Miami University

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Dr. Kimberly E. Medley

I am interested in why forests vary geographically in their structure, composition, and dynamics, and how an understanding of this variation may be best applied to resource conservation in temperate and tropical localities. Of particular interest are environmental versus human influences on local patterns of diversity, the role of forest resources in human-dominated landscapes, and gender relations with resource ecology. I am participating in studies that focus on vegetation dynamics, exotic plant invasion, carbon conservation, and landscape change in Southwestern Ohio, and the ethnoecology and community conservation of forest resources in East Africa. My teaching contributes to the physical- environmental core area of geography and comparative studies of human-environment relationships.

 

Education:
Ph.D., Michigan State, 1990

Teaching Responsibilities
- Earth's Physical Environment - Regional Physical Environments - Humans & Natural Resources - Global Plant Diversity - Ecoregions of North America - Women, Gender & the Environment - Senior Seminar - Biodiversity of Kenya (Study Abroad)

Selected Publications

  • Medley, K.E. and H.W. Kalibo, et al, 2008. "Ethnobotanical survey of 'wild' woody plant resources at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya." Journal of East African Natural History 92(2): 149-186.
  • Medley, K.E. and B. Krisko, 2007. "Physical Site Conditions and Land Use History as Factors Influencing the Conservation of Regrowth Forests in Southwest Ohio Nature Reserve." Natural Areas Journal 27(1): 31-40.
  • Medley, K.E. and H.W. Kalibo, 2007. "Global Localism: Recentering the Research Agenda for Biodiversity Conservation." Natural Resources Forum 31(2) 151-161.
  • Kalibo, H.W. and K.E. Medley, 2007. "Participatory Resource Mapping for Adaptive Collaborative Management at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya." Landscape and Urban Planning 145-158.
  • Medley, K.E. and Kalibo, H.W., 2005. "An Ecological Framework for Participatory Ethnobotanical Research at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya." Field Methods 17(3): 302-314.
  • Wang, D.H. and K.E. Medley, 2004. "Land Use Model for Carbon Conservation Across a Midwestern USA Landscape." Landscape and Urban Planning 69: 451-465.
  • Medley, K.E. 2004. "Measuring Performance Under a Landscape Approach to Biodiversity Conservation: the Case of USAID/Madagascar." Progress in Development Studies 4(4): 319-341.
  • Medley, K.E., C.M. Pobocik, and B.W. Okey, 2003. "Historical Changes in Forest Cover and Land Ownership in a Midwestern U.S. Landscape." Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
  • Lucas, M.F. and K.E. Medley, 2002. "Landscape Structure and Nutrient Budgets in an Agricultural Watershed, Southwest Ohio." Ohio Journal of Science 102(2):15-23.
  • Medley, K.E. and L.M. Gramlich-Kaufman, 2001. "A Landscape Guide in Environmental Education." Journal of Geography 100:69-77.
  • Medley, K.E. 1999. "Women's Work: A Positive for the Environment in Madagascar." Women in Natural Resources 20(2):32-37.
  • Medley, K.E. 1998. "Landscape Change and Resource Conservation Along the Tana River, Kenya." Chapter 1 in K. Zimmerer and K. Young (editors) Nature's Geography: Biogeographical Landscapes and Environmental Conservation in Developing Countries.University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.