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Citations
8075
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9594
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3439

Overview

Jeffrey S. Evans is affiliated with The Nature Conservancy in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular attention to subfields including Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, Global and Planetary Change, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's recent publications demonstrate a focus on topics around social acceptance of renewable energy, global energy and sustainability research, photovoltaic systems and sustainability, land use and ecosystem services, plant ecology and soil science, remote sensing in agriculture, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Frequent co-authors of Jeffrey S. Evans include:

  • Joseph M. Kiesecker
  • James R. Oakleaf
  • K. Nagaraju Shivaprakash
  • Anthony Ortiz
  • Caleb Robinson

Publication venues where Jeffrey S. Evans has contributed include:

  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Sustainability
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Land
  • Landscape Ecology

Recent papers by Jeffrey S. Evans are:

  • Land use and Europe's renewable energy transition: identifying low-conflict areas for wind and solar development, 2024, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • The Bioclimatic Change of the Agricultural and Natural Areas of the Adriatic Coastal Countries, 2023, Sustainability
  • Modeling Cropland Conversion Risk to Scale-Up Averted Loss of Core Sagebrush Rangelands, 2024, Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Testing the effect of wetland spatiotemporal variability on amphibian occurrence across scales, 2022, Landscape Ecology
  • The Road to India's Renewable Energy Transition Must Pass through Crowded Lands, 2023, Land

Best Publications

  • Putting the "landscape" in landscape genetics.

    A Storfer;M A Murphy;J S Evans;C S Goldberg

  • Empirical Analyses of Plant‐Climate Relationships for the Western United States

    Gerald E. Rehfeldt;Nicholas L. Crookston;Marcus V. Warwell;Jeffrey S. Evans

  • Nearest neighbor imputation of species-level, plot-scale forest structure attributes from LiDAR data

    Andrew T. Hudak;Nicholas L. Crookston;Jeffrey S. Evans;David E. Hall

  • Quantifying Bufo boreas connectivity in Yellowstone National Park with landscape genetics

    Melanie A. Murphy;Jeffrey S. Evans;Andrew Storfer

  • A Multiscale Curvature Algorithm for Classifying Discrete Return LiDAR in Forested Environments

    J.S. Evans;A.T. Hudak

  • Modeling species distribution and change using random forest [Chapter 8]

    Jeffrey S. Evans;Melanie A. Murphy;Zachary A. Holden;Samuel A. Cushman

  • Characterizing forest succession with lidar data: An evaluation for the Inland Northwest, USA

    Michael J. Falkowski;Michael J. Falkowski;Jeffrey S. Evans;Sebastian Martinuzzi;Paul E. Gessler

  • Mapping snags and understory shrubs for a LiDAR-based assessment of wildlife habitat suitability

    Sebastián Martinuzzi;Lee A. Vierling;William A. Gould;Michael J. Falkowski

  • Gradient modeling of conifer species using random forests

    Jeffrey S. Evans;Samuel A. Cushman

  • Regression modeling and mapping of coniferous forest basal area and tree density from discrete-return lidar and multispectral satellite data

    Andrew T Hudak;Nicholas L Crookston;Jeffrey S Evans;Michael J Falkowski

  • LiDAR Utility for Natural Resource Managers

    Andrew Thomas Hudak;Jeffrey Scott Evans;Alistair Mattthew Stuart. Smith

  • A predictive model of burn severity based on 20-year satellite-inferred burn severity data in a large southwestern US wilderness area

    Zachary A. Holden;Penelope Morgan;Jeffrey S. Evans

  • Saving sage-grouse from the trees: A proactive solution to reducing a key threat to a candidate species

    Sharon Baruch-Mordo;Jeffrey S. Evans;Jeffrey S. Evans;John P. Severson;David E. Naugle;David E. Naugle

  • Discrete Return Lidar in Natural Resources: Recommendations for Project Planning, Data Processing, and Deliverables

    Jeffrey Scott Evans;Andrew Thomas Hudak;Russ Faux;Alistair M. S. Smith

  • The Gradient Paradigm: A Conceptual and Analytical Framework for Landscape Ecology

    Samuel A. Cushman;Kevin Gutzweiler;Jeffrey S. Evans;Kevin McGarigal

  • The influence of conifer forest canopy cover on the accuracy of two individual tree measurement algorithms using lidar data

    Michael J Falkowski;Michael J Falkowski;Alistair M.S. Smith;Paul E Gessler;Andrew T Hudak

  • Win-win for wind and wildlife: a vision to facilitate sustainable development.

    Joseph M. Kiesecker;Jeffrey S. Evans;Joe Fargione;Kevin Doherty

  • Optimizing land use decision-making to sustain Brazilian agricultural profits, biodiversity and ecosystem services

    Christina M. Kennedy;Peter L. Hawthorne;Daniela A. Miteva;Leandro Baumgarten

  • Representing genetic variation as continuous surfaces: An approach for identifying spatial dependency in landscape genetic studies

    Melanie A. Murphy;Jeffrey S. Evans;Samuel A. Cushman;Andrew Storfer

  • Current State of the Art for Statistical Modelling of Species Distributions

    Troy M. Hegel;Samuel A. Cushman;Jeffrey Evans;Falk Huettmann

  • The Gradient Paradigm: A conceptual and analytical framework for landscape ecology [Chapter 5]

    Samuel A. Cushman;Kevin Gutzweiler;Jeffrey S. Evans;Kevin McGarigal

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Falkowski
Michael J. Falkowski Colorado State University
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
David E. Naugle
David E. Naugle University of Montana
Joseph M. Kiesecker
Joseph M. Kiesecker The Nature Conservancy
Alistair M. S. Smith
Alistair M. S. Smith University of Idaho
Samuel A. Cushman
Samuel A. Cushman University of Oxford
Kevin McGarigal
Kevin McGarigal University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lee A. Vierling
Lee A. Vierling University of Idaho
Paul E. Gessler
Paul E. Gessler University of Idaho
Penelope Morgan
Penelope Morgan University of Idaho

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