Jennifer Costanza
Research Ecologist
Center for Integrated Forest Science and Synthesis
P.O. Box 12254
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2254
United States
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2254
United States
Phone
919-549-4055
Current Research
Dr. Costanza conducts research with the aim of understanding how forests and landscapes have changed in the past, and the ways in which they may change in the future. Her primary research areas include:
- Modeling forest dynamics in response to disturbance, management, climate, and land-use change
- Understanding and quantifying the effects of climate and land-use change on forest disturbances, including drought and fire
- Relating landscape patterns and connectivity to services derived from forests and other ecosystems, including wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and water
Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D., Ecology, 2010
- Duke University, Master Of Environmental Management, Resource Ecology, 2001
- Indiana University Bloomington, B.S., Biology, 1999
Professional Experience
- Research Ecologist, Center for Integrated Forest Science, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 2020 - Current
- Research Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, 2020 - 2020
- Research Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, 2014 - 2020
- Research Associate, Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, 2012 - 2014
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, 2010 - 2012
Featured Publications
- Costanza, Jennifer K.; Watling, James ; Sutherland, Ron ; Belyea, Curtis ; Dilkina, Bistra ; Cayton, Heather ; Bucklin, David ; Romanach, Stephanie S.; Haddad, Nick M.. 2020. Preserving connectivity under climate and land-use change: No one-size-fits-all approach for focal species in similar habitats
- Costanza, Jennifer K.; Terando, Adam J.. 2019. Landscape connectivity planning for adaptation to future climate and land-use change
- Costanza, Jennifer K.; Riitters, Kurt ; Vogt, Peter ; Wickham, James. 2019. Describing and analyzing landscape patterns: where are we now, and where are we going?
- Costanza, Jennifer K.; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N.. 2017. An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios
- Terando, Adam J.; Costanza, Jennifer ; Belyea, Curtis ; Dunn, Robert R.; McKerrow, Alexa ; Collazo, Jaime A.. 2014. The Southern Megalopolis: Using the Past to Predict the Future of Urban Sprawl in the Southeast U.S
Other Publications
- Inglis, Nicole C.; Vukomanovic, Jelena ; Costanza, Jennifer ; Singh, Kunwar K.. 2022. From viewsheds to viewscapes: Trends in landscape visibility and visual quality research
- Smith, Annie C.; Dahlin, Kyla M.; Record, Sydne ; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Wilson, Adam M.; Zarnetske, Phoebe L.. 2021. The geodiv R package: tools for calculating gradient surface metrics
- Read, Quentin D.; Zarnetske, Phoebe L.; Record, Sydne ; Dahlin, Kyla M.; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Finley, Andrew O.; Gaddis, Keith D.; Grady, John M.; Hobi, Martina L.; Latimer, Andrew M.; Malone, Sparkle L.; Ollinger, Scott V; Pau, Stephanie ; Wilson, Adam M.. 2020. Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity
- Record, S. ; Dahlin, K.M. ; Zarnetske, P.L. ; Read, Q.D. ; Malone, S. ; Gaddis, K. ; Grady, J. ; Costanza, J. ; Hobi, M. ; Latimer, A.M. ; Pau, S. ; Wilson, A.M. ; Finley, A.O. ; Ollinger, S. V. 2020. Remote sensing of geodiversity as a link to biodiversity
- Riitters, Kurt ; Schleeweis, Karen ; Costanza, Jennifer. 2020. Forest Area Change in the Shifting Landscape Mosaic of the Continental United States from 2001 to 2016
- Zarnetske, Phoebe L.; Read, Quentin D.; Record, Sydne ; Gaddis, Keith D.; Pau, Stephanie ; Hobi, Martina L.; Malone, Sparkle; Costanza, Jennifer ; M. Dahlin, Kyla ; Latimer, Andrew M.; Wilson, Adam M.; Grady, John M.; Ollinger, Scott V; Finley, Andrew O.. 2019. Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
- Costanza, Jennifer K.; Faber-Langendoen, Don; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N.. 2018. Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches
- Riitters, Kurt ; Costanza, Jennifer. 2018. The landscape context of family forests in the United States: Anthropogenic interfaces and forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2011
- Riitters, Kurt; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Buma, Brian. 2017. Interpreting multiscale domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America
- Wickham, James; Riitters, Kurt; Vogt, Peter; Costanza, Jennifer; Neale, Anne. 2017. An inventory of continental U.S. terrestrial candidate ecological restoration areas based on landscape context
- Buma, Brian; Costanza, Jennifer K; Riitters, Kurt. 2017. Determining the size of a complete disturbance landscape: multi-scale, continental analysis of forest change
- Tarr, Nathan M.; Rubino, Matthew J.; Costanza, Jennifer K.; McKerrow, Alexa J.; Collazo, Jaime A.; Abt, Robert C.. 2017. Projected gains and losses of wildlife habitat from bioenergy‐induced landscape change
- Costanza, Jennifer K.; Abt, Robert C.; McKerrow, Alexa J.; Collazo, Jaime A.. 2017. Bioenergy production and forest landscape change in the southeastern United States
- Riitters, Kurt; Wickham, James; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Vogt, Peter. 2016. A global evaluation of forest interior area dynamics using tree cover data from 2000 to 2012
- Costanza, Jennifer K.; Hulcr, Jiri; Koch, Frank H.; Earnhardt, Todd; McKerrow, Alexa J.; Dunn, Rob R.; Collazo, Jaime A.. 2012. Simulating the effects of the southern pine beetle on regional dynamics 60 years into the future