Coupled Human & Natural Systems

Biocomplexity II

Biocomplexity II Publications and Presentations

Publications & Products

Journal Articles

Published or in Press –

Alberti, M., Christie, P. Marzluff, J. and J. Tewksbury. 2007. Interactions between Natural and Human Systems in Puget Sound. Sound Science: Synthesizing Ecological and Socioeconomic Information about the Puget Sound Ecosystem. January 2007.

Alberti, M., C. Redman, J. Wu, J. Marzluff, M. Handcock, J. Anderies, P. Waddell, D. Fox, H. Kautz, J. Hepinstall. 2006. Urban landscape patterns and global environmental change (GEC): Complex dynamics and emergent properties. International Human Dimension of Global Climate Change. Spring 2006.

Buyantuyev, A. and J. Wu. 2007. Effects of thematic resolution on landscape pattern analysis. Landscape Ecology 22:7-13.

Buyantuyev, A., J. Wu., C. Gries. 2007. Estimating vegetation cover in an urban environment based on Landsat ETM+ imagery: A case study in Phoenix, USA. International Journal of Remote Sensing 28: 269-291.

Hepinstall, J.A., . M. Marzluff, and M. Alberti. In Press. Modeling the responses of birds to predicted changes in land cover in an urbanizing region. In J. Millspaugh and F. R. Thompson (editors). Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes. Elsevier Science, The Netherlands.

Hepinstall, J. A., J. M. Marzluff, and M. Alberti. In Press. Predicting avian community responses to increasing urbanization. In C. A. Lipczyk and P. S. Warren, editors. New Directions in Urban Bird Ecology and Conservation. Studies in Avian Biology.

Liu, J., Dietz, T., Carpenter S., Folke, C, Alberti, M. Redman, C., Schneider, S. Ostrom, E., Pell, A., Lubchenco,  J., Taylor, W., Ouyang, Z., Deadman, P. Kratz, T., and W. Provencher. 2007. Coupled Human and Natural Systems. Ambio. In Press.

Wu, J. 2006. Cross-disciplinarity, landscape ecology, and sustainability science. Landscape Ecology 21:1-4.

Wu, J. 2007. Scale and scaling: A cross-disciplinary perspective. In: J. Wu and R. Hobbs (eds). Key Topics in Landscape Ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Wu, J. and H. Li. 2006. Perspectives and methods in scaling: A review. In: J. Wu, B. Jones, H. Li and O.L. Loucks (eds). Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pp. 17-44.

In Revision –

Shen, W., J. Wu, N. B. Grimm, and D. Hope. 2007.  Effects of urbanization-induced environmental changes on ecosystem functioning in the Phoenix metropolitan region, USA. Submitted to: Ecosystems.

In Review –

Liu, J., Dietz, T., Carpenter S., Folke, C, Alberti, M. Redman, C., Schneider, S., Ostrom, E., Pell, A., Lubchenco,  J., Taylor, W., Ouyang, Z., Deadman, P. Kratz, T., and W. Provencher. In Review. Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems. Submitted to: Science.

Books

Alberti, M. Advances in Urban Ecology: Linking Human and Ecological Processes in Urban Ecosystems. Springer. In Press, 2007.

Presentations and Conferences

Alberti, M.  Workshop: The Rise of Cities:Adaptive Solutions for Urbanization in Desert, Coastal, and Tropical Regions. Ecological Society of America International Conference, Merida, Mexico, January 8-12, 2006.

Alberti, M. (presenter), Wu, J., Waddell, P., Marzluff, J., and Hepinstall, J.  “Urban landscapes as emergent phenomena of complex human-natural landscapes.”  Presentation, Annual Meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, MO, February 16-20, 2006.

Alberti, M.  “Modeling coupled human-natural systems in Puget Sound.” National Research Council of The National Academies, U.S. National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), Tempe, Arizona February 22-24, 2006.

Alberti, M.  “Modeling urban landscape patterns and their effects on aquatic ecosystems.”  The National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) 5th National Monitoring Conference, San Jose, CA, May 7-11, 2006.

Alberti, M.  Working Group 3: Urbanization in context: How problems and their solutions vary among biophysical and societal settings.  LTER All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 21-23, 2006.  Organizers: Nancy Grimm, Charles Redman – Central Arizona-Phoenix (CAP) LTER.

Hepinstall, J. A. (presenter), Marzluff, J. M., DeLap, J. H., and Alberti, M.  Future changes in bird diversity resulting from predicted changes in land cover in the central Puget Sound, Washington, USA. Fourth North American Ornithological Conference, Veracruz, Mexico, October 2006.

Alberti, M. (session facilitator).  “Standard protocol for Agent-based models.”  Integrating Socio-Ecological Sciences through a Community Modeling Framework, Planning and Organizing Workshop, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, Arizona State University, March 13, 2007.

Alberti, M.  “Modeling complex urban landscape dynamics: a pattern-oriented hierarchical approach.”  Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems, University of California, Santa Barbara and University College London, Santa Barbara, CA, April 14-16, 2007.

Hepinstall, J.A. (presenter), M. Alberti , J. Marzluff, P. Waddell.  “Predicting landscape change and its effects on biodiversity in the Central Puget Sound, Washington, USA.” Framing Land Use Dynamics II, Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 2007.

Walters, S. (presenter), and Alberti, M.  2007.  “A hierarchical framework for examining coupled human-biophysical processes in urban ecosystems.”  Poster presentation, 22nd Annual Conference, US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Tucson, AZ, April 9-13 2007.

Hepinstall, J.A. (presenter), and M. Alberti.  “Challenges faced when predicting landscape change.”  Poster presentation, the International Association for Landscape Ecology World Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 2007.

Hepinstall, J.A. (presenter), M. Alberti, and J. Marzluff.  “Predicting land cover change and avian community responses in rapidly urbanizing environments.” Invited presentation, the International Association for Landscape Ecology World Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 2007.