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Associate Professor STEVEN E. GRECO's research centers on the
relationships and interactions between natural and cultural landscape
systems. With a B.Sc. in landscape architecture and M.S. and Ph.D. in
ecology, Steve draws from a wide range of theory and methodology
ranging from ecological sciences to planning/urban design and
computer sciences, to examine to what degree natural systems can be
sustained in cultural landscapes and to devise ways in which both can
co-exist equitably and prosperously.
In addition to teaching site and landscape ecology to undergraduate students, and graduate seminars in landscape ecology and GIS, Greco founded and heads the Landscape Analysis and Systems Research (LASR) Laboratory, which employs several graduate students conducting research on patterns and regenerative processes of habitats for terrestrial vertebrates. Steve has received several major grants, most recently from the California Department of Water Resources, to study the patterns of riparian vegetation and processes shaping their structure and change through time on the Sacramento River. He also continues to collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of scientists to develop a predictive model of landscape dynamics on the Sacramento River between the cities of Red Bluff and Colusa (over 100 river-miles), and is actively working on wetland restoration protocols and designs for an urban ecology project at the UC Davis campus.
EDUCATION: Institution Degree/Date
Granted University of California,
Davis PhD Ecology University of California,
Davis MS Ecology
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE: Institution No. of Years Subjects University of California,
Davis 10
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS:
Huber, P. R., S. E. Greco, and J. H. Thorne. (In Press). Boundaries and Baselines Make a Difference: The Effects of Spatial and Temporal Scale in Conservation Planning. Professional Geographer.
Huber, P. R., S. E. Greco, and J. H. Thorne. 2010. Spatial Scale Effects on Conservation Network Design: Trade-offs and Omissions in Regional Versus Local Scale Planning. Landscape Ecology DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9447-4
Greco, S. E., P. R. Huber, J. Hobbs, J. Garcia, K. Stromayer, and R. Parris. 2009. Year 1 Final Report: Grasslands Ecological Area Tule Elk Reintroduction Feasibility Study. Report to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Landscape Analysis and Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis, CA. 37 p.
Girvetz, E. H., and S. E. Greco. 2009. Multi-scale predictive habitat suitability modeling based on hierarchically delineated patches: an example for yellow-billed cuckoos nesting in riparian forests, California, USA. Landscape Ecology DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9384-2.
Vaghti, M. G., M. Holyoak, A. M. Williams, T. S. Talley, A. K. Fremier, and S. E. Greco. 2009. Understanding the Ecology of Blue Elderberry to Inform Landscape Restoration in Semi-arid River Corridors. Environmental Management 43(1):28-37.
Morgan, B. J., M. T. Burke, and S. E. Greco. 2008. The ArcGIS Botanical Garden and Zoological Park Data Model. ESRI International User Conference Proceedings, San Diego, California. Environmental Research Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA. 8 p.
Greco, S.E. 2008. Long-term Conservation of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo Will Require Process-based Restoration on the Sacramento River. Ecesis 18(3):4-7.
Greco, S. E., E. H. Girvetz, E. W. Larsen, J. P. Mann, J. L. Tuil, and C. Lowney. 2008. Relative Elevation Topographic Surface Modeling of a Large Alluvial River Floodplain and Applications for the Study and Management of Riparian Landscapes. Landscape Research 33(4):461-486.
Girvetz, E. H., and S. E. Greco. 2007. How to Define a Patch: A Spatial Model for Hierarchically Delineating Organism-Specific Habitat Patches. Landscape Ecology 22(8):1131-1142.
Greco, S.E., A.K. Fremier, E.W. Larsen, and R.E. Plant. 2007. A Tool for Tracking Floodplain Age Land Surface Patterns on a Large Meandering River with Applications for Ecological Planning and Restoration Design. Landscape and Urban Planning 81(4):354-373.
Vaghti, M. G. and S. E. Greco. 2007. Riparian Vegetation of the Great Valley. IN: Barbour, M. G., T. Keeler-Wolf and A. Schoenherr (Eds.) Terrestrial Vegetation of California, 3rd ed., UC Press, Berkeley, CA, pp. 425-455.
Larsen, E.W., A. K. Fremier, and S. E. Greco. 2006. Cumulative Effective Stream Power and Bank Erosion on the Sacramento River, California. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 42(4):1077-1097.
Greco, S. E., and R. E. Plant. 2003. Temporal Mapping of Riparian Landscape Change on the Sacramento River, Miles 196-218, California, USA. Landscape Research 28(4):405-426.
Golet, G.H., D. L. Brown, E. E. Crone, G. R. Geupel, S. E. Greco, K. D. Holl, D. E., Jukkola, G. M. Kondolf, E. W. Larsen, F. K. Ligon, R. A. Luster, M. P. Marchetti, N. Nur, B. K. Orr, D. R. Peterson, M. E. Power, W. E. Rainey, M. D. Roberts, J. G. Silveira, S. L. Small, J. C. Vick, D. S. Wilson, and D. M. Wood. 2003. Using Science to Evaluate Restoration Efforts and Ecosystem Health on the Sacramento River Project, California. IN: P. M. Faber (ed.), California Riparian Systems: Habitat and Floodplain Processes, Management, and Restoration. 2001 Riparian Habitat and Floodplains Conference Proceedings, Riparian Habitat Joint Venture, Sacramento, CA, pp. 368-385.
Greco, S. E., and C. A. Alford. 2003. Historical Channel Mapping from Aerial Photography of the Sacramento River, Colusa to Red Bluff, California: 1937 to 1997. Technical report prepared for California Department of Water Resources, Northern District, Red Bluff, California. Landscape Analysis and Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis, California. 101 p.
Greco, S. E., and C. A. Alford. 2003. Historical Channel Mapping from Maps of the Sacramento River, Colusa to Red Bluff, California: 1870 to 1920. Technical report prepared for the California Department of Water Resources, Northern District, Red Bluff, California. Landscape Analysis and Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis, California. 117 p.
Greco, S. E., J. L. Tuil, and A. Wheaton. 2003. A Historical Aerial Photography Collection of the Sacramento River from Colusa to Red Bluff: 1937-1998. Technical report prepared for the California Department of Water Resources, Northern District, Red Bluff, California. Landscape Analysis and Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Design, University of California, Davis, California. 121 p.
Greco,
S. E., R. E. Plant, and R. H. Barrett. 2002. Geographic
Modeling of Temporal Variability in Habitat Quality of the
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo on the Sacramento River, Miles 196-219,
California. IN: J. M. Scott, P. J. Heglund, F. Samson, J.
Haufler, M. Morrison, M. Raphael, and B. Wall (editors).
Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Accuracy and Scale.
Island Press, Covelo, CA, pp. 183-196.
Larsen, E. W., and S. E. Greco. 2002. Modeling Channel Management
Impacts on River Migration: a Case Study of Woodson Bridge
State Recreation Area, Sacramento River, California.
Environmental Management 30(1):209-244.
Plant, R. E., M. P. Vaysierres, S. E. Greco, M. R. George, and T. E.
Adams. 1999. A qualitative spatial model of hardwood
rangeland state-and-transition dynamics. Journal of
Range Management 52:50-58.
Burke, M. T., and S. E. Greco. 1993. Mapping with the
Macintosh. The Public Garden 8(4):14-17.
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