- Email:
- randolph@iu.edu
- Areas of Interest:
- Forest ecology
- Ecological aspects of global environmental change
- Physiological ecology
- GIS applications in ecology
Education
- Ph.D., Carleton University (Ottawa), 1972
- M.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1968
- B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1966
Courses
- Applied Remote Sensing of the Environment
- Applied Ecology
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Applications of Geographic Information Systems
- Seminar in Environmental Science and Policy
Biography
Professor Emeritus James C. Randolph's research interests lie in forest ecology; the ecological aspects of global environmental change, with particular interests in forestry and agriculture; environmental aspects of energy development and use; applications of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing in environmental and natural resources management; and physiological ecology of small mammals and of woody plants.
Selected Works
- "Carbon stocks in coffee agroforests and mixed dry tropical forests in the western highlands of Guatemala," (with E. J. Castellanos, T. P. Evans, and M. Schmitt-Harsh), Agroforest Systems, 86:141-147 (2012)
- "Evidence of increased net ecosystem productivity associated with a longer vegetated season in a deciduous forest in south-central Indiana, USA," (with D. Dragoni, C. S. B. Grimmond, H. Potter, H.P. Schmid, and C.A. Wayson),“ Global Change Biology, 17 (2): 886-897 (2011)
- "Nutrient encounter by a generalist herbivore in a heterogeneous landscape," (G. N. Cameron and J. J. Johnston), American Midland Naturalist, 161: 242-250 (2009)
- "An approach to assess relative degradation in dissimilar forests: Toward a comparative assessment of institutional outcomes," (with K.P. Andersson, G.M. Green, T.P. Evans, L. Persha, C. M. Tucker), Ecology and Society, 13: 4-24 (2008)
- "Institutions, biophysical factors and history: An integrative analysis of private and communal forests in Guatemala and Honduras," (with E. J. Castellanos and C. M. Tucker), Human Ecology,35: 259-274 (2007)
- "Influence of soil respiration in determining net ecosystem exchange in a mid-latitude deciduous forest," (with P.J. Hanson, C. A. Wayson and H.P. Schmid), Biogeochemistry, 80: 195-216 (2006)
- "Summer ground layer biomass and nutrient contribution to above-ground litter in an Indiana temperate deciduous forest," (with J. M. Belmont and N. T. Welch), American Midland Naturalist, 157: 11-26 (2006)
- "Forest ecosystems and the human dimensions (Chapter 5)," (with J. Belmont, T. Burcsu, G. M. Green, and D. Welch), Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Human-Environment Interactions in Forest Ecosystems (E. F. Moran and E. Ostrom, Eds). Boston, MA: MIT Press (2005)
- “Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of ecosystem carbon storage in five eastern North American deciduous forests,” (with P.S. Curtis, P.J. Hanson, P. Bolstad, C. Barford, H.P. Schmid, and K.B. Wilson), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 113: 3-19 (2002)
- “An integrated GIS and modeling approach to assess the transient response of forests of the southern Great Lakes region to a doubled CO2 climate,” (with J.L. Ehman, W. Fan, J. Southworth, and N.T. Welch), Forest Ecology and Management, 155: 237-255 (2002)