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35
Citations
4126
World Ranking
7438
National Ranking
2497

Overview

Joel N. Hartter is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with 39 publications focused on understanding complex interactions within natural and human systems.

The scientist's work delves into several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research intersects with a variety of main topics such as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Climate variability and models, and Zoonotic diseases and public health.

Frequent publication venues for Joel N. Hartter include Conservation Science and Practice, where they have published three papers. Other notable venues include Remote Sensing with two publications, as well as PLoS ONE, Journal of Hydrometeorology, and Current Biology.

Collaborations play a significant role in their work, with frequent coauthors including Jonathan Salerno, Forrest R. Stevens, Andrea E. Gaughan, Karen M. Bailey, and Lin Cassidy. These collaborations highlight a network of researchers focused on conservation and environmental science topics.

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope of Joel N. Hartter's research interests:

  • Mobile phone use is associated with higher smallholder agricultural productivity in Tanzania, East Africa, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Validation of Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Equatorial East Africa, 2021, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • Wildlife impacts and vulnerable livelihoods in a transfrontier conservation landscape, 2020, Conservation Biology
  • Wildlife impacts and changing climate pose compounding threats to human food security, 2021, Current Biology
  • Costs of elephant crop depredation exceed the benefits of trophy hunting in a community-based conservation area of Namibia, 2020, Conservation Science and Practice

The research of Joel N. Hartter encompasses interdisciplinary approaches toward ecological and social challenges, focusing on how environmental changes affect wildlife, agriculture, and human livelihoods. Their contributions reflect a balance of empirical studies and applied conservation science aimed at understanding complex landscapes and resource management issues across various regions, particularly in East Africa and Namibia.

Best Publications

  • The Role of Landscape Connectivity in Planning and Implementing Conservation and Restoration Priorities. Issues in Ecology

    Doborah Rudnick;Sadie J. Ryan;Paul Beier;Samual A Cushman

  • Trust in Scientists on Climate Change and Vaccines

    Lawrence C. Hamilton;Joel N. Hartter;Kei Saito

  • The role of landscape connectivity in planning and implementing conservation and restoration priorities

    Deborah A. Rudnick;Sadie J. Ryan;Paul Beier;Samuel A. Cushman

  • Tracking Public Beliefs About Anthropogenic Climate Change

    Lawrence C. Hamilton;Joel N. Hartter;Mary D. Lemcke-Stampone;David W. Moore

  • Dwindling resources and fragmentation of landscapes around parks: wetlands and forest patches around Kibale National Park, Uganda

    Joel N. Hartter;Jane Southworth

  • Resource Use and Ecosystem Services in a Forest Park Landscape

    Joel N. Hartter

  • Patterns and perceptions of climate change in a biodiversity conservation hotspot

    Joel N. Hartter;Mary D. Stampone;Sadie J. Ryan;Sadie J. Ryan;Karen Kirner

  • Top-down or bottom-up?: Decentralization, natural resource management, and usufruct rights in the forests and wetlands of western Uganda

    Joel N. Hartter;Sadie J. Ryan

  • Top 40 questions in coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research

    Daniel Boyd Kramer;Joel Hartter;Angela E. Boag;Meha Jain

  • Validation of Satellite Rainfall Products for Western Uganda.

    Jeremy E Diem;Joel N. Hartter;Sadie J. Ryan;Michael W Palace

  • Now there is no land: a story of ethnic migration in a protected area landscape in western Uganda

    Joel N. Hartter;Sadie J. Ryan;Catrina A MacKenzie;Catrina A MacKenzie;Abraham Goldman

  • Detecting tropical dry forest succession in a shifting cultivation mosaic of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

    Joel N. Hartter;Christine Lucas;Andrea E Gaughan;Lilia Lizama Aranda

  • Changing perceptions of protected area benefits and problems around Kibale National Park, Uganda.

    Catrina A. MacKenzie;Jonathan Salerno;Joel Hartter;Colin A. Chapman

  • Tropical tree community shifts: Implications for wildlife conservation

    Colin A. Chapman;Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Aerin L. Jacob;Jessica M. Rothman

  • Satellite-based rainfall data reveal a recent drying trend in central equatorial Africa

    Jeremy E Diem;Sadie J. Ryan;Joel N. Hartter;Michael W Palace

  • Attitudes of Rural Communities Toward Wetlands and Forest Fragments Around Kibale National Park, Uganda

    Joel N. Hartter

  • Local responses to a forest park in western Uganda: alternate narratives on fortress conservation

    Joel N. Hartter;Abraham Goldman

  • A change in the wind? US public views on renewable energy and climate compared

    Lawrence C. Hamilton;Erin Bell;Joel Hartter;Joel Hartter;Jonathan D. Salerno

  • Validation of Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Equatorial East Africa

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  • The human landscape around the Island Park: impacts and responses to Kibale National Park

    Abraham Goldman;Joel N. Hartter;Jane Southworth;Michael W Binford

  • Generation gaps in US public opinion on renewable energy and climate change

    Lawrence C. Hamilton;Joel Hartter;Erin Bell

  • Flood Realities, Perceptions and the Depth of Divisions on Climate.

    Lawrence C. Hamilton;Cameron P. Wake;Joel N. Hartter;Thomas G. Safford

  • Does it matter if people think climate change is human caused

    Joel N. Hartter;Joel N. Hartter;Lawrence C. Hamilton;Angela E. Boag;Forrest R. Stevens

Frequent Co-Authors

Sadie J. Ryan
Sadie J. Ryan University of Florida
Michael W. Palace
Michael W. Palace University of New Hampshire
Lawrence C. Hamilton
Lawrence C. Hamilton University of New Hampshire
Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
Jane Southworth
Jane Southworth University of Florida
Russell G. Congalton
Russell G. Congalton University of New Hampshire
Michael W. Binford
Michael W. Binford University of Florida
Lauren J. Chapman
Lauren J. Chapman University of Florida
Daniel S. Maynard
Daniel S. Maynard University of Chicago
Leah Gerber
Leah Gerber Duke University

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