Publications

Arreguin, S., J.F. Walker, and N.L.R. Love. 2025. Leveraging public data to facilitate urban eco-evo research. EcoEvoRxiv. https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CS9C

Love, N.L.R., K. Althaus, M. Esperon-Rodriguez, A. Ossola, J. Johns, C. Pawlak, B. Igić, M. Ritter, and J. Yost. 2025. Genetic diversity in urban forests and their potential role in conserving the world's threatened tree species. Annals of Botany (Special Issue: Plant Conservation Genetics) 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf238

Love, N.L.R., M. Berkelhammer, E. Tovar, S. Romy, M.D. Wilson, and G.C. Nunez Mir. 2025. Not all green is equal: Growth form is a key driver of urban vegetation sensitivity to climate in Chicago. Remote Sensing (Special issue: Remote Sensing of Climate Change Influences on Urban Ecology) 17: 2919. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs17172919

Cho, A., N.L.R. Love, R. Cintron, J. Nicholson, L. Xu, G.C. Nunez Mir, J. Lee, M. Berkelhammer, and M.A. Gonzalez-Meler. 2025. Plant species selection and participatory community co-design are essential in balancing ecosystem services and disservices in urban areas. Environmental Research Letters 20(5): 051003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc944

Rendon, P., N.L.R. Love, C. Pawlak, J. Yost, M. Ritter, and J.M. Doremus. 2024. Street tree diversity and urban heat. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 91: 128180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128180

Lee, J., M. Berkelhammer, M. Wilson, N.L.R. Love, and R. Cintron. 2024. Urban land surface temperature downscaling in Chicago: Addressing ethnic inequality and gentrification. Remote Sensing 16: 1639. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16091639

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. 2024. Individual tree detection in large-scale urban environments using high-resolution multispectral imagery. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2024.103848

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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128125

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. Plants 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 12: 1129. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12081129

Love, N.L.R. 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

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

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, et al. (including N.L. Love). 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