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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Frank W. Davis is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their primary research area lies within Environmental Science, with a focused contribution of 36 publications in this field. The subfields in which they have made significant contributions include Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's body of work covers several main topics, notably Species Distribution and Climate Change, which accounts for 18 publications. Other key topics include Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Frequent publication venues for Frank W. Davis include:

  • Earth's Future
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • BioScience
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Several recent papers illustrate the scope of their research. These include:

  • "Scalable mapping and monitoring of Mediterranean-climate oak landscapes with temporal mixture models" (2020, Remote Sensing of Environment)
  • "Ecological Synthesis and Its Role in Advancing Knowledge" (2020, BioScience)
  • "Does short-interval fire inhibit postfire recovery of chaparral across southern California?" (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Evaluating Drought Impact on Postfire Recovery of Chaparral Across Southern California" (2020, Ecosystems)
  • "Synergies Among Environmental Science Research and Monitoring Networks: A Research Agenda" (2020, Earth's Future)

Frank W. Davis has collaborated with several co-authors multiple times. Notable frequent co-authors include Dar A. Roberts, Daniel Sousa, Emanuel A. Storey, Douglas A. Stow, and John F. O'Leary.

In recognition of their contributions to science, Frank W. Davis was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • GAP ANALYSIS: A GEOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO PROTECTION OF BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

    J. Michael Scott;Frank Davis;Blair Csuti;Reed Noss

  • NATURE RESERVES: DO THEY CAPTURE THE FULL RANGE OF AMERICA'S BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY?

    J. Michael Scott;Frank W. Davis;R. Gavin McGhie;R. Gerald Wright

  • Reserve selection as a maximal covering location problem

    Richard L. Church;David M. Stoms;Frank W. Davis

  • The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States.

    James S. Clark;Louis Iverson;Christopher W. Woodall;Craig D. Allen

  • Tree mortality predicted from drought-induced vascular damage

    William R.L. Anderegg;Alan L. Flint;Cho-ying Huang;Lorraine E. Flint

  • Modeling plant species distributions under future climates: how fine scale do climate projections need to be?

    Janet Franklin;Frank W. Davis;Makihiko Ikegami;Alexandra D. Syphard

  • Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

    Walter Jetz;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Ryan Pavlick;David Schimel

  • Erratum: Monitoring plant functional diversity from space

    Walter Jetz;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Ryan Pavlick;David Schimel

  • Foundations of translational ecology

    Carolyn A. F. Enquist;Stephen T. Jackson;Gregg M. Garfin;Frank W. Davis

  • Interactions of Factors Affecting Seedling Recruitment of Blue Oak (Quercus Douglasii) in California

    Mark I. Borchert;Frank W. Davis;Joel Michaelsen;Lyn Dee Oyler

  • Gene movement and genetic association with regional climate gradients in California valley oak (Quercus lobata Née) in the face of climate change.

    Victoria L. Sork;Frank W. Davis;Robert Westfall;Alan L. Flint

  • Pollen movement in declining populations of California Valley oak, Quercus lobata: where have all the fathers gone?

    V. L. Sork;F. W. Davis;P. E. Smouse;V. J. Apsit

  • Modeling vegetation pattern using digital terrain data

    Frank W. Davis;Scott GoetzZ

  • VEGETATION DYNAMICS, FIRE, AND THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT IN COASTAL CENTRAL CALIFORNIA'

    Ragan M. Callaway;Frank W. Davis

  • FIRE, SOIL HEATING, AND THE FORMATION OF VEGETATION PATTERNS IN CHAPARRAL

    Dennis C. Odion;Frank W. Davis

  • An information systems approach to the preservation of biological diversity

    Frank W. Davis;David M. Stoms;John E. Estes;Joseph Scepan

  • Sources of variation in radiometric surface temperature over a tallgrass prairie

    M.A. Friedl;F.W. Davis

  • Regression Tree Analysis of satellite and terrain data to guide vegetation sampling and surveys

    Joel Michaelsen;David S. Schimel;Mark A. Friedl;Frank W. Davis

  • Estimating grassland biomass and leaf area index using ground and satellite data

    M. A. Friedl;J. Michaelsen;F. W. Davis;H. Walker

  • Sensitivity of wildlife habitat models to uncertainties in GIS data

    David M. Stoms;Frank W. Davis;Christopher B. Cogan

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Franklin
Janet Franklin San Diego State University
Joel Michaelsen
Joel Michaelsen University of California, Santa Barbara
J. Michael Scott
J. Michael Scott University of Idaho
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
John M. Melack
John M. Melack University of California, Santa Barbara
Alan L. Flint
Alan L. Flint United States Geological Survey
Victoria L. Sork
Victoria L. Sork University of California, Los Angeles
Lee Hannah
Lee Hannah Conservation International
Helen M. Regan
Helen M. Regan University of California, Riverside
Mark A. Friedl
Mark A. Friedl Boston University

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