Publications


  1. L.C. Powers*, A.E. Larsen, B. Leonard, A.J. Plantinga (2022). Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people. Biological Conservation, 270: 109557
  2. A. Boser*, D. Sousa, A. Larsen, A. MacDonald (2021). Micro-climate to macro-risk: mapping fine scale differences in mosquito-borne disease risk using remote sensing. Environmental Research Letters 16(12):124014.
  3. A. E. Larsen, L. C. Powers*, S. McComb* (2021). Identifying and characterizing pesticide use on 9,000 fields of organic agriculture. Nature Communications, 12:1-12. 
  4. F. Noack, A. Larsen, J. Kamp, C. Levers (2021). A bird's eye view of farm size and biodiversity: The ecological legacy of the iron curtain. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104:1460-1484.
  5. D. N. Farrant*, K.L. Frank, A.E. Larsen (2021). Reuse and recycle: Integrating aquaculture and agricultural systems to increase production and reduce nutrient pollution. Science of the Total Environment, 785:146859.
  6. A.E. Larsen & F. Noack (2021). Impact of landscape complexity on the stability of field-level pest control. Nature Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00637-8.
  7. A.E. Larsen & S. McComb* (2021). Land cover and climate changes drive regionally heterogeneous increases in US insecticide use. Landscape Ecology, 36: 159-177.
  8. M. Tao*, P. Adler, A.E. Larsen, S. Suh (2020). Pesticide application rate and its toxicological impacts: why do they vary so widely? Environmental Research Letters, 15: 124049.
  9. A.J. MacDonald, S. McComb*, C. O’Neill, K.A. Padgett, A.E. Larsen. (2020). Projected climate and land use change alter western blacklegged tick phenology, seasonal host-seeking suitability and human encounter risk in California. Global Change Biology, 26:5459-5474.
  10. A.E. Larsen, D.N. Farrant*, A. J. MacDonald. (2020). Juxtaposition of pesticide use and biodiversity hotspots in California. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment, 289:106741.
  11. M. Dainese […] A.E. Larsen et al. [working group]. (2019). A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production. Science Advances, 5(10):eaax0121.
  12. F. Noack, A.E. Larsen. (2019) The contrasting effects of large farms on farmer and consumer welfare. Environmental Research Letters, 14(8):084024..
  13. A.J. Macdonald, C. O’Neill*, M. H. Yoshimizu, K.A. Padgett, A.E. Larsen. (2019). Tracking the seasonal ecological niche of the western blacklegged tick. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56:2562-2573.
  14. A.E. Larsen, K. Meng, B.E. Kendall. (2019) Causal Analysis in Control-Impact Ecological Studies with Observational Data. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 10(7):924-934..
  15. J. Vandermeer [...], A.E. Larsen, [...]. (2019) The community ecology of herbivore regulation in an agroecosystem: Lessons from complex systems. BioScience, 69(12): 974-996. 
  16. K. Bourque*, A. Schiller*, C. Loyola Angosto*, L. McPhail*, W. Bagnasco*, A. Ayres*, A.E. Larsen. Balancing agricultural production, groundwater management, and biodiversity goals: A multi-benefit optimization model of agriculture in Kern County, California. Science of the Total Environment, 670:865-875.
  17. C. Runge, J. Withey, D. Naugle, J. Fargione, K. Helmstedt, A.E. Larsen, S. Martinuzzi, J.Tack. (2019). Single species conservation as an umbrella for management of landscape threats. PLoS One 14(1) e0209619.
  18. A. MacDonald=, A.E. Larsen=, A. Plantinga. (2019) Missing the people for the trees: Identifying coupled natural-human system feedbacks driving the ecology of Lyme disease. Journal of Applied Ecology 56(2), 354-364.
  19. C. Runge, A.J. Plantinga, A.E. Larsen, D.E. Naugle, K. Helmstedt, S. Polasky, P. Donnelly, J.T. Smith, T. Lark, J.L. Lawler, S. Martinuzzi, J. Fargione.  (2019). Unintended habitat loss on private land from grazing restrictions on public rangelands. Journal of Applied Ecology 56, 52-62.
  20. A.E. Larsen, M. Patton, E. A. Martin (2019). High highs and low lows: elucidating striking seasonal variability in pesticide use and its environmental implications. Science of the Total Environment 651(1), 828-837.
  21. H. Tallis […] A.E. Larsen et al. [working group]. (2019). Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 39:81-93.
  22. DS Karp, R Chaplin-Kramer, TD Meehan, [...], A.E. Larsen [...] (2018). Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 201800042.
  23. K.J. Helmstedt, J.R. Stokes-Draut, A.E. Larsen, M.D. Potts. (2018). Innovating at the food, water, and energy interface. Journal of environmental management 209, 17-22.
  24. D. Mall, A.E. Larsen, E. Martin. (2018). Investigating the (Mis) Match between Natural Pest Control Knowledge and the Intensity of Pesticide Use. Insects 9 (1) 2.
  25. A.E. Larsen, S. Gaines, & O. Deschênes. (2017). Agricultural pesticide use and adverse birth outcomes in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Nature Communications 8 (302). doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00349-2. www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00349-2.pdf
  26. A.E. Larsen & F. Noack. (2017). Identifying the landscape drivers of agricultural insecticide use leveraging evidence from 100,000 fields. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.  pnas-2017-larsen-1620674114.pdf
  27. T. Tscharntke, D. Karp, R. Chaplin-Kramer, P. Batáry, F. DeClerck, C. Gratton, A. Ives, M. Jonsson, A. Larsen, E. Martin, A. Martínez-Salinas, T. D. Meehan, M. O’Rourke, K. Poveda , J.A. Rosenheim, A. Rusch, N. Schellhorn, S. Wratten, W. Zhang. (2016). When natural habitat fails to enhance biological pest control-Five hypotheses. Biological Conservation 204: 449-458.
  28. R. Selden, S. Valencia, A.E. Larsen, J. Cornejo-Donoso, A. Wasserman*. (2016). Evaluating seafood eco-labeling as a mechanism to reduce collateral impacts of fisheries in an ecosystem-based fisheries management context. Marine Policy 64: 102-115.
  29. A.E. Larsen, B.T. Hendrickson*, N Dedeic*, A.J. MacDonald. (2015). Taken as a Given: Evaluating the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Crop Data. Agricultural Systems 141: 121-125.
  30. A.E. Larsen, S. Gaines, O. Deschênes. (2015). Spatio-temporal variation in the relationship between landscape simplification and insecticide use. Ecological Applications 25(7): 1976-1983. 
  31. A.E. Larsen=, A. MacDonald=, & A. Plantinga= (2014). Lyme Disease Risk Influences Human Settlement in the Wildland Urban Interface: Evidence from a Longitudinal Analysis of Counties in the Northeastern U.S. American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 91(4): 747-755.
  32. A.E. Larsen. (2013). Agricultural landscape simplification does not consistently drive insecticide use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 110(3): 15330-15335.
  33. C. Costello, O. Deschênes, A.E. Larsen, S. Gaines (2013). Removing biases in forecasts of fisheries status. Journal of Bioeconomics 16:213-219.
  34. A.E. Larsen. (2012) Modeling multiple non-consumptive effects in simple food webs; a modified Lotka-Volterra approach. Behavioral Ecology 23 (5): 1115-1125.
  35. N.L. Gutiérrez, S.R. Valencia, T.A. Branch, D.J. Agnew, P. L. Bianchi, J. Cornejo-Donoso, C. Costello, O. Defeo, T.E. Essington, D.D. Hoggarth, A. E. Larsen, C. Ninnes, R. L. Selden, S.Sistla, A.D.M. Smith, A. Stern-Pirlot, S. J. Teck, J.T. Thorson, N.E.Williams. (2012). Eco-labels convey reliable information on stock status to seafood consumers. PLoS One 7 (8) e43765. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043765.
  36. A.E. Larsen & S.M. Philpott. (2010). Twig-nesting ants: the hidden predators of the Coffee Berry Borer, Hypothenemus hampei in Chiapas, Mexico. Biotropica 42(3): 342–347.
  37. H. Liere & A.E. Larsen. (2010). Cascading trait-mediation: disruption of a trait-mediated mutualism by parasite-induced behavioral modifications. Oikos 119: 1394–1400.

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