Publications
Journal Articles
A list of journal articles published by CSIS members, including 3 cover stories in Nature, 24 appearances in Science, and 17 in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America).
Books and Book Chapters
Selected books (edited books) and book chapters published by CSIS members.
Publications
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Long-Term Ecological Effects of Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors in Wolong Nature Reserve (China)
Published on May 23, 2012
Human population has exerted enormous impacts on biodiversity, even in areas with “biodiversity hotspots” identified by Myers et al. -
Weak Ties, Labor Migration, and Environmental Impacts: Toward a Sociology of Sustainability
Published on May 23, 2012
Debate about the substitutability of manufactured, natural, human, and social capital is at the heart of sustainability theory -
Drivers and Socioeconomic Impacts of Tourism Participation in Protected Areas
Published on April 30, 2012
In a multi-year study, we followed a representative sample of 220 local households from 1999 to 2007 to investigate the diverse benefits that these households received from recent development of nature-based tourism in the area. -
Relationship between floristic similarity and vegetated land surface phenology: Implications for the synoptic monitoring of species diversity at broad geographic regions
Published on March 23, 2012
Assessing species composition and its changes through time across broad geographic regions is time consuming and a difficult endeavor. -
Lake charr Salvelinus namaycush spawning behaviour: new field observations and a review of current knowledge
Published on February 9, 2012
In this paper, we describe field observations of lake trout reproductive behaviour, focusing on two morphs from Great Bear Lake, N.T and summarize uncertainties and pose hypotheses regarding lake trout spawning behaviour. -
Regulation of Sport Fishery Harvest of Lake Trout: Use of Size Limits in New York's Waters of Lake Ontario
Published on January 1, 2012
Harvest control through fishing regulations is an important function of fishery management that can place the manager in an adversarial role with stakeholders. -
Environmentally efficient well-being: Is there a Kuznets curve?
Published on January 1, 2012
The environmental Kuznets curve posits an inverted “U” shaped relationship between the affluence of a nation and the stress it places on the biophysical environment, with increases in affluence from low to moderate levels -
Re-Establishing Lake Trout in the Laurentian Great Lakes: Past, Present, and Future
Published on January 1, 2012
Our specific objectives were to review the history of Lake Trout fisheries, describe management actions to achieve Lake Trout rehabilitation goals, and review emerging research themes that support Lake Trout rehabilitation. -
Evaluating the efï¬cacy of zoning designations for protected area management
Published on October 28, 2011
Protected areas worldwide are facing increasing pressures to co-manage human development and biodiversity conservation. -
Factors affecting the outcome of artificial insemination (AI) using cryopreserved spermatozoa in the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
Published on September 28, 2011
Our results suggest that the window for successful AI in giant pandas may be narrower than previously suspected, although individual differences may reflect some degree of variation in this crucial window across females. -
Commentary: Paths to climate cooperation
Published on September 20, 2011
The impacts of climate change vary greatly from place to place, and the vulnerability to those impacts differs across human groups and across other species, even in a single location. -
Agent-based modeling of the effects of social norms on enrollment in payments for ecosystem services
Published on August 2, 2011
In this paper, we developed an agent-based simulation model to demonstrate the evolution and impacts of social norms on the enrollment of agricultural land in a PES program. -
It's a Material World: Trends in Material Extraction in China, India, Indonesia, and Japan
Published on August 2, 2011
We examine trends since 1980 in material extraction in China, India, Indonesia, and Japan—which together contain over 40% of the world’s population—to assess the environmental consequences of modernization -
Impact of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake on biodiversity and giant panda habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve, China
Published on July 14, 2011
This study has implications for understanding the impact of natural disasters on biodiversity and highlights the importance of fine scale on-the-ground assessments of disaster impacts on wildlife and their habitats. -
Sources, Sinks, and Sustainability
Published on July 11, 2011
This book presents the latest advances in source-sink theories, methods and applications in the conservation and management of natural resources and biodiversity. -
Forging New Perspectives in Fisheries Science and Management
Published on July 8, 2011
Climate change is often the subject of scathing headlines and vicious debates, and is unquestionably a highly politicized topic -
Understanding Public Opinion on Climate Change: A Call for Research
Published on June 30, 2011
There is strong scientific consensus concerning the reality of anthropogenic climate change (CC) and its potential consequences -
Dividing the waters: The case for hydrologic separation of the North American Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins
Published on June 29, 2011
The one-time, capital cost to separate the two basins is widely acknowledged to be high, and the outstanding question is whether the costs are justified given the significant risk of future ecological damages and long-term economic losses. -
Participatory evaluation of agent-based land-use models
Published on May 20, 2011
In this article, we outline some of the epistemological problems facing the evaluation of ABLUMs, including the definition of boundaries for modelling open systems. -
Gap-, stand-, and landscape-scale factors contribute to poor sugar maple regeneration after timber harvest
Published on May 16, 2011
We examined the effects of gap-, stand-, and landscape-scale factors on densities of tree seedlings and saplings in 59 selection-harvested northern hardwood stands located across a 4500 km2 region of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.