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Travis Longcore

Research Assistant Professor of Geography

Contact Information
Office: KAP 424B
Phone: (213)821-1310
E-mail: longcore@usc.edu

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Personal Website
 

Education

B.A. Geography, University of Delaware, 6/1993
M.A. Geography, University of California - Los Angeles, 9/1995
Ph.D. Geography, University of California - Los Angeles, 12/1999
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions

Center for Sustainable Cities,http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/ESPE/
GIS Research Laboratory,http://www.uscgislab.net/
 

Publications

Book

Rich, C., Longcore, T. (2006). Ecological consequences of artificial night lighting. Washington, DC: Ecological consequences of artificial night lighting/Island Press.
 

Journal Article

Longcore, T., Rich, C., Gauthreaux Jr., S. A. (2008). Height, guy wires, and steady-burning lights increase hazard of communication towers to nocturnal migrants: a review and meta-analysis. The Auk/American Ornithologists' Union. Vol. 125 (2), pp. 486–493.
Longcore, T., Rich, C., Muller-Schwarze, D. (2007). Management by assertion: beavers and songbirds at Lake Skinner (Riverside County, California). Environmental Management. Vol. 39, pp. 460-471.
Elvidge, C. D., Cinzano, P., Arvesen, J., Sutton, P., Small, C., Nemani, R., Longcore, T., Rich, C., Weeks, J., Ebener, S. (2007). The NightSat mission concept. International Journal of Remote Sensing. Vol. 28 (12), pp. 2645-2670.
Jump, P., Longcore, T., Rich, C. (2006). Ecology and distribution of a newly discovered population of the threatened Kern primrose sphinx moth (Euproserpinus euterpe). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. Vol. vol. 60(1), pp. 41-50.
Longcore, T., Mattoni, R., Mattoni, A. (2005). Salvage of individual pupae as a mitigation measure for loss of Palos Verdes blue butterfly habitat. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. Vol. 59(1), pp. 10-11.
Longcore, T., Li, C., Wilson, J. P. (2004). Applicability of CITYgreen urban ecosystem analysis software to a dense urban neighborhood. Urban Geography. Vol. v. 25(2), pp. p. 173–186.
Travis, L., Rich, C. (2004). Ecological light pollution. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment/Ecological Society of America. Vol. 2(4), pp. 191-198.
Longcore, T. (2003). Arthropods as indicators of restoration success in coastal sage scrub (California, U.S.A.). Restoration Ecology/Blackwell. Vol. v.11(4), pp. p.397–409.
Mattoni, R., Longcore, T., Krenova, Z., Lipman, A. (2003). Mass rearing of the endangered Palos Verdes blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis: Lycaenidae). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. Vol. 37, pp. 55-67.
Zonneveld, C., Longcore, T., Mulder, C. (2003). Optimal schemes to detect presence of insect species. Conservation Biology. Vol. 17, pp. 476–487.
Mattoni, R., Longcore, T., Novotny, V. (2000). Arthropod monitoring for fine scale habitat analysis: a case study of the El Segundo dunes. Environmental Management. Vol. 25, pp. 445–452.
Mattoni, R. H., Pratt, G. F., Longcore, T. R., Emmel, J. F., George, J. N. (1997). The endangered Quino checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas editha quino (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. Vol. 34, pp. 99–118.
Mattoni, R., Longcore, T. R. (1997). The Los Angeles coastal prairie, a vanished community. Crossosoma. Vol. 23, pp. 71-102.
 

Technical Report

Stein, E. D., Dark, S., Longcore, T., Hall, N., Beland, M., Grossinger, R., Casanova, J., Sutula, M. (2007). Historical ecology and landscape change of the San Gabriel River and floodplain. Southern California Coastal Water Research Project.
 
 
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