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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Janet Franklin is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States and focuses on Environmental Science with a significant body of work spanning various related fields. Their research primarily addresses themes in Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Genetics. The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Fire effects on ecosystems, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Plant and animal studies.

Janet Franklin has authored a range of papers with notable recent publications including:

  • "Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models" (2020), published in Ecography
  • "A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems" (2022), published in Nature
  • "flexsdm: An r package for supporting a comprehensive and flexible species distribution modelling workflow" (2022), published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Species distribution modelling supports the study of past, present and future biogeographies" (2023), published in Journal of Biogeography

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with top co-authors being Miranda Brooke Rose, Santiago José Elías Velazco, Helen M. Regan, David A. Keith, and José R. Ferrer-Paris.

Janet Franklin's work often appears in prominent journals including:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland)
  • Remote Sensing
  • Frontiers of Biogeography
  • Ecography

Over their career, the scientist has been recognized with several honors and memberships including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2015)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)

Best Publications

  • Mapping Species Distributions: Spatial Inference and Prediction

    Janet Franklin;Jennifer A. Miller

  • Predictive vegetation mapping: geographic modelling of biospatial patterns in relation to environmental gradients:

    Janet Franklin

  • Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions.

    Yadvinder Malhi;Janet Franklin;Nathalie Seddon;Martin Solan

  • A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

    Damaris Zurell;Janet Franklin;Christian König;Phil J. Bouchet

  • Plant diversity patterns in neotropical dry forests and their conservation implications

    Dryflor;Karina Banda-R;Alfonso Delgado-Salinas;Kyle G. Dexter;Kyle G. Dexter

  • Mapping species distributions: Contents

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  • A comparison of methods for monitoring multitemporal vegetation change using Thematic Mapper imagery

    John Rogan;Janet Franklin;Dar A Roberts

  • Moving beyond static species distribution models in support of conservation biogeography

    Janet Franklin

  • A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels

    Anna Norberg;Nerea Abrego;Nerea Abrego;F. Guillaume Blanchet;Frederick R. Adler

  • Second-Order Neighborhood Analysis of Mapped Point Patterns

    Arthur Getis;Janet Franklin

  • Global change and terrestrial plant community dynamics

    Janet Franklin;Josep M. Serra-Diaz;Alexandra D. Syphard;Helen M. Regan

  • Predicting the distribution of shrub species in southern California from climate and terrain-derived variables

    Janet Franklin

  • 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

  • Species distribution models in conservation biogeography: developments and challenges

    Janet Franklin

  • Incorporating spatial dependence in predictive vegetation models

    Jennifer A Miller;Janet Franklin;Richard Aspinall

  • A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

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  • Mapping land-cover modifications over large areas: A comparison of machine learning algorithms

    John Rogan;Janet Franklin;Doug Stow;Jennifer A Miller

  • Modeling the distribution of four vegetation alliances using generalized linear models and classification trees with spatial dependence

    Jennifer A Miller;Janet Franklin

  • Thematic mapper analysis of coniferous forest structure and composition

    Janet Franklin

  • Land-Cover Change Monitoring with Classification Trees Using Landsat TM and Ancillary Data

    John Rogan;John Rogan;Jennifer A Miller;Jennifer A Miller;Doug Stow;Janet Franklin

  • The IUCN red list of ecosystems: Motivations, challenges, and applications

    David A. Keith;Jon Paul Rodríguez;Thomas M. Brooks;Mark A. Burgman

  • The application of classification tree analysis to soil type prediction in a desert landscape

    P. Scull;J. Franklin;O.A. Chadwick

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra D. Syphard
Alexandra D. Syphard Conservation Biology Institute
Helen M. Regan
Helen M. Regan University of California, Riverside
David W. Steadman
David W. Steadman Florida Museum of Natural History
Curtis W. Marean
Curtis W. Marean Arizona State University
Frank W. Davis
Frank W. Davis University of California, Santa Barbara
Alan L. Flint
Alan L. Flint United States Geological Survey
Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling Nelson Mandela University
Alan H. Strahler
Alan H. Strahler Boston University
Douglas A. Stow
Douglas A. Stow San Diego State University
Francois Engelbrecht
Francois Engelbrecht University of the Witwatersrand

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