Positions
Science Director, The
Urban Wildlands Group
Research Assistant Professor, Center
for Sustainable Cities, University of Southern California Department
of Geography
Lecturer, UCLA
Department of Geography, UCLA
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 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.
Book Chapters
Longcore, T. 2006. Ecological effects of fuel
management practices around residential development [side-bar]. 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 C. 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.
Reviewed Articles
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. 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. 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.
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.
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 Reviews
Longcore, T. 2001. Review of From Coastal Wilderness
to Fruited Plain: A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North
America from 1500 to Present, by Gordon G. Whitney. Ethics,
Place and Environment 4(3):278–279.
Longcore, T. 2000. Review of Butterflies on British
and Irish Offshore Islands: Ecology and Biogeography, by Roger
Dennis and Tim Shreeve. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera
35:139–140.
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. 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. Ph.D.
Dissertation. Department of Geography, University of California,
Los Angeles. 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.