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Textbooks

• Pontius, J. and A. McIntosh. 2020. Critical Skills for Environmental Professionals: Connecting science to action.  Springer, London, UK.  pp. 250.
• McIntosh, A. and J. Pontius. 2016. Science and the Global Environment: Case Studies for Integrating Science and Global Environment, 1st Edition.  Elsevier, London UK.  pp. 515. ISBN: 9780128017128

Book Chapters

• Pontius, J. 2020. Early, detailed and accurate detection of forest disturbance and decline for protection of biodiversity.  In: Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity Using spectral signals of plants to understand the biology and biodiversity of plants, plant communities, ecosystems and the tree of life.  Editors: Jeannine Cavender-Bares, John Gamon, Phil Townsend, Springer International Publishing.
• Pontius, J. and J. Duncan. 2018. Linking Science and Management in a Geospatial, Multi- Criteria Decision Support Tool. In: New Perspectives in Forest Science. Editor: Helder Viana, IntechOpen.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Adams, A., Pontius, J., Galford, G. and D. Guddex-Cross. 2019.  Forest fragmentation: Patterns, trends, and drivers across northeastern US forests. Landscape Ecology 34(10):2401-2419.
• Pardo, L, Coombs, J., Pontius, J., Robin-Abbott, M. and A. D'Amato.  2019.  Tree species at risk from nitrogen deposition in the northeastern United States: A geospatial analysis of effects of multiple stressors using exceedance of critical loads.  Forest Ecology and Management 454:117528.     
• Kosiba AM, Meigs G, Duncan J, Pontius J, Keeton W, Tait E. 2018. Spatiotemporal patterns of forest damage and disturbance in the Northeastern United States: 2000 - 2016. Forest Ecology and Management.
• Oswald, E., Pontius, J., Rayback, S., Schaberg, P., Wilmot, S. and L.A. Dupigney-Giroux.  2018. The complex relationship between climate and sugar maple health: climate change implications for a key northern hardwood species. Forest Ecology and Management. 422: 303-312.
• Adams, A. Pontius, J. Galford, G., D. Gudex-Cross and S. Merrill.  2018.  Modeling carbon storage across a heterogeneous mixed temperate forest: the influence of forest type specificity on regional-scale carbon storage estimates.  Landscape Ecology.  33: 641-658.
• Pontius, J. Cook, B. Hanavan, R and R. Hallett.  2017. High spatial resolution spectral unmixing for mapping ash species across a complex urban environment.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  199:  360-369.
• Pontius, J. Cook, B. Hanavan, R and R. Hallett.  (2017).  Early detection and mapping of urban forest stress and invasive spread using cutting edge remote sensing technologies.  Remote Sensing of Environment.  199:  360-369.
• Guddex-Cross, D., Pontius, J. and Adams, A.  (2017). Enhanced forest cover mapping using spectral unmixing and object-based classification of multi-temporal Landsat imagery.  Remote Sensing of Environment 196: 193-204.   
• Krebbs, J., Pontius, J. and P. Schaberg.  (2017). Modeling the Impacts of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Carbon stocks in Northern New England.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 47: 727-734.
• Livingston, W., Pontius, J., Costanza, K. and S. Trosper.  2017.  Spatially-explicit model for estimating locations of future hemlock growth declines associated with the hemlock woolly adelgid.  Biological Invasions 19(5), 1577-1595.  

Tool Development

• Climate Connection (2019):  The FEMC Climate Connection is a simple portal to access key resources on climate change in our region and the impacts it will have on forested ecosystems, providing a comprehensive resource for policy makers, researchers, students and natural resource professionals to quickly find the tools they need to explore climate change and how it will impact forests in the Northeast. 
• N-CLAS (2019):  The Nitrogen Critical Load Assessment by Site Tool is designed to calculate critical loads and exceedances for N deposition to forests in the northeastern US. It provides high resolution outputs (maps, graphs, and tables) for multiple areas and accounts for the influence of site, climate, and topographic conditions on 23 key tree species in the region. N-CLAS facilitates assessment of risk to forest ecosystems for resource managers and policy makers.
• Northeastern Forest Health Atlas. Duncan, J.A., Meigs, G.W., Tait, E.R., Kosiba, A.M., Pontius, J.A., Keeton, W. 2018. Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative. (Aggregates 50+ years of aerial sketch mapping data across 6 states, with search and filter options by damage agent and damage type).
• Vermont Forest Indicators Dashboard. Duncan, J., Pontius J., Kosiba, A. and Truong, J. 2018. This dynamic online tool aggregates and summarizes key ecosystem monitoring metrics into a relative score and trend to quantify and monitor the condition of Vermont’s forested ecosystems).