Dr. Robert F. Baldwin

Assistant Professor

Education:
Ph.D. University of Maine, Ecology and Environmental Sciences - 2005
M.S. George Mason University, Organismal Biology- 1992
B.A. Colby College, Biology - 1985

Research interest:
Conservation planning at multiple spatial and temporal scales (i.e., pool-breeding amphibian landscapes to ecoregions); effects of urbanization on amphibian and reptile communities; landscape ecology

Publications:
Baldwin, R.F. and P.G. deMaynadier. 2009. Assessing threats to pool-breeding amphibian habitat in an urbanizing landscape. Biological Conservation.

In Press. Baldwin, R.F., S.C. Trombulak, and E. Dennis Baldwin. 2009. Assessing risk of large-scale habitat conversion in lightly settled landscapes. Landscape and Urban Planning.

Woolmer, G., S.C. Trombulak, J.C. Ray, P.J. Doran, M.G. Anderson, R.F. Baldwin, A. Morgan, and E.W. Sanderson. 2008. Rescaling the Human Footprint: A tool for conservation planning at an ecoregional scale. Landscape and Urban Planning 87:42-53.

Baldwin, R.F., S.Trombulak, M. Anderson and G. Woolmer. 2007. Projecting transition probabilities for regular public roads at the ecoregion scale: a Northern Appalachian/Acadian case study. Landscape and Urban Planning 80: 404-411.

Baldwin, R.F., J. Ray, S. Trombulak and G. Woolmer. 2007. Relationship between spatial distribution of urban sprawl and species imperilment: response to Brown and Laband. Conservation Biology 21:546-548.

Baldwin, R.F., K.P. Bell and E. Sanderson. 2007. Spatial tools for conserving pool-breeding amphibians: an application of the landscape species approach. Pages 281-297 in A. Calhoun and P. deMaynadier, eds. Science and Conservation of Vernal Pools in Northeastern North America. CRC Press, Boston, MA.

Baldwin, R.F., S.Trombulak, M.G. Anderson and G. Woolmer. 2007. Projecting transition probabilities for regular public roads at the ecoregion scale: a Northern Appalachian/Acadian case study. Landscape and Urban Planning 80: 404-411

Baldwin, R.F. and S.C. Trombulak. 2007. Losing the dark: a case for a national policy on land conservation. Conservation Biology 21:1133-1134

Professional society activity:
Society for Conservation Biology – Member; Education Committee 1999-2003
Ecological Society of America - Member
The Wildlife Society – Member

Courses:
Conservation Biology (WFB/BIOSC 313)
Conservation GIS (FOR 893)
Wildlife Conservation Policy (WFB 430/630)

Websites:
http://sites.google.com/site/baldwinconservationresearch/Home

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