Jon Choi

Journal Article Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · October 2024 Academic review, promotion, and tenure processes place a premium on frequent publication in high-impact factor (IF) journals. However, conservation often relies on species-specific information that is unlikely to have the broad appeal needed for high-IF jo ... Full text Cite

Ecology and the science of small-scale fisheries: A synthetic review of research effort for the Anthropocene

Journal Article Biological Conservation · February 1, 2021 Human-driven changes to aquatic environments threaten small-scale fisheries (SSFs). Ensuring a livable future for SSFs in the Anthropocene requires incorporating ecological knowledge of these diverse multi-species systems beyond the long-standing reliance ... Full text Open Access Cite

Mapping Air Pollution with Google Street View Cars: Efficient Approaches with Mobile Monitoring and Land Use Regression.

Journal Article Environmental science & technology · November 2018 Air pollution measurements collected through systematic mobile monitoring campaigns can provide outdoor concentration data at high spatial resolution. We explore approaches to minimize data requirements for mapping a city's air quality using mobile monitor ... Full text Cite

The spatial and temporal domains of modern ecology.

Journal Article Nature ecology & evolution · May 2018 To understand ecological phenomena, it is necessary to observe their behaviour across multiple spatial and temporal scales. Since this need was first highlighted in the 1980s, technology has opened previously inaccessible scales to observation. To help to ... Full text Cite

Low-cost agricultural waste accelerates tropical forest regeneration

Journal Article Restoration Ecology · March 1, 2018 Lower-cost tropical forest restoration methods, particularly those framed as win–win business-protected area partnerships, could dramatically increase the scale of tropical forest restoration activities, thereby providing a variety of societal and ecosyste ... Full text Cite

Organic Wastes and Tropical Forest Restoration

Journal Article Tropical Conservation Science · January 1, 2018 In a recent publication, we documented the benefits of using agricultural waste (specifically, leftover orange peels from a commercial orange juice factory) to promote forest recovery at a site in Costa Rica. While we showed unambiguously positive impacts ... Full text Cite

A platform for crowdsourcing the creation of representative, accurate landcover maps

Journal Article Environmental Modelling and Software · June 1, 2016 Accurate landcover maps are fundamental to understanding socio-economic and environmental patterns and processes, but existing datasets contain substantial errors. Crowdsourcing map creation may substantially improve accuracy, particularly for discrete cov ... Full text Cite