Dr. Todd Lookingbill

Assistant Professor of Geography and the Environment
106 Weinstein Hall
Office: (804) 289-8265

Teaching:
Physical Geography
Landscape Modeling
Spatial Analysis

Research:
Landscape Ecology
Protected Areas Management
Natural Resource Monitoring Design and Assessment
Forest Community Ecology

Education:
Ph.D. Duke University
B.S. Princeton University

Selected Publications:

Lookingbill, T.R., R.H. Gardner, J.R. Ferrari & C. Keller. In press. Combining a dispersal model with network theory to assess habitat connectivity. Ecological Applications

Minor, E.S., S.M. Tessel, K.A.M. Engelhardt & T.R. Lookingbill. 2009. The role of landscape connectivity in assembling exotic plant communities: a network analysis. Ecology 90:1802-1809

Townsend, P.A., T.R. Lookingbill, C.C. Kingdon, & R.H. Gardner. 2009. Spatial pattern analysis for monitoring protected areas. Remote Sensing Environment 113:1410-1420.

Ferrari, J.R., & T.R. Lookingbill. 2009. Initial conditions and their effect on invasion velocity across heterogeneous landscapes. Biological Invasions 11:1247-1258.

Lookingbill, T.R., S.S. Kaushal, A.J. Elmore, R.H. Gardner, K.N. Eshleman, R.H. Hilderbrand, R.P. Morgan, W.R. Boynton, M.A. Palmer & W.C. Dennison. 2009. Altered ecological flows blur boundaries in urbanizing watersheds. Ecology and Society 14: 10. Full Article.

Hopfensperger, K.N., K.A.M. Engelhardt, & T.R. Lookingbill. 2009. Vegetation and seed bank dynamics in a tidal freshwater marsh. Journal of Vegetation Science 20:767-778.

Vogt. P., J.R. Ferrari, T.R. Lookingbill, R.H. Gardner, K.H. Riitters, & K. Ostapowicz. 2009. Mapping functional connectivity. Ecological Indicators 9:64-71.

Gardner, R.H., T.R. Lookingbill, P.A. Townsend, & J.R. Ferrari. 2008. A general approach for rescaling land cover data. Landscape Ecology 23:513-526.

Lookingbill, T., S.L. Carter, B. Gorsira & C.C. Kingdon. 2008. Using landscape analysis to evaluate ecological impacts of battlefield restoration. ParkScience 25:60-65. Full Article.

Lookingbill, T., R. Gardner, P. Townsend & S. Carter. 2007. Conceptual models as hypotheses in monitoring urban landscapes. Environmental Management 40:171-182.

Dennison, W., T. Lookingbill, T. Carruthers, J. Hawkey & S. Carter. 2007. An eye opening approach to integrated environmental assessments. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:307-314.

Ferrari, J., T. Lookingbill & M. Neel. 2007. Two measures of landscape-graph connectivity: assessment across gradients in area and configuration. Landscape Ecology 22:1315-1323.

Lookingbill, T. & D. Urban. 2005. Gradient analysis, the next generation: Towards more plant-relevant explanatory variables. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:1744-1753.

Pierce, K., T. Lookingbill, & D. Urban. 2005. Beyond slope and aspect: a simple method for obtaining estimates of radiation for vegetation analysis. Landscape Ecology 20:137-147.

Lookingbill, T. & D. Urban. 2004. An empirical approach towards improved spatial estimates of soil moisture for vegetation analysis. Landscape Ecology 19:417-433.

Lookingbill, T. & D. Urban. 2003. Spatial estimation of air temperature differences for landscape-scale studies in montane environments. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 114:141-151.

Urban, D., S. Goslee, K. Pierce, & T. Lookingbill. 2002. Extending community ecology to landscapes.  Ecoscience 9:200-212.

Lookingbill, T. & M. Zavala. 2000.  Spatial pattern of Quercus ilex and Quercus pubescens recruitment in Pinus halepensis dominated woodlands. Journal of Vegetation Science 11:607-612.