Featured Publications & Products

• Pickett, S.T.A.; Cadenasso, M.L.; Grove, J.M.; Boone, C.G.; Groffman, P.M.; Irwin, E.; Kaushal, S.S.; Marshall, V.; McGrath, B.P.; Nilon, C.H.; Pouyat, R.V.; Szlavecz, K.; Troy, A.; Warren, P. 2011. Urban ecological systems: Scientific foundations and a decade of progress.
• Locke, Dexter; Grove, J. Morgan; Lu, Jacqueline W.T.; Troy, Austin; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath P.M.; Beck, Brian. 2010. Prioritizing preferable locations for increasing urban tree canopy in New York City.
• Boone, Christopher G.; Cadenasso, Mary L.; Grove, J. Morgan; Schwarz, Kirsten; Buckley, Geoffrey L. 2010. Landscape, vegetation characteristics, and group identity in an urban and suburban watershed: why the 60s matter.
• Boone, Christopher G.; Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Grove, J. Morgan; Sister, Chona. 2009. Parks and people: An environmental justice inquiry in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Vemuri, Amanda W.; Grove, J. Morgan; Wilson, Matthew A.; Burch, William R. Jr. 2011. A tale of two scales: Evaluating the relationship among life satisfaction, social capital, income, and the natural environment at individual and neighborhood levels in metropolitan Baltimore.

Publications

• Giardina, Christian ; Goldstein, Bruce Evan; Grove, Morgan ; Campbell, Lindsay K.; Svendsen, Erika ; McMillen, Heather . 2019. A proposed multi-agency program for stewardship science.
• Ogden, Laura A.; Aoki, Carissa ; Grove, J. Morgan; Sonti, Nancy Falxa; Hall, William ; Locke, Dexter ; Pickett, Steward T. A.; Avins, Miriam ; Lautar, Katie ; Lagrosa, John . 2019. Forest ethnography: An approach to study the environmental history and political ecology of urban forests.
• Grove, Jonathan Morgan; Pickett, Steward T.A. 2019. From transdisciplinary projects to platforms: expanding capacity and impact of land systems knowledge and decision making.
• Roman, Lara A.; Pearsall, Hamil; Eisenman, Theodore S.; Conway, Tenley M.; Fahey, Robert T.; Landry, Shawn; Vogt, Jess; van Doorn, Natalie S.; Grove, J. Morgan; Locke, Dexter H.; Bardekjian, Adrina C.; Battles, John J.; Cadenasso, Mary L.; van den Bosch, Cecil C. Konijnendijk; Avolio, Meghan; Berland, Adam; Jenerette, G. Darrel; Mincey, Sarah K.; Pataki, Diane E.; Staudhammer, Christina. 2018. Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: A literature synthesis.
• Meyfroidt, P. ; Roy Chowdhury, R. ; de Bremond, A. ; Ellis, E.C. ; Erb, K.-H ; Filatova, T. ; Garrett, R.D. ; Grove, J.M. ; Heinimann, A. ; Kuemmerle, T. ; Kull, C.A. ; Lambin, E.F. ; Landon, Y. ; le Polain de Waroux, Y. ; Messerli, P. ; Müller, D. ; Nielsen, J.Ø ; Peterson, G.D. ; Rodriguez García, V. ; Schlüter, M. ; Turner, B.L. ; Verburg, P.H. . 2018. Middle-range theories of land system change.
• Grove, Morgan; Ogden, Laura; Pickett, Steward; Boone, Chris; Buckley, Geoff; Locke, Dexter H.; Lord, Charlie; Hall, Billy. 2018. The Legacy Effect: Understanding How Segregation and Environmental Injustice Unfold over Time in Baltimore.
• Wheeler, Megan M.; Neill, Christopher ; Groffman, Peter M.; Avolio, Meghan ; Bettez, Neil ; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine ; Roy Chowdhury, Rinku ; Darling, Lindsay ; Grove, J. Morgan; Hall, Sharon J.; Heffernan, James B.; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Larson, Kelli L.; Morse, Jennifer L.; Nelson, Kristen C.; Ogden, Laura A.; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath ; Pataki, Diane E.; Polsky, Colin ; Steele, Meredith ; Trammell, Tara L.E. 2017. Continental-scale homogenization of residential lawn plant communities.
• Pickett, S.T.A. ; Cadenasso, M.L. ; Rosi-Marshall, E.J. ; Belt, K.T. ; Groffman, P.M. ; Grove, J.M. ; Irwin, E.G. ; Kaushal, S.S. ; LaDeau, S.L. ; Nilon, C.H. ; Swan, C.M. ; Warren, P.S. . 2017. Dynamic heterogeneity: a framework to promote ecological integration and hypothesis generation in urban systems.
• Groffman, Peter M.; Avolio, Meghan; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine; Bettez, Neil D.; Grove, J. Morgan; Hall, Sharon J.; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Larson, Kelli L.; Lerman, Susannah B.; Locke, Dexter H.; Heffernan, James B.; Morse, Jennifer L.; Neill, Christopher; Nelson, Kristen C.; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath; Pataki, Diane E.; Polsky, Colin; Chowdhury, Rinku Roy; Trammell, Tara L. E. 2017. Ecological homogenization of residential macrosystems.
• Groffman, Peter M.; Cadenasso, Mary L.; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine ; Childers, Daniel L.; Grimm, Nancy B.; Grove, J. Morgan; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Hutyra, Lucy R.; Darrel Jenerette, G. ; McPhearson, Timon ; Pataki, Diane E.; Pickett, Steward T. A.; Pouyat, Richard V; Rosi-Marshall, Emma ; Ruddell, Benjamin L. 2017. Moving Towards a New Urban Systems Science.
• Chuang, Wen-Ching; Boone, Christopher G.; Locke, Dexter H.; Grove, J. Morgan; Whitmer, Ali; Buckley, Geoffrey; Zhang, Sainan. 2017. Tree canopy change and neighborhood stability: A comparative analysis of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD.
• Romolini, Michele; Bixler, R. Patrick; Grove, Morgan. 2016. A Social-ecological framework for urban stewardship network research to promote sustainable and resilient cities.
• Treemore-Spears, Lara J.; Grove, Morgan; Harris, Craig K.; Lemke, Lawrence D.; Miller, Carol J.; Pothukuchi, Kami; Zhang, Yifan; Zhang, Yongli L. 2016. A workshop on transitioning cities at the food-energy-water nexus.
• Hall, Sharon J.; Learned, J.; Ruddell, B.; Larson, K.L.; Cavender-Bares, J.; Bettez, N.; Groffman, P.M.; Grove, Morgan; Heffernan, J.B.; Hobbie, S.E.; Morse, J.L.; Neill, C.; Nelson, K.C.; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath; Ogden, L.; Pataki, D.E.; Pearse, W.D.; Polsky, C.; Chowdhury, R. Roy; Steele, M.K.; Trammell, T.L.E. 2016. Convergence of microclimate in residential landscapes across diverse cities in the United States.
• Muñoz-Erickson, T.A.; Campbell, L.K.; Childers, D.L.; Grove, J.M.; Iwaniec, D.M.; Pickett, S.T.A.; Romolini, Michelle; Svendsen, Erika S. 2016. Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social ecological systems.
• Locke, Dexter H.; Grove, J. Morgan. 2016. Doing the hard work where it's easiest Examining the relationships between urban greening programs and social and ecological characteristics.
• Larson, K.L.; Nelson, K.C.; Samples, S.R.; Hall, S.J.; Bettez, N.; Cavender-Bares, J.; Groffman, P.M.; Grove, M.; Heffernan, J.B.; Hobbie, S.E.; Learned, J.; Morse, J.L.; Neill, C.; Ogden, L.A.; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath; Pataki, D.E.; Polsky, C.; Chowdhury, R. Roy; Steele, M.; Trammell, T.L.E. 2016. Ecosystem services in managing residential landscapes: priorities, value dimensions, and cross-regional patterns.
• Grove, Morgan; Childers, Daniel L.; Galvin, Michael; Hines, Sarah J.; Munoz-Erickson, Tischa; Svendsen, Erika S. 2016. Linking science and decision making to promote an ecology for the city: practices and opportunities.
• Bixler, R Patrick; Johnson, Shawn; Emerson, Kirk; Nabatchi, Tina; Reuling, Melly; Curtin, Charles; Romolini, Michele; Grove, Morgan. 2016. Networks and landscapes: a framework for setting goals and evaluating performance at the large landscape scale.
• Svendsen, Erika S.; Campbell, Lindsay K.; Fisher, Dana R.; Connolly, James J.T.; Johnson, Michelle L.; Sonti, Nancy Falxa; Locke, Dexter H.; Westphal, Lynne M.; Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc; Grove, Morgan; Romolini, Michele; Blahna, Dale J.; Wolf, Kathleen L. 2016. Stewardship mapping and assessment project: a framework for understanding community-based environmental stewardship.
• Troy, Austin; Nunery, Ashley; Grove, Morgan. 2016. The relationship between residential yard management and neighborhood crime: An analysis from Baltimore City and County.
• Romolini, Michele; Grove, Morgan; Ventriss, Curtis L.; Koliba, Christopher J.; Krymkowski, Daniel H. 2016. Toward an understanding of citywide urban environmental governance: An examination of stewardship networks in Baltimore and Seattle.
• Locke, Dexter H.; Landry, Shawn M.; Grove, J. Morgan; Roy Chowdhury, Rinku . 2016. What s scale got to do with it Models for urban tree canopy.
• Childers, Daniel L.; Cadenasso, Mary L.; Grove, J. Morgan; Marshall, Victoria; McGrath, Brian; Pickett, Steward T.A. 2015. An ecology for cities: A transformational nexus of design and ecology to advance climate change resilience and urban sustainability.
• Grove, J. Morgan; Chowdhury, Rinku Roy; Childers, Daniel. 2015. Co-design, co-production, and dissemination of social-ecological knowledge to promote sustainability and resilience: urban experiences from the U.S.
• Schwarz, Kirsten; Fragkias, Michail; Boone, Christopher G.; Zhou, Weiqi; McHale, Melissa; Grove, J. Morgan; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath; McFadden, Joseph P.; Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Childers, Dan; Ogden, Laura; Pincetl, Stephanie; Pataki, Diane; Whitmer, Ali; Cadenasso, Mary L.; Loiselle, Steven Arthur. 2015. Trees grow on money: Urban tree canopy cover and environmental justice.
• Metson, Genevieve S.; Iwaniec, David M.; Baker, Lawrence A.; Bennett, Elena M.; Childers, Daniel L.; Cordell, Dana; Grimm, Nancy B.; Grove, J. Morgan; Nidzgorski, Daniel A.; White, Stuart. 2015. Urban phosphorus sustainability: Systemically incorporating social, ecological, and technological factors into phosphorus flow analysis.
• Boone, Christopher G.; Fragkias, Michail; Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Grove, J. Morgan. 2014. A long view of polluting industry and environmental justice in Baltimore.
• Childers, Daniel L.; Pickett, Steward T.A.; Grove, J. Morgan; Ogden, Laura; Whitmer, Alison. 2014. Advancing urban sustainability theory and action: Challenges and opportunities.
• Grove, J. Morgan; Locke, Dexter H.; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath P.M. 2014. An ecology of prestige in New York City: Examining the relationships among population density, socio-economic status, group identity, and residential canopy cover.
• Polsky, Colin; Grove, J. Morgan; Knudson, Chris; Groffman, Peter M.; Bettez, Neil; Cavender-Bares, JJeannine; Hall, Sharon J.; Heffernan, James B.; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Larson, Kelli L.; Morse, Jennifer L.; Neill, Christopher; Nelson, Kristen C.; Ogden, Laura A.; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath; Pataki, Diane E.; Chowdhury, Rinku Roy; Steele, Meredith K. 2014. Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care.
• Steele, M.K.; Heffernan, J.B.; Bettez, N.; Cavender-Bares, J.; Groffman, P.M.; Grove, J.M.; Hall, S.; Hobbie, S.E.; Larson, K.; Morse, J.L.; Neill, C.; Nelson, K.C.; O'Neil-Dunne, J.; Ogden, L.; Pataki, D.E.; Polsky, C.; Roy Chowdhury, R. 2014. Convergent surface water distributions in U.S. cities.
• Grove, J. Morgan. 2014. Expanding the vision of the Experimental Forest and Range network to urban areas.
• Battaglia, Michael; Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Galvin, Michael; Grove, Morgan. 2014. It's not easy going green: Obstacles to tree-planting programs in East Baltimore.
• Locke, Dexter H.; Grove, J. Morgan; Galvin, Michael; ONeil-Dunne, Jarlath P.M.; Murphy, Charles. 2013. Applications of urban tree canopy assessment and prioritization tools: supporting collaborative decision making to achieve urban sustainability goals.
• Romolini, Michele; Grove, J. Morgan; Locke, Dexter H. 2013. Assessing and comparing relationships between urban environmental stewardship networks and land cover in Baltimore and Seattle.
• Grove, J. Morgan; Pickett, Steward T.A.; Whitmer, Ali; Cadenasso, Mary L. 2013. Building an urban LTSER: the case of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study and the D.C./B.C. ULTRA-Ex Project.
• Pickett, S.T.A.; Boone, Christopher G.; McGrath, Brian P.; Cadenasso, M.L.; Childers, Daniel L.; Ogden, Laura A.; McHale, Melissa; Grove, J. Morgan. 2013. Ecological science and transformation to the sustainable city.
• Peters, D.P.C.; Laney, C.M.; Lugo, A.E.; Collins, S.L.; Driscoll, C.T.; Groffman, P.M.; Grove, J.M.; Knapp, A.K.; Kratz, T.K.; Ohman, M.D.; Waide, R.B.; Yao, J. 2013. Long-term trends in ecological systems: an introduction to cross-site comparisons and relevance to global change studies.
• Hager, Guy W; Belt, Kenneth T.; Stack, William; Burgess, Kimberly; Grove, J. Morgan; Caplan, Bess; Hardcastle, Mary; Shelley, Desiree; Pickett, Steward T.A.; Groffman, Peter M. 2013. Socioecological revitalization of an urban watershed.
• Troy, Austin; Grove, J. Morgan; O'Neill-Dunne, Jarlath. 2012. The relationship between tree canopy and crime rates across an urban-rural gradient in the greater Baltimore region.
• Chowdhury, Rinku Roy; Larson, Kelli; Grove, Morgan; Polsky, Colin; Cook, Elizabeth; Onsted, Jeffrey; Ogden, Laura. 2011. A multi-scalar approach to theorizing socio-ecological dynamics of urban residential landscapes.
• Collins, S.L.; Carpenter, S.R.; Swinton, S.M.; Orenstein, D.E.; Childers, D.L.; Gragson, T.L.; Grimm, N.B.; Grove, J.M.; Harlan, S.L.; Kaye, J.P.; Knapp, A.K.; Kofinas, G.P.; Magnuson, J.J.; McDowell, W.H.; Melack, J.M.; Ogden, L.A.; Robertson, G.P.; Smith, M.D.; Whitmer, A.C. 2010. An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social-ecological research.
• Pace, Michael L.; Hampton, Stephanie E.; Limburg, Karin E.; Bennett, Elena M.; Cook, Elizabeth M.; Davis, Ann E.; Grove, J. Morgan; Kaneshiro, Kenneth Y.; LaDeau, Shannon L.; Likens, Gene E.; McKnight, Diane M.; Richardson, David C.; Strayer, David L. 2010. Communicating with the public: opportunities and rewards for individual ecologists.
• Chapin, F. Stuart; Carpenter, Stephen R.; Kofinas, Gary P.; Folke, Carl; Abel, Nick; Clark, William C.; Olsson, Per; Smith, D. Mark Stafford; Walker, Brian; Young, Oran R.; Berkes, Fikret; Biggs, Reinette; Grove, J. Morgan; Naylor, Rosamond L.; Pinkerton, Evelyn; Steffen, Will; Swanson, Frederick J. 2010. Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet.
• Smith, Monica Lipscomb; Zhou, Weiqi; Cadenasso, Mary; Grove, J. Morgan; Band, Lawrence. 2010. Evaluation of the National Land Database for Hydrologic Applications in Urban And Suburban Baltimore, Maryland.
• Zhou, Weiqi; Troy, Austin; Grove, J. Morgan; Jenkins, Jennifer C. 2009. Can money buy green Demographic and socioeconomic predictors of lawn-care expenditures and lawn greenness in urban residential areas.
• Grove, J. Morgan. 2009. Cities: Managing densely settled social-ecological systems.
• Pickett, Steward T. A.; Grove, J. M. 2009. Urban ecosystems: What would Tansley do.
• Pickett, Steward T.A.; Cadenasso, Mary L.; Grove, J. Morgan; Groffman, Peter M.; Band, Lawrence E.; Boone, Christopher G.; Burch, William R., Jr.; Grimmond, Susan B.; Hom, John; Jenkins, Jennifer C.; Law, Neely L.; Nilon, Charles H.; Pouyat, Richard V.; Szlavecz, Katalin; Warren, Paige S.; Wilson, Matthew A. 2008. Beyond urban legends: an emerging framework of urban ecology, as illustrated by the Baltimore Ecosystem Study.
• Zhou, Weiqi; Troy, Austin; Grove, Morgan. 2008. Modeling residential lawn fertilization practices: integrating high resolution remote sensing with socioeconomic data.
• Zhou, Weiqi; Troy, Austin; Grove, Morgan. 2008. Object-based land cover classification and change analysis in the Baltimore metropolitan area using multitemporal high resolution remote sensing data.
• Troy, Austin; Grove, J. Morgan. 2008. Property values, parks, and crime: a hedonic analysis in Baltimore, MD.
• Pickett, Steward T.A.; Belt, Kenneth T.; Galvin, Michael F.; Groffman, Peter M.; Grove, J. Morgan; Outen, Donald C.; Pouyat, Richard V.; Stack, William P.; Cadenasso, Mary L. 2007. Watersheds in Baltimore, Maryland: understanding and application of integrated ecological and social processes.
• Grove, J.M.; Troy, A.R.; O'Neil-Dunne, J.P.M.; Burch, W.R., Jr.; Cadenasso, M.L., Jr..; Pickett, S.T.A.; Pickett, S.T.A. 2006. Characterization of Households and its Implications for the Vegetation of Urban Ecosystems.
• Grove, J. Morgan; Cadenasso, Mary L.; Burch, William R., Jr.; Pickett, Steward T.; Schwarz, Kirsten; O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath; Wilson, Matthew; Troy, Austin; Boone, Christopher. 2006. Data and methods comparing social structure and vegetation structure of urban neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Cadenasso, Mary L.; Pickett, Steward T.A.; Grove, Morgan J.; Grove, Morgan J. 2006. Integrative approaches to investigating human-natural systems: the Baltimore ecosystem study.
• Gragson, Ted L.; Grove, Morgan. 2006. Social science in the context of the long term ecological research program.
• Gragson, Ted L.; Grove, Morgan. 2006. Social science in the context of the long term ecological research program.
• Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Bailey, Robert F.; Grove, J. Morgan. 2006. The Patapsco Forest Reserve: Establishing a "City Park" for Baltimore, 1907-1941.
• Dennis, Donald F.; Grove, J. Morgan. 2006. Urban and Community Forestry Stewardship in Baltimore: Assessing Opportunities Using Conjoint Analysis.
• Pickett, S.T.A.; Cadenasso, M.L.; Grove, J.M. 2005. Biocomplexity in coupled natural human systems: a multidimensional framework.
• Schweik, Charles; Evans, Tom; Grove, J. Morgan. 2005. Open source and open content: A framework for global collaboration in social-ecological research.
• Grove, Morgan; Burch, William R., Jr..; Pickett, S.T.A. 2005. Social mosaics and urban forestry in Baltimore, Maryland.
• Schweik, Charles M.; Stepanov, Alexander; Grove, J. Morgan. 2005. The open research system: a web-based metadata and data repository for collaborative research.
• Redman, Charles L.; Grove, J. Morgan; Kuby, Lauren H.; Kuby, Lauren H. 2004. Integrating Social Science into the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: Social Dimensions of Ecological Change and Ecological Dimensions of Social Change.
• Law, Neely L.; Band, Lawrence E.; Grove, J. Morgan. 2004. Nitrogen input from residential lawn care practices in suburban watersheds in Baltimore county, MD.
• Pickett, S.T.A.; Cadenasso, M.L.; Grove, J.M. 2004. Resilient cities: meaning, models, and metaphor for integrating the ecological, socio-economic, and planning realms.
• Grove, J. Morgan; Hinson, Karen E.; Northrop, Robert J. 2003. A social ecology approach to understanding urban ecosystems and landscapes.
• Groffman, Peter M.; Bain, Daniel J.; Band, Lawrence E.; Belt, Kenneth T.; Brush, Grace S.; Grove, J. Morgan; Pouyat, Richard V.; Yesilonis, Ian C.; Zipperer, Wayne C. 2003. Down by the riverside: urban riparian ecology.
• Agarwal, Chetan; Green, Glen M.; Grove, J. Morgan; Evans, Tom P.; Schweik, Charles M. 2002. A review and assessment of land-use change models: dynamics of space, time, and human choice.
• Vogt, Kristiina A.; Grove, Morgan; Asjornsen, Heidi; Maxwell, Keely B.; Vogt, Daniel J.; Sigurdardottir, Ragnhildur; Larson, Bruce C.; Schibli, Leo; Dove, Michael. 2002. Linking ecological and social scales for natural resource management.
• Grove, Morgan; Schweik, Charlie; Evans, Tom; Green, Glen. 2002. Modeling human-environmental systems.
• Grove, J. Morgan; Buckley, Geoffrey L. 2001. Sowing the seeds of forest conservation: Fred Besley and the Maryland Story, 1906-1923.
• Pickett, S.T.A.; Cadenasso, M.L.; Grove, M.J.; Nilon, C.H.; Pouyat, R.V.; Zipperer, W.C. 2001. Urban ecological systems: linking terrestrial ecological, physical, and socioeconomic components of metropolitan areas.
• Grimm, Nancy B.; Grove, J. Morgan; Pickett, Steward T.A.; Redman, Charles L. 2000. Integrated approaches to long-term studies of urban ecological systems.
• Twery, Mark J. ; Rauscher, H. Michael; Bennett, Deborah J.; Thomasma, Scott A.; Stout, Susan L.; Palmer, James F.; Hoffman, Robin E.; DeCalesta, David S.; Gustafson, Eric; Grove, J. Morgan; Nute, Donald; Kim, Geneho; Kollasch, R. Peter. 2000. NED-1: integrated analyses for forest stewardship decisions.
• Pickett, S.T.A.; Burch, William R., Jr..; Grove, J. Morgan. 1999. Interdisciplinary research: maintaining the constructive impulse in a culture of criticism.
• Pickett, Steward T.A.; Burch, William R., Jr..; Dalton, Shawn E.; Foresman, Timothy W.; Grove, J. Morgan; Rowntree, Rowan. 1997. A conceptual framework for the study of human ecosystems in urban areas.

Research Highlights

Highlight	Title	Year
NRS-2017-88	Catalyzing an urban wood and restoration economy in Baltimore The Weeks Act of 1911 enabled the newly established U.S. Forest Service to restore land and watersheds. One hundred and six years later, agency ...	2017
NRS-2010-025	Urban Tree Canopy Assessment Program Despite millions of dollars spent each year by federal, state, and local governments on remote sensing datasets, decision makers sometimes still ...	2010