-          Mapping and forecasting species distributions, connectivity and land use change

-          Development of related GEE training courses in the USA, Kenya and Myanmar

-          Mapping key habitat for birds and mammals

-          Design and implementation of biodiversity surveys

-          Remote sensing to understand patterns of land use change

-          Ongoing 12-year mark-recapture study of salamander population dynamics

-          Modeling climate and land-use effects

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• Crego, Ramiro D., Fennessy, J., Brown, Michael B., Connette, Grant M., Stacy-Dawes, J., Masiaine, S., and Stabach, Jared A. 2023. "Combining species distribution models and moderate resolution satellite information to guide conservation programs for reticulated giraffe." Animal Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12894. 2023
• Crego, Ramiro D., Wells, Harry B. M., Connette, Grant, Stabach, Jared A., Soit, Naitareu, and Thompson, Stewart. 2023. "Monitoring spatiotemporal dynamics of large herbivores across an African rangeland using hierarchical multi-species distance sampling." African Journal of Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13219. 2023
• Crego, Ramiro D., Wells, Harry B. M., Connette, Grant, Stabach, Jared A., Soit, Naitareu, and Thompson, Stewart. 2023. "Monitoring spatiotemporal dynamics of large herbivores across an African rangeland using hierarchical multi‐species distance sampling." African Journal of Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.13219. 2023
• Biswas, Sumalika, Huang, Qiongyu, Swe, Khine Khine, Arnold, Franz-Eugen, Mon, Myat Su, Connette, Katherine J. LaJeunesse, Connette, Grant, and Leimgruber, Peter. 2022. "Conservation Status of Forest Types Vary Greatly in Myanmar - the Most Forested Country in the Indo-burma Biodiversity Hotspot." ResearchSquare Preprint, https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1171476/v1. 2022
• Luhring, Thomas M., Wszola, Lyndsie S., Connette, Grant M., and Schalk, Christopher M. 2022. "Droughts Reduce Growth Rates and Increase Vulnerability to Increasingly Frequent and Severe Drying Events in an Aquatic Ectotherm." Journal of Herpetology, 56, (4) 521–527. https://doi.org/10.1670/21-084. 2022
• Crego, Ramiro D., Stabach, Jared A., and Connette, Grant. 2022. "Implementation of species distribution models in Google Earth Engine." Diversity and Distributions, 28, (5) 904–916. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13491. 2022
• McEvoy, J. F., Connette, G. M., Huang, Qiongyu, Soe, Paing, Pyone, Khin Htet Htet, Htun, Yan Lin, Lin, Aung Naing, Thant, Aung Lwin, Htun, Wai Yan, Paing, Kaung Htet, Swe, Khine Khine, Aung, Myint, Songer, M., and Leimgruber, P. 2022. "Joining the dots in an era of uncertainty – Reviewing Myanmar's Illegal wildlife trade and looking to the future." Global Ecology and Conservation, 37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02179. 2022
• Canty, Steven W. J., Nowakowski, A. J., Connette, Grant M., Deichmann, Jessica L., Songer, Melissa, Chiaravalloti, Rafael, Dodge, Molly, Feistner, Anna T. C., Fergus, Craig, Hall, Jefferson S., Komatsu, Kimberly J., Linares‐Palomino, Reynaldo, McField, Melanie, Ogburn, Matthew B., Velez‐Zuazo, Ximena, and Akre, Thomas S. 2022. "Mapping a conservation research network to the Sustainable Development Goals." Conservation Science and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12731. 2022
• De Alban, Jose Don T., Leong, Bryan Po Ian, Venegas-Li, Ruben, Connette, Grant M., Jamaludin, Johanness, Latt, Kyaw Thinn, Oswald, Patrick, Reeder, Carl, and Webb, Edward L. 2021. "Conservation beyond the existing protected area network is required to improve species and habitat representation in a global biodiversity hotspot." Biological Conservation, 257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109105. 2021
• Crego, Ramiro D., Masolele, Majaliwa M., Connette, Grant, and Stabach, Jared A. 2021. "Enhancing Animal Movement Analyses: Spatiotemporal Matching of Animal Positions with Remotely Sensed Data Using Google Earth Engine and R." Remote Sensing, 13, (20). https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13204154. 2021
• McKenzie, Jennifer M., Price, Steven J., Connette, Grant M., Bonner, Simon J., and Lorch, Jeffrey M. 2020. "Effects of snake fungal disease on short‐term survival, behavior, and movement in free‐ranging snakes." Ecological Applications, https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2251. 2020
• Suarez-Rubio, Marcela, Connette, Grant, Aung, Thein, Kyaw, Myint, and Renner, Swen C. 2020. "Hkakabo Razi landscape as one of the last exemplar of large contiguous forests." Scientific Reports, 10, (1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70917-y. 2020
• Gade, Meaghan R., Connette, Grant M., Crawford, John A., Hocking, Daniel J., Maerz, John C., Milanovich, Joseph R., and Peterman, William E. 2020. "Predicted alteration of surface activity as a consequence of climate change." Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3154. 2020
• Stabach, Jared A., Cunningham, Stephanie A., Connette, Grant, Mota, Joel L., Reed, Dolores, Byron, Michael, Songer, Melissa, Wacher, Tim, Mertes, Katherine, Brown, Janine L., Comizzoli, Pierre, Newby, John, Monfort, Steven L., and Leimgruber, Peter. 2020. "Short-term effects of GPS collars on the activity, behavior, and adrenal response of scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah)." PloS One, 15, (2) Article e0221843. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221843. 2020
• McKenzie, Jennifer M., Price, Steven J., Fleckenstein, J. Leo, Drayer, Andrea N., Connette, Grant M., Bohuski, Elizabeth, and Lorch, Jeffrey M. 2019. "Field Diagnostics and Seasonality of Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola in Wild Snake Populations." EcoHealth, 16, (1) 141–150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-018-1384-8. 2019
• McEvoy, John F., Connette, Grant M., Huang, Qiongyu, Soe, Paing, Pyone, Khin Htet Htet, Valitutto, Marc T., Htun, Yan Lin, Lin, Aung Naing, Thant, Aung Lwin, Htun, Wai Yan, Paing, Kaung Htet, Swe, Khine Khine, Aung, Myint, Min, Sapai, Songer, Melissa, and Leimgruber, Peter. 2019. "Two sides of the same coin – Wildmeat consumption and illegal wildlife trade at the crossroads of Asia." Biological Conservation, 238 Article 108197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108197. 2019
• De Alban, Jose Don T., Connette, Grant M., Oswald, Patrick, and Webb, Edward L. 2018. "Combined Landsat and L-Band SAR Data Improves Land Cover Classification and Change Detection in Dynamic Tropical Landscapes." Remote Sensing, 10, (2) 306. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020306. 2018
• Reidy, Jennifer L., Thompson, Frank R., Connette, Grant M., and O'Donnell, Lisa. 2018. "Demographic rates of Golden-cheeked Warblers in an urbanizing woodland preserve." The Condor, 120, (2) 249–264. https://doi.org/10.1650/CONDOR-17-86.1. 2018
• Lee, Justin L., Miller, Aryeh H., Connette, Grant M., Oo, Khin Swe, Zug, George R., and Mulcahy, Daniel G. 2018. "First record of the Malaysian Bridle Snake, Dryocalamus subannulatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854), in Myanmar (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae)." Check List, 14, (2) 341–345. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.2.341. 2018
• Morato, Ronaldo G., Connette, Grant M., Stabach, Jared A., De Paula, R. C., Ferraz, K. M. P. M., Kantek, D. L. Z., Miyazaki, S. S., Pereira, T. D. C., Silva, L. C., Paviolo, A., De Angelo, C., Di Bitetti, M. S., Cruz, P., Lima, F., Cullen, L., Sana, D. A., Ramalho, E. E., Carvalho, M. M., da Silva, M. X., Moraes, M. D. F., Vogliotti, A., May, J. A., Haberfeld, M., Rampim, L., Sartorello, L. et al. 2018. "Resource selection in an apex predator and variation in response to local landscape characteristics." Biological Conservation, 228 233–240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.10.022. 2018
• McShea, William J., Aung, Myint, Songer, Melissa A., and Connette, Grant. 2018. "The Challenges of Protecting an Endangered Species in the Developing World: A Case History of Eld’s Deer Conservation in Myanmar." Case Studies in the Environment, 2, (1) 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2017.000760. 2018
• Bhagwat, Tejas, Hess, Andrea, Horning, Ned, Khaing, Thiri, Thein, Zaw Min, Aung, Kyaw Moe, Aung, Kyaw Htet, Phyo, Paing, Tun, Ye Lin, Oo, Aung Htat, Neil, Anthony, Thu, Win Myo, Songer, Melissa A., LaJeunesse Connette, Katherine J., Bernd, Asja, Huang, Qiongyu, Connette, Grant, and Leimgruber, Peter. 2017. "Losing a jewel-Rapid declines in Myanmar's intact forests from 2002-2014." PloS One, 12, (5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176364. 2017
• Prescott, Graham W., Sutherland, William J., Aguirre, Daniel, Baird, Matthew, Bowman, Vicky, Brunner, Jake, Connette, Grant M., Cosier, Martin, Dapice, David, De Alban, Jose Don T., Diment, Alex, Fogerite, Julia, Fox, Jefferson, Hlaing, Win, Htun, Saw, Hurd, Jack, LaJeunesse Connette, Katherine J., Lasmana, Felicia, Lim, Cheng Ling, Lynam, Antony, Maung, Aye Chan, McCarron, Benjamin, McCarthy, John F., McShea, William J., Momberg, Frank et al. 2017. "Political transition and emergent forest-conservation issues in Myanmar." Conservation Biology, 31, (6) 1257–1270. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13021. 2017
• Connette, Grant M., Oswald, Patrick, Thura, Myint Kyaw, LaJeunesse Connette, Katherine J., Grindley, Mark E., Songer, Melissa A., Zug, George R., and Mulcahy, Daniel G. 2017. "Rapid forest clearing in a Myanmar proposed national park threatens two newly discovered species of geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus)." PLOS ONE, 12, (4) 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0174432. 2017
• George, Andrew D., Connette, Grant M., Thompson, Frank R., and Faaborg, John. 2017. "Resource selection by an ectothermic predator in a dynamic thermal landscape." Ecology and Evolution, 7, (22) 9557–9566. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3440. 2017
• LaJeunesse Connette, Katherine J., Connette, Grant, Bernd, Asja, Phyo, Paing, Aung, Kyaw Htet, Tun, Ye Lin, Thein, Zaw Min, Horning, Ned, Leimgruber, Peter, and Songer, Melissa A. 2016. "Assessment of Mining Extent and Expansion in Myanmar Based on Freely-Available Satellite Imagery." Remote Sensing, 8, (11) 912. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8110912. 2016
• Connette, Grant, Oswald, Patrick, Songer, Melissa A., and Leimgruber, Peter. 2016. "Mapping Distinct Forest Types Improves Overall Forest Identification Based on Multi-Spectral Landsat Imagery for Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region." Remote Sensing, 8, (11) 882. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs8110882. 2016
• Connette, Grant M., Osbourn, Michael S., and Peterman, William E. 2016. "The Distribution of a Stream-breeding Salamander, Desmognathus ocoee, in Terrestrial Habitat Suggests the Ecological Importance of Low-order Streams." Copeia, 149–156. https://doi.org/10.1643/OT-14-215. 2016