Craig Allen

Craig Allen

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Contact Information

TitleResilience Scientist | Director of Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes (CRAWL)
Faculty RankProfessor
Address203K Keim Hall
1825 North 38th Street
Lincoln NE
68583–0953
Phone
  • office: 402-472-0421
  • fax: 402-472-4915
E-mailcallen3@unl.edu

 

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My Story

Hi, my name is Craig Allen, and I am the Director of the Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes (CRAWL).

Prior to coming to UNL in July 2004, I was leader (2002 - 2004) and assistant leader (1998-2001) of the South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Clemson University. I held a non-tenure track faculty position in the zoology department at the University of Florida before that.

I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, but was born in Berkeley, California. I spent three years in Southhampton and Oxford in England; and Katwijk Aan Zee in the Netherlands. For a period in Wisconsin, I ran a chimney sweeping company with two partners, but I try to keep away from roofs today.

Professionally, I am most interested in understanding the links between land use or land cover change, biological invasions and extinctions. I conduct both applied and theoretical research on the impacts and predictions of invasions, and hope to continue a focus on invasive species in Nebraska, using empirical, experimental and spatial tools. I am also interested in how invasions can affect the resilience of ecosystems and other complex systems. I also sit on the Board of Directors for the Resilience Alliance.

Craig Allen

On a personal note, I am married to my wife Patty who I met during biology class in Green Bay a we have a son. After 14 years in the South, Patty and I are not so eager to shovel snow, but we are happy to be back in the Midwest. We enjoy travel and the outdoors.

Selected Publications

Garmestani, A., C.R. Allen, D.G. Angeler, L. Gunderson and J.B. Ruhl. 2023. Multi-scale adaptive management of social-ecological systems. BioScience 73: 800-807Online
Angeler, D.G., A. Garmestani, C.R. Allen, L.H. Gunderson. 2023. Moving beyond the Panarchy heuristic. Advances in Ecological Research 69: 69-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2023.10.005. Online
Bird KIT, Uden DR, Allen CR (2023) Functional connectivity varies across scales in a fragmented landscape. PLoS ONE 18(8): e0289706. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0289706Online
Clement, S., Jozaei, J., Mitchell, M. Allen, C.R., Garmestani, A.S. 2023. How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social-ecological systems. Env Pol Gov. 2023;1–12. DOI: 10.1002/eet.2056Online
Fill, C., and C.R. Allen. 2023. Spatial and temporal activity patterns among sympatric tree-roosting bat species in an agriculturally dominated Great Plains landscape. Ecology and Society 27(2):11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13170-270211 251. Online
Fill, C.T.*, Allen, C.R., Benson, J.F., Twidwell, D. 2023. Fine-scale spatial and temporal activity patterns between tree-roosting bat species in an intensively managed agricultural landscape. Plos One 18
Harvey, N., A. Garmestani, C.R. Allen, A. Buijze, and M. van Rijswick. 2023. Identifying untapped legal capacity to promote multi-level and cross-sectoral coordination of natural resource governance. Sustainability Science: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01424-y. Online
Scown, M.W., R.K. Craig, C.R. Allen, L. Gunderson, D.G. Angeler, J.H. Garcia and A. Garmestani. 2023. Towards a global sustainable development agenda built on social- ecological resilience. Global Sustainability 6, e8, 1–14. https://doi.org/0.1017/sus.2023.8. Online
Sundstrom, S., Angeler, D., Bell, J., Hayes, M., Hodbod, J., Jalalzadeh-Fard, B., Mahmood, R., VanWormer, E., and Allen, C. 2023. Panarchy Theory for Convergence. Sustainability Science https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01299-z 95.Online
Sundstrom, S.M., D.G. Angeler, C.R. Allen. 2023. Resilience theory and coerced resilience in agriculture. Agricultural Systems: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2023.103612. Online
Vallury, S., Chaffin, B.C., Hamlin, S.L., Allen, C.R. 2023. Communication in the science-policy interface: Evidence from a boundary organization in Nebraska, USA. Environmental Science and Policy 148 (2023) 103558 doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2023.103558Online
Allen, C., Angeler, D., Roberts, C., Sundstrom, S., Twidwell Jr, D., Uden, D. (2022). Applications of spatial regimes. Applied Panarchy (pp. 94-115).
Allen, C., Balvanera, P., Brown, K. (2022). A new adaptive cycle for Ecology and Society. Ecology and Society, 27(2). Online
Angeler DG, Eyre HA, Berk M, Allen CR, Hynes W, Linkov I. Adaptation, transformation and resilience in healthcare: Comment on “Government actions and their relation to resilience in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales, Australia and Ontario, Canada.” Int J Health Policy Manag. 2022;11(9):1949–1952. doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7043Online
Angeler, D., Allen, C. (2022). Scales of coercion: Resilience, regimes, and panarchy. Applied Panarchy (pp. 77-93).Online
Angeler, D., Roberts, C., Twidwell Jr, D., Allen, C. (2022). The role of rare avian species for spatial resilience of shifting biomes in the Great Plains of North America. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.Online
Caven, A., Allen, C., Bird, K. (2022). A Long-term Vision for an Ecologically Sound Platte RIver (pp. 202pp.). UNL/ Zea Books. Online
Fill, C. T., C. R. Allen, D. Twidwell, and J. F. Benson. 2022. Spatial distribution of bat activity in agricultural fields: implications for ecosystem service estimates. Ecology and Society 27(2):11.Online
Fogarty, D., Allen, C., Twidwell Jr, D. (2022). Incipient woody plant encroachment near native tree plantings signals heightened vulnerability for an intact grassland region. Journal of Vegetation ScienceOnline
Gunderson, L., Allen, C. (2022). Applications and diffusion of Panarchy Theory. Applied Panarchy (pp. 1-26).
Gunderson, L., Allen, C. (2022). Panarchy: Nature's rules. Applied Panarchy.
Gunderson, L., Allen, C., Garmestani, A. (2022). Applied Panarchy: Applications and diffusion across disciplines (pp. 324pp). Island Press.
Hogan, K., Fogarty, D., Ellerman, H., Fill, C., Morales, D., Seguin, B., Uden, D., Allen, C. (2022). Rangelands in a fragmented grass-dominated landscape are vulnerable to tree invasion from roadsides. Biological Invasions, 24, 3341-3347Online
Hogan, K.F.E., Fogarty, D.T., Ellerman, H., Fill, C., Morales, D., Seguin, B., Uden, D.R., Allen, C.R. 2022. Rangelands in a fragmented grass‑dominated landscape are vulnerable to tree invasion from roadsides. Biol Invasions. doi:10.1007/s10530-022-02869-5Online
Jozaei, J., Allen, C. (2022). Social vulnerability, social-ecological resilience and coastal governance. Global Sustainability, 5, 1-9.Online
Roberts, C. P., Uden, D., Allen, C., Angler, D. G., Powell, L. A., Allred, B. W., Maestas, J. D., Twidwell Jr, D. (2022). Tracking spatial regimes in animal communities: implications for resilience-based management. Ecological Indicators, 136, 9 pages (108567).Online
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C. (2022). Resilience of Working Agricultural Landscapes. Food, Energy, Water Nexus. Online
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C. (2022). The adaptive cycle: More than a metaphor. Applied Panarchy (pp. 51-76).
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C., Angeler, D. (2022). Panarchy, cross-scale resilience, and discontinuous structures and processes. Applied Panarchy (pp. 29-50).
Sundstrom, S., D.G. Angeler, J.G. Ernakovich, J.H. Garcia, J.A. Hamm, O. Huntington, and C.R. Allen. 2022. The emergence of convergence. Elementa 11 (1): 00128. Online
Twidwell, D., Uden, D. R., Roberts, C. P., Allred, B. W., Jones, M. O., Naugle, D. E., Allen, C. R. (2022). Mapping panarchy to improve visualization of complex environmental change. Applied panarchy: Applications and diffusion across disciplines (pp. 136-152). Washington, D.C.: Island Press
Uden, D., Allen, C. (2022). Phylogenetic risk assessment is robust for forecasting the impact of non-native insects on North American trees. Ecological Applications. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2761Online
Vallury, S., Banerjee, S., Twidwell Jr, D., Uden, D., Allen, C. (2022). Adaptive capacity beyond the household: a systematic review of empirical social-ecological research. Environmental Research Letters, 16(063001).Online
Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Herrmann, V., Rollinson, C. R., Gonzalez, B., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Pederson, N., Alexander, M. R., Allen, C., Alfaro-Sanchez, R., Awada, T. N., Baltzer, J. L., Baker, P. J., Birch, J. D., Bunyavejchewin, S., Cherubini, P., Davies, S. J., Dow, C., Helcoski, R., Kaspar, J., Lutz, J. A., Margolis, E. Q., Maxwell, J. T., McMahon, S. M., Piponiot, C., Russo, S. E., Samonil, P., Sniderhan, A. E., Tepley, A. J., Vasickova, I., Vlam, M., Zuidema, P. A. (2021). Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 28(1), 245-266. Online
Angeler, D., Allen, C., Garmestani, A., Gunderson, L., Johnson, R. (2021). Panarchy and management of lake ecosystems. Ecology and Society.Online
Bielski, C., Scholtz, R., Donovan, V., Allen, C., Twidwell Jr, D. (2021). Overcoming an “irreversible” threshold: a 15-year fire experiment. Journal of environmental management, 291, 112550. Online
Bielski, C.H., Scholtz, R., Donovan, V., Allen, C.R., Twidwell, D. 2021. Overcoming an “irreversible” threshold: A 15-year fire experiment. Journal of Environmental Management 291 (2021) 112550. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112550Online
Donovan, V. M., Roberts, C. P., Wonkka, C. L., Uden, D., Angeler, D. G., Allen, C. R., Wedin, D., Drijber, R., Twidwell, D. (2021). Collapse, reorganization, and regime identity: breaking down past management paradigms in a forest-grassland ecotone. Ecology and Society, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12340-260227Online
Epperson, D.M., Allen, C.R., Hogan, K.F.E. 2021. Red Imported Fire Ants Reduce Invertebrate Abundance, Richness, and Diversity in Gopher Tortoise Burrows. Diversity. 13,7.Online
Fill, C., Allen, C., Twidwell, D., Benson, J. F. (2021). Northern long-eared bat roost use at the western periphery of their range. American Midland Naturalist, 185(2), 241-248.
Fill, C., Allen, C.R., Benson, J.F., Twidwell, D. 2021. Roost Use and Movements of Northern Long-Eared Bats in a Southeast Nebraska Agricultural Landscape. American Midland Naturalist. 185:241-248.Online
Herrmann, D., Schwarz, K., Allen, C., Angeler, D., Eason, T., Garmestani, A. (2021). Iterative scenarios for social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society. Online
Janssen, M. A., C. R. Allen, and L. Gunderson. 2021. Transition. Ecology and Society 26(1):32. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12482-260132Online
Roberts, C., Donovan, V., Allen, C., Angeler, D., Helzer, C., Wedin, D. A., Twidwell Jr, D. (2021). Monitoring for spatial regimes in rangelands. Rangeland Ecology and Management., 74, 114-118.
Angeler, D., Chaffin, B., Sundstrom, S., Garmestani, A., Pope, K. L., Uden, D., Twidwell, D., Allen, C. (2020). Coerced regimes: management challenges in the Anthropocene. Ecology and Society, 25(1), 4.Online
Chambers, J.C., Allen, C.R., Cushman, S.A. 2020. Editorial: Operationalizing the Concepts of Resilience and Resistance for Managing Ecosystems and Species at Risk. Front. Ecol. Evol. 8:168. Online
Garmestani, A., Twidwell, D., Angeler, D.G., Sundstrom, S., Barichievy, C., Chaffin, B.C., Eason, T., Graham, N., Granholm, D., Gunderson, L., Knutson, M., Nash, K.L., Nelson, R.J., Nystrom, M., Spanbauer, T.L., Stow, C.A., Allen, C.R. 2020. Panarchy: Opportunities and Challenges for Ecosystem Management. Front Ecol Environ. doi:10.1002/fee.2264Online
Angeler, D., Allen, C., Twidwell, D., Winder, M. 2019. Discontinuity analysis reveals alternative community regimes during phytoplankton succession. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 139.Online
Angeler, D., Fried-Petersen, H. B., Allen, C., Garmestani, A., Twidwell, D., Chuang, W., Donovan, V., Eason, T., Roberts, C., Sundstrom, S., others. 2019. Adaptive capacity in ecosystems. Resilience in Complex Socioecological Systems, 60, 1.Online
Angeler, D., Fried-Petersen, H. B., Allen, C., Garmestani, A., Twidwell, D., Chuang, W.-C., Donovan, V. M., Eason, T., Roberts, C., Sundstrom, S., Wonkka, C. 2019. Adaptive capacity in ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research. 60:1-24.Online
Chambers, J. C., Allen, C., Cushman, S. A. 2019. Operationalizing Ecological Resilience Concepts for Managing Species and Ecosystems at Risk. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 241.Online
Garmestani, A., Ruhl, J., Chaffin, B. C., Craig, R. K., van Rijswick, H. F., Angeler, D., Folke, C., Gunderson, L., Twidwell, D., Allen, C. 2019. Untapped capacity for resilience in environmental law. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(4Online
Haigh, T. R., Schacht, W., Knutson, C., Smart, A. J., Volesky, J., Allen, C., Burbach, M. E. 2019. Socioecological determinants of drought impacts and coping strategies for ranching operations in the Great Plains. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 72: 561-5Online
Haigh, T. R., Schacht, W., Knutson, C., Smart, A. J., Volesky, J., Allen, C., Hayes, M. J., Burbach, M. 2019. Socioecological Determinants of Drought Impacts and Coping Strategies for Ranching Operations in the Great Plains. Rangeland Ecology \& ManagemenOnline
Haigh, T., Schacht, W., Knutson, C., Smart, A., Volesky, J., Allen, C., Hayes, M. J., Burbach, M. 2019. Socio-ecological determinants of drought impacts and coping strategies for ranching operations in the Great Plains. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 7Online
Kaemingk, M.A., C.J. Chizinski, C.R. Allen, and K.L. Pope. 2019. Ecosystem size predicts social-ecological dynamics. Ecology and Society. 24(2):17.Online
Keele, E. C., Donovan, V. M., Roberts, C. P., Nodskov, S. M., Wonkka, C. L., Allen, C., Powell, L. A., Wedin, D. A., Angeler, D. G., Twidwell, D. 2019. Relationships Between Wildfire Burn Severity, Cavity-Nesting Bird Assemblages, and Habitat in an EasterOnline
Keele, E. C., Donovan, V. M., Roberts, C. P., Nodskov, S. M., Wonkka, C., Allen, C., Powell, L. A., Wedin, D. A., Angeler, D. G., Twidwell, D. (2019). Relationships between a burn severity gradient, cavity-nesting birds and habitat in ponderosa pine fores
Keele, E. C., Donovan, V. M., Roberts, C. P., Nodskov, S. M., Wonkka, C., Allen, C., Powell, L. A., Wedin, D. A., Angeler, D. G., Twidwell, D. 2019. Relationships between wildlife burn severity, cavity-nesting bird assemblages, and habitat in eastern pondOnline
Keele, E. C., Donovan, V. M., Roberts, C., Nodskov, S. M., Wonkka, C., Allen, C., Powell, L. A., Wedin, D. A., Angeler, D., Twidwell, D. 2019. Relationships between Wildfire Burn Severity, Cavity-Nesting Bird Assemblages, and Habitat in an Eastern PonderoOnline
Mech, A. M., Thomas, K. A., Marsico, T. D., Herms, D. A., Allen, C., Ayres, M. P., Gandhi, K. J. K., Gurevitch, J., Havill, N. P., Hufbauer, R. A., Liebhold, A. M., Raffa, K. F., Schultz, A. N., Uden, D., Tobin, P. C. 2019. Evolutionary history predicts t
Roberts, C. P., Donovan, V. M., Powell, L. A., Allen, C., Wonkka, C., Angeler, D. G., Wedin, D. A., Twidwell, D. 2019. Fire legacies in eastern ponderosa pine forests. Ecology and Evolution. 9: 1869–1879.
Roberts, C., Allen, C., Angeler, D., Twidwell, D. (2019). Shifting avian spatial regimes in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change, 9(7), 562.Online
Roberts, C., Twidwell, D., Angeler, D., Allen, C. (2019). How do ecological resilience metrics relate to community stability and collapse? Ecological Indicators, 107, 105552.Online
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C. 2019. The adaptive cycle: More than a metaphor. Ecological Complexity. 39, 100767.Online
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C., Angeler, D. 2019. Scaling and discontinuities in the global economy. Journal of Evolutionary Economics.Online
Twidwell, D., Wonkka, C., Wang, H.-H., Grant, W. E., Allen, C., Fuhlendorf, S. D., Garmestani, A. S., Angeler, D., Taylor, Jr, C. A., Kreuter, U. P., others 2019. Coerced resilience in fire management. Journal of Environmental Management, 240, 368--373.Online
Uden, D., Twidwell, D., Allen, C., Jones, M. O., Naugle, D. E., Maestas, J. D., Allred, B. W. 2019. Spatial Imaging and Screening for Regime Shifts. Front. Ecol. Evol. 29.Online
Uden, D., Twidwell, D., Allen, C., Jones, M. O., Naugle, D. E., Maestas, J. D., Allred, B. W. 2019. Spatial Imaging and Screening for Regime Shifts. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7:407.Online
Allen, C. (2018). Exploring the Role of Relational Practices in Water Governance Using a Game-Based Approach. Water, 10, 346.
Allen, C. (2018). Agroecology for the shrinking city. Sustainability, 10, 675.
Allen, C. (2018). Tiered approach to resilience assessment. Risk Analysis, 38, 1772-1780.
Allen, C., Angeler, D. (2018). Resilience concepts in psychiatry demonstrated with bipolar disorder. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, 6(1), 2.
Allen, C., Angeler, D., Sundstrom, S. (2018). A method to detect discontinuities in census data. Ecology and Evolution, 8, 9614-9623.
Allen, C., Birge, H. (2018). Stability and Flexibility in the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance. Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance (pp. 167-181).
Allen, C., Birge, H., Angeler, D. (2018). Quantifying uncertainty and trade-offs in resilience assessments. Ecology and Society, 23, 1.
Allen, C., Birge, H., Angeler, D. (2018). Uncertainty and Trade-Offs in Resilience Assessments. Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance (pp. 243-268).
Angeler, D., Allen, C., Garmestani, A., Pope, K. L., Twidwell, D., Bundschuh, M. (2018). Resilience in environmental risk and impact assessment: concepts and measurement. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 101, 543-548.
Bieber, N., Allen, C. (2018). River otter distribution in Nebraska. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 42, 136-143.
Burnett, J., Pope, K. L., Allen, C., Uden, D. (2018). Thermal Tolerance Limits of the Chinese Mystery Snail (Bellamya chinensis): Implications for Management. American Malacological Bulletin, 36, 140-144.
Donovan, V., Burnett, J., Bielski, C., Birge, H., Twidwell, D., Allen, C. (2018). Social–ecological landscape patterns predict woody encroachment from native tree plantings in a temperate grassland. Ecology and Evolution.
Ou, G., Munoz-Arriola, F., Uden, D., Martin, D. L., Allen, C., Shank, N. (2018). Climate change implications for irrigation and groundwater in the Republican River Basin, USA. Climate Change, 151, 303-316.
Roberts, C., Sundstrom, S., Burnett, J., Twidwell, D., Angeler, D., Allen, C. (2018). Enhancing quantitative approaches for assessing community resilience. Journal of Environmental Management, 213, 353-362.
Roberts, C., Twidwell, D., Burnett, J., Sundstrom, S., Angeler, D., Allen, C. (2018). Early warnings for state transitions. Rangeland Ecology and Management.
Roberts, C., Uden, D., Allen, C., Twidwell, D. (2018). Doublethink and scale mismatch polarize policies for an invasive tree. PLoS One, 13, e0189733.
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C. (2018). The distribution and role of functional abundance in cross‐scale resilience. Ecology.
Twidwell, D., Wonkka, C., Bielski, C., Allen, C., Angeler, D., Powell, L. A., Roberts, C. (2018). The perpetual state of emergency that sacrifices protected areas in a changing climate. Conservation Biology.
Uden, D., Allen, C., Munoz-Arriola, F., Ou, G., Shank, N. (2018). A Framework for Tracing Social–Ecological Trajectories and Traps in Intensive Agricultural Landscapes. Sustainability, 10, 1646.
Uden, D., Wishart, D., Powell, L. A., Allen, C., Mitchell, R., Steinauer, G. 2018. Adaptive fuel procurement in nineteenth century Great Plains landscapes. Environment and History.Online
Adams, H., Zeppel, M., Anderegg, W., Hartmann, H., Landhausser, S., Huxman, T. E., Hudson, P., Franz, T., Allen, C. D., Anderegg, L., Barron-Gafford, G., Beerling, D., Breshears, D. D., Brodribb, T., Bugmann, H., Cobb, R., Collins, A., Dickman, L., Duan, Online
Allen C.R., Angeler, D.G., Fonaine, J.J., Garmestani, A.S., Chaine, N.M. 2017. Adaptive Management of Rangeland Systems. Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit -- Staff Publications. 231.Online
Allen, C., Angeler, D. G., Fontaine, J. J., Garmestani, A. S., Hart, N. M., Pope, K. L., Twidwell, D. (2017). Adaptive management of rangeland ecosystems. In D. D. Briske (Ed.), Rangeland systems: processes, management and challenges (pp. 373-394). New YOnline
Allen, C., Fontaine, J. J. (2017). Employment with the United States Geological Survey.
Allen, C.R., Birge, H.E., Angeler, D.G., Arnold, C.A., Chaffin, B.C., DeCaro, D., Garmestani, A.S., Gunderson, L.H. 2017. Quantifying uncertainty and tradeoffs in resilience assessments. Ecology and Society: in press.Online
Baho, D. L., Allen, C., Fried-Petersen, H. B., Garmestani, A. S., Gunderson, L. H., Renes, S. E., Angeler., D. G. (2017). A quantitative framework for assessing ecological resilience. Ecology and Society, 22(3), Article 17.Online
Beachly, E., Higgins, J., Laney, C., Elbaum, S., Detweiler, C., Allen, C., Twidwell., D. (2017). A micro-UAS to start prescribed fires. International Symposium on Experimental Robotics.Online
Brinley Buckley, E. M., Allen, C., Forsberg, M., Farrell, M., Caven., A. J. (2017). Capturing change: the duality of time lapse imagery to acquire data and depict ecological dynamics. Ecology and Society, 22(3), Article 30.Online
Bundschuh, M., R. Schulz, R. Schafer, C.R. Allen, D.G. Angeler. 2017. esilience in Ecotoxicology: Toward a Multiple Equilibrium Concept. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 36(10):2574-2580.Online
Craig, R.K., Garmestani, A.S., Allen, C.R., Arnold, C.A., Birge, H.E., DeCaro, D.A., Fremier, A.K., Gosnell, H., Schlager, E. 2017. Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: the new challenges and a review of tools available. Ecology andOnline
Cumming, G., Allen, C. (2017). Protected areas as social-ecological systems: perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory. Ecological Applications, 27(6), 1709-1717.Online
Gunderson, L., Cosens, B. A., Chaffin, B. C., Arnold, C. A., Fremier, A. K., Garmestani, A. S., Kundis Craig, R., Gosnell, H., Birge, H. E., Allen, C., Benson, M. H., Morrison, R. R., Stone, M. C., Hamm, J. A., Nemec, K., Schlager, E., Llewellyn, D. (2017Online
Gunderson, L.H., Cosens, B., Chaffin, B.C., Arnold, C.A., Fremier, A., Garmestani, A.S., Craig, R.K., Gosnell, H., Birge, H.E., Allen, C.R., Benson, M.H., Morrison, R., Stone, M., Hamm, J., Nemec, K., Schlager, E., Lewellyn, D. 2017. Regime shifts and panOnline
Sundstrom, S. M., Eason, T., Nelson, R. J., Angeler, D. G., Barichievy, C., Garmestani, A. S., Graham, N. A. J., Granholm, D., Gunderson, L., Knutson, M., Nash, K. L., Nyström, M., Spanbauer, T., Stow, C. A., Allen, C. (2017). Detecting spatial regimes inOnline
Trump, B., Poinsatte-Jones, K., Elran, M., Allen, C., Srdjevic, B., Merad, M., Vasovic, D. M., Palma-Oliveira, J. M. (2017). Social resilience and critcal infrastructure systems. In Linkov, Igor, Palma-Oliveira, José Manuel (Ed.), Resilience and Risk (pp.Online
Wonkka, C. L., Twidwell, D., Bielski, C. H., Allen, C., Stambaugh, M. C. (2017). Regeneration and invasion of cottonwood riparian forest following wildlfire. Restoration Ecology, 10.Online
Allen, C., Angeler, D. 2016. Biological invasions, ecological resilience and adaptive governance. Journal of Environmental Management. 183:399-407.Online
Allen, C., Angeler, D., Twidwell Jr, D. 2016. Quantifying spatial resilience. Journal of Applied Ecology. 53:625-635.Online
Allen, C.R., Birge, H.E., Slater, J., Wiggers, E. 2016. The invasive ant, Solenopsis invicta, reduces herpetofauna richness and abundance. Biological Invasions 19: 713-22.
Allen, C.R., D.G. Angeler, G.S. Cumming, C. Folke, D. Twidwell and D.R. Uden. 2016. Quantifying spatial resilience. Journal of Applied Ecology 53:625-635.Online
Allen, C.R., H.E. Birge, S.L. Bartelt-Hunt, R.A. Bevans, J.L. Burnett, B.A. Cosens, X. Cai, A.S. Garmestani, I. Linkov, E.A. Scott, M.D. Solomon and D.R. Uden. 2016. Avoiding decline: Fostering resilience and sustainability in midsize cities. SustainabiliOnline
Angeler, D., Allen, C. 2016. Management applications of discontinuity theory. Journal of Applied Ecology. 53:688-698.Online
Angeler, D., and Allen, C. 2016. Quantifying resilience. Journal of Applied Ecology. 53: 617-624.Online
Birge, H. E., Garmestani, A. S., Allen, C., Pope, K. L. 2016. Adaptive management for ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management, 183:343-352.Online
Birge, H.E., Bevans, R.A., Allen, C.R., Angeler, D.R., Baer, S.G., Wall, D.H. 2016. Adaptive management for soil ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management 183: 371-378.Online
Burnett, J. L., Allen, C. R., Brown, M. B., Moulton, M. P., Roberts, C. P. 2016. Range expansion by Passer montanus in North America. Biological Invasions. 19:5-9.Online
Burnett, J.L., Roberts, C.P., Allen, C.R., Brown, M.B., and Moulton, M.P. 2016. Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus) range expansion in North America. Biological Invasions. University of Nebraska.
Hodbod, J., Barreteau, O., Magda, D., Allen, C. 2016. Managing adaptively for multifunctionality in agricultural systems. Journal of Environmental Management. 183:379-388.Online
Allen, C., Angeler, D., Moulton, M., Holling, C. (2015). The importance of scaling for detecting community patterns: success and failure in assemblages of introduced species. Diversity, 7, 229-241.Online
Allen, C.R., D.R. Uden, A.R. Johnson and D.G. Angeler. 2015. Spatial modeling approaches for understanding and predicting the impacts of invasive alien species on native species and ecosystems. Pest risk modelling and mapping for invasive alien species. Online
Angeler, D., D., Allen, C., Johnson, R. (2015). Linking degradation status with ecosystem vulnerability to environmental change. Oecologia, 178, 899-913.
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, D.R. Uden and R.K. Johnson. 2015. Spatial scaling patterns and functional redundancies in a changing boreal lake landscape. Ecosystems 18:889-902.Online
Birge, H.E., Allen, C.R., Craig, R.K., Garmestani, A.S., Hamm, J.A., Babbit, C., Nemec, K., Schalger, E. 2015. Social-ecological resilience and law in the Platte River basin. Idaho Law Review 51: 229-256.Online
Cumming, G., Allen, C., Ban, N., Biggs, D., Biggs, H., Cumming, D., de Vos, A., Epstein, G., Etienne, M., Maciejewski, K., Mathevet, R., Moore, C., Nenadovic, M., Schoon, M. (2015). Understanding protected area resilience: a multi-scale, social-ecologicalOnline
Green, O., Garmestani, A., Gunderson, L., Allen, C., Ruhl, J., Arnold, C., Graham, N., Cosens, B., Angeler, D., Chaffin, B., Hollling, C. 2015. Barriers and bridges to the integration of social-ecological resilience and law. Frontiers in Ecology and the Online
Spears, B., Ives, S., Angeler, D., Allen, C., Birk, S., Carvalho, L., Cavers, S., Daunt, F., Morton, R., Pocock, M., Rhodes, G., Thackeray, S. (2015). Effective management of ecological resilience – are we there yet? Journal of Applied Ecology, 52, 1311-Online
Uden, D., Allen, C., Bishop, A., Grosse, R., Jorgensen, C., LaGrange, T., Stutheit, R., Vrtiska, M. (2015). Predictions of future ephemeral wetland habitat availability for the continued management of North American waterbirds under global change. EcospheOnline
Uden, D., Allen, C., McCoy, T., Mitchell, R., Guan, Q. (2015). Predicted avian responses to scenarios of biofuel-based landuse change in an intensive agricultural landscape. Global Change Biology – Bioenergy, 7, 717-726.
Uden, D.R., Allen, C.R., Angeler, D.G., Corral, L., Fricke, K.A. 2015. Adaptive invasive species distribution models: A framework for modeling incipient invasions. Biological Invasions. 10:2831-2850.Online
Uden, D.R., C.R. Allen, A.A. Bishop, R. Grosse, C.F. Jorgensen, T.G. LaGrange, R.G. Stutheit and M.P. Vrtiska. 2015. Predictions of future ephemeral springtime waterbird habitat availability under global change. Ecosphere 6(11):215.Online
Uden, D.R., C.R. Allen, R.B. Mitchell, T.D. McCoy and Q. Guan. 2015. Predicted avian responses to bioenergy development scenarios in an intensive agricultural landscape. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 7:717-726.Online
Allen, C., Angeler, D., Garmestani, A., Gunderson, L., Holling, C. (2014). Panarchy: Theory and application. Ecosystems, 17, 578-589.
Allen, C., Myers, E. (2014). Consuming fire ants reduces northern bobwhite survival and weight gain. Journal of Urban and Agricultural Entomology, 30, 49-58.Online
Angeler, D., Allen, C., McKie, B., Johnson, R., birge, H. (2014). Assessing and managing freshwater ecosystems vulnerable to global change. Ambio, 43, 113-125Online
Angeler, D., Allen, C., Vila-Gispert, A., Almeida, D. (2014). Fitness in animals correlates with proximity to discontinuities in body mass distributions. Ecological Complexity, 20, 213-218Online
Baho, D., Drakare, S., Johnson, R., Allen, C., Angeler, D. (2014). Similar resilience attributes in lakes with different management practices. PLoS ONE, 9(3):e91881.Online
Beck (Zysset), A., Stephen, B., Kill, R., Smeenk, N., Allen, C., Pope, K. L. (2014). Toxicity of copper sulfate and rotenone to Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis). Management of Biological Invasions, 5, 371-375.Online
Cosens, B., Gunderson, L., Allen, C., Harm-Benson, M. (2014). Identifying legal, ecological and governance obstacles and opportunities for adapting to climate change. Sustainability, 6, 2338-2356.Online
Gothe, E., Sandin, L., Allen, C., Angeler, D. (2014). Quantifying spatial scaling patterns and their local and regional correlates in headwater streams: implications for resilience. Ecology and Society, 19.
Kristine T. Nemec, Joana Chan, Christina Hoffman, Trisha L. Spanbauer, Joseph A. Hamm, Craig R. Allen, Trevor Hefley, Donald Pan, and Prabhakar Shrestha. (2014). Assessing resilinece in stressed watersheds. Ecology and Society. 19:34.Online
Nash, K., Allen, C., Angeler, D., Barichievy, C., Garmestani, A., Graham, N., Granholm, D., Knutson, M., Nelson, J., Nystrom, M., Riley, S., Stow, C., Sundstrom, S. (2014). Discontinuities, cross-scale patterns and the organization of ecosystems. Ecology,Online
Nash, K., Allen, C., Barichievy, C., Nystrom, M., Sundstrom, S., Graham, N. (2014). Habitat structure and body size distributions: ecosystem appropriate metrics and methods. Oikos, 123, 971-983.Online
Pope, K. L., C. R. Allen, and D. G. Angeler. 2014. Fishing for resilience. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143:467-478.Online
Spanbauer, T., Allen, C., Angeler, D., Eason, T., Nash, K., Fritz, S., Stone, J. (2014). Prolonged instability prior to a regime shift. PLoS ONE, 9, 9(10): e108936.Online
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C. (2014). Complexity versus certainty in understanding species' declines. Diversity and Distributions, 20, 344-355.Online
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C., Garmestani, A., Garcia, J., Angeler, D. (2014). Transdisciplinary application of the cross-scale resilience model. Sustainability, 6, 6925-6948Online
Uden, D.R., M.L. Hellman, D.G. Angeler and C.R. Allen. 2014. The role of reserves and anthropogenic habitats for functional connectivity and resilience of ephemeral wetlands. Ecological Applications 24:1569-1582.Online
Allen, C. (2013). Can law foster social-ecological resileince? Ecology and Society, 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05927-180237Online
Allen, C. Angerler, D., Johnson, R. (2013). Measuring the relative resilience of subarctic lakes to global change: redundancies of functions within and across temporal scales. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50, 572-584.Online
Allen, C., Lotz, A. (2013). Social-ecological predictors of invasions and extinctions. Social-ecological predictors of invasions and extinctions, Ecology and Society 18(3): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05550-180315.
Allen, C., Nemec, K., Danielson, S., Helzer, C. (2013). Responses of predatory invertebrates to seeding density and richness in experimental tallgrass prairie restorations. Ecosystems and Environment, 183, 11-20.Online
Allen, C., Nemec, K., Wardwell, D., Hoffman, J., Brust, M., Decker, K., Fogell, D., Hogue, J., lotz, A., Miller, T., Pummil, M., Ramirez-Yanez, L., Uden, D. (2013). Predictors of regional establishment success and spread of introduced non-indigenous verteOnline
Allen, C., Uden, D., Mitchell, R., Guan, Q., McCoy, T. (2013). The feasibility of producing adequate feedstock for year-round cellulosic ethanol production in an intesnsive agricultural fuelshed. Bioenergy Research, 6, 930-938.
Allen, C., Uden, D., Mitchell, R., McCoy, T., Guan, Q. (2013). Potential contributions of a perennial bioenergy feedstrock to groundwater conservation under scenarios of future change. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 68, 124a-128aOnline
Allen, C.R., K.T. Nemec, K.L. Decker, D.A. Wardwell, M. Brust, D. Fogell, J.D. Hoffman, J. Hogue, A. Lotz, T. Miller, M. Pummill, L.E. Ramirez-Yanes and D.R. Uden. 2013. Predictors of regional establishment success and spread of introduced nonindigenous vOnline
David G. Angeler, Craig R. Allen, Carmen Rojo, Miguel Alvarez-Cobelas, María A. Rodrigo, Salvador Sánchez-Carrillo. (2013). Inferring the relative resilience of alternative states. PLoS ONE, 8, e77338. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077338.Online
Haak, D., Chaine, N., Stephen, B., Wong, A., Allen, C. (2013). Mortality estimate of Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in a Nebraska reservoir. BioInvasion Records, 2.Online
Kessler, A., J. Merchant, S. Shultz and C. Allen. 2013. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Sandhill Crane Habitat Management, Journal of Wildlife Management, 77 (7): 1301-1310.
Nemec, K., Allen, C., Wedin, D. A., Helzer, C. (2013). Influence of diversity and seeding density on invasion resistance in experimental tallgrass prairie restorations. Ecological Restoration, 31, 168-185.Online
Nemec, K., Traeger, J. C., Manley, E., Kalisch, A., Allen, C. (2012). Five new records of ants for Nebraska. The Prairie Naturalist, 44, 63-65.Online
Stephen, B.J., N.M. Chaine, C.R. Allen, K.A. Fricke, D.M. Haak, M.L. Hellman, R.A. Kill, K.T. Nemec, K.L. Pope, N.A. Smeenk, D.R. Uden, K.M. Unstad, A.E. VanderHam and A. Wong. 2013. Fecundity of the Chinese mystery snail in a Nebraska Reservoir. Journal Online
Uden, D.R., C.R. Allen, R.B. Mitchell, Q. Guan and T.D. McCoy. 2013. Scenarios of bioenergy development impacts on regional groundwater withdrawals. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 68:124A-128A.Online
Uden, D.R., R.B. Mitchell, C.R. Allen, T.D. McCoy and Q. Guan. 2013. The feasibility of generating adequate biomass for year-round cellulosic ethanol production in an intensive agricultural fuelshed. 2013. Bioenergy Research 6:930-938.Online
Unstad, K.M., D.R. Uden, C.R. Allen, N.M. Chaine, D.M. Haak, D.M., R.A. Kill, K.L. Pope, B.J. Stephen and A. Wong. 2013. Survival and behavior of Chinese mystery snails (Bellamya chinensis) in response to simulation water body drawdowns and air exposure. Online
Wong, A., C.R. Allen, N.M. Hart, D.M. Haak, K.L. Pope, N.A. Smeenk, B.J. Stephen and D.R. Uden. 2013. Enamel-based mark performance for marking Chinese mystery snail Bellamya chinensis. Management of Biological Invasions 4:231-234.Online
Angeler, D., Allen, C., Johnson, R. (2012). Insight on invasions and resilience derived from spatiotemporal discontinuities of biomass at local and regional scales. Ecology and Society, 17(2): 32.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04928-170232.Online
Chaine, N., Allen, C., Fricke, K., Haak, D., Hellman, M., Kill, R., Nemec, K., Pope, K. L., Smeenk, N., Stephen, B., Uden, D., Unstad, K., VanderHam, A. (2012). Population estimate of Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in a Nebraska reservoir. BioOnline
Chaine, N.M., C.R. Allen, K.A. Fricke, D.M. Haak, M.L. Hellman, R.A. Kill, K.T. Nemec, K.L. Pope, N.A. Smeenk, B.J. Stephen, D.R. Uden, K.M. Unstad and A.E. Vanderham. 2012. Population estimate of Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in a Nebraska Online
Decker, K.L., C.R. Allen, L. Acosta, M. Hellman, C. Jorgensen, R. Stutzman, K Unstad, A. Williams, and M. Yans. 2012. Landuse, landscapes and biological invasions. Invasive Plant Science and Management 5:108-116.Online
Kolasa, J., Allen, C., Sendzimir, J., Stow, C. (2012). Predictions and retrodictions of the hierarchical representation of habitat in heterogeneous environments. Ecological Modeling, 245, 199-207.Online
Sundstrom, S., Allen, C., Barichevy, C. (2012). Species, functional groups and thresholds in ecological resilience. Conservation Biology, 26, 305-314.Online
Allen, C.R., J.J. Fontaine, K.L. Pope and A.S. Garmestani. 2011. Adaptive management for a turbulent future. J. Environmental Management 92:1339-1345.Online
Kessler, Andrew C., James W. Merchant, Craig R. Allen, and Steven D. Shultz. 2011. Invasive Plants Impacts on Sandhill Crane (Grus canadensis) Roosting Habitat. Invasive Plant Science and Management, 4(4): 369-377.Online
Nemec, K.T., Allen, C.R., Alai A., Clements, G., Kessler A.C., Kinsell T., Major, A., and B.J. Stephen. 2011. Woody invasions of urban trails and the changing face of urban forests in the Great Plains, U.S.A. American Midland Naturalist 165:241-256.Online
Miller, T.K., C.R. Allen, W.G. Landis and J.W. Merchant. 2010. Risk Assessment: Simultaneously Prioritizing the Control of Invasive Plant Species and the Conservation of Rare Plant Species. Biological Conservation, 143: 2070-2079.Online
Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling. 2009. Foundations of Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. pp. 311
Don Wardwell, Craig R. Allen, Garry D. Peterson and Andrew J. Tyre (2008). A test of the cross-scale resilience model: functional richness in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. Ecological Complexity 5(2):165-182Online
Allen, C. R. 2006. Predictors of introduction success in the South Florida avifauna. Biological Invasin. 8:491-500.Online
Allen, C. R., A. Garmestani, T. Havlicek, P. Marquet, G. D. Peterson, C. Restrepo, C. Stow, and B. Weeks. 2006. Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative competing hypotheses. Ecology Letters 9: 630-643.Online
Allen, C. R., D. Epperson and A. Garmestani. 2004. The impacts of fire ants on wildlife: a decade of research. American Midland Naturalist 152:88-103.Online
Allen, C. R., L. Gunderson, and A. R. Johnson. 2004. The use of discontinuities and functional groups to assess relative resilience in complex systems. Ecosystems. 8: 958.Online
Holling, C. S., and C. R. Allen. 2002. Adaptive inference for distinguishing credible from incredible patterns in nature. Ecosystems 5:319-328.Online
Allen, C. R., L. G. Pearlstine, and W. M. Kitchens. 2001. Modeling viable mammal populations in gap analyses. Biological Conservation 99:135-144.Online
Zettler, J. A., T. P. Spira, and C. R. Allen. 2001. Ant-seed mutualisms: can fire ants sour the relationship? Biological Conservation 101:249-253.Online
Allen, C. R., E. A. Forys, and C. S. Holling. 1999. Body mass patterns predict invasions and extinctions in transforming landscapes. Ecosystems 2:114-121.Online
C.R. Allen, R.S. Lutz, S. Demarais, 1998, Ecological effects of the invasive non-indiginous ant, Solenopsis invicta, on native vertebrates: the wheels on the bus. Tranactions of the 63rd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 63:56-65
Peterson, G., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 1998. Ecological resilience, biodiversity and scale. Ecosystems 1:6-18.Online
Allen, C. R., Stephen Demarais, and R. Scott Lutz. 1997. Effects of red imported fire ants on recruitment of white-tailed deer fawns. Journal of Wildlife Management 61:911-916.Online
Allen, C. (in press). Spatiotemporal resilience of a lake landscape. Ecological Applications.
Allen, R., Mazis, A., Wardlow, B., Cherubini, P., Hiller, J., Wedin, D.A., Awada, T. 2023. Coupling dendroecological and remote sensing techniques to assess the biophysical traits of Juniperus virginiana and Pinus ponderosa within the Semi-Arid grasslands of the Nebraska Sandhills. Forest Ecology and Management 544 (2023) 121184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121184Online
Keele, E. C., Donovan, V. M., Roberts, C. P., Nodskov, S. M., Wonkka, C. L., Allen, C., Powell, L. A., Wedin, D. A., Angeler, D. G., Twidwell, D. (in press). Relationships Between Wildfire Burn Severity, Cavity-Nesting Bird Assemblages, and Habitat in an

Background

Education

DegreeMajorInstitutionYear Awarded
Doctorate of PhilosophyWildlife EcologyUniversity of Florida1997
Master of ScienceWildlife ScienceTexas Tech University1993
Bachelor of ScienceBiologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Green Bay1989

 

Affiliations

 

Awards

TitleAwarded byYear Awarded
FellowNational Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska 2021
FellowAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science2020

 

Websites

 

SNR Program Areas

  • Applied Ecology

Areas of Interest/Expertise

  • Adaptive Management
  • Biological invasions
  • Spatial ecology
  • Resilience of the ecosystem
  • Fish and Wildlife research unit/graduate education
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystems ecology/resilience
  • Invasive species/invasion ecology

Grants

Currently this page only displays grants that were awarded on 1/1/ 2009 to the present. If a grant was awarded prior to 1/1/ 2009 and is still active, it will not be displayed on this page.

Grant TitleRII Track-2 FEC: Resilience informatics for the Convergence of Critical Capacities to Address Regional-Scale Environmental Changes (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/15/2022

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2023
Funding Level$992,378.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleAssessing Tradeoffs of Rangeland Management Approaches using Collaborative Adaptive Management
Starting Date01/07/2022

Investigator(s)

Ending Date10/31/2024
Funding Level$247,011.00
Funding AgencyUniversity of Minnesota - SARE

 

Grant TitleDISES-RCN: Resilience in Agricultural Socio-Environmental Systems
Starting Date10/01/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2025
Funding Level$403,020.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleRII Track-2 FEC: Resilience Informatics for the Convergence of Critical Capacities to Address Regional-Scale Environmental Change (Additional Funding)
Starting Date09/07/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2023
Funding Level$996,501.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleResilience in agricultural landscapes
Starting Date07/01/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2023
Funding Level$149,845.00
Funding AgencyUNL Collaborative Initiative

 

Grant TitleAdaptive Management of Sandhills Grasslands
Starting Date05/17/2021

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2024
Funding Level$134,192.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleLaunching Spring Creek Prairie as a Demonstration Site for Tallgrass Prairie Conservation across the Denton Hills Landscape
Starting Date11/20/2020

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2021
Funding Level$33,100.00
Funding AgencyAudubon Nebraska

 

Grant TitleImproving Performance of Grasslands Conservation Investments
Starting Date10/01/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date10/31/2022
Funding Level$151,800.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Games and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleRII Track - 2 FEC: Resilience Informatics for the Convergence of Critical Capacities to Address Regional-Scale Environmental Change
Starting Date08/01/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2023
Funding Level$1,964,386.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleGlobal Change, Vulnerability and Resilience: Management Options for an Uncertain Future (Additional Funding)
Starting Date03/12/2019

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/25/2019
Funding Level$175,722.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Defense

 

Grant TitleMonitoring Bat Resilience in an Agriculturally Dominated Landscape
Starting Date07/27/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2020
Funding Level$29,375.00
Funding AgencyDepartment of Interior

 

Grant TitleAquatic Nuisance Species (Additional Funding)
Starting Date07/20/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2019
Funding Level$47,695.00
Funding AgencyDepartment of Interior

 

Grant TitleGlobal Change, Vulnerability and Resilience: Management Options for an Uncertain Future (Additional Funding)
Starting Date07/13/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/25/2019
Funding Level$91,281.00
Funding AgencyU. S. Department of Defense - Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

 

Grant TitleGlobal Change, Vulnerability and Resilience: Management Options for an Uncertain Future (Additional Funding)
Starting Date04/18/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/25/2019
Funding Level$100,000.00
Funding AgencyU. S. Department of Defense - Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

 

Grant TitleRain Water Basin Science Coordinator (Additional Funding)
Starting Date04/16/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date04/17/2019
Funding Level$14,142.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleNNA: Arctic Workshop
Starting Date01/01/2018

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2018
Funding Level$99,864.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleNSF NRT-IFEWS
Starting Date09/01/2017

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2022
Funding Level$2,998,886.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleAquatic Nuisance Species (Additional Funding)
Starting Date07/01/2017

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2018
Funding Level$50,000.00
Funding AgencyUSFWS

 

Grant TitleDynamics and trade-offs among social, economic, and ecological components of resilience in working agricultural landscapes
Starting Date09/12/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/30/2018
Funding Level$37,000.00
Funding AgencyARD Stategic Fund

 

Grant TitleRole of Bats in Controlling Agricultural Pests
Starting Date09/01/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/31/2018
Funding Level$11,528.00
Funding AgencyUniversity of Minnesota - SARE

 

Grant TitleRain Water Basin Science Coordinator
Starting Date04/15/2016

Investigator(s)

Ending Date04/15/2019
Funding Level$153,750.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleGlobal Change, Vulnerability and Resilience: Management Options for an Uncertain Future
Starting Date09/25/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/25/2019
Funding Level$728,122.00
Funding AgencyU. S. Department of Defense - Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

 

Grant TitleEstablishing a Monitoring Network to Assess Distribution, Population Trends, and Habitat Use of Bats in Nebraska
Starting Date08/01/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2018
Funding Level$118,116.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant Title2016 Wetland Assessment
Starting Date08/01/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2017
Funding Level$69,541.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleNebraska Aquatic Nuisance Species Mangement Plan
Starting Date06/22/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2019
Funding Level$25,315.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Grant TitleAquatic Nuisance Species (Additional Funding)
Starting Date06/22/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2019
Funding Level$52,400.00
Funding AgencyUS Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Grant TitleDeveloping a Network for Invasive Species Outreach and Monitoring (additional funding)
Starting Date04/02/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2016
Funding Level$60,456.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleBat Movements Across Transforming Landscapes (additional funding)
Starting Date04/02/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2015
Funding Level$38,715.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleNorthern Long-Eared Bats in Nebraska
Starting Date03/01/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2016
Funding Level$208,478.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Department of Roads

 

Grant TitleWetland Condition Assessment 2016
Starting Date01/01/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2018
Funding Level$178,744.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleMonitoring, Mapping, Risk Assessment and Management of Invasive Species in Nebraska (additional funding)
Starting Date01/01/2015

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2019
Funding Level$350,000.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Grant TitleImpacts of Agricultural Toxicants on Amphibians in the Rainwater Basin in Central Nebraska
Starting Date10/01/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2016
Funding Level$119,971.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleNebraska Game and Parks Commission Wind and Wildlife Project
Starting Date08/21/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2016
Funding Level$142,894.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleNebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit (additional funding)
Starting Date07/01/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2015
Funding Level$50,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleBat Movement and Landscapes (additional funding)
Starting Date04/03/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2015
Funding Level$43,067.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleNetwork Invasive Species Monitoring (additional funding)
Starting Date04/03/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2015
Funding Level$62,456.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleRiver Otter Populations
Starting Date04/01/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date02/28/2015
Funding Level$60,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleRiver Otter Population Study (additional funding)
Starting Date04/01/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date02/28/2016
Funding Level$60,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleBat Migration in Eastern Nebraska
Starting Date03/03/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2015
Funding Level$40,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleBuilding Better Soils for Birds
Starting Date02/01/2014

Investigator(s)

Ending Date01/31/2017
Funding Level$150,644.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleAquatic Nuisance Species (additional funding)
Starting Date10/12/2013

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2015
Funding Level$24,286.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Grant TitleSoil Eco Knowledge and Conservation Reserve Progam Management
Starting Date09/01/2013

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/31/2016
Funding Level$10,000.00
Funding AgencyUniversity of Minnesota - SARE

 

Grant TitleIGERT: Resilience and Adaptive Governance in Stressed Watersheds (additional funding)
Starting Date08/13/2013

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2014
Funding Level$649,860.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleNetwork Invasive Species Monitoring
Starting Date05/03/2013

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2014
Funding Level$76,056.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleBat Movements Across Transforming Landscapes
Starting Date05/01/2013

Investigator(s)

Ending Date04/30/2016
Funding Level$162,715.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleUnderstanding and Managing for Resilience in the Face of Global Change (additional funding)
Starting Date03/19/2013

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2015
Funding Level$30,400.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleGeneration of Novelty in Complex Systems
Starting Date01/01/2013

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2013
Funding Level$25,000.00
Funding AgencyMcDonnell Foundation

 

Grant TitleManaging for Resilience
Starting Date08/01/2012

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2013
Funding Level$40,000.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleIGERT: Resilience and Adaptive Governance in Stressed Watersheds (additional funding)
Starting Date07/18/2012

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2013
Funding Level$646,993.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleImplementation of Nebraska Aquatic Nuisance Species Management Plan (additional funds)
Starting Date10/12/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2015
Funding Level$22,395.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Grant TitleAquatic Nuisance Species
Starting Date10/12/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2015
Funding Level$7,466.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Grant TitleAquatic Nuisance Species (additional funding)
Starting Date10/12/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2015
Funding Level$24,875.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Grant TitleIGERT: Resilience and Adaptive Governance in Stressed Watersheds (additional funding)
Starting Date07/14/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2012
Funding Level$650,212.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleRain Water Basin Joint Venture
Starting Date06/21/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/21/2014
Funding Level$150,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleAquatic Invasive Species Prevention
Starting Date04/21/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2012
Funding Level$100,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleNebraska Water Pollution Control (additional funding)
Starting Date04/01/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/31/2014
Funding Level$96,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleHigher Diversity CRP Planting
Starting Date04/01/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2013
Funding Level$26,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleAquatic Invasive Species Prevention Program (additional funding)
Starting Date04/01/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2012
Funding Level$12,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Environmental Trust

 

Grant TitleNE Science Partnership with the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Coop
Starting Date03/29/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2012
Funding Level$28,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleWind and Wildlife Project
Starting Date03/01/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date02/28/2014
Funding Level$394,360.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleMonitoring, Mapping, Risk Assessment and Management of Invasive Species in Nebraska (additional funding)
Starting Date01/01/2011

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2011
Funding Level$51,794.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleScenarios of Climate Change and Land Use Change in Biological Invasions
Starting Date08/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2012
Funding Level$30,000.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Agriculture

 

Grant TitleSoutheast Prairies BUL
Starting Date07/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2013
Funding Level$11,300.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleIGERT: Resilience and Adaptive Governance in Stressed Watersheds (additional funding)
Starting Date06/22/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2011
Funding Level$649,126.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleNNLP: Research Inventory and Monitoring
Starting Date05/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/30/2012
Funding Level$150,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleRiver Otter Home Range and Habitats Use Pilot Study (additional funding)
Starting Date05/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2010
Funding Level$9,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleMissouri River Mitigation
Starting Date04/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date03/31/2011
Funding Level$129,245.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleNebraska Wetland Conditions Assessment (additional funding)
Starting Date04/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date05/31/2014
Funding Level$338,250.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleMonitoring, Mapping, Risk Assessment and Management of Invasive Species in Nebraska
Starting Date01/01/2010

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2014
Funding Level$350,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleAdaptive Management for Nebraska Legacy Program Goals
Starting Date09/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date07/31/2012
Funding Level$200,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleIGERT: Resilience and Adaptive Governance in Stressed Watersheds
Starting Date08/15/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date08/14/2014
Funding Level$2,966,035.00
Funding AgencyNational Science Foundation

 

Grant TitleUS Geological Survey Missouri River Mitigation (additional funding)
Starting Date07/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date03/31/2014
Funding Level$258,491.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior

 

Grant TitleU.S. Geologic Service Missouri River Adapative Management (additional funding)
Starting Date04/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date04/30/2011
Funding Level$163,754.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleMissouri River Mitigation: Implementation of Amphibian Monitoring and Adaptive Management for Wetland Restoration Evaluation
Starting Date04/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date03/31/2014
Funding Level$556,603.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Geological Survey - USACE

 

Grant TitleAdaptive Management of Prairie Remnants for Legacy Goals
Starting Date03/01/2009

Investigator(s)

Ending Date02/28/2010
Funding Level$20,000.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of the Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleSoutheast Prairies BUL and Sandstone Prairies BUL Research
Starting Date05/15/2008

Investigator(s)

Ending Date06/30/2010
Funding Level$49,478.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleAssessing Local and Regional Variability in Productivity and Fidelity of Grassland Birds on National Park Service Units in the Great Plains
Starting Date06/01/2007

Investigator(s)

Ending Date09/30/2010
Funding Level$95,572.00
Funding AgencyUS Department of Interior - Geological Survey

 

Grant TitleRiver Otter Habitat Pilot Study
Starting Date05/01/2006

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2009
Funding Level$22,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleRiver Otter Habitat Pilot Study
Starting Date05/01/2006

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2010
Funding Level$22,000.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Grant TitleRiver Otter Home Range (additional funding)
Starting Date05/01/2006

Investigator(s)

Ending Date12/31/2010
Funding Level$3,100.00
Funding AgencyNebraska Game and Parks Commission

 

Advising

Graduate Programs

Master of Applied Science

Master of Science in Natural Resource Sciences
including specializations in

  • Adaptive Management
  • Applied Ecology

Doctorate of Philosophy in Natural Resource Sciences
including specializations in

  • Adaptive Management
  • Applied Ecology

Courses Taught

Course NumberCourse TitleFall Even YearsFall Odd YearsSpring Even YearsSpring Odd YearsSummer SessionCross Listing
NRES 898Foundations of ResilienceX
NRES 902 Foundations of Ecological ResilienceXXAGRO 902