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Overview

Catherine S. Jarnevich is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research centers on environmental science with a strong focus on ecology and related subfields. Key areas of study include ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, and global and planetary change.

They have contributed significantly to topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, rangeland and wildlife management, fire effects on ecosystems, plant and animal studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, and forest insect ecology and management.

Their publication record includes several papers in well-regarded journals. Recent papers include:

  • "A framework to integrate innovations in invasion science for proactive management" (2022) published in Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Observed and Potential Range Shifts of Native and Nonnative Species with Climate Change" (2024) published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • "Grassification and Fast-Evolving Fire Connectivity and Risk in the Sonoran Desert, United States" (2021) published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Modelling presence versus abundance for invasive species risk assessment" (2021) published in Diversity and Distributions
  • "INHABIT: A web-based decision support tool for invasive plant species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States" (2022) published in PLoS ONE

Their research output is prominently featured in publication venues including Diversity and Distributions, PLoS ONE, NeoBiota, Landscape Ecology, and Biological Invasions.

They frequently collaborate with other researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Helen R. Sofaer
  • Peder Engelstad
  • Ian S. Pearse
  • Janet S. Prevéy
  • Nicholas E. Young

Best Publications

  • Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

    Michael C. Dietze;Andrew Fox;Lindsay M. Beck-Johnson;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Caveats for correlative species distribution modeling

    Catherine S. Jarnevich;Thomas J. Stohlgren;Sunil Kumar;Jeffery T. Morisette

  • The area under the precision‐recall curve as a performance metric for rare binary events

    Helen R. Sofaer;Jennifer A. Hoeting;Catherine S. Jarnevich

  • Development and Delivery of Species Distribution Models to Inform Decision-Making

    Helen R Sofaer;Catherine S Jarnevich;Ian S Pearse;Regan L Smyth

  • Improving and integrating data on invasive species collected by citizen scientists

    Alycia W. Crall;Gregory J. Newman;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Thomas J. Stohlgren

  • Modelling invasion for a habitat generalist and a specialist plant species

    Paul H. Evangelista;Sunil Kumar;Thomas J. Stohlgren;Catherine S. Jarnevich

  • Ensemble habitat mapping of invasive plant species.

    Thomas J. Stohlgren;Peter Ma;Sunil Kumar;Monique Rocca

  • Scale and plant invasions: A theory of biotic acceptance

    T.J. Stohlgren;C. Jarnevich;G.W. Chong;P.H. Evangelista

  • The myth of plant species saturation

    Thomas J. Stohlgren;David T. Barnett;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Curtis Flather

  • A tamarisk habitat suitability map for the continental United States

    Jeffrey T. Morisette;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Asad Ullah;Weijie Cai

  • VisTrails SAHM: visualization and workflow management for species habitat modeling

    Jeffrey T. Morisette;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Tracy R. Holcombe;Colin B. Talbert

  • Challenges in Identifying Sites Climatically Matched to the Native Ranges of Animal Invaders

    Gordon H. Rodda;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Robert N. Reed

  • Modeling the Geographic Distribution of Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes pacificus (Acari: Ixodidae) in the Contiguous United States

    Micah B. Hahn;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Andrew J. Monaghan;Rebecca J. Eisen

  • Modeling the Present and Future Geographic Distribution of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum (Ixodida: Ixodidae), in the Continental United States

    Yuri P. Springer;Catherine S. Jarnevich;David T. Barnett;Andrew J. Monaghan

  • Distribution and Abundance of Saltcedar and Russian Olive in the Western United States

    Pamela L. Nagler;Edward P. Glenn;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Patrick B. Shafroth

  • Mapping current and potential distribution of non-native Prosopis juliflora in the Afar region of Ethiopia.

    Tewodros T. Wakie;Paul H. Evangelista;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Melinda Laituri

  • What parts of the US mainland are climatically suitable for invasive alien pythons spreading from Everglades National Park

    Gordon H. Rodda;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Robert N. Reed

  • Challenges of predicting the potential distribution of a slow-spreading invader: a habitat suitability map for an invasive riparian tree

    Catherine S. Jarnevich;Lindsay V. Reynolds

  • Invasive species information networks: collaboration at multiple scales for prevention, early detection, and rapid response to invasive alien species

    Annie Simpson;Catherine S. Jarnevich;John Madsen;Randy G. Westbrooks

  • Citizen science contributes to our knowledge of invasive plant species distributions.

    Alycia W. Crall;Alycia W. Crall;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Nicholas E. Young;Brendon J. Panke

  • Using habitat suitability models to target invasive plant species surveys

    Alycia W. Crall;Catherine S. Jarnevich;Brendon Panke;Nick Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Stohlgren
Thomas J. Stohlgren Colorado State University
Jeffrey T. Morisette
Jeffrey T. Morisette United States Geological Survey
Curtis H. Flather
Curtis H. Flather US Forest Service
Julio L. Betancourt
Julio L. Betancourt United States Geological Survey
Henry W. Loescher
Henry W. Loescher National Ecological Observatory Network
Andrew J. Monaghan
Andrew J. Monaghan University of Colorado Boulder
Ian S. Pearse
Ian S. Pearse United States Geological Survey
Rebecca J. Eisen
Rebecca J. Eisen Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Bryan C. Pijanowski
Bryan C. Pijanowski Purdue University West Lafayette
Edward P. Glenn
Edward P. Glenn University of Arizona

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