2024

Estifanos, T.K., B. Fisher, G.L. Galford, T.H. Ricketts. 2024. Impacts of deforestation on childhood malaria depend on wealth and vector biology. GeoHealth, 8(3), e2022GH000764. DOI

Bloomfield, L.S., M.I. Fudolig, J. Kim, J. Llorin, J.L. Lovato, E.W. McGinnis, R.S. McGinnis, M. Price, T.H. Ricketts, P.S. Dodds, K. Stanton, C.M. Danforth. 2024. Predicting stress in first-year college students using sleep data from wearable devices. PLOS Digital Health, 3(4), e0000473. DOI

2021

de Wit, L.A., T.H. Ricketts. 2021. Trade and deforestation predict rat lungworm disease, an invasive-driven zoonosis, at global and regional scales. Frontiers in Public Health 9: 680986. DOI

Fisher, B, L.A. de Wit, T.H. Ricketts. 2021. Integrating economics into research on natural capital and human health. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 14: 95-114. DOI

Gourevitch, J.D., A.M. Alonso-Rodríguez, N. Aristizábal, L.A. de Wit, E. Kinnebrew, C.E. Littlefield, M. Moore, C.C. Nicholson, A.J. Schwartz, T.H. Ricketts. 2021. Projected losses of ecosystem services in the US disproportionately affect non-white and lower-income populations. Nature Communications 12: 3511. DOI

Rasolofoson, R.A., T.H. Ricketts, K.B. Johnson, A. Jacob, B. Fisher. 2021. Forests moderate the effectiveness of water treatment at reducing childhood diarrhea. Environmental Research Letters 16: 064035. DOI

Gourevitch, J.D., C. Koliba, D.M. Rizzo, A. Zia, T.H. Ricketts. 2021. Quantifying the social benefits and costs of reducing phosphorus pollution under climate change. Journal of Environmental Management 293: 112838. DOI

Diehl, R.M., J.D. Gourevitch, S. Drago, B.C. Wemple. 2021. Improving flood hazard datasets using a low-complexity, probabilistic floodplain mapping approach. PLoS ONE 16: e0248683. DOI

Nicholson, C.C., J.J.-M. Hayes, S. Connolly, T.H. Ricketts. 2021. Corridors through time: Does resource continuity impact pollinator communities, populations, and individuals? Ecological Applications 31: e02260. DOI

Mandle, L., A. Shields-Estrada, R. Chaplin-Kramer, M.G.E. Mitchell, L.L. Bremer, J.D. Gourevitch, P. Hawthorne, J.A. Johnson, B.E. Robinson, J.R. Smith, L.J. Sonter, G.M. Verutes, A.L. Vogl, G.C. Daily, T.H. Ricketts. 2021. Increasing decision relevance of ecosystem service science. Nature Sustainability 4: 161-169. DOI

2020

Lonsdorf, E.V., I. Koh, T.H. Ricketts. 2020. Partitioning private and external benefits of crop pollination services. People and Nature 2: 811-820. DOI

Gould, R.K., T.H. Ricketts, R.B. Howarth, S. Telle, T. Gladkikh, S. Posner, J. Gourevitch, Y. Yoshida. 2020. How ecosystem services research can advance ecological economics principles. Ch. 8 in Sustainable Wellbeing Futures, p. 127-150, Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI

Rasolofoson, R.A., T.H. Ricketts, A. Jacob, K.B. Johnson, A. Pappinen, B. Fisher. 2020. Forest conservation: a potential nutrition-sensitive intervention in low- and middle-income countries. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4: 20. DOI

Gourevitch, J.D., N.K. Singh, J. Minot, K.B. Raub, D.M. Rizzo, B.C. Wemple, T.H. Ricketts. 2020. Spatial targeting of floodplain restoration to equitably mitigate flood risk. Global Environmental Change 61: 102050. DOI

Watson, K.B., G.L. Galford, L.J. Sonter, T.H. Ricketts. 2020. Conserving ecosystem services and biodiversity: measuring the tradeoffs involved in splitting conservation budgets. Ecosystem Services 42: 101063. DOI

Nicholson, C.C., K.L. Ward, N.M. Williams, R. Isaacs, K.S. Mason, J.K. Wilson, J. Brokaw, L.J. Gut, N.L. Rothwell, T.J. Wood, S. Rao, G.D. Hoffman, J. Gibbs, R.W. Thorp, T.H. Ricketts. 2020. Mismatched outcomes for biodiversity and ecosystem services: testing the responses of crop pollinators and wild bee biodiversity to habitat enhancement. Ecology Letters 23: 326-335. DOI

2019

Schwartz, A.J., P.S. Dodds, J.P.M. O’Neill-Dunne, C.M. Danforth, T.H. Ricketts. 2019. Visitors to urban greenspace have higher sentiment and lower negativity on Twitter. People and Nature 00:1-10. PDF

Ruhl, J.B., S.M. Posner, T.H. Ricketts. 2019. Engaging policy in science writing: Patterns and strategies. PLoS One 8: e0220497. PDF

Chain-Guadarrama, A., A. Martinez-Salinas, N. Aristizabal, T.H. Ricketts. 2019. Ecosystem services by birds and bees to coffee in a changing climate: A review of coffee borer control and pollination. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 280: 53-67. PDF

Grima, N., B. Fisher, T.H. Ricketts, L.J. Sonter. 2019. Who benefits from ecosystem services? Analysing recreational moose hunting in Vermont, USA. Oryx: 1-9. PDF

Thom, D., M. Golivets, L. Edling, G.W. Meigs, J.D. Gourevitch, L.J. Sonter, G.L. Galford, W.S. Keeton. 2019. The climate sensitivity of carbon, timber, and species richness covaries with forest age in boreal-temperate North America. Global Change Biology 25: 2446-2458. PDF

Singh, N.K., J.D. Gourevitch, B.C. Wemple, K.B. Watson, D.M. Rizzo, S. Polasky, T.H. Ricketts. 2019. Optimizing wetland restoration to improve water quality at a regional scale. Environmental Research Letters 14: 064006. PDF

Naidoo, R., D. Gerkey, D. Hole, A. Pfaff, A.M. Ellis, C.D. Golden, D. Herrera, K. Johnson, M. Mulligan, T.H. Ricketts, B. Fisher. 2019. Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world. Science Advances 5: eaav3006. PDF

Fisher, B., D. Herrera, D. Adams, H.E. Fox, L. Gallagher, D. Gerkey, D. Gill, C.D. Golden, D. Hole, K. Johnson, M. Mulligan, S. Myers, R. Naidoo, A. Pfaff, R. Rasolofson, E.R. Selig, D. Tickner, T. Treuer, T.H. Ricketts. 2019. Can nature deliver on the sustainable development goals. The Lancet 3: e112-e113. PDF

Nicholson, C.C., T.H. Ricketts, I. Koh, H.G. Smith, E.V. Lonsdorf, O. Olsson. 2019. Flowering resources distract pollinators from crops: Model predictions from landscape simulations. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 618-628. PDF

Nicholson, C.C., T.H. Ricketts. 2019. Wild pollinators improve production, uniformity, and timing of blueberry crops. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 272: 29-37. PDF

Watson, K.B., G.L. Galford, L.J. Sonter, I. Koh, T.H. Ricketts. 2019. Effects of human demand on conservation planning for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Conservation Biology 33: 942-952. PDF

2018

Byerly, H., A. Balmford, P.J. Ferraro, C. Hammond Wagner, E. Palchak, S. Polasky, T.H. Ricketts, A.J. Schwartz, B. Fisher. 2018. Nudging pro‐environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16: 159-168. PDF

Gourevitch, J.D., B.L. Keeler, T.H. Ricketts. 2018. Determining socially optimal rates of nitrogen fertilizer application. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 254: 292-299. PDF

Mokondoko, P., R.H. Manson, T.H. Ricketts, D. Geissert. 2018. Spatial analysis of ecosystem service relationships to improve targeting of payments for hydrological services. PloS One 13: e0192560. PDF

Rasolofoson, R.A., M. Hanauer, A. Pappinen, B. Fisher, T.H. Ricketts. 2018. Effects of forests on children's diets in developing countries: a cross-sectional study. The Lancet Planetary Health 2: S15. PDF

Rasolofoson, R.A., M.M. Hanauer, A. Pappinen, B. Fisher, T.H. Ricketts. 2018. Impacts of forests on children’s diet in rural areas across 27 developing countries. Science Advances 4: eaat2853. PDF

Singh, N.K., B.C. Wemple, A. Bomblies, T.H. Ricketts. 2018. Simulating stream response to floodplain connectivity and revegetation from reach to watershed scales: Implications for stream management. Science of the Total Environment 633: 716-727. PDF

Sonter, L.J., J.D. Gourevitch, I. Koh, C.C. Nicholson, L.L. Richardson, A.J. Schwartz, N.K. Singh, K.B. Watson, M. Maron, T.H. Ricketts. 2018. Biodiversity offsets may miss opportunities to mitigate impacts on ecosystem services. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16: 143-148. PDF

2017

Herrera, D., A. Ellis, B. Fisher, C.D. Golden, K. Johnson, M. Mulligan, A. Pfaff, T. Treuer, T.H. Ricketts. 2017. Upstream watershed condition predicts rural children’s health across 35 developing countries. Nature Communications 8: 811. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00775-2. PDF

Nicholson, C.C., I. Koh, A. Beauchemin, L.L. Richardson, T.H. Ricketts. 2017. Farm and landscape factors interact to affect the supply of pollination services. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 250: 113-122. PDF

Imbach P, Fung E, Hannah L, Navarro-Racines CE, Roubik DW, Ricketts T.H., et al. 2017. Coupling of pollination services and coffee suitability under climate change. Proc Natl Acad Sci . doi:10.1073/pnas.1617940114. PDF

Bronstein, J.L., J.L. Barker, E.M. Lichtenberg, L.L. Richardson, and R.E. Irwin. 2017. The behavioral ecology of nectar robbing: Why be tactic constant? Current Opinion in Insect Science 21: 14-18. PDF

Sonter, L.J., T.H. Ricketts, B. Fisher. C.C. Nicholson, J.A. Johnson, K.B. Watson, and L.L. Richardson. 2017. Multi-site interactions: Understanding the offsite impacts of land use change on the use and supply of ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services 23: 158-164. PDF

Sonter, L. J., Tomsett, N., Wu, D., & Maron, M. 2017. Biodiversity offsetting in dynamic landscapes: Influence of regulatory context and counterfactual assumptions on achievement of no net loss. Biological Conservation 206: 314-319. PDF

Fisher, B., D. Herrera, D. Adams, H.E. Fox, D.A. Gill, C.D. Golden, M. Mulligan, S.S. Myers, A. Pfaff, and E.R. Selig, and T.H. Ricketts. 2017. Effect of coastal marine protection on childhood health: an exploratory study. The Lancet 389: S8. PDF

Koh, I., E.V. Lonsdorf, D.R. Artz, T.L. Pitts-Singer, and T.H. Ricketts. 2017. Ecology and economics of using native managed bees for almond pollination. Journal of economic entomology 111: 16-25. PDF

Ricketts, T.H., D. Hererra, A. Ellis, and B. Fisher. 2017. Watersheds, forests, and childhood health: global relationships and policy opportunities. The Lancet 389: S17. PDF

Rieb, J.T., R. Chaplin-Kramer, G.C. Daily, P.R. Armsworth, K. Böhning-Gaese, A. Bonn, G.S. Cumming, F. Eigenbrod, V. Grimm, B.M. Jackson, A. Marques, S. Pattanayak, H. Pereira, G.D. Peterson, T.H. Ricketts, B.E. Robinson, M. Schroter, L.A. Shulte, R. Seppelt, M.G. Turner, E.M. Bennett. 2017. When, where, and how nature matters for ecosystem services: challenges for the next generation of ecosystem service models. BioScience 67: 820-833. PDF

2016

Ricketts, T.H., Watson, K.B., Koh, I., Ellis, A.M., Nicholson, C.C., Posner, S., Richardson, L.L. and Sonter, L.J., 2016. Disaggregating the evidence linking biodiversity and ecosystem services. Nature communications, 7, p.13106. PDF

Sonter LJ, Watson KB, Wood SA, Ricketts TH. Spatial and temporal dynamics and value of nature-based recreation, estimated via social media. PLoS one. 2016 Sep 9. PDF

Gourevitch, J., P. Hawthorne, B. Keeler, C. Beatty, M. Greve, M. Verdone (2016) Optimizing investments in national-scale forest landscape restoration in Uganda to maximize multiple benefits. Environmental Research Letters 11. PDF

Watson, K.B., Ricketts, T.H., Galford, G., Polasky, S. & J. O’Neil-Dunne (2016) Quantifying flood mitigation services: The economic value of Otter Creek wetlands and floodplains to Middlebury, VT. Ecological Economics 130: 16-24. PDF

Posner, S., G. Verutes, D. Denu, and T. Ricketts. (2016) Global use of ecosystem service models. Ecosystem Services 17:131-141. PDF

Posner, S.M., E. McKenzie, and T.H. Ricketts. (2016) Policy impacts of ecosystem services knowledge. PNAS. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1502452113. PDF

Posner, S., C. Getz, and T. Ricketts. (2016) Evaluating the impact of ecosystem service assessments on decision-makers. Environmental Science and Policy 64:30-37. PDF

Koh, I., Lonsdorf, E. V., Williams, N. M., Brittain, C., Isaacs, R., Gibbs, J. & T.H. Ricketts (2016) Modeling the status, trends, and impacts of wild bee abundance in the United States. Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517685113. PDF

2015

Sills, E.O., D. Herrera, A.J. Kirkpatrick, et al. (2015) Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation. PlosOne. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132590. PDF

Galford, G.L., B.S. Soares-Filho, L.J. Sonter, N. Laporte (2015) Will passive protection save Congo Forests? PlosOne. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0128473. PDF

Kerr, J.T., Pindar, A., Galpern, P., Packer, L., Potts, S.G., Roberts, S.M., Rasmont, P., Schweiger, O., Colla, S.R., Richardson, L.L., et al. (2015) Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents. Science 349:177–180. DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa7031. PDF

Kleijn, D., R. Winfree, I. Bartomeus, L.G. Carvalheiro, M. Henry, R. Isaacs, A. Klein, C. Kremen, L.K.M. Gonigle, R. Rader, T.H. Ricketts, et al. (2015) Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation. Nature Communications 5:7414. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8414. PDF

Guerry, A. D., S. Polasky, J. Lubchenco, R. Chaplin-Kramer, G.C. Daily, R. Griffin, M. Ruckelshaus, I.J. Bateman, A. Duraiappah, T. Elmqvist,, M.W. Feldman, C. Folke, J. Hoekstra, R.M. Kareiva, B.L Keeler, S. Li, E. McKenzie, Z. Ouyang, B. Reyers, T.H Ricketts, et al. (2015). Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(24):7348–7355. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503751112. PDF

Sonter, L.J., D.J. Barrett, et al. (2015) Carbon emissions due to deforestation for the production of charcoal used in Brazil’s steel industry. Nature Climate Change 5:359–363. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2515. PDF

Richardson, L.L., L.S. Adler, et al. (2015) Secondary metabolites in floral nectar reduce parasite infections in bumblebees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282, 20142471. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2471. PDF

Ellis, A.M., S.S. Myers, T.H. Ricketts (2015). Do pollinators contribute to nutritional health? PLoS ONE 10(1): e114805. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0114805. PDF

Koh, I., J.D. Holland (2015) Grassland plantings and landscape natural areas both influence insect natural enemies. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 199:190–199. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2014.09.007. PDF

2014 and earlier (selected)

Redford, K.H., S.S. Myers, T.H. Ricketts, et al. (2014). Human Health as a Judicious Conservation Opportunity. Conservation Biology 28(3):627–629. PDF

Bhagabati, N.K., T.H Ricketts, et al. (2014). Ecosystem services reinforce Sumatran toger conservation in land use plans. Biological Conservation, 169:147–156. PDF

Myers, S., L. Gaffikin, C.D. Golden, R.S. Ostfeld, K.H. Redford, T.H. Ricketts, W.R. Turner, S.A. Osofsky (2013). Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration. PNAS 110 (47) 18753-18760. PDF

Ricketts, T.H., E. Lonsdorf (2013). Mapping the margin: Comparing marginal values of tropical forest remnants for pollination services. Ecological Applications 23(5): 1113-1123. PDF

Garibaldi, L.A., et al. (2013). Wild pollinators enhance fruit set of crops regardless of honey-bee abundance. Science 339(6127): 1608-1611. PDF

Tallis, H., H. Mooney, S. Andelman, P. Balvanera, W. Cramer, D. Karp, S. Polasky, B. Reyers, T.H. Ricketts, S. Running, K. Thonicke, B. Tietjen, A. Walz (2012). A global system for monitoring ecosystem service change. Bioscience 62(11): 977-986. PDF

Butchart, S.H., et al. (2012). Protecting important sites for biodiversity contributes to meeting global conservation targets. PloS ONE7:e32529. PDF

Kareiva, P., H. Tallis, T.H. Ricketts, G.C. Daily, & S. Polasky, eds. (2011). Natural capital: Theory and practice of mapping ecosystem services. Oxford University Press. 432 pp. LINK

Abell, R., M. Thieme, T.H. Ricketts, N. Olwero, R. Ng, P. Petry, E. Dinerstein, C. Revenga, J. Hoekstra (2011). Concordance of freshwater and terrestrial biodiversity. Conservation Letters 4:127-136. PDF

Ricketts, T.H., B. Soares-Filho, G. A. B. da Fonseca, D. Nepstad, A. Pfaff, A. Petsonk, A. Anderson, D. Boucher, A. Cattaneo, M. Conte, K. Creighton, L. Linden, C. Maretti, P. Moutinho, R. Ullman, R. Victurine (2010). Indigenous lands, Protected areas, and slowing climate change. PLoS Biology 8:3 e10000331. PDF

Lonsdorf, E., Kremen, C., Ricketts, T.H., Winfree, R., Williams, N. and Greenleaf, S. (2009). Modeling pollination services across agricultural landscapes. Annals of Botany 103(9): 1-12. PDF

Daily, G.C., S. Polasky, J. Goldstein, P. M. Kareiva, H.A. Mooney, L. Pejchar, T.H. Ricketts, J. Salzman, R. Shallenberger (2009). Ecosystem services in decision-making: Time to deliver. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 7(1):21-28. PDF

Naidoo, R., A. Balmford, R. Costanza, B. Fisher, R.E. Green, B. Lehner, T.R. Malcolm, T.H. Ricketts (2008). Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - US. 105: 9495-9500. PDF

Ricketts, T.H., J. Regetz, I. Steffan-Dewenter, S. A. Cunningham, C. Kremen, B. Gemmill, S. S. Greenleaf, A. M. Klein, M. M. Mayfield, L. A. Morandin, A. Ochieng', R. Winfree. (2007). Landscape effects on crop pollination services: Are there general patterns?. Ecology Letters 11:499-515. PDF

Zhang, W., T.H. Ricketts, C. Kremen, K.M. Carney, S.M. Swinton (2007). Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture. Ecological Economics 64: 253-260. PDF

Naidoo, R., A. Balmford, P. J. Ferraro, S. Polasky, T. H. Ricketts, M. Rouget (2006). Integrating economic costs into conservation planning. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21(12): 681-687. PDF

Naidoo, R. and T.H. Ricketts (2006). Mapping economic costs and benefits of conservation. PLoS Biology 4(11):e360. PDF

Lamoreux, J.F., J.C. Morrison, T.H. Ricketts, D.M. Olson, E. Dinerstein, M.W. McKnight, H. H. Shugart (2006). Global tests of biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism. Nature 440:212-213. PDF

Ricketts, T.H., E. Dinerstein, T. Boucher, T.M. Brooks, S.M. Butchart, M. Hoffman, J.F. Lamoreux, J. Morrison, M. Parr, J.D. Pilgrim, A.S.L. Rodrigues, W. Sechrest, G.E. Wallace, K. Berlin, J. Bielby, N.D. Burgess, D.R. Church, N. Cox, D. Knox, C. Loucks, G.W. Luck, L.L. Master, R. Moore, R. Naidoo, R. Ridgely, G.E. Schatz, G. Shire, H. Strand, W. Wettengel, E. Wikramanayake (2005). Pinpointing and preventing imminent extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - US 102:18497-18501. PDF

Loh, J., R.E. Green, T.H. Ricketts, J. Lamoreux, M. Jenkins, V. Kapos, and J. Randers (2005). The Living Planet Index: Using species population time series to track trends in biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B 360:289-295. PDF

Ricketts, T.H., G.C. Daily, P.R. Ehrlich, and C. Michener (2004). Economic value of tropical forest to coffee production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - US. 101(34):12579-12582. PDF

Imhoff, M.L., L. Bounoua, T.H. Ricketts, C. Loucks, R. Harriss, W. T. Lawrence (2004) Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production. Nature 429:870-873. PDF

Alcamo, et al. 2003. Ecosystems and human well-being: A framework for assessment. Island Press. Washington DC. 245 pp.

Ricketts, T.H. 2001. The matrix matters: effective isolation in fragmented landscapes. American Naturalist 158(1):87-99. PDF

Balvanera, P., G.C. Daily, P.R. Ehrlich, T.H. Ricketts, S.A. Bailey, S.Kark, C. Kremen, and H. Pereira. 2001. Conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Science 291(5511):2047. PDF