My research interests are motivated by the goal of facilitating the conservation of ecological systems. This encompasses research ranging from the study of multi-scale impacts of conservation interventions to the complexities of species interactions. My research challenges me to predict outcomes for ecological communities faced with an increasingly uncertain environment, while integrating the inherent social dimensions of this problem. I do my best to tie together robust ecological theory with effective environmental conservation, all while innovating distributed data collection systems.
Contact: lujoppa(at)microsoft.com
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About
I am a Scientist in the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science (CEES). The CEES group sits within the broader Computational Science Lab, which is overseen by Stephen Emmott. I also hold an Honorary Research Fellowship at the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent.
I completed my bachelor’s degree in Wildlife Ecology and Zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004, with Dr. Stan Temple as my major advisor. I earned a doctorate in Ecology in 2009 from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, where I studied under Dr. Stuart Pimm. I have worked broadly in the field of ecology in government, private, and academic sectors. Between completing my bachelor's degree and beginning graduate school I was a consultant to Malawi's Department of National Parks and Wildlife as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
- Higgins, S.N., Vander Zanden, M.J, Joppa, L.N., and Vadeboncoeur Y., Simultaneous top-down and bottom up control of phytoplankton biomass in lakes: the role of invasive dreissenid mussels and phosphorus, in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, vol. In Press, 2011
- Joppa, L.N., Roberts, D.L., Pimm, and S.L., The population ecology and social behaviour of taxonomists., in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2011
- Hoffman, D., Fay, D., Joppa, and L.N., Human Migration to Park Edges: Case Studies Critique Findings from Global-level Statistical Analysis, in Conservation and Society, vol. In Press, 2011
- Forero-Medina, G., Joppa, L.N., Pimm, and S.L., Thermal tolerance, range expansion, and status of tropical amphibians: Reply to Catenazzi, in Conservation Biology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 426-427, 2011
- Joppa, L.N., Roberts, D.L., Myers, N., Pimm, and S.L., Biodiversity hotspots house the majority of missing species., in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011
- Lucas N. Joppa and Richard J. Williams, The influence of single elements on nested community structure, in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2011
- Pimm, S.L., Jenkins, C., Joppa, L.N., Roberts, D., Russell, and G., How many endangered species remain to be discovered in Brazil?, in Natureza & Conservação, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 71-77, 2010
- Joppa, L.N., Montoya, J., Sole, R., Sanderson, J., Pimm, and S.L., On nestedness in ecological networks, in Evolutionary and Ecology Research, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 35-46, 2010
- Joppa, L.N., Pfaff, and A., Re-assessing The Forest Impacts of Protection: The challenge of non-random location & a corrective method. , in Annual Review of Ecological Economics, vol. 1185, pp. 135-149, 2010
- Joppa, L.N., Roberts, D.L., Pimm, and S.L., How Many Species of Flowering Plants Are There?, in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B, pp. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1004, 2010
- Forero-Medina, G., Joppa, L.N., Pimm, and S.L., Constraints to elevational range shifts as climate changes, in Conservation Biology, pp. doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01572.x, 2010
- Forero-Medina, G., Joppa, and L.N., Colombia's protected area network: representativeness of global and national conservation priorities, in PLoS ONE, vol. 5, no. 10, 2010
- Joppa, L.N., Williams, C.K., Casper, G.S., Temple, and S.A., Environmental factors affecting sampling success of artificial cover objects, in Herpetological Conservation and Biology, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 143-148, 2010
- Joppa, L.N., Pfaff, and A., Global Protected Area Impacts, in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B, pp. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1713, 2010
- Joppa, L.N., Loarie, S.R., Nelson, and A., Measuring population growth around tropical protected areas: current issues and solutions, in Tropical Conservation Science, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 117-121, 2010
- Joppa, L.N., Bascompte, J., Montoya, J., Sole, R., Sanderson, J., Pimm, and S.L., Reciprocal specialization does not structure ecological networks., in Ecology Letters, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 961-969, 2009
- Jenkins, C., Joppa, and L.N., Considering protected area categories in conservation analyses., in Biological Conservation, vol. 143, no. 1, pp. 7-8, 2009
- Jenkins, C., Joppa, and L.N., Expansion of the Global Protected Area System, in Biological Conservation, vol. 142, no. 10, pp. 2166-2174, 2009
- Joppa and L.N., An ecologist calls for a citizen-science 'Wiki', in Nature, vol. 459, no. 4, pp. 619, 2009
- Joppa, L.N., Pfaff, and A., High & Far: How the world's protected areas have avoided threat., in PLoS ONE, vol. 4, no. 12, pp. e8273, 2009
- Joppa, L.N., Loarie, S.R., Pimm, and S.L., On population growth near protected areas, in PLoS ONE, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. e4279, 2009
- Schick, R.S., Clark, J.S., Loarie, S.R., Colchero, F., Best, B.D., Boustany, A., Conde, D.A., Halpin, P.N., Joppa, L.N., McClellan, and C.M., Understanding movement data and movement processes: what is the state of the art?, in Ecology Letters, vol. 11, no. 12, pp. 1138-1150, 2008
- Loarie, S.R., Joppa, L.N., Pimm, and S.L., Satellites miss environmental priorities: A response to Loveland et al. and Kark et al. , in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 183-184, 2008
- Joppa, L.N., Loarie, S.R., Pimm, and S.L., On the protection of protected areas, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), vol. 105, no. 18, pp. 6673-6678, 2008
- Loarie, S.R., Joppa, L.N., Pimm, and S.L., Satellites miss environmental priorities., in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 630-632, 2007
- Vander Zanden, M.J., L.N. Joppa, B.C. Allen, S. Chandra, D. Gilroy, Z. Hogan, J.T. Maxted, and J. Zhu, Designating Hucho taimen fishery management zones in Mongolia based on simulation of spawning dates., in Ecological Applications, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 2281-2289, 2007
- Joppa, L.N., Temple, and S.A., Use of upland habitat by the Butler's gartersnake (Thamnophis butleri)., in Chicago Herpetological Bulletin, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 221-227, 2005
