Publications

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   2. In Press
   3. Under Review
   4. In Prep

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Published

• Love, N.L.R.*, C. Pawlak*, J. Yost, G.A. Fricker, J. Ventura, J. Doremus, and M. Ritter. 2023. California’s native trees and their use in the urban forest. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: 89:128125. *these two authors contributed equally
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128125
• Althaus, K.N. and N.L.R. Love. 2022. California Desert Plants: Book Review. Madroño 69(2): 202.
• Love, N.L.R., V. Nguyen, C. Pawlak, A. Pineda, J.L. Reimer, J.M. Yost, G.A. Fricker, et al. 2022. Diversity and structure in California’s urban forest. What over six million datapoints tell us about one of the world’s largest urban forests. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 74: 127679. 
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127679
• Love, N.L.R., and S.J. Mazer. 2022. Long-term mean and inter-annual climatic conditions both affect mean seed mass among congeneric populations. Ecology 103: e3698.
  • https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3698
• Love, N.L.R., P. Bonnet, H. Goëau, A. Joly, and S.J. Mazer. 2021. Machine learning undercounts reproductive organs on herbarium specimens but accurately derives their quantitative phenological status: A case study of Streptanthus tortuosus. Plants(Special Issue: Machine Learning in Plant Identification and Phenological, Anatomical, and Morphological Research) 10:2471.
  • https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10112471
• Yost, J.M., S.L. Wise, N.L.R. Love, D.A. Steane, R.C. Jones, M. Ritter, and B.M. Potts. 2021. Origins, diversity, and naturalization of Eucalyptus globulus. Forests (Special Issue: Ecology of Eucalypts in the Introduced Range) 12: 1129.
  • https://doi.org/10.3390/f12081129
• N.L.R. Love and S.J. Mazer. 2021. Region-specific phenological sensitivities and rates of climate warming generate divergent temporal shifts in flowering date across a species’ range. American Journal of Botany 108: 1873-1888.
  • https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1748
• Mazer, S.J. N.L.R. Love, I.M. Park, T. Ramirez-Parada, and E.R. Matthews. 2021. Facilitation, convergence, or niche conservatism? Phenological sensitivities to climate are similar in two Clarkia congeners. Madroño (Special Issue: Phenological patterns in the flora of western North America) 68(4): 388-405.
  • https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-68.4.388
• Pearson, K.D., N.L.R. Love, T. Ramirez-Parada, S.J. Mazer, and J.M. Yost. 2021. Phenological trends in the California poppy: Digitized herbarium specimens reveal intraspecific variation in the sensitivity of flowering to climate change. Madroño (Special Issue: Phenological patterns in the flora of western North America) 68(4): 343-359.
  • https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-68.4.343
• Goëau, H. A. Mora-Fallas. J. Champ, N.L.R. Love, S.J. Mazer, E. Mata-Montero, A. Joly, and P. Bonnet. 2020. A new fine-grained method for automated visual analysis of herbarium specimens: A case study for phenological data extraction. Applications in Plant Sciences. 8(6): e11368.
  • https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11368
• Love, N.L.R., I.W. Park, and S.J. Mazer. 2019. A new phenological metric for use in phenoclimatic models: A case study using herbarium specimens of Streptanthus tortuosus. Applications in Plant Sciences. 7(7): e11276.
  • https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11276
• Love (published as Rossington), N.L., J.M. Yost, and M. Ritter. 2018. Water availability influences species distributions on serpentine soils. Madroño 65(2): 68-79.
  • https://doi.org/10.3120/0024-9637-65.2.68
• Yost, J.M., P.W. Sweeny, E. Gilbert, G. Nelson, R. Guralnick, A.S. Gallinat, E.R. Ellwood, N.L. Love (published as Rossington), C.G. Willis, S.D. Blum et al. 2018. Digitization protocol for scoring reproductive phenology from herbarium specimens of seed plants. Applications in Plant Sciences 6(2): 1-11.
  • https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.1022
• Gerst, K.L, N.L. Love (published as Rossington), S.J. Mazer. 2017. Phenological responsiveness to climate differs among four species of Quercus in North America. Journal of Ecology 105(6): 1610-1622.
  • https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12774
• Willis, C.G., E.R. Ellwood, R.B. Primack, C.C. Davis, K.D. Pearson, A.S. Gallinat, J.M. Yost, G. Nelson, S.J. Mazer, N.L. Love (published as Rossington), T.H. Sparks, and P.S. Soltis. 2017. Old plants, new tricks: Phenological research using herbarium specimens. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32(7): 531-546.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2017.03.015

In Press

• None

Under Review

• Ventura, J., C. Pawlak, M. Honsberger, C. Gonsalves, J. Rice, N.L.R. Love, S. Han, V. Nguyen, K. Sugano, J. Doremus, G. Andrew Fricker, J. Yost, and M. Ritter. Under review. Individual tree detection in large-scale urban environments using high-resolution multispectral imagery. Invited to submit to Remote Sensing of Environment (Special Issue: Remote Sensing of the Urban Environment: Beyond the Single City).[Manuscript submitted 26 October 2022]. Preprint: arXiv:2208.10607
  • https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.10607
• Rendon, P., N.L.R. Love, C. Pawlak, J. Yost, M. Ritter, and J.M. Doremus. 2022. Street tree diversity mitigates urban heat independent of canopy cover. Under review in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening [manuscript submitted 5 May 2022].

In Prep

• Love, N.L.R., E.L. Grady, C. Pawlak, J. Yost, J. Ventura, G.A. Fricker, J. Doremus, and M. Ritter. In prep. Patterns in the distribution of public vs. private trees: Implications for tree equity in one of the world’s largest urban forests. Target journal: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
• Love, N.L.R., E.L. Grady, C. Pawlak. J. Yost, and M. Ritter. In Prep. Using climate niches to plan climate resilient urban forests. Target journal: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.