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Overview

Lisa Naughton-Treves is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant work in the subfields of global and planetary change, soil science, general agricultural and biological sciences, management, monitoring, policy and law, as well as economics and econometrics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Conservation, biodiversity, and resource management
  • Land rights and reforms
  • Agriculture, land use, rural development
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Economic and environmental valuation
  • Forest management and policy
  • Rangeland management and livestock ecology

The frequent publication venues for Lisa Naughton-Treves's research include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental Research Letters, The Science of The Total Environment, CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research), and World Development.

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Does secure land tenure save forests? A review of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation (2025), published in CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research)
  • What happens when the money runs out? Forest outcomes and equity concerns following Ecuador's suspension of conservation payments (2020), published in World Development
  • The role of smallholder woodlots in global restoration pledges - Lessons from Tanzania (2020), published in Forest Policy and Economics
  • Does formalizing artisanal gold mining mitigate environmental impacts? Deforestation evidence from the Peruvian Amazon (2021), published in Environmental Research Letters
  • The impact of paying for forest conservation on perceived tenure security in Ecuador (2020), published in Conservation Letters

Lisa Naughton-Treves collaborates frequently with several researchers. Notable coauthors include Jessica L'Roe, Margaret B. Holland, Niwaeli E. Kimambo, Lisa Rausch, and Nicolle Etchart.

Best Publications

  • The role of protected areas in conserving biodiversity and sustaining local livelihoods

    Lisa Naughton-Treves;Margaret Buck Holland;Katrina Brandon

  • Co-Managing Human–Wildlife Conflicts: A Review

    Adrian Treves;Robert B. Wallace;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Andrea Morales

  • Paying for Tolerance: Rural Citizens' Attitudes toward Wolf Depredation and Compensation

    Lisa Naughton-Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Rebecca Grossberg;Adrian Treves;Adrian Treves

  • Predicting patterns of crop damage by wildlife around Kibale National Park, Uganda.

    Lisa Naughton-Treves

  • Temporal patterns of crop-raiding by primates: linking food availability in croplands and adjacent forest

    Lisa Naughton‐Treves;Adrian Treves;Colin Chapman;Richard Wrangham

  • Does secure land tenure save forests? A meta-analysis of the relationship between land tenure and tropical deforestation

    Brian E. Robinson;Brian E. Robinson;Margaret B. Holland;Margaret B. Holland;Lisa Naughton-Treves

  • Predicting Human-Carnivore Conflict: a Spatial Model Derived from 25 Years of Data on Wolf Predation on Livestock

    Adrian Treves;Adrian Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Elizabeth K. Harper;David J. Mladenoff

  • Tourism revenue-sharing around national parks in Western Uganda: early efforts to identify and reward local communities

    Karen Archabald;Lisa Naughton-Treves

  • Risk and opportunity for humans coexisting with large carnivores

    Adrian Treves;L. Naughton-Treves

  • Socio-ecological factors shaping local support for wildlife: crop-raiding by elephants and other wildlife in Africa

    Lisa Naughton-Treves;Adrian Treves

  • FARMING THE FOREST EDGE: VULNERABLE PLACES AND PEOPLE AROUND KIBALE NATIONAL PARK, UGANDA

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  • Get The Science Right When Paying For Nature's Services

    S. Naeem;J. C. Ingram;A. Varga;T. Agardy

  • Longitudinal Analysis of Attitudes Toward Wolves

    Adrian Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Victoria Shelley

  • Wildlife Survival Beyond Park Boundaries: the Impact of Slash-and-Burn Agriculture and Hunting on Mammals in Tambopata, Peru

    Lisa Naughton-Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Jose Luis Mena;Adrian Treves;Nora Alvarez

  • People and Wildlife: Evaluating lethal control in the management of human–wildlife conflict

    Adrian Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves

  • Lessons about parks and poverty from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda

    Lisa Naughton-Treves;Jennifer Alix-Garcia;Colin A. Chapman

  • Incorporating land tenure security into conservation.

    Brian E. Robinson;Yuta J. Masuda;Allison Kelly;Margaret B. Holland

  • Predicting folivorous primate abundance: Validation of a nutritional model

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Michael J. Lawes

  • Burning biodiversity: Woody biomass use by commercial and subsistence groups in western Uganda’s forests

    Lisa Naughton-Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Daniel M. Kammen;Colin Chapman;Colin Chapman

  • Wolf depredation on domestic animals in Wisconsin, 1976-2000

    A Treves;RR Jurewicz;L Naughton-Treves

  • RESEARCH ARTICLE Predicting Folivorous Primate Abundance: Validation of a Nutritional Model

    Colin A. Chapman;Lauren J. Chapman;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Michael J. Lawes

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Treves
Adrian Treves University of Wisconsin–Madison
Colin A. Chapman
Colin A. Chapman Vancouver Island University
Krithi K. Karanth
Krithi K. Karanth Duke University
Michael J. Lawes
Michael J. Lawes University of KwaZulu-Natal
David Wilkie
David Wilkie Wildlife Conservation Society
Lauren J. Chapman
Lauren J. Chapman University of Florida
Götz Schroth
Götz Schroth Rainforest Alliance
Arild Angelsen
Arild Angelsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Lee Russell McDowell
Lee Russell McDowell University of Florida

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