Zach Ancona
Zach Ancona is a Physical Scientist with the Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center
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Using social-context matching to improve spatial function-transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models
Recreational and aesthetic enjoyment of public lands is increasing across a wide range of activities, highlighting the need to assess and adapt management to accommodate these uses. Despite a growing number of studies on mapping cultural ecosystem services, most are local-scale assessments that rely on costly and time-consuming primary data collection. As a result, the availability of spatial info
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Darius J. Semmens, Benson C. Sherrouse, Zachary H. Ancona
The sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution
Although ecosystem service (ES) modeling has progressed rapidly in the last 10–15 years, comparative studies on data and model selection effects have become more common only recently. Such studies have drawn mixed conclusions about whether different data and model choices yield divergent results. In this study, we compared the results of different models to address these questions at national, pro
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Kenneth J. Bagstad, Erika Cohen, Zachary H. Ancona, Steven McNulty, Ge Sun
Analyzing land-use change scenarios for trade-offs among culturalecosystem services in the Southern Rocky Mountains
Significant increases in outdoor recreation participants are projected over the next 50 years for national forests
across the United States, with even larger increases possible for forests located in the Southern Rocky
Mountains. Forest managers will be challenged to balance increasing demand for outdoor recreation with other
ecosystem services. Future management needs could be better anticipated
Authors
Benson C. Sherrouse, Darius J. Semmens, Zachary H. Ancona, Nicole M. Brunner
Evaluating alternative methods for biophysical and cultural ecosystem services hotspot mapping in natural resource planning
Context
Data for biophysically modeled and Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS)-derived cultural ecosystem services have potential to identify natural resource management synergies and conflicts, but have rarely been combined. Ecosystem service hot/coldspots generated using different methods vary in their spatial extent and connectivity, with important implications.
Objectives
We map biophysically mod
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Kenneth J. Bagstad, Darius J. Semmens, Zachary H. Ancona, Benson C. Sherrouse
Social-value maps for Arapaho, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow, Routt, and White River National Forests, Colorado and Wyoming
Executive SummaryThe continued pressures of population growth on the life-sustaining, economic, and cultural ecosystem services provided by our national forests, particularly those located near rapidly growing urban areas, present ongoing challenges to forest managers. Achieving an effective assessment of these ecosystem services includes a proper accounting of the ecological, economic, and social
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Zachary H. Ancona, Darius J. Semmens, Benson C. Sherrouse
Onshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States up to March 2014
Wind energy is a rapidly growing form of renewable energy in the United States. While summary information on the total amounts of installed capacity are available by state, a free, centralized, national, turbine-level, geospatial dataset useful for scientific research, land and resource management, and other uses did not exist. Available in multiple formats and in a web application, these public d
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James E. Diffendorfer, Louisa Kramer, Zachary H. Ancona, Christopher P. Garrity
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Using social-context matching to improve spatial function-transfer performance for cultural ecosystem service models
Recreational and aesthetic enjoyment of public lands is increasing across a wide range of activities, highlighting the need to assess and adapt management to accommodate these uses. Despite a growing number of studies on mapping cultural ecosystem services, most are local-scale assessments that rely on costly and time-consuming primary data collection. As a result, the availability of spatial infoAuthorsDarius J. Semmens, Benson C. Sherrouse, Zachary H. AnconaThe sensitivity of ecosystem service models to choices of input data and spatial resolution
Although ecosystem service (ES) modeling has progressed rapidly in the last 10–15 years, comparative studies on data and model selection effects have become more common only recently. Such studies have drawn mixed conclusions about whether different data and model choices yield divergent results. In this study, we compared the results of different models to address these questions at national, proAuthorsKenneth J. Bagstad, Erika Cohen, Zachary H. Ancona, Steven McNulty, Ge SunAnalyzing land-use change scenarios for trade-offs among culturalecosystem services in the Southern Rocky Mountains
Significant increases in outdoor recreation participants are projected over the next 50 years for national forests across the United States, with even larger increases possible for forests located in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Forest managers will be challenged to balance increasing demand for outdoor recreation with other ecosystem services. Future management needs could be better anticipatedAuthorsBenson C. Sherrouse, Darius J. Semmens, Zachary H. Ancona, Nicole M. BrunnerEvaluating alternative methods for biophysical and cultural ecosystem services hotspot mapping in natural resource planning
Context Data for biophysically modeled and Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS)-derived cultural ecosystem services have potential to identify natural resource management synergies and conflicts, but have rarely been combined. Ecosystem service hot/coldspots generated using different methods vary in their spatial extent and connectivity, with important implications. Objectives We map biophysically modAuthorsKenneth J. Bagstad, Darius J. Semmens, Zachary H. Ancona, Benson C. SherrouseSocial-value maps for Arapaho, Roosevelt, Medicine Bow, Routt, and White River National Forests, Colorado and Wyoming
Executive SummaryThe continued pressures of population growth on the life-sustaining, economic, and cultural ecosystem services provided by our national forests, particularly those located near rapidly growing urban areas, present ongoing challenges to forest managers. Achieving an effective assessment of these ecosystem services includes a proper accounting of the ecological, economic, and socialAuthorsZachary H. Ancona, Darius J. Semmens, Benson C. SherrouseOnshore industrial wind turbine locations for the United States up to March 2014
Wind energy is a rapidly growing form of renewable energy in the United States. While summary information on the total amounts of installed capacity are available by state, a free, centralized, national, turbine-level, geospatial dataset useful for scientific research, land and resource management, and other uses did not exist. Available in multiple formats and in a web application, these public dAuthorsJames E. Diffendorfer, Louisa Kramer, Zachary H. Ancona, Christopher P. Garrity