Positions
Science Director, The Urban Wildlands Group
Associate Research Professor,
University of Southern
California, GIS Research Laboratory
Associate Adjunct Professor, UCLA Institute of the
Environment
Publications
Book
Rich, C. and T. Longcore.
(eds.). 2006. Ecological consequences of
artificial night lighting. Island Press,
Washington, D.C.
Reviewed
Articles
Stein, E. D., S. Dark, T. Longcore, R. Grossinger, N. Hall, and M. Beland. 2010. Historical ecology as a tool for assessing landscape change and informing wetland restoration priorities. Wetlands 30(3):589-601.
Longcore, T., C. S. Lam, P. Kobernus, E. Polk, and J. P. Wilson. 2010. Extracting useful data from imperfect monitoring schemes: endangered butterflies at San Bruno Mountain, San Mateo County, California (1982–2000) and implications for habitat management. Journal of Insect Conservation 14(4):335-346.
Longcore, T., C. Rich, and L. M. Sullivan. 2009. Critical assessment of claims regarding management of feral cats by trap–neuter–return. Conservation Biology 23(4):887-894.
Aubrecht, C., C. Elvidge, T.
Longcore, C. Rich, J. Safran, A. Strong, M. Eakin,
K. E. Baugh, B. Tuttle, P. J. Hayes, A. T. Howard,
and E. H. Erwin. 2008.
A global inventory of development, gas flaring, and
fishing proximity to coral reefs. Geocarto
International 23(6):467-479. (Press release in
English,
Spanish,
Korean; coverage in Conservation Magazine online, and Oceanography).
Longcore, T., C. Rich, and S.
A. Gauthreaux, Jr. 2008. Height, guy wires,
and steady-burning lights increase hazard of
communication towers to nocturnal migrants: a
review and meta-analysis. Auk
125(2):486–493.
Longcore, T., C. Rich, and D.
Müller-Schwarze. 2007. Management by
assertion: beavers and songbirds at Lake Skinner
(Riverside County, California).
Environmental Management
39:460–471.
Elvidge, C.D., P. Cinzano, J.
Arvesen, P. Sutton, C. Small, R. Nemani, T.
Longcore, C. Rich, J. Weeks, and S. Ebener. 2007.
The
Nightsat mission concept. International
Journal of Remote Sensing
28(12):2645–2670.
Jump, P., T. Longcore, and C.
Rich. 2006. Ecology and
distribution of a newly discovered population of
the federally threatened Euproserpinus
euterpe (Sphingidae). Journal of the
Lepidopterists’ Society 60(1):41–50.
Longcore, T., R. Mattoni, and
A. Mattoni. 2005. Salvage of pupae as
a mitigation measure for impacts to endangered
butterfly habitat. Journal of the
Lepidopterists’ Society 59(2):116–117.
Longcore, T., C. Li, and J.
P. Wilson. 2004.
Applicability of CITYgreen urban ecosystem analysis
software to a dense urban neighborhood.
Urban Geography 25(2):173–186.
Longcore, T., and C. Rich.
2004. Ecological light
pollution. Frontiers in
Ecology and the Environment
2(4):191–198.
Longcore, T. 2003. Terrestrial
arthropods as indicators of restoration success in
coastal sage scrub (California, U.S.A.).
Restoration Ecology 11(4):397–409.
Longcore, T., R. Mattoni, C.
Zonneveld, and J. Bruggeman. 2003. INsect Count
Analyzer: a tool to assess responses of butterflies
to habitat restoration. Ecological
Restoration 21(1):60–61. See http://www.urbanwildlands.org/INCA/.
Mattoni, R., T. Longcore, Z.
Krenova, and A. Lipman. 2003. Mass rearing of
the endangered Palos Verdes blue butterfly
(Glaucopsyche lygdamus palosverdesensis:
Lycaedindae). Journal of Research on the
Lepidoptera 37:55–67.
Zonneveld, C., T. Longcore,
and C. Mulder. 2003. Optimal schemes
to detect the presence of insect species.
Conservation Biology 17(2):476–487.
Mattoni, R., T. Longcore, C.
Zonneveld, and V. Novotny. 2001. Analysis of
transect counts to monitor population size in
endangered insects: the case of the El Segundo blue
butterfly, Euphilotes bernardino
allyni. Journal of Insect
Conservation 5(3):197–206.
Mattoni, R., T. Longcore, and
V. Novotny. 2000. Arthropod
monitoring for fine-scale habitat analysis: a case
study of the El Segundo sand dunes.
Environmental Management
25(4):445-452.
Mattoni, R. and T. R.
Longcore. 1997. The Los
Angeles Coastal Prairie, a vanished community.
Crossosoma 23(2):71–102.
Mattoni, R., G. F. Pratt, T.
R. Longcore, J. F. Emmel and J. N. George. 1997.
The
endangered quino checkerspot butterfly,
Euphydryas editha quino (Lepidoptera:
Nymphalidae). Journal of Research on the
Lepidoptera 34:99–118.
Longcore, T. R., and P. W.
Rees. 1996. Information technology and downtown
restructuring: the case of New York City's
financial district. Urban
Geography 17(3):354–372.
Book Chapters
Longcore, T. 2006. Ecological
effects of fuel management practices around
residential development [sidebar]. Pages 527–528 in
N. G. Sugihara, J. W. van Wagtendonk, K. E.
Shaffer, J. Fites-Kaufman, and A. E. Thode (eds.),
Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of
California Press, Berkeley.
Nightingale, B., T. Longcore,
and C. A. Simenstad. 2006. Artificial night
lighting and fishes. Pages 257–276 in C. Rich and
T. Longcore (eds.). Ecological consequences of
artificial night lighting. Island Press,
Washington, D.C.
Rich, C., and T. Longcore.
2006. Introduction. Pages 1–13 in C. Rich and T.
Longcore (eds.). Ecological consequences of
artificial night lighting. Island Press,
Washington, D.C.
Longcore, T., and C. Rich.
2006. Synthesis. Pages 413–430 in C. Rich and T.
Longcore (eds.). Ecological consequences of
artificial night lighting. Island Press,
Washington, D.C.
Conference
Proceedings
Longcore, T., and C. Rich.
2007. Lights
out! For nature. Pp. 165–171 in C.
Marín and J. Jafari (eds.), StarLight: a common
heritage. StarLight Initiative La Palma
Biosphere Reserve, Instituto De Astrofísica De
Canarias, Government of The Canary Islands, Spanish
Ministry of The Environment, UNESCO - MaB., Canary
Islands, Spain.
Longcore, T.. 2003. Ecological
effects of fuel modification on arthropods and
other wildlife in an urbanizing wildland. Pp.
111–117 in Galley, K.E.M., R.C. Klinger, and N.G.
Suguihara (eds.). Proceedings of Fire
Conference 2000: The First National Congress on
Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management.
Miscellaneous Publication No. 13, Tall Timbers
Research Station, Tallahassee, Florida.
Longcore, T., R. Mattoni, G.
Pratt, and C. Rich. 2000. On the perils of ecological
restoration: lessons from the El Segundo blue
butterfly. Pp. 281-286 in Keeley, J., M.
Baer-Keeley, and C. J. Fotheringham, eds. 2nd
Interface Between Ecology and Land Development in
California, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File
Report 00-62, Sacramento, CA.
Posters
Longcore, T., and C. Rich.
1998. 419 acres:
UCLA's natural history. 1. Land use, 2. Biological
homogenization, 3. Island biogeography. Poster
series and display presented at California's
Biodiversity Crisis: The Loss of Nature in an
Urbanizing World (UCLA, October 1998).
Mattoni, R., T. Longcore, J.
George and C. Rich. 1997. The Los Angeles Coastal Prairie and
its vernal pools. Presented at 2nd
Interface Between Ecology and Land Development in
California (Occidental College, Los Angeles,
California, April 18-19). (pdf)
Unreviewed
Longcore, T., and C. Rich.
2008. Invertebrate
conservation at the gates of hell. Wings:
Essays on Invertebrate Conservation.
Longcore, T. 2006. Prioritizing
multiple-benefit watershed projects: dollars or
sense? Watershed Wise
10(2):6–7.
Longcore, T., C. S. Lam, and
J. P. Wilson. 2004. Analysis of butterfly
survey data and methodology from San Bruno Mountain
Habitat Conservation Plan (1982–2000) 1. Status and
trends. Los Angeles, CA, University of Southern
California GIS Research Laboratory Technical Report
No. 1.
Longcore, T. 2004. Analysis of butterfly
survey data and methodology from San Bruno Mountain
Habitat Conservation Plan (1982–2000) 2. Survey
Methodology. Los Angeles, CA, University of
Southern California GIS Research Laboratory
Technical Report No. 2.
Lipman, A., T. Longcore, R.
Mattoni, and Y. Zhang. 1999. Habitat evaluation and
reintroduction planning for the endangered Palos
Verdes blue butterfly. UCLA Department of
Geography. Final Technical Report ot California
Department of Fish and Game. 44 pp.
Longcore, T. 1997. The endangered Delhi Sand Dunes.
Western Tanager 63(8):1-2.
Education
Ph.D., Geography, University of California,
Los Angeles, December 1999. Dissertation
Co-Chairs Melissa
Savage, Richard
Ambrose.
Dissertation:
Terrestrial Arthropods as Indicators of
Restoration Success in Coastal Sage Scrub.
Part I,
Part
II, Part
III.
M.A., Geography, University of California,
Los Angeles, September 1995. Thesis Chair
Michael Curry.
Thesis: Risk, Place,
and Technology: Siting a Radioactive Waste Dump
in California's Ward Valley.
H.B.A., Geography,
University of
Delaware, June 1993. Thesis Chair Peter
Rees.
Thesis: Information
Technology and World City Restructuring: The Case
of New York City's Financial
District (pdf).
