Recent Publications

GRANTHAM, T.E., MEZZATESTA, M., NEWBURN, D. and A. M. MERENLENDER 2013. Evaluating Tradeoffs Between Environmental Flow Protections And Agricultural Water Security In press (online) (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M. and M. MATELLA 2013 Maintaining and restoring hydrologic habitat connectivity in mediterranean streams: an integrated modeling framework. Hydrobiologia In Press (online)(pdf)
KITZES, J. and A. M. MERENLENDER 2013. Extinction risk and tradeoffs in reserve site selection for species of different body sizes. Conservation Letters (pdf)
DE NEVERS, G., EDELMAN, D.S., and A. M. MERENLENDER 2013. The California Naturalist Handbook UC Press
RUDNICK D.A., .RYAN, S., BEIER, P., SAMUEL CUSHMAN, FRED DIEFFENBACH, CLINTON W. EPPS, LEAH GERBER, JOEL HARTTER, JEFF JENNESS, JULIA KINTSCH, ADINA M. MERENLENDER, RYAN M. PERKL, DAMIAN V. PREZIOSI, AND STEPHEN C. TROMBULAK 2012 The Role of Landscape Connectivity in Planning and Implementing Conservation and Restoration Priorities. Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology Issue 16 http://www.esa.org/science_resources/issues/FileEnglish/issuesinecology16.pdf (pdf)
GRANTHAM, T. E., NEWBURN, A. D., McCARTHY, M. A., and A. M. MERENLENDER 2012 The role of stream flow and land use in limiting over-summer survival of juvenile steelhead trout in California streams . Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 141:585–598, 2012 (pdf)
REED, S. E. and A. M. MERENLENDER 2011 Effects of management of domestic dogs and recreation on carnivores in protected areas in northern California. Conservation Biology 25(3):504-513 (pdf)
GRANTHAM, T. E., A. M. MERENLENDER and V. H. RESH 2010 Climatic Influences and Anthropogenic Stressors: An integrated framework for stream-flow management in mediterranean-climate California, USA. Fresh Water Biology 55(10):188-204 (pdf)
CHRISTIAN-SMITH J. and A. M. MERENLENDER 2010 The Disconnect Between Restoration Goals and Practices: A Case Study of Watershed Restoration in the Russian River Basin, California Restoration Ecology 18(1):95-102 (pdf)
LOHSE K.A. and A.M. MERENLENDER. 2009 Impacts of exurban development on water quantity and quality. Pp 159-180 In The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation: The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe, edited by Adrian X. Esparza and Guy McPherson. New York, Springer (pdf)
BYRD, K. B., RISSMAN, A. R. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2009 Impacts of conservation easements for threat abatement and fire management in a rural oak woodland landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning 92:106-116 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M., NEWBURN, D., REED, S. E. and RISSMAN, A. 2009 The importance of incorporating threat for efficient targeting and evaluation of conservation investments. (Response to Underwood et al. “Evaluating conservation spending for species return: A retrospective analysis in California”) Conservation Letters: 240–241 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M., S. E. REED, K. L. HEISE 2009 Exurban Development Influences Woodland Bird Composition. Landscape and Urban Planning, Landscape and Urban Planning 92:255-263 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M., M. DEITCH, and S. FEIRER 2008 Decision support tool seeks to aid stream flow recovery and enhance water security. California Agriculture. Caifornia Agricutlure 62(4):148-155 http://ucanr.org/watermodelcalag2009 (pdf)
REED, S. E. and A. M. MERENLENDER 2008 Quiet, Non-Consumptive Recreation Reduces Protected Area Effectiveness. Conservation Letters 1(3):146-154 (pdf)
DEITCH, M. J., KONDOLF, G. M., and A. M. MERENLENDER 2008 Surface water balance to evaluate the hydrological impacts of small instream diversions and application to the Russian River basin, California, USA Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19:274-284 (pdf)
DETCH, M. J., KONDOLF, G. M., and A. M. MERENLENDER 2009 Hydrologic impacts of small-scale instream diversions for frost and heat protection in the California wine country. River Research and Applications. 25:118-134 (pdf)
BÊCHE, L. A. CONNORS, P. G., RESH, V. H. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2009 Resilience of fishes and invertebrates to prolonged drought in two California streams. Ecography 32:778-788. (pdf)
RISSMAN, A. R. and A. M. MERENLENDER 2008. The Conservation Contributions of Conservation Easements: Analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area Protected Lands Spatial Database. Ecology and Society 13 (1): 40. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art40/ (pdf)
LOHSE, K., NEWBURN, D., OPPERMAN, J., and A.M. MERENLENDER 2008 Forecasting the relative impacts of land use on anadromous fish habitat to guide conservation planning. Ecological Applications 18:467-482 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M. 2007 Large Scale Planning for Connectivity. Transactions of the Western Section Of The Wildlife Society 43:8-10 (pdf)
OPPERMAN, J. J. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2007 Living trees provide stable large wood in streams. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 32:1229-1238 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M. 2007. Protecting Wildlands Beyond the Urban Fringe In Lasting Landscapes: Reflections on the Role of Conservation Science in Land Use Planning. Kihslinger, R.L.and J. Wilkinson (eds.) Environmental Law Institute. Washington D.C. (pdf)
RISSMAN, A. R., REINER, R. and A. M. MERENLENDER 2007 Monitoring Natural Resources on Rangeland Conservation Easements. June 2007 pp 21-26 (pdf)
RISSMAN, A. R., LOZIER, L. COMENDANT, T. KAREIVA, P., KIESECKER, J. M., SHAW, R. and A. M. MERENLENDER 2007 Conservation easements: Biodiversity protection and private use. Conservation Biology 21(3):709-718 (pdf)
BYRD, K. B., KELLY, N. M., and MERENLENDER, A. M. 2007 Temporal and Spatial Relationships between watershed land use and salt marsh disturbance in a Pacific estuary. Environmental Management 39(1):98-112 (pdf)
G. M. KONDOLF, S. ANDERSON, R. LAVE, L. PAGANO, A. MERENLENDER AND E. S. BERNHARDT 2007 Two Decades of River Restoration in California: What Can We Learn? Restoration Ecology 15(3):516-523 (pdf)
HILTY, J. A., BROOKS, C., HEATON, E., and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2006 Forecasting the effect of land-use change on native and non-native mammalian predator distributions. Biodiversity and Conservation 15:2853–2871 (pdf)
NEWBURN, D., BERCK, P., and A. M. MERENLENDER 2006 Habitat and Open Space At Risk of Land-Use Conversion: Targeting Strategies for Land Conservation American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(1):28-42 (pdf)
HILTY, J. A., LIDICKER, W. Z., and, A. M. MERENLENDER. 2006 Corridor Ecology: The Science and Practice of Connectivity for Biodiversity Conservation. Island Press, Washington DC pp. 323 (pdf)
OPPERMAN, J. J, LOHSE, K., BROOKS, C., KELLY, N. M., and MERENLENDER, A. M. 2005. Influence of land use on fine sediment in salmonid spawning gravels within the Russian River basin, California. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 62:2740-2751 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M., BROOKS, C., SHABAZIAN, D., GAO, S., and R. JOHNSTON. 2005. Forecasting exurban development to evaluate the influence of land-use policies on wildland and farmland conservation. Journal of Conservation Planning 1(1):64-88 (pdf)
NEWBURN, D., REED, S., BERCK, P. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2005. Economics and land-use change in prioritizing private land conservation. Conservation Biology, 19(5):1411-1420 (pdf)
SULAK, A., HUNTSINGER, L., STANDIFORD R., MERENLENDER, A., and S. FAIRFAX. 2005. A strategy for oak woodland conservation: the conservation easement in California. In: Schnabel, S. and Goncalves, A. (eds). Sustainability of Agrosilvopastoral Systems: Dehesas, Montados. Chapter 6. Advances in Geoecology 37:353-364 (pdf)
HILTY, J. A. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2004. Use of riparian corridors and vineyards by mammalian predators in Northern California. Conservation Biology 18(1):126-135 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M., HUNTSINGER, L., GUTHEY, G., and S. K. FAIRFAX. 2004. Land trusts and conservation easements: Who is conserving what for whom? Conservation Biology 18(1):65-75 (pdf)
OPPERMAN, J. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2004. The effectiveness of riparian restoration for improving instream fish habitat in four hardwood-dominated California streams. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 24(3):822-834 (pdf)
HILTY, J. A. and A. MERENLENDER. 2003. Studying biodiversity on private lands. Conservation Biology 17(1):132-137 (pdf)
GIUSTI, G. A. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2002. Inconsistent application of environmental laws and policies to California's oak woodlands. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-184. 2002 (pdf)
HEISE, K. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2002. Monitoring a half-century of change in a hardwood rangeland. Journal of Range Management 55(4):412-419 (pdf)
BROOKS, C. N. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2001 Determining the pattern of oak woodland regeneration for a cleared watershed in northwest California: A necessary first step for restoration. Restoration Ecology 9(1):1-12 (pdf)
DITOMASO, J. M., HEISE, K. L., KYSER, G. B., MERENLENDER, A. M., and R. J. KEIFFER. 2001. Carefully timed burning can control barb goatgrass. California Agriculture 55(6):47-52 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M., HEISE K. L., BARTOLOME, J. W., and B. H. ALLEN-DIAZ. 2001 Monitoring shows vegetation change at multiple scales. California Agriculture 55(6):42-46 (pdf)
BROOKS, C. N. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2000. How the GIS was used to map and quantify policy impacts. California Agriculture 54(3):19-20 (pdf)
HEATON, E. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2000. Modeling potential vineyard expansion and habitat fragmentation. California Agriculture 54(3):12-18 (pdf)
HILTY, J. A. and A. MERENLENDER. 2000. A comparison of covered track-plates and remotely-triggered cameras. Transactions of the Western Section of the Wildlife Society 36:27-31 (pdf)
HILTY, J. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2000. Faunal indicator taxa selection for monitoring ecosystem health. Biological Conservation 92:185-197 (pdf)
KENNEDY, T. B., MERENLENDER, A. M., and G. L. VINYARD. 2000. A Comparison of riparian condition and aquatic invertebrate community indices in central Nevada. Western North American Naturalist 60(3):255-272 (pdf)
MERENLENDER, A. M. 2000. Mapping vineyard expansion provides information on agriculture and the environment. California Agriculture 54(3):7-12 (pdf)
OPPERMAN, J. and A. M. MERENLENDER. 2000. Deer herbivory as an ecological constraint to restoration of degraded riparian corridors. Restoration Ecology 8(1):41-47 (pdf)