Dean L. Urban

ESC Program Co-chair

Primary Appointment

Environmental Science & Policy Division

My interest in landscape ecology focuses on the agents and implications of pattern in forested landscapes. Increasingly, my research is in what has been termed "theoretical applied ecology," developing new analytic approaches to applications of immediate practical concern such as conservation planning. A hallmark of my Lab is the integration of field studies, spatial analysis, and simulation modeling in extrapolating our fine-scale empirical understanding of environmental issues to the larger space and time scales of management and policy.

In The News

10/09/2017

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Blaszczak, J. R., J. M. Delesantro, Y. Zhong, D. L. Urban, and E. S. Bernhardt. “Watershed urban development controls on urban streamwater chemistry variability.” Biogeochemistry 144, no. 1 (June 15, 2019): 61–84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-019-00572-7.

Blaszczak, J. R., J. M. Delesantro, D. L. Urban, M. W. Doyle, and E. S. Bernhardt. “Scoured or suffocated: Urban stream ecosystems oscillate between hydrologic and dissolved oxygen extremes.” Limnology and Oceanography 64, no. 3 (May 1, 2019): 877–94. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11081.

Xi, W., R. K. Peet, M. T. Lee, and D. L. Urban. “Hurricane disturbances, tree diversity, and succession in North Carolina Piedmont forests, USA.” Journal of Forestry Research 30, no. 1 (February 15, 2019): 219–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-018-0813-4.

Lopez, B. E., D. Urban, and P. S. White. “Testing the effects of four urbanization filters on forest plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity.” Ecological Applications 28, no. 8 (December 1, 2018): 2197–2205. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.1812.

Lovette, John P., Jonathan M. Duncan, Lindsey S. Smart, John P. Fay, Lydia P. Olander, Dean L. Urban, Nancy Daly, et al. “Leveraging Big Data Towards Functionally-Based, Catchment Scale Restoration Prioritization..” Environmental Management 62, no. 6 (December 2018): 1007–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-018-1100-z.

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