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Research Focus

Land Development

The growing U.S. population is always looking for new places to build, play, and work. New development and changing land uses affect nearby natural areas, potentially compromising the health and extent of those resources and complicating their management.

We study land development as a natural resource disturbance in order to understand how human activities change the landscape, how we can best manage the natural areas of the present, and how we can plan for the natural areas of the future.

Selected Research

• Is Housing a Factor in the Distribution of Invasive (Aggressive, Nonnative) Plants?
• Wildfire Management in Wildland-Urban Interface Areas