Scientific papers of
Robert I. McDonald
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Did land protection in Silicon Valley reduce the housing stock? Denning, C., R.I.
McDonald, and J. Christensen. 2010. Biological Conservation 143:1087-1093.
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Open space loss and land inequality in United States’ cities, 1990-2000.
McDonald, R.I., R.T.T. Forman, and P. Kareiva. 2010. PLoS One 5(3):e9509.
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The promise and pitfalls of systematic conservation planning. McDonald, R.I.
2010. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science 106(36): 15101-15102.
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Energy Sprawl or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat
for the United States of America.
McDonald, R.I., J. Fargione, J. Kiesecker, W. Miller,
and J. Powell. 2009. PLoS One 4(8): e6802.
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Ecosystem service demand supply along the urban-to-rural gradient.
McDonald, R.I. 2009. Journal of Conservation Planning 5: 1-14.
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The Implications of Current and Future Urbanization for Global Protected
Areas and Biodiversity Conservation.
McDonald, R.I., P. Kareiva, and R.T.T. Forman.
2008. Biological Conservation 141:1695-1703.
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Uncertainty in spatially explicit population models. Minor, E.S., R.I McDonald, E.A.
Treml, and D.L. Urban. 2008. Biological Conservation 141:956-970.
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Assessing the influence of historical factors, contemporary processes, and
environmental conditions on the distribution of invasive species.
McDonald, R.I.,
G. Motzkin, and D.R. Foster. 2008. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135(2):259-270.
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The effect of logging on vegetation composition in Western Massachusetts.
McDonald, R.I., G. Motzkin, and D.R. Foster.
2008. Forest Ecology and Management
255:4021-4031.
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Global urbanization: Can ecologists identify a sustainable way forward?
McDonald, R.I. 2008. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(2):99-104.
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Why Conservation is Failing (book review). McDonald, R.I. 2008.Landscape Ecology
23:373-374.
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Estimating the effect of protected lands on the development and conservation
of their surroundings.
McDonald, R.I., C. Yuan-Farrell, C. Fievet, M. Moeller, P.
Kareiva, D. Foster, T. Gragson, A. Kinzig, L. Kuby, and C. Redman. 2007.  Conservation
Biology 21 (6): 1526-1536.
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Putting Beta-Diversity on the Map: Broad-Scale Congruence and Coincidence
in the Extremes.
McKnight, M.W., P.S. White, R.I. McDonald, J.F. Lamoreux, W.
Sechrest, R.S. Ridgely, S.N. Stuart. PLoS Biology  5(10): e272. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.
0050272.
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The Land We Share (book review). McDonald, R.I. 2007. Landscape Ecology 22:1107-
1108.
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Domesticated Nature: Shaping Landscapes and Ecosystems for Human
Welfare.
Kareiva, P., S. Watts, R.I. McDonald, and T. Boucher. 2007. Science 316: 1866-
1869.
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A Massive Increase In Roadside Woody Vegetation: Goals, Pros, and Cons.
Forman, R.T.T., and R.I. McDonald. 2007. Proceedings of International Conference on
Ecology and Transportation.
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Determination of successional trends from remote sensing imagery.
McDonald, R.I., P.N. Halpin, and D.L. Urban. 2007. Applied Vegetation Science 10:193-203.
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A world of the city, by the city, for the city.  McDonald, R.I.  2007.  In J. Harf, M.
Lombardi (eds.). Taking Sides: Clashing views in global issues, 4th Edition. McGraw-Hill,
New York.
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The distance decay of similarity in ecological communities. Soininen, J., R.I.
McDonald, and H. Hillebrand. 2007. Ecography 30: 3-12.
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Sustainable Development as Freedom. McDonald, R.I. 2006. The International
Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 13:445-447.
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Forest Edges and Forest Composition in the North Carolina Piedmont.
McDonald, R. I., and D. L. Urban.  2006. Biological Invasions 8(5) : 1049-1060.
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Forest Harvesting and Deforestation Relationships over Two Decades in
Massachusetts.
McDonald, R.I., M.S. Bank, D.B. Kittredge, G. Motzkin, and D.R. Foster.
2006. Forest Ecology and Management 227: 31-41.
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Predicting the unknown: rates of environmental problem generation over
time.
McDonald, R. I. 2006. The Environmentalist 26: 221-225.
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Causes and consequences of land use change in the North Carolina
Piedmont.
Urban, D. L., R. I. McDonald, E. S. Minor, and E. A. Treml. 2006. In J. Wu, B.
Jones, H. Li, and O.L. Loucks (eds.). Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecological
Studies, Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
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Spatially varying rules of landscape change: lessons from a case study.
McDonald, R.I., and D.L. Urban. 2006. Landscape and Urban Planning 74(1): 7-20.
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Shades of green: Measuring the value of urban forests in the housing market.
Mansfield, C., S. Pattanayak, W. McDow, R. I. McDonald, and P. N. Halpin 2005. Journal of
Forest Economics 11(3): 177-199.
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Species compositional similarity and ecoregions: Do ecoregion boundaries
represent zones of high species turnover?
McDonald, R.I., M. McKnight, D. Weiss,
E. Selig, M. O'Connor, C. Violin, and A. Moody. 2005. Biological Conservation 126: 24-40.
Cited in Faculty of a 1000 as an important, "iconoclastic" paper in biology.
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Forest edges and tree growth rates in the North Carolina Piedmont. McDonald,
R. I., and D. L. Urban. 2004. Ecology 85(8): 2258-2266.
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Modeling landscape vegetation pattern in response to historic land-use: A
hypothesis-driven approach for the North Carolina Piedmont.
Taverna, K., D.L.
Urban, and R.I. McDonald.  2004. Landscape Ecology 20: 689-702.
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Spatial pattern of oak regeneration limitation in a complex forest
environment.
McDonald, R. I., R. K. Peet, and D. L. Urban.  2003. Journal of Vegetation
Science 14:441-450.
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Environmental correlates of oak decline and red maple increase in the North
Carolina Piedmont.
McDonald, R. I., R. K. Peet, and D. L. Urban. 2002. Castanea 67:84-
95.
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