PROFILE

Justin Brashares
Researcher
Professor of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation
UC Berkeley Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
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Justin is interested in the causes and consequences of biodiversity decline. Similarly, he studies how the conversion of natural habitats affects the dynamics of animal communities.
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Publications

Where money grows on trees: A socio-ecological assessment of land use change in an agricultural frontier

2023

Parker-Shames, P., Bodwitch, H., Brashares, J., Butsic, V.

Landscape and Urban Planning

Integrating socio-cultural data such as farmer interviews is critical for ecological models and understanding land use trends in cannabis production.

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The spatial overlap of small-scale cannabis farms with aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity

2021

Parker-Shames, P., Choi, C., Butsic, V. , Green, D., Barry, B., Moriarty, K. , Levi, T., Brashares, J. S.

The Society for Conservation Biology

What are ecological impacts of cannabis legalization? To find out, we mapped the first season of legal cannabis farms in Josephine County, southern Oregon.

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Coexisting with cannabis: Wildlife response to marijuana cultivation in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion

2020

P. Parker-Shames, W. Xu, L. Rich, and J. Brashares

California Fish and Wildlife Journal

As legal cannabis agriculture expands in rural areas, wildlife will respond, but how? In the biodiverse region of Klamath-Siskiyou in southern Oregon, cameras positioned around small cannabis farms reveal individual responses of different species.

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