CV
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Ecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2010
Master of Environmental Management, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2001
B.S., Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1999
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, NC State University, Raleigh NC, 2014-present
Research Associate, Landscape Ecology and Modeling, Department of Applied Ecology, NC State University, Raleigh NC, 2012-2014
Postdoctoral Associate, Landscape Ecology, Department of Biology (later became Applied Ecology), NC State University, Raleigh, NC, 2010-2012
Conservation Associate, The Nature Conservancy, Durham, NC , 2005-2010
GIS Director, Tipton County Government, Covington, TN , 2001-2004
Watershed Planner, Wawasee Area Conservancy Foundation, Syracuse, IN , 2001
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Record, S. K. Dahlin, P.L. Zarnetske, Read, Q., Malone, S.L., Gaddis, K., Grady, J.M., Costanza, J.K., Hobi, M., Latimer, A., Pau, S., Wilson, A.M., Ollinger, S., Finley, A., Hestir, E. Remote sensing of geodiversity as a link to biodiversity. Chapter in: Remote Sensing of Biodiversity: Using spectral signals to understand the biology and biodiversity of plants, communities, ecosystems and the tree of life. Springer Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry Series. Editors: Cavender-Bares, J., Gamon, J., Townsend, P. (In Press).
Read, Q.D., Zarnetske, P.L., Record, S., Dahlin, K.M., Costanza, J.K., Finley, A.O., Gaddis, K.D., Grady, J.M., Hobi, Latimer, A.M., M.L., Malone, S.L., Ollinger, S.V., Pau, S., Wilson, A.M. 2020. Beyond counts and averages: relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29(4):696-710. doi: 10.1111/geb.13061 Available here
Costanza, J.K., Riitters, K., Wickham, J., Vogt, P. 2019. Describing and analyzing landscape patterns: where are we now, and where are we going? Landscape Ecology 34(9):2049-2055. doi: 10.1007/s10980-019-00889-6. Available here
Riitters, K., Costanza, J.K. 2019. The landscape context of family forests in the United States: anthropogenic interfaces and forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2011. Landscape and Urban Planning. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.04.001Available here
Costanza, J.K., Faber-Langendoen, D., Coulston, J.W., Wear, D.N. 2018. Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches. Forest Ecosystems 5:8. doi: 10.1186/s40663-017-0123-x Available here
Buma, B., Costanza, J.K., Riitters, K. 2017. Determining the size of a complete disturbance landscape: Multi-scale, continental analysis of forest change. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 189:642. doi: 10.1007/s10661-017-6364-x Available here
Costanza, J.K., Coulston, J.W., Wear, D.N. 2017. An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios. PLOS ONE 12(9): e0184062. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184062 Available here
Wickham, J., Riitters, K., Vogt, P., Costanza, J.K., Neale, A. 2017. An inventory of continental United States terrestrial candidate ecological restoration areas based on landscape context. Restoration Ecology (In Press). doi: 10.1111/rec.12522 Available here
Riitters, K., Costanza, J.K., Buma, B. 2017. Interpreting multiscale domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America. Ecological Indicators 80:147-152. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.05.022 Available here
Terando, A.J., Reich, B., Pacifici, K., Costanza, J.K., McKerrow, A.J., Collazo, J. A. 2017. Uncertainty quantification and propagation for projections of extremes in monthly area burned under climate change: A case study in the coastal plain of Georgia, USA. In: Riley K, Webley P, Thompson M, editors. Natural Hazard Uncertainty Assessment: Modeling and Decision Support Geophysical Monograph 223. John Wiley & Sons. pp 245–56. doi: 10.1002/9781119028116.ch16 Available here
Costanza, J.K., Abt, R.C., McKerrow, A.J., Collazo, J. A. 2017. Bioenergy production and forest landscape change in the southeastern United States. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 9(5):924–939. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12386 Available here
Tarr, N.M., Rubino, M.J., Costanza, J.K., McKerrow, A.J., Collazo, J. A., Abt, R.C. 2017. Projected gains and losses of wildlife habitat from bioenergy-induced landscape change. Global Change Biology Bioenergy 9(5):909-923. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12383 Available here
Costanza, J.K., Beck, S., Pyne, M., Rubino, M., Terando, A., Collazo, J. 2016. Assessing climate-sensitive ecosystems in the southeastern United States. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016–1073, 278 pages. doi: 10.3133/ofr20161073. pdf
Riitters, K., Wickham, J., Costanza, J.K., Vogt, P. 2016. A global evaluation of forest interior area dynamics using tree cover data from 2000 to 2012. Landscape Ecology 31:137-148. (Special issue: Macrosystems ecology: Novel methods and new understanding of multi-scale patterns and processes). doi: 10.1007/s10980-015-0270-9 Available here
Costanza, J.K., Abt, R.C., McKerrow, A.J., Collazo, J.A. 2015. Linking state-and-transition simulation and timber supply models for forest biomass production scenarios. AIMS Environmental Science 2(2):180-202. doi:10.3934/environsci.2015.2.180 Available here
Costanza, J.K., Terando, A.J., McKerrow, A. J., Collazo, J. A. 2015. Modeling climate change, urbanization, and fire effects on Pinus palustris ecosystems of the southeastern U.S. Journal of Environmental Management 151:185-199. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.12.032 pdf
Noss, R., Platt, W., Sorrie, B., Weakley, A.S., Means, B., Costanza, J.K., Peet, R.K. 2015. How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: lessons from the North American Coastal Plain. Diversity and Distributions 21:236-244. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12278 pdf
Terando, A.J., Costanza, J.K., Belyea, C., Dunn, R.R., McKerrow, A.J., Collazo, J. 2014. The southern megalopolis: using the past to predict the future of urban sprawl in the Southeast U.S. PLOS ONE 9(7): e102261. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102261 Available here
Costanza, J.K., Weiss, J., Moody, A. 2013. Examining the knowing-doing gap in conservation of a fire-dependent ecosystem. Biological Conservation 158:107-115. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.08.025 pdf
Costanza, J.K., Hulcr, J., Koch, F.H., Earnhardt, T., McKerrow, A.J., Dunn, R.R., Collazo, J.A. 2012. Simulating the effects of the southern pine beetle on regional dynamics 60 years into the future. Ecological Modelling 244:93-103. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.06.037 pdf
Costanza, J.K., Moody, A., Peet, R.K. 2011. Multi-scale habitat heterogeneity as a predictor of plant species richness. Landscape Ecology 26(6):851-864. doi: 10.1007/s10980-011-9613-3 pdf
Costanza, J.K. and Moody, A. 2011. Deciding where to burn: stakeholder priorities for prescribed burning of a fire-dependent ecosystem. Ecology and Society 16(1): 14. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art14/. pdf
Costanza, J.K., Marcinko, S., Goewert A., Mitchell, C. 2008. Potential geographic distribution of atmospheric nitrogen deposition from intensive livestock production in North Carolina, USA. Science of the Total Environment 398:76-86. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.02.024 pdf
Hayes, M., Moody, A., White, P.S., Costanza, J.K. 2007. The influence of logging and topography on the distribution of spruce-fir forests near their southern limits in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Plant Ecology 189:59-70. pdf
TECHNICAL REPORTS AND OUTREACH PUBLICATIONS
Costanza, J.K. 2019. Review: climate change and land-use change as the biggest challenges to future connectivity. Conservation Corridor, February 26, 2019. Available here
Costanza, J.K. 2018. Newly revised & digitized range map of southeastern pine savannas and woodlands. South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative Newsletter, August 1, 2018. Available here
Cartwright, J.M., Costanza, J.K. 2016. Ecosystem vulnerability to climate change in the southeastern United States. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2016–3052, 4 pages. doi: 10.3133/fs20163052 pdf
Wilson, T., Costanza, J.K., Smith, J., Morisette, J. 2015. Second State-and-Transition Simulation Modeling Conference. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 96(1):174-175. doi: 10.1890/0012-9623-96.1.174 pdf
Costanza, J.K. and Moody, A. 2011. Stakeholder priorities for deciding where to burn. Southern Fire Exchange Research Highlight 2011-1. Available here
Costanza, J.K., Earnhardt, T., Terando, A., McKerrow, A. 2010. Modeling vegetation dynamics and habitat availability in the southeastern U.S. using GAP data. In Maxwell, J., Gergely, K., and Aycrigg, J.L. editors. Gap Analysis Bulletin No. 18. USGS/BRD/Gap Analysis Program, Moscow, ID, USA. pdf
Costanza, J.K., Oberneufemann, K., Bucher, M. 2009. Assessment of LANDFIRE data in the Onslow Bight landscape, North Carolina. Report for The Nature Conservancy. Available here
DATA PRODUCTS
Costanza, J.K. 2018. Southeastern pine savannas and woodlands boundary shapefile. Fileset. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.6828848.v2 Available here