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Suzanne Langridge Home  Directory Suzanne Langridge
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Suzanne Langridge
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Ph.D. Graduate |
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Alumni |
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sml@ucsc.edu |
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I am a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Studies. My working dissertation title is "Addressing Stakeholder Concerns to Resolve Restoration Conflicts: Agricultural Pests and Pest Control on the Sacramento River Watershed". This research focuses on bird, insect, and plant distributions and interactions associated with large-scale riparian restoration and agriculture in the Sacramento River watershed in California.
In general, I study how communities are distributed within complex landscapes and how communities and species interactions are affected by landscape configuration at different spatial scales and with different management regimes. I have investigated these concepts through the lens of the agricultural landscape of the upper Sacramento River, the neotropical landscape of shade coffee, and the overwintering habitat of neotropical birds. I work to link these ecological findings to determine how to use this information to best structure policy tools that support restoration and conservation. |
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I am a Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Studies. My working
dissertation title is "Ecosytem Services and Agricultural Habitat Buffers and Large-scale Restoration on the Sacramento River". This research focuses on bird, insect, and plant distributions and interactions associated with large-scale riparian restoration and agriculture in the Sacramento River watershed
in California.
In general, I study how communities are distributed within complex
landscapes and how communities and species interactions are affected
by landscape configuration at different spatial scales and with
different management regimes. I have investigated these concepts
through the lens of the agricultural landscape of the upper Sacramento
River, the neotropical landscape of shade coffee, and the
overwintering habitat of neotropical birds. I also investigate the
ecology of ecosystem services, in particular pest control, associated
with natural habitat. I work to link these ecological findings to communities in order to determine specific management and conservation practices, as well as determine how to use this information to best structure policy tools that
support restoration and conservation |
| Education History | |
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B.S. Biology
Smith College
Northampton, MA |
| Selected Publications | |
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Peer Reviewed Papers
•Johnson, M., J. Kelley, S.M. Langridge, M. Whitfield. In press in Ecological Applications. The Efficacy of Stable Isotope Ratios in Assigning Endangered Southwestern Willow Flycatchers to Breeding and Wintering Sites.
•Perfecto, I, J. Vandermeer, G. Lopez, G. Ibarra, R. Greenberg, P. Bichier, and S. Langridge. 2004. Greater predation in shaded coffee farms: role of resident neotropical birds. Ecology 85 (10): 2677-2681.
•M. Sogge, J.Owen, E. Paxton S.M. Langridge, and T.Koronkiewicz. 2001. Targeted Mist Net Capture Technique for the Willow Flycatcher. Western Birds 32 (3).
Peer Reviewed Papers (in review)
•Danner, R.M., S.M. Langridge, T. Dietsch. In review for Ornitologia Neotropical. The nest and eggs of Prevost’s ground sparrow (Melozone biarcuata), group Biarcuata in Mexico.
Book Chapters
•Langridge, S.M., M. Buckley, K.D. Holl. 2007. Strategies for overcoming obstacles to restoring natural capital: Large-scale restoration on the Sacramento River. In Restoring Natural Capital, Island Press.
Book Reviews
•Center for Tropical Research in Ecology, Agriculture and Development Working Group. 2005. Making Parks Work: Thought-provoking Argument, Not a Guide. Conservation Biology 19:279-81. |
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