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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1966 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Kenneth R. Young is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work covers a range of topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, and Plant and Animal studies.

Among recent publications authored or coauthored by Kenneth R. Young are:

  • Elevation and latitude drives structure and tree species composition in Andean forests: Results from a large-scale plot network (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Ecological and human dimensions of avocado expansion in México: Towards supply-chain sustainability (2021, AMBIO)
  • Local hydrological conditions influence tree diversity and composition across the Amazon basin (2022, Ecography)
  • Population status, connectivity, and conservation action for the endangered Baird's tapir (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Modelling avocado-driven deforestation in Michoacán, Mexico (2022, Environmental Research Letters)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kenneth R. Young include:

  • Eugênio Arima
  • Audrey Denvir
  • Antonio González-Rodríguez
  • Felipe García-Oliva
  • María Camila Latorre-Cárdenas

Publications often appear in venues such as:

  • Land
  • UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Latin American geography
  • PLoS ONE

Kenneth R. Young has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), receiving this distinction in 1966 and again in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests

    Martin J.P. Sullivan;Martin J.P. Sullivan;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis;Kofi Affum-Baffoe;Carolina Castilho

  • Widespread but heterogeneous responses of Andean forests to climate change

    Belén Fadrique;Selene Báez;Álvaro Duque;Agustina Malizia

  • The physical geography of South America

    Thomas T. Veblen;Kenneth R. Young;A. R. Orme

  • Biological Diversity of Peru: Determining Priority Areas for Conservation

    Lily O. Rodríguez;Kenneth R. Young

  • Plant Evolution and Endemism in Andean South America: An Introduction

    Kenneth R. Young;Carmen Ulloa Ulloa;James L. Luteyn;Sandra Knapp

  • Seed dynamics during forest succession in Costa Rica

    K. R. Young;J. J. Ewel;B. J. Brown

  • Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics

    Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert;Timothy R. Baker;Kyle G. Dexter;Simon L. Lewis;Simon L. Lewis

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Adaptive governance and climate change in the tropical highlands of Western South America

    Kenneth R. Young;Jennifer K. Lipton

  • New Geographies of Water and Climate Change in Peru: Coupled Natural and Social Transformations in the Santa River Watershed

    Jeffrey Bury;Bryan G. Mark;Mark Carey;Kenneth R. Young

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • Nature's Geography: New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries

    Karl S. Zimmerer;Kenneth R. Young

  • Roads and the Environmental Degradation of Tropical Montane Forests

    Kenneth R. Young

  • Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots

    Cecilia Blundo;Julieta Carilla;Ricardo Grau

  • Toward hydro-social modeling: Merging human variables and the social sciences with climate-glacier runoff models (Santa River, Peru)

    Mark Carey;Michel Baraer;Bryan G. Mark;Adam French

  • A 17 000‐year history of Andean climate and vegetation change from Laguna de Chochos, Peru

    Mark B. Bush;Barbara C.S. Hansen;Donald T. Rodbell;Geoffrey O. Seltzer

  • Late-glacial and Holocene vegetational history from two sites in the western Cordillera of southwestern Ecuador

    B. C.S. Hansen;D. T. Rodbell;G. O. Seltzer;B. León

  • Change and Continuity in a Pastoralist Community in the High Peruvian Andes

    Julio C. Postigo;Kenneth R. Young;Kelley A. Crews

  • Glacier loss and hydro-social risks in the Peruvian Andes

    Bryan G. Mark;Adam French;Michel Baraer;Mark Carey

  • Natural resources in the subsoil and social conflicts on the surface: Perspectives on Peru’s subsurface political ecology

    Julio C. Postigo;Mariana Montoya;Kenneth R. Young

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Rafael P. Salomão
Rafael P. Salomão Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
David A. Neill
David A. Neill Missouri Botanical Garden
Yadvinder Malhi
Yadvinder Malhi University of Oxford
Nigel C. A. Pitman
Nigel C. A. Pitman Field Museum of Natural History
John Terborgh
John Terborgh Duke University
Oliver L. Phillips
Oliver L. Phillips University of Leeds
Kenneth J. Feeley
Kenneth J. Feeley University of Miami
Kyle G. Dexter
Kyle G. Dexter University of Edinburgh

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