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Overview

Lynn Huntsinger is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on rangeland management, livestock ecology, and related fields.

The scientist's recent work includes several papers published between 2021 and 2022 in recognized journals. Notable publications include:

  • Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: a social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses (2021, Ecology and Society)
  • Landscape products for sustainable agricultural landscapes (2022, Nature Food)
  • Payments for ecosystem services within the hybrid governance model: evaluating policy alignment and complementarity on California rangelands (2021, Ecology and Society)
  • Rangeland Land-Sharing, Livestock Grazing's Role in the Conservation of Imperiled Species (2021, Sustainability)
  • Managed Grazing on California Annual Rangelands in the Context of State Climate Policy (2021, Rangeland Ecology & Management)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Lynn Huntsinger include:

  • Tobías Plieninger
  • Nathan F. Sayre
  • Lukas Flinzberger
  • Maria Hetman
  • Imke Horstmannshoff

Publications have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Ecology and Society
  • Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Nature Food
  • Sustainability
  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

The main fields of study include Environmental Science, with subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Urban Studies.

Key topics covered in Lynn Huntsinger's research encompass:

  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

This body of work highlights a multidisciplinary approach addressing the relationships between ecological systems, agricultural practices, and policy frameworks in rangeland environments. The research contributes to understanding how livestock grazing and land management intersect with conservation efforts and climate policy contexts.

Best Publications

  • Land Trusts and Conservation Easements: Who Is Conserving What for Whom?

    A. M. Merenlender;L. Huntsinger;G. Guthey;S. K. Fairfax

  • The role of cultural ecosystem services in landscape management and planning

    Tobias Plieninger;Claudia Bieling;Nora Fagerholm;Nora Fagerholm;Anja Byg

  • Origin, Persistence, and Resolution of the Rotational Grazing Debate: Integrating Human Dimensions Into Rangeland Research

    D.D. Briske;Nathan F. Sayre;L. Huntsinger;M. Fernandez-Gimenez

  • China’s Grassland Contract Policy and its Impacts on Herder Ability to Benefit in Inner Mongolia: Tragic Feedbacks

    Wenjun Li;Lynn Huntsinger

  • The impact of land abandonment on species richness and abundance in the Mediterranean Basin: A meta-analysis

    Tobias Plieninger;Cang Hui;Mirijam Gaertner;Lynn Huntsinger

  • Ranching As A Conservation Strategy: Can Old Ranchers Save The New West?

    Mark W. Brunson;Lynn Huntsinger

  • Ecosystem Services are Social–ecological Services in a Traditional Pastoral System: the Case of California’s Mediterranean Rangelands

    Lynn Huntsinger;José L. Oviedo

  • To ranch or not to ranch: home on the urban range?

    Robin H. Liffmann;Lynn Huntsinger;Larry C. Forero

  • High reliability pastoralism

    Emery Roe;Lynn Huntsinger;Keith Labnow

  • What can ecological science tell us about opportunities for carbon sequestration on arid rangelands in the United States

    Kayje Booker;Lynn Huntsinger;James W. Bartolome;Nathan F. Sayre

  • Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes

    Pablo Campos;Lynn Huntsinger;Jose Luis Oviedo Pro;Paul F Starrs

  • Viewpoint: Sustaining rangeland landscapes: a social and ecological process

    Lynn Huntsinger;Peter Hopkinson

  • Salal Harvester Local Ecological Knowledge, Harvest Practices and Understory Management on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington

    Heidi L. Ballard;Lynn Huntsinger

  • California's privately owned oak woodlands: owners, use, and management.

    Lynn Huntsinger;Louise P. Fortmann

  • Ownership and management changes on California hardwood rangelands: 1985 to 1992.

    Lynn Huntsinger;Lita Buttolph;Peter Hopkinson

  • STONES AND ORGANIC MULCHES IMPROVE THE QUERCUS ILEX L. AFFORESTATION SUCCESS UNDER MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATIC CONDITIONS

    María Noelia Jiménez;Emilia Fernández-Ondoño;María Ángeles Ripoll;Juan Castro-Rodríguez

  • Appreciation, Use, and Management of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in California’s Working Landscapes

    Tobias Plieninger;Tobias Plieninger;Shasta Ferranto;Lynn Huntsinger;Maggi Kelly

  • Dehesas as high nature value farming systems: a social-ecological synthesis of drivers, pressures, state, impacts, and responses

    Tobias Plieninger;Lukas Flinzberger;Maria Hetman;Imke Horstmannshoff

  • The Role of Rangelands in Diversified Farming Systems: Innovations, Obstacles, and Opportunities in the USA

    Nathan F. Sayre;Liz Carlisle;Lynn Huntsinger;Gareth Fisher

  • Hardwood Rangeland Landowners in California from 1985 to 2004: Production, Ecosystem Services, and Permanence

    Lynn Huntsinger;Martin Johnson;Monica Stafford;Jeremy S. Fried

  • Commentary: A critical assessment of the policy endorsement for holistic management

    David D. Briske;Andrew J. Ash;Justin D. Derner;Lynn Huntsinger

  • Research, part of a Special Feature on Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes: Analysis and Management Options Ecosystem Services are Social-ecological Services in a Traditional Pastoral System: the Case of California's Mediterranean Rangelands

    Lynn Huntsinger;José L. Oviedo

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias Plieninger
Tobias Plieninger University of Göttingen
Maggi Kelly
Maggi Kelly University of California, Berkeley
Steven R. Beissinger
Steven R. Beissinger University of California, Berkeley
Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez
Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez Colorado State University
Mario Díaz
Mario Díaz Spanish National Research Council
David D. Briske
David D. Briske Texas A&M University
Gregorio Montero
Gregorio Montero Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Christopher M. Raymond
Christopher M. Raymond University of Helsinki
Norman L. Miller
Norman L. Miller University of California, Berkeley
Justin D. Derner
Justin D. Derner Agricultural Research Service

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