KEL Research
The Knowledge Engineering Lab has been producing publications for over a decade, including the textbook Basic Landscape Ecology.
Basic Landscape Ecology
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Second Edition coming soon
Current Publications
| 2020 – Esquivel, I. L., R. N. Coulson, and M. J. Brewer. A native bee, Melissodes tepaneca (Hymenoptera: Apidae), benefits cotton production. Insects (Go to link) |
| 2020 – Esquivel, I. L., M. J. Brewer, and R. N. Coulson. Field edge and field-to-field type influences on two cotton herbivores: cotton fleahopper, Pseudatomoscelis seriatus (Hemiptera:Miridae), and Verde plant but, Creontiades signatus. Journal Econ Entomol. (Go to link) |
| 2019 – Kantola, T., J. L. Tracy, P. Lyytinäinen-Saarenmaa, H. Saarenmaa, R. N. Coulson, A. Trabucco, M. Holopainen. Hemlock woolly adelgid niche models for the invasive eastern North American range with projections to native ranges and future climates. iForest –Biogeosciences and Forestry. Doi:103823/ifor2883-012 (NULL) |
| 2019 – Tracy J.L., T. Kantola, K. A. Baum, and R. N. Coulson Modeling fall migration pathways and spatially identifying potential migratory hazards for the eastern monarch butterfly. Landscape Ecology 34:443-458 (NULL) |
| 2019 – Kantola T, J.L. Tracy, K.A. Baum, M.A. Quinn, and R.N. Coulson Spatial risk assessment of eastern monarch butterfly road mortality during autumn migration within the southern corridor. Biological Conservation 231:150-160 (NULL) |
| 2018 – Tracy, J.L., Trabucco, A., Lawling, A.M., Giermakowski, J. T., Tchakerian, M., Drus, G.M., and R.N Coulson Random subset feature selection for ecological niche models of wildfire activity in Western North America. Ecological Modeling 383:52-68. (Go to link) |
| 2018 – Fitzgerald, M., Coulson, R.N., Lawing, A.M., Matsuzawa, T., and K. Koops Modeling habitat suitability for chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in the Greater Nimba Landscape, Guinea, West Africa. Primates. (Go to link) |
| 2017 – Andrew G. Birt, Szu-Hung V. Chen, Kristen A. Baum, Maria D. Tchakerian, and Robert N. Coulson The Influence of Nest Site Selection on the Population Dynamics of Africanized Honey Bees in an Urban Landscape Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 162:315-327 (Go to link) |
| 2016 – Rangel, J., Giresi, M., Pinto, M.A., Baum, K.A., Rubink, W.L., Coulson, R.N., and J.S. Johnston Africanization of a feral honey bee (Apis mellifera) population in South Texas: does a decade make a difference? Ecology and Evolution (Open Access) (Download PDF) |
| 2016 – Kantola, T., Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa, P., Coulson, R.N., Holopainen, M., Tchakerian, M.D., and D.A. Streett Development of monitoring methods for Hemlock Woolly Adelgid induced tree mortality within a Southern Appalachian landscape with inhibited access iForest Biogeosciences and Forestry vol. 9, pp. 178-186 (Go to link) |