exotic forest pathogen. Journal of Ecology 96: 766-776. (PDF)

Anacker, B.L., Rank, N.E., Huberli, D., Garbelotto, M., Gordon, S., Whitkus,
R., Harnik, T., and Meentemeyer, R.K. 2008. Susceptibility to Phytophthora ramorum in a key infectious host: landscape variation in host genotype, phenotype, and environmental factors. New Phytologist 177: 756-766. (PDF)

Meentemeyer, R.K., Anacker, B., Mark, W., and Rizzo, D.M.  2008. Early detection of emerging forest disease using dispersal estimation and ecological niche modeling. Ecological Applications. (PDF)

Meentemeyer, R.K., Rank, N.E., Anacker, B.L., Rizzo, D.M., and Cushman, J.H. 2008. Influence of land-cover change on the spread of an invasive forest pathogen. Ecological Applications 18(1): 159-171. (PDF)

Meentemeyer, R.K., Rank, N.E., Shoemaker, D., Oneal, C., Rizzo, D.M. 2008 Impacts of sudden oak death on tree mortality in the Big Sur ecoregion of California. Biological Invasions. (PDF)

Condeso, T.E. and Meentemeyer, R.K. 2007. Effects of landscape heterogeneity on the emerging forest disease Sudden Oak Death. Journal of Ecology 95: 364-375. (PDF)

Gordon, E. and Meentemeyer, R.K.  2006. Effects of dam operation and land use on stream channel morphology and riparian vegetation. Geomorphology 82: 412-429. (PDF)

Rodman, L. and Meentemeyer, R.K.  2006. Geographical analysis of optimal wind turbine placement in northern California. Energy Policy 34:21-37-2149. (PDF)

Oneal, C.B., Stuart, J.D., Steinberg, S.J., and Fox III, Lawrence.  2006. Geographic analysis of natural fire rotation in the California redwood forest during the suppression era. Fire Ecology 2:73-99. (PDF)

Hunter, R. and Meentemeyer, R.K.  2005. Climatologically-aided mapping of daily temperature and precipitation. Journal of Applied Meteorology 44: 1501-1510. (PDF

Meentemeyer, R.K., Rizzo, D., Mark, W., and Lotz., E. 2004. Mapping the risk of establishment and spread of Sudden Oak Death in California.  Forest Ecology and Management. 200: 195-214. (PDF)

Kelly, N.M. and Meentemeyer, R.K.  2003.  Landscape Dynamics of the Spread of Sudden Oak Death. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 68: 1001-1010. (PDF)

 

Submitted or In Preparation

Meentemeyer, R.K.  Hunter, R., Rizzo, D.M, N.J. Cuniffe, and Gilligan, C. Spread of sudden oak death: Application of stochastic epidemic modeling to realistic landscapes. To be submitted to Ecology.

Ellis, A. and Meentemeyer R.K. Incorporating the effects of landscape structure on dispersal into spatially-explicit invasion models: A case study with sudden oak death. To be submitted to Ecology.

Vanwalleghem, T. and Meentemeyer, R.K. Effects of landscape heterogeneity and forest structure on understory microclimate conditions. Too be submitted to Landscape Ecology.

Shoemaker, D. and Meentemeyer, R.K. Fragmentation of natural lands in the Carolina Piedmont (1976-2006): effects of urbanization and rural sprawl. To be submitted to Glob. Environ. Change-Human Policy Dimens.

Meentemeyer, R.K. and Shoemaker, D. Spatial modeling of urban-exurban growth in the Carolina Piedmont (1976-2030): effects of land-use planning and population scenarios on natural land conversion. To be submitted to Ecological Applications.

Vaclavik, T. and Meentemeyer, R.K. Predictive distribution modeling of emerging forest disease: effects of model choice, stage of equilibrium, and inclusion of absence data. To be submitted to Ecological Modeling.

Funes, J. and Meentemeyer, R.K. Spatial modeling approaches for detecting and mapping spread of an invasive rangeland weed. To be submitted to Biological Invasions.

Cooper, M., Meentemeyer, R.K. and Cushman, J.H. Effects of biking and hiking on the dispersal of an exotic forest pathogen. To be submitted to Forest Ecology & Management.

 

Recent Conference Proceedings
 

Meentemeyer, R.K., Anacker, B.L., Condeso, T.E., Rank, N.E., and J.H. Cushman. Long-term change in oak woodlands and its influence on an infectious forest disease. 6th Oak Symposium, Rohnert Park, CA, October.
 

Hunter, R. and Meentemeyer, R.K. 2006. GIS-based epidemiological modeling of an emerging forest disease. 6th Oak Symposium, Rohnert Park, CA, October.
 

Rodman, L.C., Jackson, J., Huizar III, R., and Meentemeyer, R.K., 2006. An Association Rule Discovery System for Geographic Data, 2006 IEEE Int'l Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, Denver, CO, July 31-August 4, 2006.
 

Meentemeyer, R.K., Rizzo, D.M. and Mark, W. 2005. Early detection monitoring of sudden oak death in California. Shea PJ, Haverty M, ed. 2005. Proceedings of 2nd Sudden Oak Death Science Symposium, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
 

Cushman, J.H. and Meentemeyer, R.K. 2005. The role of humans in the dispersal and spread of Phytophthora ramorum. Shea PJ, Haverty M, ed. 2005. Proceedings of 2nd Sudden Oak Death Science Symposium, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.