My research program is centrally grounded in landscape ecology, the field that examines the interrelationship between environmental patterns and ecological processes. In my lab, we use geospatial technologies to visualize and analyze spatially explicit environmental data. Our primary focus is on the ecological consequences of anthropogenic sources of spatial heterogeneity, namely land-cover change. We strive to understand pattern-process relationships to be able to predict future outcomes of environmental change. Our goal is to provide ecologically informed recommendations to land-management and conservation stakeholders. 

Latest news from the McIntyre Lab:

• The McIntyre Lab welcomes two new M.S. student starting this fall, Davis Swanson and Kevin Wise!

• Dr. McIntyre is a co-author on this new publication in the Journal of Biogeography, led by Dr. Andres Rodriguez-Cordero on phylogenetic niche conservatism in New World crocodylians.

• Lab members Nana-Esi Hanson and Devenny Widmer successfully defended their research proposals this semester!

• Dr. McIntyre recently returned from attending the annual meeting of the International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America. This was her 33rd year in a row attending this conference! Lab alumnus Dr. Sean Sutor (Ph.D. 2025) was there, talking about some of his postdoctoral research at Tennessee Tech University. 

• Congratulations to lab alumnus Dr. Lucas Heintzman (Ph.D. 2019), who was lead author on a new publication in Remote Sensing. This paper compared different methods for evaluating incentivized flooding for habitat management.

• Dr. McIntyre is coauthor on this paper in Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity that examined how the distribution of Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra) in northeast China is affected by land-use type.

• Dr. McIntyre appears in this video about playa wetlands, produced for the nonprofit organization Ogallala Commons.