Relevant publications
In Review
Gaughan, A.E., Kolarik, N.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N.G., Cassidy, L., Salerno, J., Bailey, K., Drake, M., Woodward, K., and J. Hartter. Using Very High Resolution Multispectral Classification to Estimate Savanna Fractional Vegetation Coverage. Submitted to the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
Salerno, J., Stevens. F.R., Gaughan, A.E., Bowles, T., Bailey, K., Casidy, L., Pricope, N., and J, Hartter. Wildlife conflict and changing climate pose compounding threats to human and food security. Accepted to Current Biology.
2021
Woodward, K., Pricope, N.G., Stevens, F.R., Gaughan, A.E. Drake, M., Bailey, K., Salerno, J., Cassidy, L., Kolarik, N., and J.Hartter. 2020. Modeling Community Land Use in a Transboundary Southern African Landscape: Integrating Remote Sensing and Participatory Mapping. Remote Sensing.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040631
Drake, M.D., Salerno, J., Langendorf, R., Cassidy, L., Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N.G., Hartter, J. 2021. The costs of elephant crop depredation exceed the benefits of trophy hunting in a community-based conservation area of Namibia. Conservation Science and Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.345
Bailey, K., Drake, M., Salerno, J., Cassidy, L., Gaughan A.E., Stevens, F., Pricope, N., Woodward, K.G., Luwaya, H.M., Hartter, J. 2020. Mapping Natural Resource Collection Areas from Household Survey Data in Southern Africa. Applied Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102326
2020
Cassidy, L., and Salerno, J. 2020 The need for a more inclusive science of elephant conservation. Conservation Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12717
Kolarik, N.E., Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N.G., Woodward, K., Cassidy, L., Salerno, J., Hartter, J. A Multi-plot Assessment of Vegetation Structure Using a Micro-Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in a Semi-Arid Savanna Environment. 2020. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.04.011
Salerno, J., Bailey, K., Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Hilton, T., Drake, M.D., Cassidy, L., Pricope, N., and J. Hartter. Widespread consequential impacts on human food security from conflicts with wildlife. 2020. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13480
2019
Pricope, N., Cassidy, L., Salerno, J.D., Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Hartter, J., and Drake, M. Broader integration for broader impact: multi-level engagement and adaptive management in socio-ecological systems research. Society and Natural Resources,
https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1680783
Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N., Hartter, J., Cassidy, L., and J.D. Salerno. 2019. Operationalizing Vulnerability: Land System Dynamics in a Transfrontier Conservation Area. Land. 8(7), 111; https://doi.org/10.3390/land8070111
2018
Salerno, J.D., Cassidy, L., Drake, M., and J. Hartter. 2018. Living in an elephant landscape. American Scientist. 106(1):34-41.
DOI: 10.1511/2018.106.1.34
2017
Kramer, D. B., J. Hartter, A. E. Boag, M. Jain, K. Stevens, K. Ann Nicholas, W. J. McConnell, and J. Liu. 2017. Top 40 questions in coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research. Ecology and Society 22(2):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09429-220244
Hoell, A., Gaughan, A. E., Shukla, S., & Magadzire, T. 2017. The Hydrologic Effects of Synchronous El Niño Southern Oscillation and Subtropical Indian Ocean Dipole Events over Southern Africa. Journal of Hydrometeorology. doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0294.1
2016
Burke, J.J., Pricope, N.G., and Blum, J. 2016. Thermal Imagery-Derived Surface Inundation Modeling to Assess Flood Risk in a Flood-Pulsed Savannah Watershed in Botswana and Namibia. Remote Sensing 2016, 8, 676
2015
Gaughan, A.E. , Staub, C., Hoell, A., Weaver, A., and P.R. Waylen. 2015. Inter and Intra-annual precipitation variability and associated relationships to ENSO and the IOD in southern Africa. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.4448
Murray-Hudson, M., Wolski, P., Cassidy, L., Brown, M. Thito, K., Kashe, K., and Mosimanyana, E., 2015 Remote sensing-derived hydroperiod as a predictor of floodplain vegetation composition. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 23(4): 603-616 DOI 10.1007/s11273-014-9340-z.
Pricope, N.G., Gaughan, A.E., All, J.D., Binford, M.W. and Rutina, L.P. 2015. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics in Relation to Shifting Inundation and Fire Regimes: Disentangling Environmental Variability from Land Management Decisions in a Southern African Transboundary Watershed. Land 4, 627-655.
2014
Pricope, N.G., Binford, M., and All, J. 2014. Disentangling environmental variability from land management decisions in changing semi-arid savannas of Africa. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS) 80(11): 1005-1013.
Motsumi, S.* and Cassidy, L. 2012 Adaptive management and scale in a flood pulsed ecosystem – The case of the Okavango Delta Management Plan, Botswana. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 4(4): 271-291 Available online DOI:10.1080/19390459.2012.728861
Pricope, N., A.E. Gaughan, S. Caplow, 2014. Community-based management and conservation in Africa: Trade-offs and synergies in land-use decisions in local villages. The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Gaughan, A.E., N. Pricope, L. Venne. 2014. Biophysical drivers of ecosystem variability in southern Africa. Ch. 5 in A Systems Approach to Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa. Brown, Mark (editor). University of Florida.
Pricope, N.G. and A.E. Gaughan. 2014. Terrestrial Ecosystems: conflicts and opportunities. Ch 7 in A Systems’ Approach to Natural Resources Management in southern Africa. Brown, Mark (editor), University of Florida.
Cassidy, L., McKune, S., Shramski., S. and Wojcik, D., 2014 Chapter 4 – Overview of social systems. In Brown, M. (ed.) Southern Africa Systems – Coupling Humanity and Environment in Southern Africa. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Cassidy, L. and McKune, S. 2014 Chapter 6 – Southern African societies as complex systems. In Brown, M. (ed.) Southern Africa Systems – Coupling Humanity and Environment in Southern Africa. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
2013
Cassidy, L., Fynn, R. and Sethebe, B. 2013 Effects of restriction of wild herbivore movement on woody and herbaceous vegetation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology.Available online: doi: 10.1111/aje.12061
Southworth, J., Rigg, L., Gibbes, C., Waylen, P., McCarragher, S. and Cassidy, L. 2013 Integrating dendrochronology, climate and satellite remote sensing to better understand savanna landscape dynamics in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Land 2(4): 637-655. Available online doi: 10.3390/land2040637.
Pricope, N.G., Pardo, L. and Lopez-Carr, D. 2013. Vulnerability to Climate Change. Oxford Bibliographies in "Geography". Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press, Entry Launch Date: March 2013. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0040.xml
Pricope, N.G. 2013 (a, b, c). Trade winds deserts (Pp. 121-125); Kalahari xeric savanna (Pp. 726-727); and Zambezian flooded grasslands (Pp. 1338-1340) chapters in Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia. Robert W. Howarth (Editor). Salem Press.
2012
Pricope, N.G. 2012. Variable-source flood pulsing in a semi-arid transboundary watershed: The Chobe River, Botswana and Namibia. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 185: 1883-190.
Gibbes, C., Cassidy, L., Hartter, J., and J. Southworth. 2012. The Monitoring of Land-Cover Change and Management Across Gradient Landscapes in Africa. In : Brondizio, E. and E. Moran (Eds.). Human-Environment Interactions. Springer.
Gaughan, A.E., F.R. Stevens, C. Gibbes, J. Southworth, and M.W. Binford. 2012. Linking vegetation response to seasonal precipitation in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi catchment of southern Africa. International J. of Remote Sensing. 33 (21): 6783-6804.
Gaughan, A.E., P.R. Waylen. 2012. Spatial and temporal precipitation variability in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi catchment, southern Africa. J. of Arid Env. 82: 19-30.
In Review
Gaughan, A.E., Kolarik, N.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N.G., Cassidy, L., Salerno, J., Bailey, K., Drake, M., Woodward, K., and J. Hartter. Using Very High Resolution Multispectral Classification to Estimate Savanna Fractional Vegetation Coverage. Submitted to the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation.
Salerno, J., Stevens. F.R., Gaughan, A.E., Bowles, T., Bailey, K., Casidy, L., Pricope, N., and J, Hartter. Wildlife conflict and changing climate pose compounding threats to human and food security. Accepted to Current Biology.
2021
Woodward, K., Pricope, N.G., Stevens, F.R., Gaughan, A.E. Drake, M., Bailey, K., Salerno, J., Cassidy, L., Kolarik, N., and J.Hartter. 2020. Modeling Community Land Use in a Transboundary Southern African Landscape: Integrating Remote Sensing and Participatory Mapping. Remote Sensing.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040631
Drake, M.D., Salerno, J., Langendorf, R., Cassidy, L., Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N.G., Hartter, J. 2021. The costs of elephant crop depredation exceed the benefits of trophy hunting in a community-based conservation area of Namibia. Conservation Science and Practice.
https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.345
Bailey, K., Drake, M., Salerno, J., Cassidy, L., Gaughan A.E., Stevens, F., Pricope, N., Woodward, K.G., Luwaya, H.M., Hartter, J. 2020. Mapping Natural Resource Collection Areas from Household Survey Data in Southern Africa. Applied Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102326
2020
Cassidy, L., and Salerno, J. 2020 The need for a more inclusive science of elephant conservation. Conservation Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12717
Kolarik, N.E., Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N.G., Woodward, K., Cassidy, L., Salerno, J., Hartter, J. A Multi-plot Assessment of Vegetation Structure Using a Micro-Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) in a Semi-Arid Savanna Environment. 2020. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2020.04.011
Salerno, J., Bailey, K., Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Hilton, T., Drake, M.D., Cassidy, L., Pricope, N., and J. Hartter. Widespread consequential impacts on human food security from conflicts with wildlife. 2020. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13480
2019
Pricope, N., Cassidy, L., Salerno, J.D., Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Hartter, J., and Drake, M. Broader integration for broader impact: multi-level engagement and adaptive management in socio-ecological systems research. Society and Natural Resources,
https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1680783
Gaughan, A.E., Stevens, F.R., Pricope, N., Hartter, J., Cassidy, L., and J.D. Salerno. 2019. Operationalizing Vulnerability: Land System Dynamics in a Transfrontier Conservation Area. Land. 8(7), 111; https://doi.org/10.3390/land8070111
2018
Salerno, J.D., Cassidy, L., Drake, M., and J. Hartter. 2018. Living in an elephant landscape. American Scientist. 106(1):34-41.
DOI: 10.1511/2018.106.1.34
2017
Kramer, D. B., J. Hartter, A. E. Boag, M. Jain, K. Stevens, K. Ann Nicholas, W. J. McConnell, and J. Liu. 2017. Top 40 questions in coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research. Ecology and Society 22(2):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09429-220244
Hoell, A., Gaughan, A. E., Shukla, S., & Magadzire, T. 2017. The Hydrologic Effects of Synchronous El Niño Southern Oscillation and Subtropical Indian Ocean Dipole Events over Southern Africa. Journal of Hydrometeorology. doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0294.1
2016
Burke, J.J., Pricope, N.G., and Blum, J. 2016. Thermal Imagery-Derived Surface Inundation Modeling to Assess Flood Risk in a Flood-Pulsed Savannah Watershed in Botswana and Namibia. Remote Sensing 2016, 8, 676
2015
Gaughan, A.E. , Staub, C., Hoell, A., Weaver, A., and P.R. Waylen. 2015. Inter and Intra-annual precipitation variability and associated relationships to ENSO and the IOD in southern Africa. International Journal of Climatology. DOI: 10.1002/joc.4448
Murray-Hudson, M., Wolski, P., Cassidy, L., Brown, M. Thito, K., Kashe, K., and Mosimanyana, E., 2015 Remote sensing-derived hydroperiod as a predictor of floodplain vegetation composition. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 23(4): 603-616 DOI 10.1007/s11273-014-9340-z.
Pricope, N.G., Gaughan, A.E., All, J.D., Binford, M.W. and Rutina, L.P. 2015. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Vegetation Dynamics in Relation to Shifting Inundation and Fire Regimes: Disentangling Environmental Variability from Land Management Decisions in a Southern African Transboundary Watershed. Land 4, 627-655.
2014
Pricope, N.G., Binford, M., and All, J. 2014. Disentangling environmental variability from land management decisions in changing semi-arid savannas of Africa. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (PE&RS) 80(11): 1005-1013.
Motsumi, S.* and Cassidy, L. 2012 Adaptive management and scale in a flood pulsed ecosystem – The case of the Okavango Delta Management Plan, Botswana. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 4(4): 271-291 Available online DOI:10.1080/19390459.2012.728861
Pricope, N., A.E. Gaughan, S. Caplow, 2014. Community-based management and conservation in Africa: Trade-offs and synergies in land-use decisions in local villages. The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
Gaughan, A.E., N. Pricope, L. Venne. 2014. Biophysical drivers of ecosystem variability in southern Africa. Ch. 5 in A Systems Approach to Natural Resource Management in Southern Africa. Brown, Mark (editor). University of Florida.
Pricope, N.G. and A.E. Gaughan. 2014. Terrestrial Ecosystems: conflicts and opportunities. Ch 7 in A Systems’ Approach to Natural Resources Management in southern Africa. Brown, Mark (editor), University of Florida.
Cassidy, L., McKune, S., Shramski., S. and Wojcik, D., 2014 Chapter 4 – Overview of social systems. In Brown, M. (ed.) Southern Africa Systems – Coupling Humanity and Environment in Southern Africa. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Cassidy, L. and McKune, S. 2014 Chapter 6 – Southern African societies as complex systems. In Brown, M. (ed.) Southern Africa Systems – Coupling Humanity and Environment in Southern Africa. Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
2013
Cassidy, L., Fynn, R. and Sethebe, B. 2013 Effects of restriction of wild herbivore movement on woody and herbaceous vegetation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. African Journal of Ecology.Available online: doi: 10.1111/aje.12061
Southworth, J., Rigg, L., Gibbes, C., Waylen, P., McCarragher, S. and Cassidy, L. 2013 Integrating dendrochronology, climate and satellite remote sensing to better understand savanna landscape dynamics in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Land 2(4): 637-655. Available online doi: 10.3390/land2040637.
Pricope, N.G., Pardo, L. and Lopez-Carr, D. 2013. Vulnerability to Climate Change. Oxford Bibliographies in "Geography". Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press, Entry Launch Date: March 2013. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199874002/obo-9780199874002-0040.xml
Pricope, N.G. 2013 (a, b, c). Trade winds deserts (Pp. 121-125); Kalahari xeric savanna (Pp. 726-727); and Zambezian flooded grasslands (Pp. 1338-1340) chapters in Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia. Robert W. Howarth (Editor). Salem Press.
2012
Pricope, N.G. 2012. Variable-source flood pulsing in a semi-arid transboundary watershed: The Chobe River, Botswana and Namibia. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 185: 1883-190.
Gibbes, C., Cassidy, L., Hartter, J., and J. Southworth. 2012. The Monitoring of Land-Cover Change and Management Across Gradient Landscapes in Africa. In : Brondizio, E. and E. Moran (Eds.). Human-Environment Interactions. Springer.
Gaughan, A.E., F.R. Stevens, C. Gibbes, J. Southworth, and M.W. Binford. 2012. Linking vegetation response to seasonal precipitation in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi catchment of southern Africa. International J. of Remote Sensing. 33 (21): 6783-6804.
Gaughan, A.E., P.R. Waylen. 2012. Spatial and temporal precipitation variability in the Okavango-Kwando-Zambezi catchment, southern Africa. J. of Arid Env. 82: 19-30.
