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Recent Graduate Student Publications

Our graduate students are strongly encouraged to try to publish their research in the traditional scientific journal outlets. We try to encourage this by allowing publication from manuscripts as part of the theses or dissertations. Typically a Masters student may produce 1 or 2 papers of publishable quality which make up part of their thesis (along with an introduction and conclusion material), and a PhD may be 3-5 papers of publishable quality (again with the dissertation also including an introduction and conclusion section). In addition, some courses encourage the writing of publication quality papers, which has also proven to be succesful. Below we list recent publications from our graduate stduents, since 2000, although we did not really start to push the publication process until 2003 and onwards. We feel the success of our graduate students in this arena is highly reflective of the impressive quality of the graduate students in our graduate program. Where available pdf files of the publications are attached as links.

Note: Graduate students are bolded in author listings.

In Press/2008

Amy Daniels, Katie Painter and Jane Southworth. In Press. Milpa imprint on the tropical dry forest landscape in Yucatan, Mexico: Remote sensing & field measurement of edge vegetation. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. [This paper was the outcome of the Geography course, 'Land Change Science Seminar' and the associated fieldcourse in the Yucatan, Mexico, Spring 2005]

Daniels, A. and G. Cumming. Accepted (now in press). Conservation or conversion? Understanding wetland change in northwest Costa Rica . Ecological Applications. [dissertation work]

Hartter, J. and K. Boston. In press. Consuming Fuel and Fueling Consumption: Modeling Human Caloric Demands and Fuelwood Use. Small-scale Forestry.

Joel Hartter, Christine Lucas, Andrea Gaughan, and Lilia Lizama Aranda. In Press. Detecting tropical dry forest succession in a shifting cultivation mosaic of the Yucata´n Peninsula, Mexico. Applied Geography. [This paper was the outcome of the Geography course, 'Land Change Science Seminar' and the associated fieldcourse in the Yucatan, Mexico, Spring 2005]

Goldman, A., Hartter, J., Southworth, J., Binford, M. In press. Studying the Human Landscape around Kibale National Park. In: Wrangham, R. and E. Ross (Eds.).Science and Conservation in a Ugandan Forest: How Long-Term Research Can Help Habitat Management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [Dissertation Research]

2007

Cassidy, L. 2007. Mapping burned areas in the wetlands of the Okavango Panhandle using a modified hierarchical classification approach. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 15: 253-268 [Masters research]

Coffin, Alisa W. 2007. From roadkill to road ecology: A review of the ecological effects of roads. Journal of Transport Geography 15:396-406. [Dissertation research]

Hartter J. and K. Boston. 2007. An Integrated Approach to Modeling Resource Utilization for Rural Communities in Developing Countries. Journal of Environmental Management 85(1): 78-92.

Leite, R. G; C. Cañas, B. Forsberg; R. Barthem; and M. Goulding. 2007.“Larvas de los Grandes Bagres Migratorios". Title in English: "Larvae of migratory large catfishes”. Graphic Biblos S. A. Lima, Peru.

2006

Daniels, A. 2006. Incorporating domain knowledge and spatial relationships into land cover classifications: a rule-based approach. International Journal for Remote Sensing 27(14): 2949-2975. [Masters work]

Hartter J. and J. Garland. 2006. Using Synthetic Rope in Timber Harvesting. International Journal of Forest Engineering 17(1): 39-51. [Masters work]

Hartter, J., Leonard, J., Garland, J., and S. Pilkerton. 2006. Research on Synthetic Rope and its Future in Timber Harvesting. New Zealand Journal of Forestry 51(2): 23-30. [Masters work]

Van Holt, T, D. Murphy, and L. Chapman. 2006. Local and Landscape Predictors of Fish Assemblages in the Great Swamp, New York. Northeastern Naturalist 13(3):353–374 [This paper was the outcome of field work prior to MS & incorporated GIS & community ecology concepts from courses at UF]

Van Holt, T. 2006. Sprawl Costs: Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development. Southeastern Geographer 46(2): 340-342. [Geography Department Chair sent a request for reviews from editors of Southeastern Geographer]

ATHAYDE, S. F.; G. M. SILVA; J. KAIABI; M. KAIABI; H. R. SOUZA; K. Y. ONO AND E. M. BRUNA. 2006. Participatory research and management ao arum?? Ischnosiphon gracilis [Rudge] K??ern., Marantaceae) by the Kaiabi people in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Ethnobiology.

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2003

Goulding, M.; C. Cañas;  R. Barthem;  B. Forsberg and H.Ortega. 2003. "Amazon Headwaters. Rivers, Wildlife and Conservation in Southeastern Peru." Graphic Biblos S. A. Lima, Peru. 198 pp.

Goulding, M.; R. Barthem; B. Forsberg; C. Cañas;  and H.Ortega. 2003. "Aquatic Ecology of the Rio Madre de Dios. Scientific Bases for Andes – Amazon Headwaters Conservation." Graphic Biblos S. A. Lima, Peru. 117 pp.

Pfister, C. A. and F. R. Stevens (2003). "Individual variation and environmental stochasticity: Implications for matrix model predictions." Ecology 84(no. 2): 496-510. [From Undergraduate honors thesis work]

2002

Daniels, A 2002. Indigenous peoples and neotropical forest conservation: impacts of protected area systems on traditional cultures. Macalester Environmental Review. Sept 23. [Masters work]

Pfister, C. A. and F. R. Stevens (2002). "The genesis of size variability in plants and animals." Ecology 83(no. 1): 59-72. [From undergraduate honors thesis work.]

 

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2000

Cañas, C. M. 2000. “Evaluación de los Recursos Pesqueros en la provincia de Tambopata, Madre Dios (Julio 1995-diciembre 1998). Title in English: "Evaluation of the Fishing Resources in the province of Tambopata, Madre de Dios (July 1995 – December 1998)." CI-Peru editions. Lima, Peru. 68 pp.

Cañas, C. M. 2000. “La pesca en la provincia de Tambopata: Monitoreo y Ordenamiento Pesquero en el Sureste Peruano”.  Title in English: "The fishing in the province of Tambopata:  Monitoring and Fishing Management in the Peruvian Southeast”. In L. O. Rodríguez (ed.), El Manu y Otras Experiencias de Investigación y Manejo de Bosques Neotropicales, Title in English: Manu and Other Research Experiences and Neotropical Forest Management, pp. 178-186. PROMANU, Lima.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jane Southworth
Graduate Coordinator
jsouthwo@geog.ufl.edu
352-392-0494 Ext 220