Peer-reviewed Articles
In Review
- Xu, W., Calhoun, K., Serota, M., Blanco, A., Demers, N., Onorato, D. Den-site selection of Florida panthers in a fire prone landscape.
- Han, Y., Xu, W., Wang, K., Wang, D., Mei, Z. Mapping, assessing, and conserving the last floodplains of the Yangtze River.
- Van Scoyoc, A., Xu, W.* (shared first-author), Brashares, J. The islandization of global protected areas.
- Wilkinson, E., Xu, W., Solli, A. L., Kelly, M., Brashares, J. S. Spotted hyaena landscape navigation on a coexistence frontier.
- 2023-
- Serota, M. W., Barker, K. J., Gigliotti, L. C., Maher, S. M. L., Shawler, A. L., Zuckerman, G. R., Xu, W., Verta, G., Templin, E., Andreozzi, C., Middleton, A. D. Incorporating Human Dimensions Improves Wildlife Restoration Outcomes. Nature Communication. (in press).
- Xu, W., Giglioti, L., Royauté, R., Sawyer, H., Middleton, A. Fencing amplifies individual differences in movement with implications on survival for two migratory ungulates. Journal of Animal Ecology. (pdf)
- Han, Y., Xu, W., Liu, J., Zhang, X., Wang, K., Wang, D., Mei, Z. (2023). Ecological impact of unsustainable sand mining: urgent lessons learned from a critically endangered freshwater cetacean. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 290 (1990), 20221786. (pdf)
- 2022-
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- Barker, K.J., Xu, W., Van Scoyoc, A., Serota, M., Moravek, J., Shawler, A., Ryan, R., Middleton., A. D., A. (2021). Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations. Conservation Letters. e12850. (pdf)
- Kauffman, M. J., Cagnacci, F., Chamaille-Jammes, S., Hebblewhite, M., Hopcraft, G., Merkle, J., Mueller, T., ..., Xu, W., Zuther, S. Mapping out a future for ungulate migraitons. Science. 372.6542 (2021): 566-569. (pdf)
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- Xu, W., Barker, K., Shawler, A., Van Scoyoc, A., Smith, J., Mueller, T., Sawyer, H., Andreozzi, C., Bidder, O., Mumme, S., Karandikar, H., Templin, E., & Middleton, A. Migratory Plasticity of Ungulate in a Changing World. Ecology. 102(4), e03293. (pdf)
- Xu, W., Nandintsetseg, D., Sawyer, H., Middleton, A. (2021). Barrier Behavior Analysis (BaBA) reveals extensive effects of fencing on wide-ranging animals. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58.4 (2021): 690-698. (pdf)
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WyoFile: New Study reveals how fences hinder migratory wildlife in the west
Berkeley News: New study reveals how fences hinder migratory wildlife in the west Wyoming Public Media: New study helps pinpoint the fences that causes problems for wildlife The Daily California: UC Berkeley researchers find fences in Wyoming impact deer migration |
- 2020 -
- Parker-Shames, P., Xu, W., Rich, L., Brashares, J.S. (2020). Coexisting with cannabis: wildlife response to marijuana cultivation. California Fish and Game. 106(2): 91-106. (pdf)
- McInturff, A., Xu, W., Wilkinson, C., Nandintsetseg D., Brashares, J.S. (2020). Toward a fence ecology: Frameworks and approaches for assessing the global ecological effects of fences. BioScience. Biaa103 (pdf)
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The Conversation: Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world that are rarely measured
Yale E360: Unnatural Barriers: How the Boom in Fences Is Harming Wildlife The Economist: Fences are bad for wildlife Anthropocene Magazine: We’ve built enough fences to stretch to the sun Berkeley News: New research outlined new field of fence ecology BioScience podcast: Often understudied fences pose ecological threats Americon Institute of Biological Sciences: Chronically understudied, fences hold grave ecological threats Cosmos magazine: The ecological impact of fences: Scientists highlight a neglected but serious issue Treehugger: Fences Can Cause 'Ecological Meltdown,' Study Finds |
- 2019 -
- Sawyer, H., LeBeau, C. W., McDonald, T. L., Xu, W., & Middleton, A. D. (2019). All routes are not created equal: An ungulate's choice of migration route can influence its survival. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(8), 1860-1869. (pdf).
- Xu, W., Huang, Q., Stabach, J., Hoshino, B., & Leimgruber, P. (2019). Railway Underpass Location Affects Migration Distance in Tibetan Antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii). PLoS ONE 14.2. (pdf)
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Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute News: Chinese Railway Underpass Prolongs Tibetan Antelope’s Migration
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- Pre-2019 -
- Xu, W., Bernardes S., Bacchus, S., & Madden, M. (2018). Management Implications of Aquifer Fractures on Ecosystem and Habitat Suitability for Panthers in Southern Florida. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 6, 184-208. (pdf)
- Xu, W., Fayrer-Hosken, R., Madden, M., Simms, C., Mu, L., & Presotto, A. (2017). Coupling African Elephant Movement and Habitat Modeling for Landscape Availability-suitability-connectivity in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Pachyderm, 58(2017): 97-106. (pdf)
- Xu, W., Bernardes, S., Bacchus, S. T., & Madden, M. (2016). Mapped Fractures and Sinkholes in the Coastal Plain of Florida and Georgia to Infer Environmental Impacts from Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) and Supply Wells in the Regional Karst Floridan Aquifer System. Journal of Geography and Geology. 8.2(2016):76 (pdf)
- Bacchus, S. T., Bernardes, S., Xu, W., & Madden, M. (2015). Fractures as Preferential Flowpaths for Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Injections and Withdrawals: Implications for Environmentally Sensitive Near-Shore Waters, Wetlands of the Greater Everglades Basin and the Regional Karst Floridan Aquifer System. Journal of Geography and Geology, 7(2), 117. (pdf)
- Xu, W., Wang, S.. (2014). Soil-Adjustment Abilities Comparison and Optimal Applied Environments Analysis of Vegetation Indices Using PROSAIL Model (in Chinese). Journal of Remote Sensing. 18.004 : 826-842.
Other Publications
- Pei, J., Wang, L., Xu, W., Kurz, D. J., Geng, J., Fang, H., Guo, X., Niu, Z. (2019). Tibetan Antelope Again Under Threat. Science 366, no. 6462: 194-194. (pdf). [Letter]
- Bernardes, S., Madden, M., Astuti, I., Chuvieco, E., Cotten, D., Dennison, P. E., Dronova, I., Gitas, I., Gong, P., Franch-Gras, B., Hancher, M., Hirano, A., Howard, A., Hu, X., Huete, A., Jordan, T., Justice, C., Lawrence, R. L., Lu, L., Mishra, D. R., Mishra, S., Miura, T., Mountrakis, G., Pal, M., Remillard, C., Roberts, D. A., Roger, J., Singh, K. K., Somers, B., Stavrakoudis, D., Sun, W., Sun, G., Thau, D., Tits, L., Usery, E. L., Vermote, E., Wang, C., Wang, M., Weng, Q., Xu, W., Yao T., Yoshioka, H., Zhang, L., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Z. (2019). Processing and Analysis Methods. In Manual of Remote Sensing, 4th Edition. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 631-868. [Book chapter]
- Xu, W., Hays, B., Fayrer-Hosken, R., & Presotto, A. (2016). Modeling the Distribution of African Savanna Elephants in Kruger National Park: An Application of Multi-Scale Globeland30 Data. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences, 41. [Conference proceedings]
- Bacchus, S. T., Bernardes, S., Xu, W., & Madden, M. (2015). What Georgia Can Learn from Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) in Florida. in: Proceedings of the 2015 Georgia Water Resources Conference, held April 28-29, 2015, at The University of Georgia, Athens, GA. 28-29. [Conference proceedings]
