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3758
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1314

Overview

Kurt H. Riitters is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a detailed emphasis on subfields such as global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, insect science, and ecological modeling.

The main topics covered in Riitters's scholarly work include land use and ecosystem services, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, fire effects on ecosystems, remote sensing in agriculture, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, forest management and policy, and species distribution and climate change.

Riitters has contributed to publications in various scientific venues, frequently publishing in the Forest Service Research Data Archive, PLoS ONE, Forests, Ecological Indicators, and Landscape Ecology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Riitters encompass diverse aspects of environmental and forest sciences. These include:

  • Forest Area Change in the Shifting Landscape Mosaic of the Continental United States from 2001 to 2016 (2020), published in Land
  • Conterminous United States land cover change patterns 2001-2016 from the 2016 National Land Cover Database (2020), published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications (2022), published in Ecography
  • Effects of terrestrial transport corridors and associated landscape context on invasion by forest plants (2020), published in Biological Invasions
  • An assessment of the sustainability of family forests in the U.S.A. (2022), published in Forest Policy and Economics

Throughout their career, Riitters has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Kevin M. Potter, Peter Vogt, Karen Schleeweis, Jennifer Costanza, and Qinfeng Guo. These collaborations reflect a focus on interdisciplinary and applied environmental research.

Best Publications

  • A factor analysis of landscape pattern and structure metrics

    Kurt H. Riitters;R.V. O'Neill;C.T. Hunsaker;James D. Wickham

  • Conterminous United States land cover change patterns 2001–2016 from the 2016 National Land Cover Database

    Collin G. Homer;Jon Dewitz;Suming Jin;George Z. Xian

  • Mapping spatial patterns with morphological image processing

    Peter Vogt;Kurt H. Riitters;Christine Estreguil;Jacek Kozak

  • Global-scale patterns of forest fragmentation

    Kurt H. Riitters;James Wickham;Robert V. O'Neill;Bruce Jones

  • Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: A multiple watershed study from the United States Mid-Atlantic Region

    K. Bruce Jones;Anne C. Neale;Malisha S. Nash;Rick D. van Remortel

  • Scale problems in reporting landscape pattern at the regional scale

    R.V. O''Neill;C.T. Hunsaker;S.P. Timmins;B.L. Jackson

  • Fragmentation of Continental United States Forests

    Kurt H. Riitters;James D. Wickham;Robert V. O'Neill;K. Bruce Jones

  • Distribution and Causes of Global Forest Fragmentation

    Timothy G. Wade;Kurt H. Riitters;James D. Wickham;K. Bruce Jones

  • Monitoring environmental quality at the landscape scale

    Robert V. O'Neill;Carolyn T. Hunsaker;K. Bruce Jones;Kurt H. Riitters

  • How far to the nearest road

    Kurt H. Riitters;James D. Wickham

  • A National Assessment of Green Infrastructure and Change for the Conterminous United States Using Morphological Image Processing

    James D. Wickham;Kurt H. Riitters;Timothy G. Wade;Peter Vogt

  • GuidosToolbox: universal digital image object analysis

    Peter Vogt;Kurt Riitters

  • Mapping functional connectivity

    Peter Vogt;Joseph R. Ferrari;Todd R. Lookingbill;Robert H. Gardner

  • A multi-scale analysis of landscape statistics

    Douglas H. Cain;Douglas H. Cain;Kurt H. Riitters;Kenneth Orvis

  • Mapping landscape corridors

    Peter Vogt;Kurt H. Riitters;Marcin Iwanowski;Christine Estreguil

  • Sensitivity of landscape metrics to pixel size

    J. D. Wickham;K. H. Riitters

  • Landscape pattern metrics and regional assessment

    Robert V. O'Neill;Kurt H. Riitters;James D. Wickham;K. Bruce Jones

  • Fuzzy decision analysis for integrated environmental vulnerability assessment of the Mid-Atlantic region

    Liem T. Tran;C. Gregory Knight;Robert V. O'Neill;Elizabeth R. Smith

  • Assessing habitat suitability at multiple scales: A landscape-level approach

    Kurt H. Riitters;R.V. O'Neill;K.B. Jones

  • Sensitivity of selected landscape pattern metrics to land-cover misclassification and differences in land-cover composition

    James D. Wickham;Robert V. O'Neill;Kurt H. Riitters;Timothy G. Wade

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Wickham
James D. Wickham Environmental Protection Agency
K. Bruce Jones
K. Bruce Jones Desert Research Institute
Robert V. O'Neill
Robert V. O'Neill Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John W. Coulston
John W. Coulston US Forest Service
Giovanni Zurlini
Giovanni Zurlini University of Salento
Irene Petrosillo
Irene Petrosillo University of Salento
David N. Wear
David N. Wear Resources For The Future
Pierre Soille
Pierre Soille Joint Research Centre
Grant M. Domke
Grant M. Domke US Forest Service
David J. Nowak
David J. Nowak US Forest Service

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