Kimberly E. Medley, associate professor of geography,I am interested in why forests vary geographically in their structure, composition, and dynamics, and how an understanding of this variation may be best applied to resource conservation in temperate and tropical localities. Of particular interest are environmental versus human influences on local patterns of diversity, the role of forest resources in human-dominated landscapes, ethnobotany, and gender relations with resource ecology. I am participating in studies that focus on vegetation dynamics, exotic plant invasion, landscape change in Southwestern Ohio, and the ethnoecology and community conservation of forest resources in East Africa.
Department of Geography Medley, K.E. and H.W. Kalibo. 2005. An ecological framework for participatory ethnobotantical research at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya. Field Methods 17(3):302-314.
Medley, K.E. 2004. Measuring performance under a landscape approach to biodiversity conservation: the case of USAID/Madagascar. Progress in Development Studies 4(4): 319-341.
Wang, D.H. and K.E. Medley. 2004 Land use model for carbon conservation across a midwestern USA landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning 69:451-465.
Medley, K.E., C.M. Pobocik, and B.W. Okey. 2003. Historical changes in forest cover and land ownership in a midwestern U.S. landscape. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 93(1): 104-120.
Lucas, M.F. and K.E. Medley, 2002. "Landscape Structure and Nutrient Budgets in an Agricultural Watershed, Southwest Ohio." Ohio Journal of Science 102(2):15-23.
Medley, K.E. and L.M. Gramlich-Kaufman, 2001. "A Landscape Guide in Environmental Education." Journal of Geography 100:69-77.
Medley, K.E. 1999. Women's work: a positive force for the environment
in Madagascar. Women and Natural Resources. 20(2):32-37.
Medley, K.E. 1998. Landscape change and resource conservation along the
Tana River, Kenya. Chapter 1(pp. 39-55) in K.S. Zimmerer and K.R. Young,
eds. Natures's Geography. New Lessons for Conservation in Developing
Countries. The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
Medley, K.E. 1997. Distribution of the non-native shrub Lonicera Maackii
in Kramer Woods, Ohio. Physical Geography 18(1):18-36.
Medley, K.E. 1996. Dieback in the native shrub, Lindera benzoin: a subtle
effect of forest fragmentation. Ohio Journal of Science 4/5:76-80.
Medley, K.E. 1994. Identifying a strategy for forest restoration in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya. pp. 154-167. In: A.D. Baldwin, J. de Luce, and C. Pletsch, eds. Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes. University of Minnesota Press.
Medley, K.E.1993. Primate conservation along the Tana River, Kenya: an Examination of the Forest Habitat. Conservation Biology 7(1):109-121.
Medley, K.E. 1992. Patterns of Forest Diversity Along the Tana River, Kenya. Journal of Tropical Ecology 8:353-371.
Medley, K.E. and Harman, J.R. 1988. The Relationship between Gradients of Growing Season Warmth and a Mid-western Vegetation Transition. East Lakes Geographer 23:128-136.
Biodiversity of Kenya
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