Janet Franklin

Professor, School of Life Sciences, ASU

1988 - Ph.D. (Geography) University of California, Santa Barbara
1983 - M.A. (Geography) University of California, Santa Barbara
1979 - B.A. (Environmental Biology) University of California, Santa Barbara

Landscape ecology, terrestrial plant ecology, vegetation science, biogeography, conservation ecology, biophysical remote sensing of terrestrial ecosystems, geographic information science

The persistence of biodiversity in southern California under future land-use scenarios [NSF-sponsored project with H. Regan, UC-Riverside]
Research: Spatial inference and prediction with biogeographical data" [NSF-sponsored project with J. Miller, UT-Austin]

Assess and improving the San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program (MSCP) Biological Monitoring Plan [Recently-completed project sponsored by California State Department of Fish & Game, collaborating with H. Regan and D. Deutschman, SDSU]

Post-Cedar fire mixed conifer-hardwood monitoring and regeneration survey at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, San Diego, California [sponsored by California Department of Parks & Recreation]

Janet Franklin received a Bachelors degree on Environmental Biology (1979), Master of Arts (1983), and Ph.D. (1988) in Geography, all from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

She teaches general ecology, plant ecology, landscape ecology, fire ecology and species distribution modeling. She has chaired more than 20 Masters committees and six doctoral committees, and served on many others. She was the Editor of The Professional Geographer (1997-2000), a Board Member for Landscape Ecology (2000-2005), Associate Editor of Journal of Vegetation Science (1999-2006), and Board Member of Ecology/Ecological Monographs (2006-2009).

She has published more than 70 refereed book chapters and papers in journals including International Journal of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Ecological Applications, Ecological Modelling, Journal of Vegetation Science, Ecology, Plant Ecology, Vegetatio, Journal of Tropical Ecology and Conservation Biology.

She has received research support from NASA, NSF, USGS, the Forest Service, California State Parks, California Department of Fish & Game, National Geographic Society, and others.

2008 - Erasmus Mundus (European Union Education and Training), Visiting Scholar Program, GEM : Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation for Environmental Modelling and Management Masters Course, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, The Netherlands

2005 - Women in Science, Distinguished Visitor Program, School of Biological, Environmental and Ecological Sciences (BEES), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2001 - Recognition of appreciation for outstanding service to the Association of American Geographers as Editor of The Professional Geographer

Hierl, L. A., Franklin, J., Deutchman, D. H., Regan, H. M., and Johnson, B. S., 2008, Assessing and prioritizing ecological communities for monitoring in a regional habitat conservation plan, Environmental Management 42(1): 165-179.

Franklin, J., 2007, Recovery from clearing, cyclone and fire in rain forest of Tonga, South Pacific: vegetation dynamics 1995-2005, Austral Ecology 32(7): 789-797.

Fall, P. L., Drezner, T. D., Franklin, J., 2007, Dispersal ecology of the lowland rainforest in the Vava'u Island Group, Kingdom of Tonga, New Zealand Journal of Botany 45: 393-417.

Miller, J., J. Franklin and R. Aspinall, 2007, Incorporating spatial dependence in predictive vegetation models, Ecological Modelling 202: 225-242.

Franklin, J. and S. J. Rey, 2007, Spatial patterns of tropical forest trees in Western Polynesia suggest recruitment limitations during secondary succession, Journal of Tropical Ecology 23: 1-12.

Miller, J., and J. Franklin, 2006, Explicitly incorporating spatial dependence in predictive vegetation models as explanatory variables: a Mojave Desert case study, Journal of Geographical Systems 9(4): 411-435.

Franklin, J., S. Wiser, D. R. Drake, L. Burrows and W. Sykes, 2006, Environment, disturbance history and rain forest composition across the islands of Tonga, Western Polynesia, Journal of Vegetation Science 17:233-244.

Franklin, J, A. D. Syphard, H. He and D. Mladenoff, 2005, The effects of altered fire regimes on patterns of plant succession in the foothills and mountains of southern California, Ecosystems 8(8): 885-898.

2006-2009 - Member, Board of Editors, Ecology and Ecological Monographs. (ESA)

2008 - Invited workshop co-organizer, The Utility of Species Distribution Models as Tools for Conservation Ecology, Riederalp, Switzerland, 11-16 Aug.

2005-2006 - Chair, Local Organizing Committee, 2006 US-IALE Annual Symposium, San Diego CA (28-31 Mar 2006)

1999-2006 - Associate Editor, Journal of Vegetation Science. (over 100 manuscript decisions)