RESEARCH

Overview

The lab's research focuses on human-environment interactions. We are particularly interested in how land use land cover change can affect the sustainability of landscapes and communities in both urban and non-urban systems and at a variety of scales. We incorporate complex geospatial analyses, simulation models, statistics, remote sensing, as well as social survey and field data to study a number of research topics.

Land Use Land Cover Change Effects on Pollinators

We are interested in modeling the effects of land use land cover change on honey production (as a proxy for honeybee health) and wild bee abundance and richness. This work has been funded by the USGS and USDA.

Smith, D., Davis A., C. Hitaj, D. Hellerstein, A. Preslicka**, E. Kirkpatrick**, D. Mushet, and E. Lonsdorf. 2021. The contribution of land cover change to the decline of honey yields in the Northern Great Plains. Environmental Research Letters.

Davis, A., O. Herron*, and S Dumyahn. 2021. Uncovering the potential for exurban properties and small working farms in the Midwestern United States to provide food and refuge for pollinators. Urban Ecosystems.

Davis A., E. Lonsdorf, K. Matteson, C. Shierk, J. Taylor, S. Lovell, and E. Minor. 2017. Enhancing pollination in an urban ecosystem through landscape modifications. Landscape and Urban Planning.

Hellerstein D., Hitaj C., Smith D., and A. Davis. 2017. Land use, land cover, and pollinator health: a review and trend analysis. Economic Research Report . United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Mushet D. and E. Scherff. 2017. The Integrated Landscape Modeling Partnership – Current Status and Future Directions. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1006, pp. 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161006 (see Appendix 5.)

Urban Ecosystem Services

We are interested in studying the provision and distribution of ecosystem services in urban landscapes, as well as how those ecosystem services might be maintained and enhanced.

Davis, A.; Stoyko**, J. 2023. Barriers to Native Plantings in Private Residential Yards. Land, 12, 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12010114.

Davis, A.Y.; Freund, A.*; Dumyahn, S.L.; Mendoza, R.*; Muniz Torres, A.; Boone, M.D. 2021. Parcel Management and Perceived Ecosystem Services and Disservices in the Exurbs of a Midwestern County in the United States. Land, 10, 448. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10050448

Kirkpatrick E.**, A. Davis, and B. Pijanowski. 2018. Estimating the environmental impacts of sprawling parking lots in the United States: two case studies. In D. Shoup (Ed.), Parking and the City. Routledge.

Davis A., E. Lonsdorf, K. Matteson, C. Shierk, J. Taylor, S. Lovell, and E. Minor. 2017. Enhancing pollination in an urban ecosystem through landscape modifications. Landscape and Urban Planning.

Davis A., J. Jung, B. Pijanowski, and E. Minor. 2016. Combined vegetation volume and "greenness" affect urban air temperature. Applied Geography, 71:106:114.

Minor E., J.A. Belaire, A. Davis, M. Franco, and **M. Lin. 2016. Socioeconomics and neighbor mimicry drive urban yard and neighborhood vegetation patterns. In R. Francis (Ed.), Urban Landscape Ecology: Science, Policy and Practice. Abington: Routledge.

Davis, A., J.A. Belaire, M. Farfan, D. Milz, E. Sweeney, S. Loss, and E. Minor. 2012. Green infrastructure and bird diversity across an urban socioeconomic gradient. Ecosphere 3:art105.

Davis, A., B. Pijanowski, K. *Robinson and B. Engel. 2009. The environmental and economic cost of sprawling parking lots in the United States. Land Use Policy 96(2): 68-77.

Davis A., B. Pijanowski, K. *Robinson and P. Kidwell. 2010. Estimating Parking Lot footprint in the Upper Great Lakes Region of the USA. Landscape and Urban Planning 27(2): 255-261.

Conservation Planning

We are interested in studying coupled natural-human systems and how their dynamics affect conservation planning at local to national scales.

Davis, A.; Stoyko**, J. 2023. Barriers to Native Plantings in Private Residential Yards. Land, 12, 114. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12010114.

Bracken J., A. Davis, S. Walls, K. O’Donnell, W. Barichivich, and T. Jezkova. 2022. Maximizing species distribution model performance using historical occurrence data across environmental variable sets of varying persistency, Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3951.

Leveridge, M.**, A. Davis, and S. Dumyahn. 2022. Evaluating Attitudes Towards Large Carnivores Within the Great Bear Rainforest. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313270.

Lonsdorf E., J. Lyons, S. Jacobi, T. Jones, B. Tavernia, K. Luke, A. Davis, and W. Thogmartin. 2016. A generalizable energetics-based model of avian migration to aid large-scale conservation planning and spending. Ecological Applications, 26(4):1136-1153.

Davis A., N. *Malas, and E. Minor. 2014. Substitutable habitats? The biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of an exotic bird’s distribution. Biological Invasions 16(2), 415-427.

Westphal L., A. Davis, C. Copp, L. Ross, M. Bouman, and C. Fisher. 2014. Characteristics of Stewardship in the Chicago Wilderness Region. Cities and the Environment 7(1), Article 3.

Urban Planning

Davis A., and S. Strack**. 2022. Environmental Impacts of Exurban Development in the United States. In Pathways to Research Sustainability Reader. EBSCO.

Kay C.*, and A. Davis. In preparation for Cities. Variation in Social Ties across a Street Connectivity Gradient.

Berg* I., and A. Davis. In preparation. Evaluating the relationship of block-group scale demographic variables and built-environment characteristics with walking as a mode of commuting in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Other Research

Tori W., Davis A., Dörte S. Neumeister, K., and H. Bodawatta. Testing the hotspot hypothesis of lek evolution in the white-crowned manakin. In review Journal of Field Ecology.

Davis, A., M. Leveridge*, and E. Speno*. Evaluating the effect of self-monitoring of sleep on classroom performance. In preparation for Sleep or Journal of Sleep Research.

Davis, A., and X.-H. Yan. 2004. Hurricane forcing on chlorophyll-a concentration off the northeast coast of the United States. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L17304, doi:10.1029/2004GL020668.

* Undergraduate Student Author

** Graduate Student Author