Steve Williams
Senior Research Project Coordinator
218 DCL
Area(s) of Expertise
My interests center on the development and application of GIS based landscape conservation tools to facilitate efficient and pro-active planning. Typical datasets include species habitat models, maps of protected areas, and potential threats to habitat. A large focus of my work is in presenting complex datasets in an intuitive and functional interface whereby the full utility of landscape level GIS conservation tools become accessible by non-GIS professionals.
Web Resources
Publications
- Methods for evaluating Gap Analysis Project habitat distribution maps with species occurrence data (2022)
- Refining the coarse filter approach: Using habitat-based species models to identify rarity and vulnerabilities in the protection of US biodiversity, GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION (2021)
- Gap Analysis Project (GAP) Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness Maps for the Conterminous U.S., Scientific Investigations Report (2019)
- Partitioning global change: Assessing the relative importance of changes in climate and land cover for changes in avian distribution, ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION (2019)
- Patterns of species richness hotspots and estimates of their protection are sensitive to spatial resolution, DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS (2018)
- Persistence-Based Area Prioritization for Conservation: Applying Occupancy and Habitat Threats and Risks Analyses, JOURNAL OF FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT (2018)
- Future land-use scenarios and the loss of wildlife habitats in the southeastern United States, ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (2015)
Education
M.S., North Carolina State University (1996)
B.S., North Carolina State University (1989)