Publications

Books

Kitzes, J. 2022. Handbook of Quantitative Ecology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Kitzes, J., Turek, D., & Deniz, F. (Eds.). 2018. The Practice of Reproducible Research: Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Journal Articles

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Lapp, S., Rhinehart, T., Freeland-Haynes, L., Khilnani, J., Syunkova, A., & Kitzes, J. 2023. OpenSoundscape: an open-source bioacoustics analysis package for Python. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(9), 2321-2328.

Chronister, L.M., Rhinehart, T.A., & Kitzes, J. 2023. When birds sing at the same pitch, they avoid singing at the same time. Ibis, 165(3), 1047-1053.

Lapp, S., Stahlman, N., & Kitzes, J. 2023. A quantitative evaluation of the performance of the low-cost AudioMoth acoustic recording unit. Sensors, 23, 5254.

Lapp, S., Larkin, J.L., Parker, H.A., Larkin, J.T., Shaffer, D.R., Tett, C., McNeil, D.J., Fiss, C.J., Kitzes, J. 2023. Automated recognition of ruffed grouse drumming in field recordings. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 47(1), e1395.

Rhinehart, T.A., Turek, D., Kitzes, J. 2022. A continuous-score occupancy model that incorporates uncertain machine learning output from autonomous biodiversity surveys. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(8), 1778-1789.

Reeb, R.A., Aziz, N., Lapp, S.M., Kitzes, J., Heberling, J.M., & Kuebbing, S.E. 2022. Using convolutional neural networks to efficiently extract immense phenological data from community science images. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12.

Nagy, R.C., Balch, J.K, …, Kitzes, J., … [117 others]. 2021. Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community. Ecosphere, 12(12), e03833.

Kitzes, J., Blake, R., Bomabci, S., Chapman, M., Duran, S.M., Huang, T., Joseph, M.B., Lapp, S., Marconi, S., Oestreich, W.K., Rhinehart, T.A., Schweiger, A.K., Song, Y., Surasinghe, T., Yang, D., & Yule, K. 2021. Expanding NEON biodiversity surveys with new instrumentation and machine learning approaches. Ecosphere, 12(11), e03795.

Lapp, S., Wu, T., Richards-Zawacki, C., Voyles, J., Rodriguez, K.M., & Kitzes, J. (2021). Automated detection of frog calls and choruses by pulse repetition rate. Conservation Biology, 35(5), 1659-1668.

Kitzes, J., Brush, M., & Walters, K. (2021). A unified framework for species spatial patterns: Linking the occupancy area curve, Taylor’s Law, the neighborhood density function, and two-plot species turnover. Ecology Letters, 24(10), 2043-2053.

Chronister, L.M., Rhinehart, T.A., Place, A., & Kitzes, J. (2021). An annotated set of audio recordings of Eastern North American birds containing frequency, time, and species information. Ecology, 102(6), e03329.

Muñoz‐Sáez, A., Kitzes, J., & Merenlender, A.M. (2021). Bird‐friendly wine country through diversified vineyards. Conservation Biology, 35(1), 274-284.

Shamon, H., Paraskevopoulou, Z., Kitzes, J., Carda, E., Deichmanna, J.L., Boyce, A.J., & McShea, W.J. (2021). Using ecoacoustics metrices to track grassland bird richness across landscape gradients. Ecological Indicators, 120, 106928.

Rhinehart, T., Chronister, L., Devlin, T., & Kitzes, J. (2020). Acoustic localization of wildlife: current practices and future opportunities. Ecology and Evolution, 10(13), 6794-6818.

Kitzes, J., & Schricker, L. (2019). The necessity, promise, and challenge of automated biodiversity surveys. Environmental Conservation, 46(4), 247-250.

Kitzes, J. (2019) Evidence for power-law scaling in species aggregation. Ecography, 42(6), 1224-1225.

Kitzes, J., Berlow, E., Conlisk, E., Erb, K., Iha, K., Martinez, N., Newman, E. A., Plutzar, C., Smith, A. B., & Harte, J. (2017) Consumption-based conservation targeting: Linking biodiversity loss to economic consumption through a global wildlife footprint. Conservation Letters, 10(5): 531-538.

Wilson, G., Bryan, J., Cranston, K., Kitzes, J., Nederbragt, L., & Teal, T. K. (2017). Good enough practices for scientific computing. PLoS Computational Biology, 13(6): e1005510.

Kelly, R., Kitzes, J., Wilson, H., & Merenlender, A. (2016). Habitat diversity promotes bat activity in a vineyard landscape. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 223, 175-181.

Kitzes, J., & Wilber, M. (2016). macroeco: Reproducible ecological pattern analysis in Python. Ecography, 39, 361-367.

Kitzes, J., & Shirley, R. (2016). Estimating biodiversity impacts without field surveys: A case study in northern Borneo. Ambio, 45(1), 110-119.

Kitzes, J., & Harte, J. (2015). Predicting extinction debt from community patterns. Ecology, 96(8), 2172-2136.

Wilber, M., Kitzes, J., & Harte, J. (2015). Scale collapse and the emergence of the power law species-area relationship. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(8), 883–895.

McGlinn, D., Xiao, X., Kitzes, J., & White, E. (2015). Exploring the spatially explicit predictions of the Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(6), 675-684.

Harte, J., & Kitzes, J. (2014). Inferring regional-scale species diversity from small-plot censuses. PLoS ONE, 10(2), e0117527.

Kitzes, J., & Harte, J. (2014). Beyond the species-area relationship: Improving macroecological extinction estimates. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 5(1), 1-8.

Kitzes, J., & Merenlender, A. (2014). Large roads reduce bat activity across multiple species. PLoS ONE, 5(1), 1-8.

Kitzes, J., & Merenlender, A. (2013). Extinction risk and tradeoffs in reserve site selection for species of different body sizes. Conservation Letters, 6(5), 341-349.

Kitzes, J. (2013). An introduction to environmentally-extended input-output analysis. Resources, 2(4), 489-503.

Harte, J., Kitzes, J., Newman, E., & Rominger, A. (2013). Taxon categories and the universal species-area relationship. The American Naturalist, 181(2), 282-287.

Ramage, B. S., Kitzes, J., Marshalek, E. C., & Potts, M. D. (2013). Optimized Floating Refugia: A new strategy for species conservation in production forest landscapes. Biodiversity and Conservation, 22(3), 789-801.

Ramage, B. S., Marshalek, E. C., Kitzes, J., & Potts, M. D. (2013). Conserving tropical biodiversity via strategic spatiotemporal harvest planning. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50(6), 1301–1310.

Barnosky, A. D., Hadly, E. A., Bascompte, J., Berlow, E. L., Brown, J. H., Fortelius, M., Getz, W. M., Harte, J., Hastings, A., Marquet, P. A., Martinez, N. D., Mooers, A., Roopnarine, P., Vermeij, G., Williams, J. W., Gillespie, R., Kitzes, J., Marshall, C., Matzke, N., Mindell, D. P., Revilla, E., & Smith, A. B. (2012). Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere. Nature, 486, 52-58.

Leach, A. M., Galloway, J. N., Bleeker, A, Erisman, J.W., Kohn, R., & Kitzes, J. (2012). A nitrogen footprint model to help consumers understand their role in nitrogen losses to the environment. Environmental Development, 1, 40-66.

Galli, A., Kitzes, J., Niccolucci, V., Wackernagel, M., Wada, Y., & Marchettini, N. (2012). Assessing the global environmental consequences of economic growth through the Ecological Footprint: a focus on China and India. Ecological Indicators, 17, 99-107.

Khagram, S., Nicholas, K. A., Bever, D. M., Warren, J., Richards, E. H., Oleson, K., Kitzes, J., Katz, R., Hwang, R., Goldman, R., Funk, J., & Brauman, K. A. (2010). Thinking about knowing: conceptual foundations for interdisciplinary environmental research. Environmental Conservation, 37(4), 388-397.

Kitzes, J., & Wackernagel, M. (2009). Answers to common questions in Ecological Footprint accounting. Ecological Indicators, 9(4), 812-817.

Kitzes, J., Moran, D., Galli, A., Wada, Y., & Wackernagel, M. (2009). Interpretation and application of the Ecological Footprint: A reply to Fiala (2008). Ecological Economics, 68(4), 929-930.

Kitzes, J., Galli, A., Bagliani, M., Barrett, J., Dige, G., Ede, S., et al. (2009). A research agenda for improving national Ecological Footprint accounts. Ecological Economics, 68(7), 1991-2007.

Moran, D. D., Wackernagel, M. C., Kitzes, J. A., Heumann, B. W., Phan, D., & Goldfinger, S. H. (2009). Trading spaces: Calculating embodied Ecological Footprints in international trade using a Product Land Use Matrix (PLUM). Ecological Economics, 68(7), 1938-1951.

Kitzes, J., Wackernagel, M., Loh, J., Peller, A., Goldfinger, S., Cheng, D., & Tea, K. (2008). Shrink and share: humanity’s present and future Ecological Footprint. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 363(1491), 467-475.

Moran, D. D., Wackernagel, M., Kitzes, J. A., Goldfinger, S. H., & Boutaud, A. (2008). Measuring sustainable development – Nation by nation. Ecological Economics, 64(3), 470-474.

Niccolucci, V., Galli, A., Kitzes, J., Pulselli, R., Borsa, S., & Marchettini, N. (2008). Ecological Footprint analysis applied to the production of two Italian wines. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 128(3), 162-166.

Galli, A., Kitzes, J., Wermer, P., Wackernagel, M., Niccolucci, V., & Tiezzi, E. (2007). An exploration of the mathematics behind the ecological footprint. International Journal of Ecodynamics, 2(4), 250-257.

Wackernagel, M., Kitzes, J., Moran, D., Goldfinger, S., & Thomas, M. (2006). The Ecological Footprint of cities and regions: comparing resource availability with resource demand. Environment and Urbanization, 18(1), 103-112.

Kitzes, J. A., & Denny, M. W. (2005). Red algae respond to waves: morphological and mechanical variation in Mastocarpus papillatus along a gradient of force. The Biological Bulletin, 208, 114-119.

Book Chapters

Kitzes, J. (2018). Introduction. In J. Kitzes, D. Turek, & F. Deniz (Eds.), The Practice of Reproducible Research: Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Kitzes, J. (2018). The basic reproducible workflow template. In J. Kitzes, D. Turek, & F. Deniz (Eds.), The Practice of Reproducible Research: Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Kitzes, J. (2018). Analyzing bat distributions in a human-dominated landscape with autonomous acoustic detectors and machine learning models. In J. Kitzes, D. Turek, & F. Deniz (Eds.), The Practice of Reproducible Research: Case Studies and Lessons from the Data-Intensive Sciences. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Harte, J., & Kitzes, J. (2012). The use and misuse of species-area relationships in predicting climate-driven extinction. In L. Hannah (Ed.), Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change (pp. 73-86). Washington, DC: Island Press.

Wackernagel, M., & Kitzes, J. (2008). Ecological Footprint. In S. Jorgensen & B. Fath (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Ecology (pp. 1031-1037). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.