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Peer Reviewed Publications

Kiesecker, J.M, H. Copeland, A. Pocewicz, N. Nibbelink, B. McKenney J. Dahlke, M. Holloran, and D. Stroud. 2009. A Framework for Implementing Biodiversity Offsets: Selecting Sites and Determining Scale. BioScience 59:77-84

McDonald, R, J. Fargione, J. Kiesecker, W.M. Miller, J. Powell 2009. Energy sprawl or energy efficiency: climate policy impacts on natural habitat for the United States of America. PLOS One 4: 8

Copeland, H.E., K.E Doherty, D.E Naugle, A. Pocewicz, J. M. Kiesecker 2009. Mapping Oil and Development Potential in the US Intermountain West and Estimating Impacts to Species. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7400. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007400

Kiesecker, J.M., H. Copeland, A. Pocewicz, and B. McKenney. 2010. Development by Design: Blending Landscape Level Planning with the Mitigation Hierarchy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 8:261-266

McKenney, B. and J.M. Kiesecker. 2010. Policy Development for Biodiversity Offsets: A Review of Offset Frameworks. Environmental Management 45:165-176

Sochi, K., J. Evans, and J. M. Kiesecker . 2010. Conservation in the Wyoming Basins Ecoregion: Planning Today by Assessing Future Scenarios. Gap Analysis Bulletin 17: 23-25

Kiesecker, J.M., J. Evans, J. Fargione, et al. 2011. Win-Win for Wind: A Vision to Facilitate Sustainable Development. PLoS One. 6 (4):e17566. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017566

Doherty K.E., D.E. Naugle, H. Copeland, A. Pocewicz, and J.M. Kiesecker. 2011. Energy development and conservation tradeoffs: systematic planning for sage-grouse in their eastern range. Studies in Avian Biology 38:505-516

Obermeyer, B., R. Manes, J.M. Kiesecker, J. Fargione, and K. Sochi. 2011. Development by Design: Mitigation of Wind Development’s Impacts on Wildlife in Kansas. PLoS ONE 6(10): e26698. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026698

Book Chapters

Copeland, H.E., A. Pocewicz, and J.M. Kiesecker. 2011. Geography of energy development in Western North America: Potential impacts to terrestrial ecosystems. Pages 7-22 in D. Naugle editor “Energy development and wildlife conservation in Western North America” Island Press

Copeland, H.E., K.E. Doherty, D.E. Naugle, A. Pocewicz, and J.M. Kiesecker. 2011. Forecasting Development scenarios to aid in conservation design. Pages 183-193 in D. Naugle editor “Energy development and wildlife conservation in Western North America” Island Press

Kiesecker, J.M., H.E. Copeland, B. McKenney, A. Pocewicz, K.E. Doherty. 2011. Energy by design: Making mitigation work for conservation and development. Pages 157-189 in D. E. Naugle editor “Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America” Island Press

Kiesecker JM, Sochi K, Heiner M, McKenney B, Evans J, H Copeland. (In Press) Development by Design: Using a Revisionist History to Guide a Sustainable Future. Chapter in: The Encyclopedia of Biodiversity (Edited by Simon Levin and Peter Kareiva)

Unpublished Reports

Heiner, M., D. Galbadrakh, J.M. Kiesecker, B. McKenney, J. Evans, T. Enkhtsetseg, Z. Dash, U. Vanchindorj, O. Baast, S. Dolgorjav, G. Radnaabazar, E. Donchinbuu, O. Lhamjav, S. Gongor, E. Girvetz and R. McDonald. 2011. Identifying Conservation Priorities in the Face of Future Development: Applying Development by Design in the Grasslands of Mongolia.

Manuscripts in Review

Evans, J., J.M. Kiesecker, J. Fargione, et al. Mapping human disturbance for biodiversity conservation in the contiguous US. Conservation Letters. In Review

Saenz S, Walschburger T, González, JC, León J, McKenney B, and JM Kiesecker.
Development by Design in Colombia: Making Mitigation Decisions Consistent with Conservation Outcomes. (Submitted to PLoS)

Saenz S, Walschburger T, González JC, León J, McKenney B, and JM Kiesecker.
A Framework for Implementing and Valuing Offsets in Colombia: Can Development Deliver Net Gains for Nature? (Submitted to Environmental Management)

Fargione J, Kiesecker JM, Slaats J, Olimb, S, and M Kauffman. Wind Siting in the Northern Great Plains: A Vision to Guide Sustainable Development. (Submitted to PLoS)