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Overview

Carlos Carroll is affiliated with the Klamath Center for Conservation Research in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and evolutionary systematics.

The main topics of Carlos Carroll's work include:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
  • Forest Management and Policy

Carlos Carroll has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications. Recent papers include:

  • "Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes" (2021) in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Toward a climate-informed North American protected areas network: Incorporating climate-change refugia and corridors in conservation planning" (2020) in Conservation Letters
  • "Human land uses reduce climate connectivity across North America" (2020) in Global Change Biology
  • "Maximizing the effectiveness of national commitments to protected area expansion for conserving biodiversity and ecosystem carbon under climate change" (2021) in Global Change Biology
  • "Rewilding in the face of climate change" (2020) in Conservation Biology

Frequent coauthors in their research include Reed F. Noss, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Sean A. Parks, Diana Stralberg, and Scott E. Nielsen.

The venues where Carlos Carroll has commonly published are:

  • Conservation Biology
  • Global Change Biology
  • BioScience
  • Science
  • Conservation Science and Practice

Their research contributions span across multiple subfields of environmental science, with strong links to practical and theoretical conservation biology and ecosystem management. These efforts underline important aspects of climate change resilience, biodiversity preservation, and the integration of ecological data into conservation planning.

Best Publications

  • Locally Downscaled and Spatially Customizable Climate Data for Historical and Future Periods for North America.

    Tongli Wang;Andreas Hamann;Dave Spittlehouse;Carlos Carroll

  • CARNIVORES AS FOCAL SPECIES FOR CONSERVATION PLANNING IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION

    Carlos Carroll;Reed F. Noss;Paul C. Paquet

  • A Multicriteria Assessment of the Irreplaceability and Vulnerability of Sites in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

    Reed F. Noss;Carlos Carroll;Ken Vance-Borland;George Wuerthner

  • Use of Linkage Mapping and Centrality Analysis Across Habitat Gradients to Conserve Connectivity of Gray Wolf Populations in Western North America

    Carlos Carroll;Brad H. McRAE;Allen Brookes

  • Optimizing resiliency of reserve networks to climate change: multispecies conservation planning in the Pacific Northwest, USA.

    Carlos Carroll;Jeffrey R. Dunk;Jeffrey R. Dunk;Atte Moilanen

  • Using Presence-Absence Data to Build and Test Spatial Habitat Models for the Fisher in the Klamath Region, U.S.A.

    Carlos Carroll;William J. Zielinski;Reed F. Noss

  • Velocity of climate change algorithms for guiding conservation and management

    Andreas Hamann;David R. Roberts;Quinn E. Barber;Carlos Carroll

  • Spatial viability analysis of Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica in the Russian Far East: the role of protected areas and landscape matrix in population persistence

    Carlos Carroll;Dale G. Miquelle

  • USE OF POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS AND RESERVE SELECTION ALGORITHMS IN REGIONAL CONSERVATION PLANS

    Carlos Carroll;Reed F. Noss;Paul C. Paquet;Nathan H. Schumaker

  • Interacting effects of climate change, landscape conversion, and harvest on carnivore populations at the range margin: marten and lynx in the northern Appalachians.

    Carlos Carroll

  • Historical and contemporary distributions of carnivores in forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA

    William J. Zielinski;Richard L. Truex;Fredrick V. Schlexer;Lori A. Campbell

  • Extinction Debt of Protected Areas in Developing Landscapes

    Carlos Carroll;Reed F. Noss;Paul C. Paquet;Nathan H. Schumaker

  • Impacts of Landscape Change on Wolf Restoration Success: Planning a Reintroduction Program Based on Static and Dynamic Spatial Models

    Carlos Carroll;Michael K. Phillips;Nathan H. Schumaker;Douglas W. Smith

  • Scale-dependent complementarity of climatic velocity and environmental diversity for identifying priority areas for conservation under climate change

    Carlos Carroll;David R. Roberts;Julia L. Michalak;Joshua J. Lawler

  • Biotic and Climatic Velocity Identify Contrasting Areas of Vulnerability to Climate Change.

    Carlos Carroll;Joshua J. Lawler;David R. Roberts;Andreas Hamann

  • Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes

    Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Caitlin E. Littlefield;Drew S. Lyons;Clark Hollenberg

  • Connecting today's climates to future climate analogs to facilitate movement of species under climate change

    Caitlin E. Littlefield;Brad H. McRae;Julia L. Michalak;Joshua J. Lawler

  • Climatic, topographic, and anthropogenic factors determine connectivity between current and future climate analogs in North America.

    Carlos Carroll;Sean A. Parks;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;David R. Roberts

  • Defining Recovery Goals and Strategies for Endangered Species: The Wolf as a Case Study

    Carlos Carroll;Michael K. Phillips;Carlos A. Lopez-Gonzalez;Nathan H. Schumaker

  • Toward a climate-informed North American protected areas network: Incorporating climate-change refugia and corridors in conservation planning

    Diana Stralberg;Carlos Carroll;Scott E. Nielsen

  • Role of climatic niche models in focal-species-based conservation planning: Assessing potential effects of climate change on Northern Spotted Owl in the Pacific Northwest, USA

    Carlos Carroll

  • Beyond PVA: Why Recovery under the Endangered Species Act Is More than Population Viability

    Shaye Wolf;Brett Hartl;Carlos Carroll;Maile C. Neel

Frequent Co-Authors

Reed F. Noss
Reed F. Noss University of Florida
William J. Zielinski
William J. Zielinski US Forest Service
Joshua J. Lawler
Joshua J. Lawler University of Washington
Scott E. Nielsen
Scott E. Nielsen University of Alberta
Andreas Hamann
Andreas Hamann University of Alberta
Sean A. Parks
Sean A. Parks US Forest Service
Solomon Z. Dobrowski
Solomon Z. Dobrowski University of Montana
Paul C. Paquet
Paul C. Paquet University of Victoria
R. Travis Belote
R. Travis Belote The Wilderness Society (United States)
Robert C. Lacy
Robert C. Lacy Chicago Zoological Society

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