2024
S Hosler, M Garfinkel, M Roberts, C Whelan, ES Minor. Management scale drives bee and forb biodiversity patterns in suburban green spaces. Biodiversity and Conservation https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02954-2. PDF
M Garfinkel, JA Belaire, C Whelan, ES Minor. Wildlife gardening initiates a feedback loop to reverse the "extinction of experience". Biological Conservation 289, 110400. PDF
D Kendal, E Minor, and M Egerer. People's decisions shape urban habitats. In "Routledge Handbook of Urban Biodiversity", edited by C Nilon and M Aronson. PDF
2023
PP Johnson, S Kobal, W Leonard, ES Minor. Plant Richness Increases with Surrounding Habitat and Management Burns over 30-years in Suburban Forest Understories. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 127955. PDF
M Garfinkel, K Yakandawala, S Hosler, M Roberts, C Whelan, E Minor. Testing the accuracy of a Rights-of-Way pollinator habitat scoring system. Ecological Indicators 148, 110062
ES Minor, B Lopez, A Smith, P Johnson. Plant communities in Chicago residential neighborhoods show distinct spatial patterns. Landscape and Urban Planning 232, 104663
M Garfinkel, S Hosler, M Roberts, J Vogt, C Whelan, ES Minor. Balancing the management of powerline right-of-way corridors for humans and nature. Journal of Environmental Management 330, 117175
2022
MB Garfinkel, S Hosler, C Whelan, ES Minor. Powerline corridors can add ecological value to suburban landscapes when not maintained as lawn. Sustainability 14(12): 7113
JS Santangelo and 287 other coauthors. Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375 (6586): 1275-1281. PDF
TR Lookingbill, ES Minor, CS Mullis, GC Nunez-Mir, P Johnson*. Connectivity in the Urban Landscape (2015–2020): Who? Where? What? When? Why? and How? Current Landscape Ecology Reports 7:1-14. PDF
M Garfinkel, ES Minor, CJ Whelan. Using faecal metabarcoding to examine consumption of crop pests and beneficial arthropods in communities of generalist avian insectivores. Ibis 164: 27-43. PDF
M Garfinkel, ME Fuka, ES Minor, CJ Whelan. When a pest is not a pest: Birds indirectly increase defoliation but have no effect on yield of soybean crops. Ecological Applications 32(4): e2527. PDF
D Locke, O Alessandro, ES Minor, B Lin. Spatial contagion structures urban vegetation from parcel to landscape. People and Nature
2021
R Francis, ES Minor, G Perry, J Millington (Editors). Routledge Handbook of Landscape Ecology. Taylor & Francis. 502 Pages
AD Smith, M Roberts, H Lerand, M Doane, ES Minor. Honey Bees, Wild Bees, and Beekeepers in Chicago’s Community Gardens. New Forms of Urban Agriculture: An Urban Ecology Perspective, 273-287. PDF
C Liu, ES Minor, MB Garfinkel, B Mu, G Tian. Anthropogenic and climatic factors differentially affect waterbody area and connectivity in an urbanizing landscape: A case study in Zhengzhou, China. Land 10, 1070
NB Kucherov, ES Minor, PP Johnson, DJ Taron, KC Matteson. Butterflies decline in protected areas of Illinois: Assessing the influence of two decades of climate and landscape change. PLOS One 16, e0257889
M Midgley, E Anderson, E Minor. Vacant lot plant establishment techniques alter urban soil ecosystem services.
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 61, 127096. PDF
L Lynch, M Kangas, N Ballut, A Doucet, K Schoenecker, P Johnson, M Gharehaghaji, ES Minor.. Changes in Land Use and Land Cover Along an Urban-Rural Gradient Influence Floral Resource Availability. Current Landscape Ecology Reports 6: 46–70. PDF
EC Anderson, ES Minor. Assessing four methods for establishing native plants on urban vacant land. Ambio 50: 695–705. PDF
2020
CD Gatenbee, ES Minor, RJC Slebos, CH Chung, ARA Anderson. Histoecology: Applying ecological principles and approaches to describe and predict tumor ecosystem dynamics across space and time. Cancer Control 27 (3), 1073274820946804. PDF
EC Anderson, ES Minor. Management effects on plant community and functional assemblages in Chicago’s vacant lots. Applied Vegetation Science 23 (2), 266-276. PDF
E Wijesinghe, ES Minor, I Karunarathne, K Yakandawala. Relative attractiveness of ruderals and ornamental plants to flower-visiting insects in a tropical anthropogenic landscape. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 126657. PDF
MB Garfinkel, ES Minor, CJ Whelan, Birds suppress pests in corn but release them in soybean crops within a mixed prairie/agriculture system. The Condor 122 PDF
B Lopez, E Minor, A Crooks. Insights into human-wildlife interactions in cities from bird sightings recorded online. Landscape and Urban Planning 196, 103742. PDF
2019
A Ossola, D Locke, B Lin, E Minor. Yards increase forest connectivity in urban landscapes. Landscape Ecology 34: 2935-2948. PDF
M Gharehaghaji, S Kobal, R Reklau, ES Minor. Management slows down invasion by non-native plants but does not prevent community change over 35 years in urban forests of the Midwestern USA. Forest Ecology and Management 448: 424-431. PDF
TR Lookingbill, ES Minor, LA Wainger. The Ecosystem Service Impacts from Invasive Plants in Antietam National Battlefield. Chapter 6 in "Collateral Values", edited by Todd Lookingbill and Peter Smallwood. PDF
AD Smith, E Minor. Chicago’s Urban Cemeteries as Habitat for Cavity-Nesting Birds. Sustainability 11 (12), 3258. PDF
A Ossola, D Locke, B Lin, ES Minor. Greening in style: Urban form, architecture and the structure of front and backyard vegetation. Landscape and Urban Planning 185: 141-157. PDF
EC Anderson, ES Minor. Assessing social and biophysical drivers of spontaneous plant diversity and structure in urban vacant lots. Science of the Total Environment 653: 1272–1281. PDF
DM Lowenstein, KC Matteson, ES Minor. Evaluating the dependence of urban pollinators on ornamental,
non-native, and ‘weedy’ floral resources. Urban Ecosystems in press. PDF
2018
DM Lowenstein, ES Minor. Herbivores and natural enemies of brassica crops in urban agriculture. Urban Ecosystems 21: 519-529. PDF
MA McCary, ES Minor, DH Wise. Covariation between local and landscape factors influences the structure of ground-active arthropod communities in fragmented metropolitan woodlands. Landscape Ecology 33: 225-239. PDF
2017
ES Minor, EC Anderson, JA Belaire, M Garfinkel, AD Smith. Urban green infrastructures and ecological networks for urban biodiversity conservation. In ​ Urban Biodiversity: From Research to Practice (Edited by A Ossola & J Niemelä), pp 186-199. PDF
M Gharehaghaji, ES Minor, MV Ashley, ST Abraham, WD Koenig. Effects of landscape features on gene flow of valley oaks (Quercus lobata). Plant Ecology 218: 487–499. PDF
DM Hall and 22 other authors. The city as a refuge for insect pollinators. Conservation Biology 31: 24–29. PDF
AY Davis, EV Lonsdorf, CR Shierk, KC Matteson, JR Taylor, ST Lovell, ES Minor. Enhancing pollination supply in an urban ecosystem through landscape modifications. Landscape and Urban Planning 162: 157-166. PDF
A Silva, ES Minor. Adolescents’ Experience and Knowledge of, and Attitudes toward, Bees: Implications and Recommendations for Conservation. Anthrozoos 30: 19-32. PDF
EC Anderson, ES Minor. Vacant lots: An underexplored resource for ecological and social benefits in cities. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 21: 146-152. PDF
TR Lookingbill, ES Minor. Assessing Multi-Scale Landscape Connectivity Using Network Analysis. In Learning Landscape Ecology (Edited by SE Gergel & MG Turner), pp 193-209
2016
W Kang, ES Minor, D Woo, D Lee, C Park. Forest mammal roadkills as related to habitat connectivity in protected areas. Biodiversity and Conservation 25: 2673-2686.  PDF
D Lowenstein, ES Minor. Diversity in flowering plants and functional characteristics: Integrating humans as a driver of urban floral resources. Urban Ecosystems 19:1735-1748. PDF
M de la Pena-Domene, ES Minor, HF Howe. Restored connectivity facilitates recruitment by an endemic large-seeded tree in a fragmented tropical landscape. Ecology 97: 2511–2517. PDF
ML Zellner, D Massey, ES Minor, M Gonzalez-Meler. Exploring the Effects of Green Infrastructure Placement on Neighborhood-Level Flooding via Spatially Explicit Simulations. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 59: 116-128. PDF
AY Davis, J Jung, BC Pijanowski, ES Minor. Combined vegetation volume and “greenness” affect urban air temperature. Applied Geography 71, 106-114. PDF
E Minor, JA Belaire, A Davis, M Franco, M Lin. Socioeconomics and neighbor mimicry drive yard and neighborhood vegetation patterns. Pages 56-74 in (Eds RA Francis, JDA Millington, MA Chadwick) Urban Landscape Ecology: Science, Policy and Practice. PDF
W Kang, ES Minor, D Lee, CR Park. Predicting impacts of climate change on habitat connectivity of Kalopanax septemlobus in South Korea. Acta Oecologica 71, 31-38. PDF
BJ Kreakie, KC Hychka, JA Belaire, E Minor, HA Walker. Internet-Based Approaches to Building Stakeholder Networks for Conservation and Natural Resource Management. Environmental management 57 (2), 345-354. PDF
JA Belaire, LM Westphal, ES Minor. Different social drivers, including perceptions of urban wildlife, explain the ecological resources in residential landscapes. Landscape Ecology 31 (2), 401-413. PDF
2015
DM Lowenstein, KC Matteson, ES Minor. Diversity of wild bees supports pollination services in an urbanized landscape. Oecologia 179 (3), 811-821. PDF
W Kang, ES Minor, CR Park, D Lee. Effects of habitat structure, human disturbance, and habitat connectivity on urban forest bird communities. Urban Ecosystems 18 (3), 857-870. PDF
MC Lloyd, KA Rejniak, JS Brown, RA Gatenby, ES Minor, MM Bui. Pathology to Enhance Precision Medicine in Oncology: Lessons From Landscape Ecology. Advances in anatomic pathology 22 (4), 267-272. PDF
DM Lowenstein, ES Minor. Effect of Number of Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Visits on Eggplant Yield. Journal of economic entomology 108 (3), 1456-1459. PDF
JA Belaire, LM Westphal, CJ Whelan, ES Minor. Urban residents' perceptions of birds in the neighborhood: Biodiversity, cultural ecosystem services, and disservices. The Condor 117 (2), 192-202. PDF
A Mallavarapu, L Lyons, T Shelley, M Zellner, ES Minor, B Slattery. Developing Computational Methods to Measure and Track Learners’ Spatial Reasoning in an Open-Ended Simulation. JEDM-Journal of Educational Data Mining, 7(2), 49-82. PDF
2014
JA Belaire, CJ Whelan, ES Minor. Having our yards and sharing them too: the collective effects of yards on native bird species in an urban landscape. Ecological Applications 24 (8), 2132-2143. PDF
DM Lowenstein, KC Matteson, I Xiao, AM Silva, ES Minor. Humans, bees, and pollination services in the city: the case of Chicago, IL (USA). Biodiversity and conservation 23 (11), 2857-2874. PDF
TR Lookingbill, ES Minor, N Bukach, JR Ferrari, LA Wainger. Incorporating Risk of Reinvasion to Prioritize Sites for Invasive Species Management. Natural Areas Journal 34 (3), 268-281. PDF
J Belaire, BJ Kreakie, T Keitt, E Minor. Predicting and mapping potential whooping crane stopover habitat to guide site selection for wind energy projects. Conservation biology 28 (2), 541-550. PDF
AY Davis, N Malas, ES Minor. Substitutable habitats? The biophysical and anthropogenic drivers of an exotic bird’s distribution. Biological Invasions 16 (2), 415-427. PDF
M de la Peña-Domene , ES Minor . Landscape Connectivity and Ecological Effects. In Encyclopedia of Natural Resources: Land. Taylor and Francis: New York. PDF
2013
MA Gonzalez-Meler, L Cotner, D Massey, M. Zellner. ES Minor. The Environmental and Ecological Benefits of Green Infrastructure for Stormwater Runoff in Urban Areas. JSM Environmental Science & Ecology 1 (2), 1007. PDF
KC Matteson, JB Grace, ES Minor. Direct and indirect effects of land use on floral resources and flower‐visiting insects across an urban landscape. Oikos 122 (5), 682-694. PDF
2012
ES Minor, CW Appelt, S Grabiner, L Ward, A Moreno, S Pruett-Jones. Distribution of exotic monk parakeets across an urban landscape. Urban Ecosystems 15 (4), 979-991. PDF
AY Davis, JA Belaire, MA Farfan, D Milz, ER Sweeney, SR Loss, ES Minor. Green infrastructure and bird diversity across an urban socioeconomic gradient. Ecosphere 3 (11), 1-18. PDF
KC Matteson, DJ Taron, ES Minor. Assessing citizen contributions to butterfly monitoring in two large cities. Conservation Biology 26 (3), 557-564. PDF
B Slattery, C Dasgupta, T Shelley, L Lyons, E Minor, M Zellner. Understanding How Learners Grapple with Wicked Problems in Environmental Science. In 10th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: The Future of Learning, ICLS 2012 - Proceedings. (Vol. 1, pp. 9-16) PDF
L Lyons, C Dasgupta, T Shelley, B Slattery, E Minor, M Zellner. Parsing Patterns: Developing Metrics to Characterize Spatial Problem Solving Strategies within an Environmental Science Simulation. American Education Research Association (AERA 2012), Vancouver, CA. PDF
S Pruett-Jones, CW Appelt, A Sarfaty, B Van Vossen, MA Leibold, ES Minor. Urban parakeets in Northern Illinois: A 40-year perspective. Urban Ecosystems 15, 709-719. PDF
2011
T Shelley, L Lyons, M Zellner, E Minor. Evaluating the embodiment benefits of a paper-based tui for educational simulations. CHI'11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1375-1380. PDF
ES Minor, RH Gardner. Landscape connectivity and seed dispersal characteristics inform the best management strategy for exotic plants. Ecological Applications 21 (3), 739-749. PDF
JA Belaire, AK Dribin, DP Johnston, DJ Lynch, ES Minor. Mapping stewardship networks in urban ecosystems. Conservation Letters 4 (6), 464-473. PDF
2010
ES Minor, TR Lookingbill. A Multiscale Network Analysis of Protected‐Area Connectivity for Mammals in the United States. Conservation Biology 24 (6), 1549-1558. PDF
MS Jaffe, M Zellner, E Minor, M Gonzalez-Meler, L Cotner, D Massey, H Ahmed, M Elberts, H Sprague, S Wise, Brian Miller. Using green infrastructure to manage urban stormwater quality: a review of selected practices and state programs. Report to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. PDF
CR Ford, ES Minor, GA Fox. Long-term effects of fire and fire-return interval on population structure and growth of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris). Canadian journal of forest research 40 (7), 1410-1420. PDF
E Minor, D Urban. Forest bird communities across a gradient of urban development. Urban Ecosystems 13 (1), 51-71. PDF
2009
ES Minor, SM Tessel, KAM Engelhardt, TR Lookingbill. The role of landscape connectivity in assembling exotic plant communities: a network analysis. Ecology 90 (7), 1802-1809. PDF
DL Urban, ES Minor, EA Treml, RS Schick. Graph models of habitat mosaics. Ecology letters 12 (3), 260-273. PDF
2008
ES Minor, RI McDonald, EA Treml, DL Urban. Uncertainty in spatially explicit population models. Biological Conservation 141 (4), 956-970. PDF
ES Minor, DL Urban. A graph‐theory framework for evaluating landscape connectivity and conservation planning. Conservation biology 22 (2), 297-307. PDF
2007
ES Minor, DL Urban. Graph theory as a proxy for spatially explicit population models in conservation planning. Ecological Applications 17 (6), 1771-1782. PDF
2006
DL Urban, RI McDonald, ES Minor, EA Treml. Causes and consequences of land use change in the North Carolina Piedmont: the scope of uncertainty. Pages 239-257 in (Eds J Wu, KB Jones, H Li, and OL Loucks) Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology. PDF