Robert I McDonald - Publications

Affiliations: 
The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO, United States 
Area:
Urban ecology

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Year Citation  Score
2022 Simkin RD, Seto KC, McDonald RI, Jetz W. Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land expansion projected to 2050. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119: e2117297119. PMID 35286193 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2117297119  0.345
2021 Conley G, McDonald RI, Nodine T, Chapman T, Holland C, Hawkins C, Beck N. Assessing the influence of urban greenness and green stormwater infrastructure on hydrology from satellite remote sensing. The Science of the Total Environment. 817: 152723. PMID 34979231 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152723  0.31
2021 McDonald RI, Biswas T, Sachar C, Housman I, Boucher TM, Balk D, Nowak D, Spotswood E, Stanley CK, Leyk S. The tree cover and temperature disparity in US urbanized areas: Quantifying the association with income across 5,723 communities. Plos One. 16: e0249715. PMID 33909628 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0249715  0.323
2021 Hamel P, Guerry AD, Polasky S, Han B, Douglass JA, Hamann M, Janke B, Kuiper JJ, Levrel H, Liu H, Lonsdorf E, McDonald RI, Nootenboom C, Ouyang Z, Remme RP, et al. Mapping the benefits of nature in cities with the InVEST software Npj Urban Sustainability. 1. DOI: 10.1038/s42949-021-00027-9  0.329
2020 McDonald RI, Kroeger T, Zhang P, Hamel P. The Value of US Urban Tree Cover for Reducing Heat-Related Health Impacts and Electricity Consumption Ecosystems. 23: 137-150. DOI: 10.1007/S10021-019-00395-5  0.386
2018 Tellman B, McDonald RI, Goldstein JH, Vogl AL, Flörke M, Shemie D, Dudley R, Dryden R, Petry P, Karres N, Vigerstol K, Lehner B, Veiga F. Opportunities for natural infrastructure to improve urban water security in Latin America. Plos One. 13: e0209470. PMID 30576371 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0209470  0.338
2018 Fargione JE, Bassett S, Boucher T, Bridgham SD, Conant RT, Cook-Patton SC, Ellis PW, Falcucci A, Fourqurean JW, Gopalakrishna T, Gu H, Henderson B, Hurteau MD, Kroeger KD, Kroeger T, ... ... McDonald RI, et al. Natural climate solutions for the United States. Science Advances. 4: eaat1869. PMID 30443593 DOI: 10.1126/Sciadv.Aat1869  0.369
2018 Romulo CL, Posner S, Cousins S, Hoyle Fair J, Bennett DE, Huber-Stearns H, Richards RC, McDonald RI. Global state and potential scope of investments in watershed services for large cities. Nature Communications. 9: 4375. PMID 30349068 DOI: 10.1038/S41467-018-06538-X  0.34
2018 Kroeger T, McDonald RI, Boucher T, Zhang P, Wang L. Where the people are: Current trends and future potential targeted investments in urban trees for PM10 and temperature mitigation in 27 U.S. Cities Landscape and Urban Planning. 177: 227-240. DOI: 10.1016/J.Landurbplan.2018.05.014  0.353
2018 Huang C, McDonald RI, Seto KC. The importance of land governance for biodiversity conservation in an era of global urban expansion Landscape and Urban Planning. 173: 44-50. DOI: 10.1016/J.Landurbplan.2018.01.011  0.43
2018 McDonald RI, Güneralp B, Huang C, Seto KC, You M. Conservation priorities to protect vertebrate endemics from global urban expansion Biological Conservation. 224: 290-299. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2018.06.010  0.475
2018 Tallis HM, Hawthorne PL, Polasky S, Reid J, Beck MW, Brauman K, Bielicki JM, Binder S, Burgess MG, Cassidy E, Clark A, Fargione J, Game ET, Gerber J, Isbell F, ... ... McDonald R, et al. An attainable global vision for conservation and human well-being Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 16: 563-570. DOI: 10.1002/Fee.1965  0.374
2017 Vogl AL, Goldstein JH, Daily GC, Vira B, Bremer L, McDonald RI, Shemie D, Tellman B, Cassin J. Mainstreaming investments in watershed services to enhance water security: Barriers and opportunities Environmental Science & Policy. 75: 19-27. DOI: 10.1016/J.Envsci.2017.05.007  0.303
2016 Trainor AM, McDonald RI, Fargione J. Energy Sprawl Is the Largest Driver of Land Use Change in United States. Plos One. 11: e0162269. PMID 27607423 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0162269  0.33
2016 McDonald RI, Weber KF, Padowski J, Boucher T, Shemie D. Estimating watershed degradation over the last century and its impact on water-treatment costs for the world's large cities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 27457941 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1605354113  0.365
2016 Pennino MJ, McDonald RI, Jaffe PR. Watershed-scale impacts of stormwater green infrastructure on hydrology, nutrient fluxes, and combined sewer overflows in the mid-Atlantic region. The Science of the Total Environment. PMID 27261425 DOI: 10.1016/J.Scitotenv.2016.05.101  0.383
2015 McDonald RI. The effectiveness of conservation interventions to overcome the urban-environmental paradox. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. PMID 25845289 DOI: 10.1111/Nyas.12752  0.392
2014 McDonald RI, Weber K, Padowski J, Flörke M, Schneider C, Green PA, Gleeson T, Eckman S, Lehner B, Balk D, Boucher T, Grill G, Montgomery M. Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure Global Environmental Change. 27: 96-105. DOI: 10.1016/J.Gloenvcha.2014.04.022  0.335
2013 McDonald RI, Girvetz EH. Two challenges for U.S. irrigation due to climate change: increasing irrigated area in wet states and increasing irrigation rates in dry states. Plos One. 8: e65589. PMID 23755255 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0065589  0.369
2012 McDonald RI, Olden JD, Opperman JJ, Miller WM, Fargione J, Revenga C, Higgins JV, Powell J. Energy, water and fish: biodiversity impacts of energy-sector water demand in the United States depend on efficiency and policy measures. Plos One. 7: e50219. PMID 23185581 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0050219  0.304
2011 McDonald RI, Green P, Balk D, Fekete BM, Revenga C, Todd M, Montgomery M. Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 108: 6312-7. PMID 21444797 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1011615108  0.386
2011 McDonald RI, Boucher TM. Global development and the future of the protected area strategy Biological Conservation. 144: 383-392. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2010.09.016  0.393
2011 McDonald R. The Coming Global Urbanization: What it Means for Freshwater Provision Journal American Water Works Association. 103: 20-21. DOI: 10.1002/J.1551-8833.2011.Tb11537.X  0.359
2010 McDonald RI, Forman RT, Kareiva P. Open space loss and land inequality in United States' cities, 1990-2000. Plos One. 5: e9509. PMID 20209082 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0009509  0.717
2010 Denning CA, Mcdonald RI, Christensen J. Did land protection in Silicon Valley reduce the housing stock? Biological Conservation. 143: 1087-1093. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2010.01.025  0.454
2009 McDonald RI. The promise and pitfalls of systematic conservation planning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 15101-2. PMID 19805246 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0908125106  0.308
2009 McDonald RI, Fargione J, Kiesecker J, Miller WM, Powell J. Energy sprawl or energy efficiency: climate policy impacts on natural habitat for the United States of America. Plos One. 4: e6802. PMID 19707570 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0006802  0.353
2009 Mcdonald RI, Forman RTT, Kareiva P, Neugarten R, Salzer D, Fisher J. Urban effects, distance, and protected areas in an urbanizing world Landscape and Urban Planning. 93: 63-75. DOI: 10.1016/J.Landurbplan.2009.06.002  0.408
2008 McDonald RI, Motzkin G, Foster DR. Assessing the influence of historical factors, contemporary processes, and environmental conditions on the distribution of invasive species1 Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 135: 260-271. DOI: 10.3159/08-Ra-012.1  0.586
2008 McDonald RI. Global urbanization: Can ecologists identify a sustainable way forward? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 6: 99-104. DOI: 10.1890/070038  0.405
2008 McDonald RI, Motzkin G, Foster DR. The effect of logging on vegetation composition in Western Massachusetts Forest Ecology and Management. 255: 4021-4031. DOI: 10.1016/J.Foreco.2008.03.054  0.593
2008 Mcdonald RI, Kareiva P, Forman RTT. The implications of current and future urbanization for global protected areas and biodiversity conservation Biological Conservation. 141: 1695-1703. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2008.04.025  0.429
2008 Minor ES, McDonald RI, Treml EA, Urban DL. Uncertainty in spatially explicit population models Biological Conservation. 141: 956-970. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2007.12.032  0.721
2007 McDonald RI, Yuan-Farrell C, Fievet C, Moeller M, Kareiva P, Foster D, Gragson T, Kinzig A, Kuby L, Redman C. Estimating the effect of protected lands on the development and conservation of their surroundings. Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society For Conservation Biology. 21: 1526-36. PMID 18173476 DOI: 10.1111/J.1523-1739.2007.00799.X  0.62
2007 Kareiva P, Watts S, McDonald R, Boucher T. Domesticated nature: shaping landscapes and ecosystems for human welfare. Science (New York, N.Y.). 316: 1866-9. PMID 17600209 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1140170  0.327
2007 McDonald RI, Halpin PN, Urban DL. Monitoring succession from space: A case study from the North Carolina Piedmont Applied Vegetation Science. 10: 193-203. DOI: 10.1111/J.1654-109X.2007.Tb00517.X  0.648
2007 Soininen J, McDonald R, Hillebrand H. The distance decay of similarity in ecological communities Ecography. 30: 3-12. DOI: 10.1111/J.0906-7590.2007.04817.X  0.342
2006 McDonald RI, Urban DL. Spatially varying rules of landscape change: Lessons from a case study Landscape and Urban Planning. 74: 7-20. DOI: 10.1016/J.Landurbplan.2004.08.005  0.654
2006 McDonald RI, Motzkin G, Bank MS, Kittredge DB, Burk J, Foster DR. Forest harvesting and land-use conversion over two decades in Massachusetts Forest Ecology and Management. 227: 31-41. DOI: 10.1016/J.Foreco.2006.02.006  0.636
2006 McDonald RI, Urban DL. Edge effects on species composition and exotic species abundance in the North Carolina Piedmont Biological Invasions. 8: 1049-1060. DOI: 10.1007/S10530-005-5227-5  0.643
2006 Urban DL, McDonald RI, Minor ES, Treml EA. Causes and consequences of land use change in the north carolina piedmont: the scope of uncertainty Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications. 239-257. DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4663-4_13  0.719
2005 Mansfield C, Pattanayak SK, McDow W, McDonald R, Halpin P. Shades of Green: Measuring the value of urban forests in the housing market Journal of Forest Economics. 11: 177-199. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jfe.2005.08.002  0.465
2005 McDonald R, McKnight M, Weiss D, Selig E, O'Connor M, Violin C, Moody A. Species compositional similarity and ecoregions: Do ecoregion boundaries represent zones of high species turnover? Biological Conservation. 126: 24-40. DOI: 10.1016/J.Biocon.2005.05.008  0.381
2005 Taverna K, Urban DL, McDonald RI. Modeling landscape vegetation pattern in response to historic land-use: A hypothesis-driven approach for the North Carolina Piedmont, USA Landscape Ecology. 20: 689-702. DOI: 10.1007/S10980-004-5652-3  0.644
2004 MCDonald RI, Urban DL. FOREST EDGES AND TREE GROWTH RATES IN THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT Ecology. 85: 2258-2266. DOI: 10.1890/03-0313  0.663
2003 McDonald RI, Peet RK, Urban DL. Spatial pattern of Quercus regeneration limitation and Acer rubrum invasion in a Piedmont forest Journal of Vegetation Science. 14: 441-450. DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2003)014[0441:Spoqrl]2.0.Co;2  0.723
2003 McDonald R, Peet R, Urban D. Spatial pattern of Quercus regeneration limitation and Acer rubrum invasion in a Piedmont forest Journal of Vegetation Science. 14: 441. DOI: 10.1658/1100-9233(2003)014[0441:SPOQRL]2.0.CO;2  0.624
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