Kimberly E. Medley
, Professor of Geography, Affiliate Associate Professor of Botany
Department of Geography
Biodiversity of Kenya
Ph.D.
(1990) Michigan State University
Areas of Expertise
Environmental and human influences on spatial patterns and ecology of forest vegetation
Research Interests
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.
Selected Publications
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.