Jennifer Costanza, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Shannon Kay, Jennifer Costanza, Linda A. Joyce, Karin Riley, Karen C. Short, Erin J. Belval, Bruno Kanieski da Silva, Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey T. Morisette. 2026. Wildfire, Suppression, and Federal Spending, 2020–2100
• Travis Warziniack, Jennifer Costanza, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Linda A. Joyce, Christoper Mihia, Claire O'Dea, Sonja Oswalt, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Eric White. 2026. Current status, past trends, and future projections of renewable forest resources and ecosystem services across the United States
• Peter V. Caldwell, Katherine L. Martin, Justin S. Baker, Arpita Nehra, Elly T. Gay, Sagarika Rath, Travis Warziniack, Jennifer Costanza, Gregory E. Frey, Christopher Mihiar, Richard H. Manner, Stacy A. C. Nelson, James Vose, Raghavan Srinivasan. 2026. Benefits of Southern Forests for Drinking Water
• Erin T. H. Crockett, Qinfeng Guo, Jeff W. Atkins, Ge Sun, Kevin M. Potter, Jennifer Costanza, Scott V. Ollinger, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Steve McNulty, Carl Trettin, Justin Holgerson, Jingfeng Xiao. 2026. Influences of Structural and Species Diversity on Forest Resistance to Drought
• Arpita Nehra, Justin S. Baker, Peter V. Caldwell, Katherine L. Martin, Travis Warziniack, Richard Manner, Christopher Mihiar, Gregory E. Frey, Jennifer Costanza. 2025. The potential impact of forest loss on drinking water treatment costs in the southeastern U.S
• M. van den Bosch, Zachary Steel, Jennifer Costanza, K. F. Kellner, R. A. Peek. 2025. Increased drought drives avian community declines in the warm deserts of the United States
• M. van den Bosch, Jennifer Costanza, R. A. Peek, Zachary Steel. 2025. Projected increases in climate extremes across global vertebrate diversity hotspots
• Jennifer Costanza, Kevin M. Potter, David Walker, Frank H. H. Koch, Andrew Gray, John W. Coulston. 2025. Old-growth forest area projected to increase on United States federal lands under alternative future scenarios
• Shakirudeen Lawal, Frank H. H. Koch, Robert M. Scheller, Jennifer Costanza. 2025. Forest demographic changes across Texas associated with hot drought
• Jennifer Costanza, R. A. Peek, J. M. Mola, Zachary Steel, M. van den Bosch. 2024. Climate change scenarios forecast increased drought exposure for terrestrial vertebrates in the contiguous United States
• Jennifer Costanza, Karen G. Schleeweis, Kurt Riitters. 2024. Fifteen-year changes in the landscape context of FIA forest land in the conterminous United States
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza, Karen G. Schleeweis. 2024. Updating the sustainability indicators of forest cover fragmentation for the United States from 2001 to 2019
• Jennifer Costanza, Frank H. H. Koch, Matt C. Reeves. 2024. Recent forest exposure to multiyear drought across the conterminous United States
• Craig M. T. Johnston, Jesse Henderson, Jinggang Guo, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Jennifer Costanza. 2024. Unraveling the Impacts: How Extreme Weather Events Disrupt Wood Product Markets
• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Erin J. Belval, Jennifer Costanza, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Karin Riley, Shannon Kay, Karen C. Short, Bruno Kanieski da Silva. 2024. Climate financial risk: the federal government's exposure to financial risk due to climate change
• Peter V. Caldwell, James M. Vose, Jennifer Costanza, Tom Holmes, B. Graeme Lockaby, Georgianne W. Moore, Ge Sun. 2024. Water: An Analysis to Support the Southern Forest Outlook
• Shakirudeen Lawal, Jennifer Costanza, Frank H. H. Koch, Robert M. Scheller. 2024. Modeling the impacts of hot drought on forests in Texas
• Peter Vogt, Kurt Riitters, José I Barredo, Jennifer Costanza, Bernd Eckhardt, Karen G. Schleeweis. 2024. Improving forest connectivity assessments using tree cover density maps
• Stephanie Pau, Daniel M. Griffith, Nicole E. Zampieri, Jennifer Costanza. 2023. Longleaf pine savannas reveal biases in current understanding of savanna biogeography
• P.D. McElwee, S.L. Carter, K.J.W. Hyde, J.M. West, K. Akamani, A.L. Babson, G. Bowser, J.B. Bradford, Jennifer Costanza, T.M. Crimmins, S.C. Goslee, S.K. Hamilton, B. Helmuth, Serra J. Hoagland, F.-A.E Hoover, M.E. Hunsicker, R. Kashuba, S.A. Moore, R.C. Muñoz, G. Shrestha, M. Uriarte, J.L. Wilkening. 2023. Ch. 8. Ecosystems, ecosystem services, and biodiversity. 
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza, John W. Coulston, Peter Vogt, Karen G. Schleeweis. 2023. Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data
• Jennifer Costanza, Frank H. H. Koch, Matt C. Reeves. 2023. Future exposure of forest ecosystems to multi‐year drought in the United States
• Peter V. Caldwell, Katherine L. Martin, James Vose, Justin S. Baker, Travis Warziniack, Jennifer Costanza, Gregory E. Frey, Arpita Nehra, Christopher Mihiar. 2023. Forested watersheds provide the highest water quality among all land cover types, but the benefit of this ecosystem service depends on landscape context
• Jeff W. Atkins, Jennifer Costanza, Kyla M. Dahlin, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Andrew J. Elmore, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Christopher R. Hakkenberg, Brady S. Hardiman, Aaron Kamoske, Elizabeth A. LaRue, Carlos Alberto Silva, Atticus E. L. Stovall, Elske K. Tielens. 2023. Scale dependency of lidar‐derived forest structural diversity
• Daniel Peptenatu, Ion Andronache, Helmut Ahammer, Marko Radulovic, Jennifer Costanza, Herbert F. Jelinek, Antonio Di Ieva, Kohei Koyama, Alexandra Grecu, Andreea Karina Gruia, Adrian-Gabriel Simion, Iulia Daniela Nedelcu, Cosmin Olteanu, Cristian-Constantin Drăghici, Marian Marin, Daniel Constantin Diaconu, Rasmus Fensholt, Erica A. Newman. 2023. A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder
• Zachary J. Robbins, Chonggang Xu, Alex Jonko, Rutuja Chitra-Tarak, Christopher J. Fettig, Jennifer Costanza, Leif Mortenson, Brian H. Aukema, Lara M. Kueppers, Robert M. Scheller. 2023. Carbon stored in live ponderosa pines in the Sierra Nevada will not return to pre-drought (2012) levels during the 21st century due to bark beetle outbreaks
• Jennifer Costanza, Frank H. H. Koch, Matt C. Reeves, Kevin M. Potter, Karen G. Schleeweis, Kurt Riitters, Sarah Anderson, Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Linda A. Joyce, Prakash Nepal, Benjamin Poulter, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, J. Morgan Varner, David M. Walker. 2023. Disturbances to Forests and Rangelands
• John W. Coulston, Evan B. Brooks, Brett J. Butler, Jennifer Costanza, David M. Walker, Grant M. Domke, Jesse Caputo, Marla Markowski-Lindsay, Emma M. Sass, Brian F. Walters, Jinggang Guo. 2023. Forest Resources
• Elsa Youngsteadt, Adam Terando, Jennifer Costanza, Jelena Vukomanovic. 2023. Compact or sprawling cities: Has the sparing-sharing framework yielded an ecological verdict?
• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Erin J. Belval, Sara H. Brown, Jennifer Costanza, Linda A. Joyce, Shannon Kay, Mark Lichtenstein, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Karin Riley, Karen C. Short. 2022. Climate risk exposure: An assessment of the Federal Government's financial risks to climate change
• Nicole C. Inglis, Jelena Vukomanovic, Jennifer Costanza, Kunwar K. Singh. 2022. From viewsheds to viewscapes: Trends in landscape visibility and visual quality research
• Annie C. Smith, Kyla M. Dahlin, Sydne Record, Jennifer Costanza, Adam M. Wilson, Phoebe L. Zarnetske. 2021. The geodiv R package: tools for calculating gradient surface metrics
• Kurt Riitters, Karen G. Schleeweis, Jennifer Costanza. 2020. Forest Area Change in the Shifting Landscape Mosaic of the Continental United States from 2001 to 2016
• S. Record, K.M. Dahlin, P.L. Zarnetske, Q.D. Read, S. Malone, K. Gaddis, J. Grady, Jennifer Costanza, M. Hobi, A.M. Latimer, S. Pau, A.M. Wilson, A.O. Finley, S. V Ollinger. 2020. Remote sensing of geodiversity as a link to biodiversity
• Quentin D. Read, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Sydne Record, Kyla M. Dahlin, Jennifer Costanza, Andrew O. Finley, Keith D. Gaddis, John M. Grady, Martina L. Hobi, Andrew M. Latimer, Sparkle L. Malone, Scott V Ollinger, Stephanie Pau, Adam M. Wilson. 2020. Beyond counts and averages: Relating geodiversity to dimensions of biodiversity
• Jennifer Costanza, James Watling, Ron Sutherland, Curtis Belyea, Bistra Dilkina, Heather Cayton, David Bucklin, Stephanie S. Romanach, Nick M. Haddad. 2020. Preserving connectivity under climate and land-use change: No one-size-fits-all approach for focal species in similar habitats
• Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Quentin D. Read, Sydne Record, Keith D. Gaddis, Stephanie Pau, Martina L. Hobi, Sparkle Malone, Jennifer Costanza, Kyla M. Dahlin, Andrew M. Latimer, Adam M. Wilson, John M. Grady, Scott V Ollinger, Andrew O. Finley. 2019. Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing
• Jennifer Costanza, Adam J. Terando. 2019. Landscape connectivity planning for adaptation to future climate and land-use change
• Jennifer Costanza, Kurt Riitters, Peter Vogt, James Wickham. 2019. Describing and analyzing landscape patterns: where are we now, and where are we going?
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza. 2018. The landscape context of family forests in the United States: Anthropogenic interfaces and forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2011
• Jennifer Costanza, Don Faber-Langendoen, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear. 2018. Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches
• Brian Buma, Jennifer Costanza, Kurt Riitters. 2017. Determining the size of a complete disturbance landscape: multi-scale, continental analysis of forest change
• Adam Terando, Brian Reich, Krishna Pacifici, Jennifer Costanza, Alexa McKerrow, Jaime Collazo. 2017. Uncertainty quantification and propagation for projections of extremes in monthly area burned under climate change: A case study in the coastal plain of Georgia, USA.
• Jennifer Costanza, Robert C. Abt, Alexa J. McKerrow, Jaime A. Collazo. 2017. Bioenergy production and forest landscape change in the southeastern United States
• Nathan M. Tarr, Matthew J. Rubino, Jennifer Costanza, Alexa J. McKerrow, Jaime A. Collazo, Robert C. Abt. 2017. Projected gains and losses of wildlife habitat from bioenergy‐induced landscape change
• Jennifer Costanza, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear. 2017. An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza, Brian Buma. 2017. Interpreting multiscale domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America
• James Wickham, Kurt Riitters, Peter Vogt, Jennifer Costanza, Anne Neale. 2017. An inventory of continental U.S. terrestrial candidate ecological restoration areas based on landscape context
• Jennifer Costanza, Scott Beck, Milo Pyne, Matthew Rubino, Adam Terando, Rickie White, Jaime Collazo. 2016. Assessing climate-sensitive ecosystems in the southeastern United States
• Kurt Riitters, James Wickham, Jennifer Costanza, Peter Vogt. 2016.  A global evaluation of forest interior area dynamics using tree cover data from 2000 to 2012
• Tamara Wilson, Jennifer Costanza, Jim Smith, Jeffrey T. Morisette. 2015. Second State-and-Transition Simulation Modeling Conference
• Jennifer Costanza, Robert Abt, Alexa McKerrow, Jaime Collazo. 2015. Linking state-and-transition simulation and timber supply models for forest biomass production scenarios
• Adam J. Terando, Jennifer Costanza, Curtis Belyea, Robert R. Dunn, Alexa McKerrow, Jaime A. Collazo. 2014. The Southern Megalopolis: Using the Past to Predict the Future of Urban Sprawl in the Southeast U.S
• Jennifer Costanza, Jiri Hulcr, Frank H. H. Koch, Todd Earnhardt, Alexa J. McKerrow, Rob R. Dunn, Jaime A. Collazo. 2012. Simulating the effects of the southern pine beetle on regional dynamics 60 years into the future

Data and Tools

• Dashboard
  

  Resources Planning Act Assessment Data Explorer

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/resources-planning-act-assessment-data-explorer

• Center or Group
  

  Center for Integrated Forest Science (RWU-4855)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/centers/cifs
  Station

  Southern Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Drought threatens America's wildlife

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/drought-threatens-americas-wildlife

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Planning for Forests of the Future: Forest Resources and Disturbance

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-planning-forests-future-forest-resources-and-disturbance

• 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