selected publications
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academic article
- UAV-derived imagery for vegetation structure estimation in rangelands: validation and application. Ecosphere. 12. 2021
- Improving rangeland climate services for ranchers and pastoralists with social science. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 52:82-91. 2021
- Overlap Between Sagebrush Habitat Specialists Differs Among Seasons: Implications for Umbrella Species Conservation. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 78:142-154. 2021
- Using Satellite-Based Vegetation Data for Short-Term Grazing Monitoring to Inform Adaptive Management. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 76:30-42. 2021
- Improving Landsat Predictions of Rangeland Fractional Cover with Multitask Learning and Uncertainty. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2021
- Global Application of an Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle Photogrammetry Protocol for Predicting Aboveground Biomass in Non-forest Ecosystems. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 2021
- Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non‐forest ecosystems. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 2021
- Evaluation of the Automated Reference Toolset as a Method to Select Reference Plots for Oil and Gas Reclamation on Colorado Plateau Rangelands. Journal of Environmental Management. 265:110578. 2020
- Integrating Drone Imagery with Existing Rangeland Monitoring Programs. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 192:269. 2020
- A Decision Support System for Incorporating Land Potential Information in the Evaluation of Restoration Outcomes. Ecological Restoration. 38:94-104. 2020
- Estimates of Willow (Salix Spp.) Canopy Volume using Unmanned Aerial Systems. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 73:531-537. 2020
- On Conflict and Conflict of Interest. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 72:572-573. 2019
- A Comparison of Soil Texture-by-Feel Estimates: Implications for the Citizen Soil Scientist. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 82:1526-1537. 2018
- Comparison of 2 Vegetation Height Methods for Assessing Greater Sage-Grouse Seasonal Habitat. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 42:213-224. 2018
- Innovation in rangeland monitoring: annual, 30 m, plant functional type percent cover maps for US rangelands, 1984-2017. Ecosphere. 9:e02430. 2018
- Phenocams Bridge the Gap between Field and Satellite Observations in an Arid Grassland Ecosystem. Remote Sensing. 9. 2017
- A comparison of cover calculation techniques for relating point-intercept vegetation sampling to remote sensing imagery. Ecological Indicators. 73:156-165. 2017
- Critical Evaluations of Vegetation Cover Measurement Techniques: A Response to Thacker et al. (2015). Rangelands. 38:297-300. 2016
- Effect of spatial image support in detecting long-term vegetation change from satellite time-series. Landscape Ecology. 31:2045-2062. 2016
- Spatially Explicit Rangeland Erosion Monitoring Using High-Resolution Digital Aerial Imagery. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 69:95-107. 2016
- The Role of Data and Inference in the Development and Application of Ecological Site Concepts and State-and-Transition Models. Rangelands. 38:322-328. 2016
- The land-potential knowledge system (landpks): mobile apps and collaboration for optimizing climate change investments. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability. 2:e01209. 2016
- Emerging technological and cultural shifts advancing drylands research and management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 13:52-60. 2015
- A double-sampling approach to deriving training and validation data for remotely-sensed vegetation products. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 35:1936-1955. 2014
- Interpretation of high-resolution imagery for detecting vegetation cover composition change after fuels reduction treatments in woodlands. Ecological Indicators. 45:570-578. 2014
- Modeling vegetation heights from high resolution stereo aerial photography: An application for broad-scale rangeland monitoring. Journal of Environmental Management. 144:226-235. 2014
- The global Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS): Supporting evidence-based, site-specific land use and management through cloud computing, mobile applications, and crowdsourcing. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 68:5A-12A. 2013
- Discovering Ecologically Relevant Knowledge from Published Studies through Geosemantic Searching. BioScience. 63:674-682. 2013
- Geographic searching for ecological studies: a new frontier. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 28:383-384. 2013
- Land degradation and climate change: a sin of omission?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 11:283-283. 2013
- Rangeland Mashups and Wikicology?. Rangelands. 35:21-Nov. 2013
- Using spatial statistics and point-pattern simulations to assess the spatial dependency between greater sage-grouse and anthropogenic features: Sage-Grouse Spatial Analysis. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 37:301-310. 2013
- Revolutionary Land Use Change in the 21st Century: Is (Rangeland) Science Relevant?. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 65:590-598. 2012
- A holistic strategy for adaptive land management. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 67:105A-113A. 2012
- Rangeland and pasture monitoring: an approach to interpretation of high-resolution imagery focused on observer calibration for repeatability. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 184:3789-3804. 2012
- A Technique for Estimating Rangeland Canopy-Gap Size Distributions From High-Resolution Digital Imagery. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 65:196-207. 2012
- A Strategy for Rangeland Management Based on Best Available Knowledge and Information. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 65:638-646. 2012
- Using Very-Large-Scale Aerial Imagery for Rangeland Monitoring and Assessment: Some Statistical Considerations. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 65:330-339. 2012
- Consistent Indicators and Methods and a Scalable Sample Design to Meet Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Information Needs Across Scales. Rangelands. 33:14-20. 2011
- Rangeland Assessment and Monitoring Methods Guide. Rangelands. 33:48-54. 2011
- Turning Information Into Knowledge for Rangeland Management. Rangelands. 33:5-Mar. 2011
- Monitoring and Assessment Based on Ecological Sites. Rangelands. 32:60-64. 2010
- Multivariate correlations between imagery and field measurements across scales: comparing pixel aggregation and image segmentation. Landscape Ecology. 25:591-605. 2010
- Spatial Predictions of Cover Attributes of Rangeland Ecosystems Using Regression Kriging and Remote Sensing. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 63:335–349. 2010
- Spatial dependence of predictions from image segmentation: A variogram-based method to determine appropriate scales for producing land-management information. Ecological Informatics. 5:194-202. 2010
- Tribal and state ecosystem management regimes influence forest regeneration. Forest Ecology and Management. 260:734-743. 2010
- An assessment of Idaho's Wildlife Management Areas for the protection of wildlife. Natural Areas Journal. 25:36-45. 2005
- Sensitivity of species habitat-relationship model performance to factors of scale. Ecological Applications. 10:1690-1705. 2000
- Obtaining environmental measures to facilitate vertebrate habitat modeling. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 27:357-365. 1999
- Local and national protection of endangered species: an assessment. Environmental Science and Policy. 2:43-59. 1999