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  1. Current Status, Past Trends, and Future Projections of Renewable Forest Resources and Ecosystem Services Across the United States

    Article • Earth s Future, June 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jennifer Costanza

  2. Wildfire, Suppression, and Federal Spending, 2020–2100

    Article • Earth s Future, May 2026, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jennifer Costanza

  3. Long‐Term Drought Exposure Shapes Declines and Range Shifts in Aridland Birds

    Article • Conservation Letters, May 2026, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  4. Influences of Structural and Species Diversity on Forest Resistance to Drought

    Article • Ecology Letters, March 2026, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  5. Extreme events and socio-ecological transformations: Implications for research and management in the United States

    Article • February 2026, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  6. The potential impact of forest loss on drinking water treatment costs in the southeastern U.S.

    Article • Forest Policy and Economics, October 2025, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  7. Old‐Growth Forest Area Projected to Increase on United States Federal Lands Under Alternative Future Scenarios

    Article • Earth s Future, August 2025, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Jennifer Costanza

  8. Forest demographic changes across Texas associated with hot drought

    Article • Ecological Indicators, February 2025, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  9. Water: An Analysis to Support the Southern Forest Outlook

    Article • January 2024, USDA Forest Service

    Jennifer Costanza

  10. Correction to: A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder

    Article • Landscape Ecology, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ion Andronache, Jennifer Costanza

  11. Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, September 2023, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  12. Forested watersheds provide the highest water quality among all land cover types, but the benefit of this ecosystem service depends on landscape context

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, July 2023, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  13. Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data

    Article • Landscape Ecology, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza

  14. Future exposure of forest ecosystems to multi‐year drought in the United States

    Article • Ecosphere, May 2023, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  15. A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder

    Article • Landscape Ecology, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Ion Andronache, Jennifer Costanza

  16. Carbon stored in live ponderosa pines in the Sierra Nevada will not return to pre-drought (2012) levels during the 21st century due to bark beetle outbreaks

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Science, March 2023, Frontiers

    Jennifer Costanza

  17. Scale dependency of lidar‐derived forest structural diversity

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, January 2023, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  18. Chapter 8 : Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity. Fifth National Climate Assessment

    Article • January 2023, U.S. Global Change Research Program

    Jennifer Costanza

  19. From viewsheds to viewscapes: Trends in landscape visibility and visual quality research

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, August 2022, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  20. The geodiv r package: Tools for calculating gradient surface metrics

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, August 2021, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  21. Forest Area Change in the Shifting Landscape Mosaic of the Continental United States from 2001 to 2016

    Article • Land, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Jennifer Costanza

  22. Preserving connectivity under climate and land-use change: No one-size-fits-all approach for focal species in similar habitats

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2020, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  23. Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, January 2020, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  24. Remote Sensing of Geodiversity as a Link to Biodiversity

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza

  25. Describing and analyzing landscape patterns: where are we now, and where are we going?

    Article • Landscape Ecology, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza

  26. The landscape context of family forests in the United States: Anthropogenic interfaces and forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2011

    Article • Landscape and Urban Planning, August 2019, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  27. Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing

    Article • Global Ecology and Biogeography, February 2019, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  28. Landscape Connectivity Planning for Adaptation to Future Climate and Land-Use Change

    Article • Current Landscape Ecology Reports, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza

  29. Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches

    Article • Forest Ecosystems, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza

  30. Determining the size of a complete disturbance landscape: multi-scale, continental analysis of forest change

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza

  31. An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios

    Article • PLOS One, September 2017, PLOS

    Jennifer Costanza

  32. Interpreting multiscale domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America

    Article • Ecological Indicators, September 2017, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  33. An inventory of continental U.S. terrestrial candidate ecological restoration areas based on landscape context

    Article • Restoration Ecology, May 2017, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  34. Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation for Projections of Extremes in Monthly Area Burned Under Climate Change

    Article • November 2016, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  35. Bioenergy production and forest landscape change in the southeastern United States

    Article • GCB Bioenergy, August 2016, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  36. Projected gains and losses of wildlife habitat from bioenergy-induced landscape change

    Article • GCB Bioenergy, August 2016, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  37. Ecosystem vulnerability to climate change in the southeastern United States

    Article • January 2016, US Geological Survey

    Jennifer Costanza

  38. Assessing climate-sensitive ecosystems in the southeastern United States

    Article • January 2016, US Geological Survey

    Jennifer Costanza

  39. A global evaluation of forest interior area dynamics using tree cover data from 2000 to 2012

    Article • Landscape Ecology, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza

  40. Modeling climate change, urbanization, and fire effects on Pinus palustris ecosystems of the southeastern U.S.

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, March 2015, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  41. Linking state-and-transition simulation and timber supply models for forest biomass production scenarios

    Article • AIMS Environmental Science, January 2015, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Jennifer Costanza

  42. Second State-and-Transition Simulation Modeling Conference

    Article • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, January 2015, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  43. How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: lessons from the North American Coastal Plain

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, November 2014, Wiley

    Jennifer Costanza

  44. The Southern Megalopolis: Using the Past to Predict the Future of Urban Sprawl in the Southeast U.S

    Article • PLOS One, July 2014, PLOS

    Jennifer Costanza

  45. Examining the knowing–doing gap in the conservation of a fire-dependent ecosystem

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2013, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  46. Simulating the effects of the southern pine beetle on regional dynamics 60 years into the future

    Article • Ecological Modelling, October 2012, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  47. Multi-scale environmental heterogeneity as a predictor of plant species richness

    Article • Landscape Ecology, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza

  48. Deciding Where to Burn: Stakeholder Priorities for Prescribed Burning of a Fire-Dependent Ecosystem

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2011, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Jennifer Costanza

  49. Potential geographic distribution of atmospheric nitrogen deposition from intensive livestock production in North Carolina, USA

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, July 2008, Elsevier

    Jennifer Costanza

  50. The influence of logging and topography on the distribution of spruce-fir forests near their Southern limits in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA

    Article • Plant Ecology, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Jennifer Costanza