Publications
(updated 27 October 2006)
Curriculum
Vitae (PDF, 160k)
In press Theobald,
D.M., D.L. Stevens, Jr., D. White, N.S. Urquhart, A. Olsen, and J.B. Norman. (in press). Using GIS to
generate spatially-balanced random survey designs for natural resource
applications. Environmental Management.
Newman, P., C. Monz, Y. Leung, and D.
Theobald. (In press). Monitoring
campsite proliferation and conditions: New methodological considerations.
The George Wright Forum.
Peterson, E.E., A.A. Merton, D.M. Theobald, and N.S. Urquhart. (in press).
Patterns of spatial autocorrelation in stream water chemistry. Environmental Monitoring.
Peterson, E.E., J.M. Ver Hoef,
and D.M. Theobald. (in press). Geostatistical
modeling on stream networks: Developing valid covariance matrices based on
hydrologic distance and stream flow. Freshwater Biology.
Finn, D.S., D.M. Theobald, N.L. Poff,
and W.C. Black, IV. (in press). Spatial population genetic structure and limited dispersal in a
2006 Ver Hoef, J.M., E. Peterson, and D.M. Theobald. 2006. Spatial statistical models that use
flow and stream distance. Environmental and Ecological
Statistics 4().
2005 Theobald, D.M., T. Spies, J. Kline, B. Maxwell, N.T.
Hobbs, and V.H. Dale. 2005. Ecological support for rural land-use planning. Ecological
Applications 15(6): 1906-1914.
Brown, D.G., K.M. Johnson, T.R. Loveland, and D.M. Theobald. 2005. Rural land-use trends in the conterminous
Theobald,
D. 2005. Landscape patterns of exurban growth in the
Theobald,
D. M. 2005. A note on creating robust resistance surfaces for computing
functional landscape connectivity. Ecology
and Society 10 (2): r1. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/resp1/
Manier, D.J., N.T. Hobbs, D.M. Theobald, R.M. Reich, M. Kalkhan, and M.R. Campbell. 2005. Canopy dynamics and
human-caused disturbance on a semi-arid landscape in the Rocky Mountains,
Farnsworth,
M.L., L.L. Wolfe, N.T. Hobbs, K.P. Burnham, E.S. Williams, D.M. Theobald, and
M.W. Miller. 2005. Human land
use influences chronic wasting disease prevalence in mule deer. Ecological
Applications 15(1):119-126.
Ferraz,
2004 Cova, T.J., P. Sutton, and D.M. Theobald. 2004. Exurban
change detection in fire-prone areas with nighttime satellite imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
70(11): 1249-1257.
Theobald, D.M. 2004.
Placing exurban land use change in a human modification framework. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment
2(3): 139-144.
2003 Theobald, D.M. 2003. Targeting conservation action through assessment
of protection and exurban threats. Conservation
Biology 17(6):1624-1637.
Weiler,
S. and D.M. Theobald. 2003. Pioneers of rural sprawl in the Rocky Mountain
West. The Review of Regional Studies 33(3): 264-283. (PDF, 305k)
Miller,
J.R., J.A. Wiens, N.T. Hobbs, and D.M. Theobald.
2003. Effects of human settlement on bird communities in lowland riparian areas
of Colorado (USA). Ecological Applications 13(4):1041-1059.
Odell,
E.A., D.M. Theobald, and R.L. Knight. 2003. Incorporating ecology into land use
planning: The songbird’s case for cluster development. Journal of American Planning Association 69(1):72-81.
2002 Theobald, D.M. and N.T. Hobbs. 2002. A framework for evaluating land
use planning alternatives: Protecting biodiversity on private land. Conservation
Ecology 6(1): 5. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol6/iss1/art5 (PDF, 2.2MB)
Theobald,
D.M. 2001. Topology revisited: Representing spatial relations. International Journal of Geographical
Information Science 15(8):689-705.
2000 Theobald, D.M. 2000. Correcting linear and perimeter
measurement errors in raster-based data. Cartography
and Geographic Information Science 27(2):111-116.
Baron, J.S., D.M. Theobald, and D.B. Fagre. 2000. Management of land use conflicts in the United States Rocky
Mountains. Mountain Research and
Development 20(1): 24-27. (PDF, 409K)
Theobald,
D.M., N.T. Hobbs, T. Bearly, J. Zack, T. Shenk, and W.E. Riebsame. 2000.
Incorporating biological information into local land-use decision making:
Designing a system for conservation planning. Landscape Ecology 15(1): 35-45.
1998 Theobald, D.M. and N.T. Hobbs. 1998.
Forecasting rural land use change: A comparison of regression- and spatial
transition-based models. Geographical
& Environmental Modelling 2(1): 65-82. (PDF, 1,157K)
1997 Theobald, D.M., J.M. Miller and N.T. Hobbs. 1997. Estimating the cumulative effects of
development on wildlife habitat. Landscape
and Urban Planning 39(1): 25-36. (PDF,
1.7MB)
1996 Riebsame, W.E., H. Gosnell and D.M. Theobald.
Theobald,
D.M., H. Gosnell, and W.E. Riebsame.
1995 Theobald, D.M., S.H. Huntsman, and J.R. Supra, Jr. 1995.
World System Simulation: A generational perspective on global systems. Simulation & Gaming 26: 249-260.
1994 Theobald, D.M. and M.D. Gross. 1994. EML: A modeling
environment for exploring landscape dynamics. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 18: 193-204. (PDF, 747K)
2005 Theobald, D.M. 2005. GIS Concepts and ArcGIS Methods (2nd Edition).
Conservation Planning Technologies: Fort Collins, CO. www.consplan.com
2003 Theobald, D.M. 2003. GIS Concepts and ArcGIS Methods. Conservation Planning
Technologies: Fort Collins, CO. www.consplan.com
1999 Theobald, D.M. 1999. GIS Concepts and ArcView Methods. Conservation Planning
Technologies: Fort Collins, CO. www.consplan.com
1997 Riebsame, W.E., H. Gosnell, and D.M. Theobald (eds). 1997. Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing Region.
2006 Theobald,
D.M. 2006. Exploring the functional connectivity of
landscapes using landscape networks. In: Crooks, K.R. and M.A. Sanjayan (eds.). Connectivity conservation: Maintaining
connections for nature.
2004 Baron,
J.S., S. del Grosso, D.S. Ojima, D.M. Theobald, W.J.
Parton. 2004. Nitrogen emissions along the Colorado Front Range: Response to
population growth, land and water use change, and agriculture. In Ecosystem Interactions with Land Use Change,
R. DeFries, G. Asner, and
S. Houghton (eds.). AGU Monograph Series 153. Pgs. 117-127.
2003 Theobald, D.M. 2003. Connected
landscapes. Pages 65-68, M. Licker, editor. Yearbook of Science &
Technology.
2001
Theobald, D.M.
and N.T. Hobbs. 2002. Collaborative development of a conservation planning
system: A case study of Summit County, Colorado. In: Rocky Mountain Futures, J. Baron (ed.). Island Press, Washington,
DC. Pgs. 255-268.
Travis, W.E.,
D.M. Theobald, and D. Fagre. 2002. Transforming the
Rockies: Human forces, settlement patterns, and ecosystem effects. In: Rocky Mountain Futures, J. Baron (ed.),
Sullins,
M.J., D.M. Theobald, J.R. Jones, and L.M. Burgess. 2002. The lay of the land:
ranch land and ranching. In: Culture,
Economics, and Ecology of Ranching West of the 100th Meridian,
R. Knight, W. Gilgert, and E. Marston, editors.
Island Press. Pgs. 25-32.
2001 Hobbs, N.T. and D.M. Theobald. 2001. Effects of
land-use change on wildlife habitat: Applying ecological principles and
guidelines in the Western United States. In
Applying Ecological Principles to Land
Management, V.H. Dale and R. Haeuber, editors.
Springer-Verlag.
*Theobald, D.M. and N. T. Hobbs. 2001. Functional definition of
landscape structure using a gradient-based approach. In Predicting Plant and
Animal Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy, edited by J.M. Scott,
P.J. Heglund, M. Morrison, M. Raphael, J. Haufler,
and B. Wall. Island Press, Covello, CA. Pgs. 667-672.
*Miller,
J.R., J.M. Fraterrigo, N.T. Hobbs, D.M. Theobald, and
J.A. Wiens. 2001. Urbanization, avian communities,
and landscape ecology. In Avian
Ecology in an Urbanizing World. J.M.
Marzluff, R. Bowman, and R. Donnelly (eds).
2000 *Theobald, D.M. 2000. Fragmentation by inholdings and exurban development. In Forest fragmentation in the southern Rocky Mountains, R.L. Knight,
F.W. Smith, S.W. Buskirk, W.H. Romme, and W.L. Baker,
editors. University Press of
1989 Theobald, D.M. 1989. Accuracy and bias issues in surface
representation. In The Accuracy of
Spatial Databases, M.F. Goodchild and S. Gopal eds., pp. 99-106. Bristol, PA: Taylor & Francis.
2006 Stein, S.M., R. Alig, S. Comas, M. Carr, M. Eley, E. White, K. Elverum, M. O’Donnel, D.M. Theobald, K. Cordell, J. Haber, and T.
Beauvais. 2006. National Forests on the
Edge: Development pressures on
Theobald, D.M. 2006.
Challenges in bridging conservation biology and land use planning. Essay for
Environmental Law Institute.
Theobald, D.M. and J.B. Norman. 2006. Spatially-balanced sampling using the Reversed randomized
Quadrant-Recursive Raster algorithm: A User’s Manual for the RRQRR ArcGIS v9 tool. August 2006. www.nrel.colostate.edu/projects/starmap
Theobald, D.M., J.B. Norman, E. Peterson, A.Wade,
and S. Ferraz. 2006. Functional
Linkage of Watersheds and Streams (FLoWs) User’s Manual:
Network-based ArcGIS tools to analyze freshwater
ecosystems. May 2006. www.nrel.colostate.edu/projects/starmap
Theobald, D.M., J.B. Norman, and M.R. Sherburne. 2006. FunConn v1 User’s
Manual: ArcGIS tools for Functional Connectivity
Modeling. Natural Resource Ecology Lab,
Crooks, K.R., D.M. Theobald, S. Baruch-Mordo, M. Sherburne, J. Norman,
and K. Wilson. 2006. Highway corridor wildlife mitigation/habitat
connectivity study, Phase I Report: Biological prioritization of highway
segments in
2005 Stein, S.M., R.E. McRoberts, R.
Alig, M.D. Nelson, D.M. Theobald, M. Eley, M. Dechter, and M. Carr. 2005. Forests on the Edge: Housing
development on
2004 Theobald, D.M., N. Peterson, J. Terlaak,
and G. Wilcox. 2004. Mapping and assessment of protected areas and broad-scale
threats in the shortgrass prairie of Colorado. Report
to
Newman,
P. and D.M. Theobald. 2004. Building
capacity in the Consortium for Protected Areas Management: Training Latin
American park managers and the trainers that train them. Report to CIPAM,
USFS. 20 January.
2003 Hobbs, N.T., J.S. Baron, S. Cooney, D.J. Cooper, J.E.
Dickens, H. Galbraith, A.P. Covich, J.B. Loomis, E.
Martinson, D. Ojima, R.D. Scherer, D.M. Theobald, G. Wang, S.A. Weiler. 2003. Future impacts of global climate on Rocky
Mountain National Park: Its ecosystems, visitors, and the economy of its
gateway community – Estes Park. EPA STAR Final Report. http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/projects/star/papers/2003_final_report.pdf
Theobald, D.M. Defining
and mapping rural sprawl: Examples from the Northwest US. Growth Management
Leadership Alliance white paper. 16 September 2003. (PDF 1.6MB)
Theobald, D.M. 2003. Regional growth and development maps
for Colorado. Colorado Natural Diversity Information Source. http://ndis.nrel.colostate.edu/conservationcnty.asp?reg=nfr
Kotliar, N.B., S. Simonson, G. Chong, and D. Theobald. 2003. Effects on species of concern. RMRS-GTR-114-5, part
8: Hayman Fire Pgs. 250-262. (PDF, 4.1MB)
Theobald,
D.M., N. Peterson, and W. Romme. 2003. The Colorado Vegetation Model: Using
National Land Cover Data and Ancillary Spatial Data to Produce a High
Resolution, Fine-Classification Map of Colorado (v1.0). 29 April.
Unpublished report, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University.
Report and database available at: www.nrel.colostate.edu/~davet/cvm.html.
2002 Theobald, D.M. 2002.
Modeling functional landscape
connectivity. Proceedings of the ESRI User Conference 2002. San Diego, CA.
July 11. http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc02/pap1109/P1109.HTM
Theobald, D.M.
2002. Landscape Connectivity Model extension, v0.5. Unpublished report, Natural Resource Ecology
Lab, Colorado State University. 31 March.
Theobald, D.M. 2002.
Identifying resource areas sensitive to recreation use. Colorado
Outdoor Recreation Resource Project, Golden, CO. 8 March. (PDF, 551K)
Theobald,
D.M. and M. Kneeland. 2002. Mapping housing density for prioritization of
urban/forest wildfire hazards in Colorado. Unpublished report, Natural Resource
Ecology Lab, Colorado State University. 28 February. Pgs. 9. (PDF, 952K) (Data,
Zipped ArcInfo GRID format, 30MB)
Theobald,
D.M. and W. Romme. 2002. Mapping forest vegetation for prioritization
of urban/forest wildfire hazards in
2001 Theobald, D.M., D. Schrupp, and
L. O’Brien. 2001. A method to assess risk of habitat loss to development: A
Colorado case study. USGS-BRD Gap
Analysis Program Bulletin 10. URL: <http://www.gap.uidaho.edu/Bulletins/10/bulletin10.htm>
Theobald,
D.M. 2001. Modeling impacts of growth on Colorado riparian areas. Proceedings
of the Colorado Riparian Association annual meeting. Glenwood Springs, CO. 4 October.
Theobald,
D.M. 2001. Documentation of methods to produce factor maps for the Lower
Gunnison Basin Conservation Lands Inventory. Report for the Delta Soil Conservation
District, Colorado. 24 August. 4 pgs.
Mapping the Forest-Development
Fringe in Colorado.
Unpublished report. Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University. 18
July.
Theobald,
D.M., D. Schrupp, and L. O’Brien. 2001. Assessing
risk of habitat loss due to private land development in Colorado. Final report for Cooperative Agreement No.
00HQAG0010, USGS-BRD Gap Analysis Program. 29 June. 62 pages.
Neely,
B., G. Bell, P. Comer, H. Copeland, J. Humke, M. Lammert, C. Moritz, C. Pague, R. Rondeau, T. Schulz, S. Spackman,
D. Theobald, and L. Valutis. 2001. Southern Rocky Mountains: An Ecoregional Assessment and Conservation Blueprint. The
Nature Conservancy. September.
Theobald,
D.M. 2001. Dealing with sensitive data: A report and a request. Society
for Conservation GIS e-newsletter 1(2). June 2001. URL: http://www.scgis.org/newsletters/v1_v2/scgis_news_1_2_revised.html
Theobald,
D.M. 2001. Technical description of mapping historical, current, and future
housing densities in the US using Census block-groups. Natural Resource
Ecology Lab, Colorado State University. 31 May. (PDF,
141KB)
Theobald,
D.M. 2001. Quantitative measures of the urban-rural gradient. Annual
meeting of the International Association of Landscape Ecology. Phoenix, AZ.
April 27.
Theobald,
D.M. 2001. Understanding topology and shapefiles. ArcUser (Spring): 24-26. http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0401/topo.html
Theobald,
D.M. ISITES v1.0: Interactive file creation for SITES (ArcView
extension). Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University. 14
March.
2000 Theobald, D.M. Letter to Commissioner Don Ament, Colorado Department of Agriculture. 25 October.
Weiler, S. and D.M. Theobald. Pioneers of rural sprawl
(presentation). Regional Science
Association.
Theobald,
D.M. and N.T. Hobbs. 2000. A comparison of databases for modeling rural land
use change (extended abstract). Proceedings of the 4th
International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling:
Problems, Prospects and Research Needs. Banff, Alberta, Canada. September 2-8.
(http://www.colorado.edu/research/cires/banff/upload/45/).
Hobbs,
N.T., D. Ojima, J. Loomis, S. Weiler, D.M. Theobald,
A.P. Covich, H. Galbraith, J.S. Baron, T.J. Stohlgren, and M.B. Coughenour. 2000. An integrated
assessment of the effects of climate change on Rocky Mountain National Park and
its gateway community: Summary report of the preliminary assessment and initial
stakeholder meeting. Unpublished report, Natural Resource Ecology Lab,
Colorado State University.
Theobald,
D.M. 2000. Description of a build-out analysis and potential effects on
wildlife habitat in the Lower Blue Planning Basin, Summit County, Colorado. 9 June. 14 pgs. (http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/~davet/build-out.htm).
Theobald,
D.M. 2000. Developing conservation priorities for Lower Gunnison riparian
areas using multi-criteria evaluation.
Report for the Delta Soil Conservation District, Colorado. 10 May. 10
pgs.
Theobald,
D.M. 2000. Proposed Fragmentation Indicator for Principle ER-4 (Wildlife
Habitat Protection) for the Larimer County Master Plan, Monitoring and
Evaluation Report. 7 June. 2 pgs. (http://nrel.colostate.edu/~davet/frag-indicator.htm).
Theobald,
D.M. 2000. Colorado State Forest Service Forest Ag Assessment Pilot Project. Final report to Colorado State Forest
Service. 21 April.
1999 Theobald, D.M., G. Wockner, and
N.T. Hobbs. 1999. The Colorado Land Stewardship Mapping Project: Methodology
and recommendations from a prototype of Larimer County. Final report to Great Outdoors Colorado Trust
Fund. 35 pgs. (http://nrel.colostate.edu/~davet/clsm/cover.htm)
Theobald, D.M. 1999. AVPrimed! Extension for ArcView.
ESRI ArcScripts. November 13. (http://gis.esri.com/arcscripts/details.cfm?CFGRIDKEY=-1214067607).
Riebsame, W., T. Dickinson, D.M.
Theobald. 1999. Land use and economic change in the
Theobald, D.M. 1999. Trends and
patterns of agricultural land loss in Mesa County, Colorado. Final report for the
American Farmland Trust, Rocky Mountain Field Office. September 4.
Theobald,
D.M., C.S. Johnson, J.A. Zack, T. Bearly, and N.T.
Hobbs. 1999. Tangled in the web:
Procedures for managing web-based projects. Proceedings of the ESRI Users
Conference, San Diego, CA. July 28. (http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc99/proceed/papers/pap681/P681.HTM)
Theobald,
D.M. and N.T. Hobbs. 1999. Calculating
landscape fragmentation using a gradient-based approach. Proceedings of the
ESRI Users Conference, San Diego, CA. July 28. (http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc99/proceed/papers/pap141/p141.htm).
Theobald.
D.M. 1999. Mooovement calculator v1.0.
Unpublished Avenue program. Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Colorado State University.
April.
1998 Theobald, D.M. 1998. A visual programming environment
for spatial modeling: The ArcView Spatial Modeler
extension. Proceedings of the ESRI User Conference '98,
Bearly, T., D.M. Theobald, N.T. Hobbs, and J.A. Zack. 1998.
Disseminating natural diversity information using ArcView
IMS: Design issues and technical considerations. Proceedings of the ESRI
User Conference '98. (http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc98/PROCEED/TO200/PAP184/P184.HTM)
Theobald, D.M., N.T. Hobbs, D. Schrupp,
and L. O'Brien. 1998. An Assessment of
Imperiled Habitat in
1997
Bearly, T., N.T. Hobbs, D.M. Theobald, T. Shenk, J. Zack. 1997. User's Manual (v1.0b): SCoP: System for Conservation Planning - Summit
County. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University.
1994 Supra, J.R., Jr., S.H. Huntsman, D.M. Theobald, and J.O.
Bennett. 1994. A Modeling Approach To
Quantitative Literacy. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International
Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics. Orlando, FL, November
18-21, 1994.
Supra,
J.H., Jr., S.H. Huntsman, and D.M. Theobald. 1994. A Modeling Approach to Quantitative Literacy. 245 p.
1993 Bennett, J.O., J.R. Supra, Jr., C.A. Morrow, S.H.
Huntsman, and D.M. Theobald. 1993. Quantitative
Literacy: An Alternative Course in College Mathematics. Proceedings of the
Sixth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics,
Parsippany, NJ.
1992 Theobald, D.M. 1992. Designing GIS User Interfaces to
Support Environmental Learning. Research Initiative 13: Report on the
Specialist Meeting - User Interfaces for Geographic Information Systems,
Mark, D.M. and Frank, A.U., eds., NCGIA Technical Report 92-3. pp. 161-163.
1991 Edwards, J.B. and D.M. Theobald. 1991. CD-ROM
Acceptance Increasing for Global Change Models. GIS World 4(9): 85-86.
Fulp, T., D.M. Theobald, B. Williams, and B. Vickers. 1991.
Decision Support of Colorado River Operations. Proceedings of WaterPower ‘91. Denver,
CO. July 1991.
1990 Theobald, D.M. and M.F. Goodchild.
1990. Artifacts of TIN-based Surface Flow Modeling. Proceedings of GIS/LIS ‘90, Anaheim,
CA.
1989 Davis, F., D.M. Theobald, R. Harrington, and A. Parikh.
1989. Part 2: Technical Report on
Hydrology and Water Quality of West and Storke Campus
Wetlands: A Report to the California Coastal Conservancy and UCSB Campus
Wetlands Committee.