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Patrick S. Bourgeron

Fellow of INSTAAR.

PhD.: 1978, University Denis Diderot (formerly Paris 7), Paris, France.

patrick.bourgeron@colorado.edu
492-2841

INSTAAR Directorate Members

Specialty: Integrated ecological assessments; conservation, ecosystem, landscape, and plant ecology; conservation and land use planning; ecosystem management; biogeography; statistical and numerical modeling; biological diversity; ecological classification and mapping; technology transfer; strategic planning for science and conservation programs; communication outreach; managing system and organizational change.

Research Interests: Role of local and regional processes on the structure of hierarchically organized ecosystems; use of geostatistics and multivariate techniques to study ecological patterns; multi-scale sampling design and data extrapolation; analysis and modeling of species distributions; multi-scale mapping of biophysical and biotic patterns; patterns of life-form coexistence; selection of regional systems of conservation networks; ecological indicators of climate and anthropogenic change; land use change; biostatistics; integration of science in the planning process (land use and management, conservation); integration of modeling, geographic information systems, relational databases, and remote sensing data for ecological studies, ecological assessments, and conservation; development of tools to communicate research results to decision makers and the public.

Selected Publications:

  • Bourgeron, P.S. and H.C. Humphries. In press. Regional analysis of socio-ecological systems.  In. L. Charles and L. Abbadie, eds. Ecological Engineering. Accepted for publication.
  • Bourgeron, P.S., H.C. Humphries, and K.M. Reynolds.  2003.  Conducting large-scale conservation evaluation and conservation area selection using a knowledge-based system and GIS framework.  In: Parks, BO, Clarke KM, Crane MP, editors. 2003. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Modeling: Problems, Prospectus, and Needs for Research. [CD-ROM, ISBN: 0-9743307-0-1]. GIS/EM4 Conference; 2000 Sep 2-8; The Banff Centre, Banff, (AB) Canada. [Jointly published] Boulder: University of Colorado - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Denver: US Geologic Survey - Center for Biological Informatics, and Boulder: NOAA National Geophysical Data Center - Ecosystem Informatics.
  • Humphries, H.C., and P.S. Bourgeron. 2003.  Modeling environmental responses of Pinusponderosa and associated species in the south-western USA.  Journal of Biogeography.  30:257-276.
  • Bourgeron, P.S., and H.C. Humphries. 2003. Regional ecosystem analysis: Data collection and information production in the USA. Some lessons of interest to the EU initiative on Global Monitoring of Environment and Security.  Proceedings of the European Union Forum on Global Monitoring of Environment and Security.  Held at Noordjijk, Nederlands, 14-16 January 2003.  p. 42-59,  available at: http://www.gmes.info, Noordjijk, Nederland.
  • Bourgeron, P.S., H.C. Humphries, and M.E. Jensen. 2001. Ecosystem characterization and ecological assessments. In: Bourgeron, P.S. and M.E. Jensen., eds. An Integrated Ecological Assessment Protocols Guidebook. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. In Press.
  • Bourgeron, P.S., H.C. Humphries, and M.E. Jensen. 2001. Representativeness assessments. In: Bourgeron, P.S. and M.E. Jensen., eds. An Integrated Ecological Assessment Protocols Guidebook. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. In Press.
  • Bourgeron, P.S., H.C. Humphries, M.E. Jensen, and B.A. Brown. 2001.  Integrated regional ecological assessments and land use planning. In: V. Dale and R. Haeuber, eds. Applying Ecological Principles to Land Management. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. p. 276-315.
  • Jensen, M.E., J.P. DiBenedetto, C. Montagne, and P.S. Bourgeron. 2001.  Biophysical modeling of potential vegetation at landscape scale.  Journal of Range Management.  54:528-536.
  • Jensen, M.E., I.A. Goodman, P.S. Bourgeron, N.L. Poff, and C.K. Brewer. 2001. Effectiveness of biophysical criteria in the hierarchical classification of drainage basins.  Journal of the American Water Resources Association.  37:1155-1168.
  • Jensen, M.E., R. Redmond, J. DiBenedetto, P.S. Bourgeron, and I.A. Goodman. 2000. Application of ecological classifications and predictive modeling to broad-level assessment of ecosystem Health. Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 64:197-212.
  • Grossman, D.H., P.S. Bourgeron, W.D.N. Bush, D. Cleland, W. Platts, G.C. Ray, C.R. Robins, and G. Roloff. 1999. Principles for ecological classification. In: Johnson, N.C.; Mack, A.J.; Sexton, W.T.; Szaro, R.C., eds. Vol. II Ecological Stewardship: A Common Reference for Ecosystem Management. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands p. 353-393.
  • Bourgeron, P.S., H.C. Humphries, J.A. Barber, S.J. Turner, M.E. Jensen, and I.A. Goodman. 1999. Impact of broad- and fine-scale patterns on regional landscape characterization using AVHRR-derived data. Ecosystem Health 5:234-258.

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