Nature in cities and beyond is essential both to species conservation and to provide fulfilling environments for people. But natural spaces in urban places require management, both the protect species and to maintain human health. Research on urban nature often involves those species that can persist within a city and in urban fragments. It also includes the urban forest, which is not necessarily natural, but provides valuable habitat for wildlife and irreplaceable ecosystems services.
Updates
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Belowground interactions with aboveground consequences: Invasive earthworms and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Shishir Paudel, Travis Longcore, Beau MacDonald, Melissa K. McCormick, Katalin Szlavecz, Gail W. T. Wilson, and Scott R. Loss Ecology Volume 97, Issue 3, March 2016, Pages 605–614 Abstract. A mounting body of research suggests that invasive nonnative earthworms substantially alter microbial communities, including arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). These changes to AMF can cascade to affect plant communities and vertebrate populations. Despite these…
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Spatial Scientist Brings New Tools to Classic Conservation Efforts in Baldwin Hills
A state-of-the-art environmental assessment of the Los Angeles Baldwin Hills is underway, led by Associate Professor Travis Longcore, research faculty with the USC Spatial Sciences Institute. The 18-month project is a cooperative effort for the Baldwin Hills Conservancy and theBaldwin Hills Regional Conservation Authority, with technical support from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Travis Longcore. Photo courtesy of Travis…
Publications
| Peng, W., D. López-Carr, C. Wu, X. Wang, and T. Longcore. 2020. What factors influence the willingness of Protected Area residents to relocate? China’s ecological relocation policy for Dashanbao Protected Area. Science of the Total Environment 727:138364. | |
| Peng, W., D. Kong, C. Wu, A.P. Møller, and T. Longcore. 2020. Predicted effects of Chinese national park policy on wildlife habitat provisioning: experience from plateau wetland ecosystem. Environmental Indicators 115:106346. | |
| Aguirre, A., T. Longcore, M. Barbieri, H. Dabritz, D. Hill, P. Klein, C. Lepczyk, E. Lilly, R. McLeod, J. Milcarsky, C. E. Murphy, C. Su, E. VanWormer, R. Yolken, and G. C. Sizemore. 2019. The One Health approach to toxoplasmosis: epidemiology, control and prevention in humans, animals, and ecosystems. EcoHealth 16(2):378-390. | |
| Longcore, T., and P. A. Smith. 2013. On avian mortality associated with human activities [guest editorial]. Avian Conservation and Ecology 8(2):1. | |
| Longcore, T., L. Almaleh, B. Chetty, K. Francis, R. Freidin, C.-S. Huang, B Pickett, D. Schreck, B. Scruggs, E. Shulman, A. Swauger, A. Tashnek, M. Wright, and E. E. Boydston. 2018. Wildlife corridor use and environmental impact assessment: a southern California case study. Cities and the Environment 11(1):art4. | |
| Longcore, T. 2012. No-kill movement means death for birds. Bird Calls 16(3):3. | |
| Bartos, M., S. Dao, D. Douk, S. Falzone, E. Gumerlock, S. Hoekstra, K. Kelly-Reif, D. Mori, C. Tang, C. Vasquez, J. Ward, S. Young, A. Morzillo, S.P.D. Riley, and T. Longcore. 2012. Use of anticoagulant rodenticides in single-family neighborhoods along an urban-wildland interface in California. Cities and the Environment 4(1):art12. | |
| Longcore, T., C. Rich, and L. M. Sullivan. 2009. Critical assessment of claims regarding management of feral cats by trap–neuter–return. Conservation Biology 23(4):887-894. | |
| Longcore, T., C. Rich, and D. Müller-Schwarze. 2007. Management by assertion: beavers and songbirds at Lake Skinner (Riverside County, California). Environmental Management 39:460–471. | |
| Longcore, T. 2006. Prioritizing multiple-benefit watershed projects: dollars or sense? Watershed Wise 10(2):6–7. |