Adam Wilson

PhD

Adam Wilson.

Adam Wilson

PhD

Adam Wilson

PhD

Research Areas

Ecological impacts of global environmental change; Species distributions; Ecosystem resilience; Climate change; Bayesian modeling

Education

  •  Ph.D., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 2006–2012 University of Connecticut
  • M.S., Earth Science 2001–2003 University of New Hampshire
  • B.S., Biology, Summa Cum Laude 1996–2000 University of New Hampshire

Recent Publications

  • Jansen, D. Y. M., Wilson, A. M., Altwegg, R., Climatic influences on survival of migratory African Reed Warblers Acrocephalus baeticatus in South Africa (2016) In press, Ardea. 
  • Wilson, A. M., A. M. Latimer, J. A. Silander. Climatic controls on ecosystem resilience: Postfire regeneration in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa (2015) PNAS doi:10.1073/pnas.1416710112 
  • Wilson, A. M., Likens, G. E. Content volatility of scientific topics in Wikipedia: A Cautionary Tale (2015) PLOS One doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134454 
  • Parmentier, B., McGill, B., Wilson, A.M., Regetz, J., Jetz, W., Guralnick, R., Tuanmu, M., Robinson, N., Schildhauer, M. (2015) Using multi-timescale methods and satellite derived land surface temperature for the interpolation of daily maximum air temperature in Oregon. International Journal of Climatology doi:10.1002/joc.4251 
  • Xie, Y., Ahmed, K.F., Allen, J. M., Wilson, A. M., Silander, J.A., (2015) Green-up of deciduous forest communities of northeastern North America in response to climate variation and climate change Landscape Ecology 30(1):109123 doi:10.1007/s10980-014-0099-7.
  • Parmentier, B., McGill, B., Wilson, A.M., Regetz, J., Jetz, W., Guralnick, R., Tuanmu, M., Robinson, N., Schildhauer, M. (2014) An assessment of methods and remotely sensed covariates for regional predictions of 1 km daily maximum air temperature. Remote Sensing 6(9):8639-8670 doi:10.3390/rs6098639.
  • Wilson, A. M., Parmentier, B. & Jetz, W. (2014) Systematic landcover bias in Collection 5 MODIS cloud mask and derived products – a global overview. Remote Sensing of the Environment 141:149–154. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.025

Courses Taught

  • GEO 104: Environmental Science 
  • GEO 479/559: GIS for Environmental Modeling 
  • GEO 503: Spatial Environmental Data Analysis with R