Ann P. Kinzig’s research while affiliated with Arizona State University and other places

... The expansive urban-suburban matrix of metropolitan Phoenix, AZ, reflects a diverse mix of land use histories. Phoenix has a pronounced agricultural lineage, beginning with the early Hohokam people, who constructed the area's first canal system, to modern agricultural systems that use an extensive water-distribution network focused on cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), among other crops (Redman and Kinzig, 2008). Phoenix remained relatively sparsely populated until the latter half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, when the region experienced exponential growth, which consumed expansive areas of both agricultural and native desert lands (Keys et al., 2007;Redman and Kinzig, 2008). ...

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Hydropedological Assessments of Parcel-Level Infiltration in an Arid Urban Ecosystem

... Thus, rising incidences of cyber-crime have become a matter of concern for all. Derogation of privacy, unauthorized data alteration or destruction, data theft, stealing of financial information from clients, etc., are some of the vital consequences of cyber-crimes [9]. The present Internet scenario worldwide is reminiscent of the 19th century Gold Rush in the United States. ...

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Advancements in Cybersecurity: Novel Approaches to Protecting Against Emerging Threats and Vulnerabilities

... Enhancing cybersecurity awareness and promoting responsible online behaviors can help mitigate the risks associated with malware infections. d) Leveraging Threat Intelligence: Just as the immune memory response helps faster and more effective immune responses to reinfection, leveraging threat intelligence can enhance cybersecurity incident response capabilities by collecting and analyzing information about malware and attack patterns [16]. ...

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FROM BYTES TO BIOLOGY: REVIEW EXPLORING THE INTRICACIES OF COMPUTER MALWARE AND BIOLOGICAL VIRUSES GAP INDIAN JOURNAL OF FORENSICS AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES

... 2020). Multiple scales are also in effect in uneven ways in the BCS space; for example, climate impacts are driven by globally accumulating greenhouse gases, which can be felt in local and regional levels, whereas biodiversity loss impacts are almost always locally experienced and thereby affect the capacity of ecological systems to benefit people as local public good but whose aggregate global effect may be declining across global taxa and their associated gene pools (i.e., a global public good; Perrings and Kinzig 2021). ...

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Governing for Transformative Change across the Biodiversity–Climate–Society Nexus

... Alonso and Krajsic ,2015;) (Hashemi et al.,2021 Introduction: In Iran, out of 88.5 billion water resources, about 83 billion cubic meters or 93.5% is allocated to the agricultural sector and therefore agriculture is the largest consumer of water. Increasing population, increasing cultivation areas, and agricultural productions have increased the consumption of these resources. ...

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The Use of Foresight in the Sustainable Management of Water Resources in the Agricultural Sector of the Karkheh-Olia Basin

... The topic of the economic crisis was also discussed in urban economic models. These models examined how the economic crisis affected urban areas differently, considering factors such as industrial composition, labour market dynamics and housing markets (Sendi 2010;Holgersen 2014;Shutters et al. 2021). ...

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Selected Socio-Economic Aspects of the Last Two Economic Crises in Slovenia Assessed through a Three-Stage Territorial Model

... The time dimension may lead to negative as well as positive biodiversity effects and it may very well matter what point during succession is considered (Forrester 2014;Río et al. 2014). As Kinzig & Pacala (2001) suggest, a negative diversity-succession effect may result from low- achieving early successionals delaying the establishment of more productive late suc- cessionals. In contrast, positive diversity-succession effects on productivity and sta- bility may emerge from, e.g. the temporally overlapping development of trees with differing shade tolerance and growth ability ) or correlation of other functional traits with the successional aspect . ...

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Pathways of tree diversity effects on forest dynamics – combining empirical analysis and mechanistic modelling

... Although pyrophilous fungi are widespread across ecosystems, we lack an understanding of how soon these pyrophilous fungi appear, their turnover rates, and if they change in abundance over time (Fox et al., 2022). Successional theory states that early successional stages are dominated by fast-growing or ruderal (R) organisms (Kinzig & Pacala, 2002) that tradeoff between stress tolerance (S) and competitive (C) life-history strategies over time (Grime, 1977;Zhang et al., 2018). Recent adaptations of Grime's C-S-R to microbiomes suggest that pyrophilous microbes survive and thrive post-fire with traits analogous to plants, including post-fire resource acquisition (C), thermotolerant structures (S), and fast growth (R) (Enright et al., 2022;Whitman et al., 2019). ...

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Rapid Bacterial and Fungal Successional Dynamics in First Year After Chaparral Wildfire

... The inclusion of climate-focused social sciences in climate assessment reports has generally been secondary to the biogeophysical sciences. While there has been progress towards greater inclusion of social science disciplines (anthropology, sociology, economics, human geography, etc.) in assessments, it has not kept pace with advancements in the climate social sciences themselves; moreover, their treatment within assessments has not been as robust as that of the biogeophysical sciences (Beckage et al. 2020;Hackmann et al. 2014;Liverman 2016;Maxwell et al. 2022;Mooney et al. 2013;Moser et al. 2016). In the United States (U.S.), National Climate Assessments (NCAs) and sub-national climate assessments (SCAs) have distinct purposes, scopes, scales, and knowledge governance (Galford et al. 2016;Holmes et al. 2020;Kirchhoff et al. 2019;Widhalm and Dukes 2020).One implication of these differences is that their interests in, needs for, and opportunities to incorporate the social sciences are likely to be distinct, as well. ...

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The social sciences in climate assessments in the United States

... The loss of beneficial microbial species in the agricultural soil can exacerbate pathogen invasions and compromise ecosystem resilience (Jacobsen and Hjelmsø, 2014;Meena et al., 2020). Since microbial communities are the primary drivers of soil nutrient cycling, due to their various metabolic activities, their relevance in moderating ecosystem function cannot be understated (Balser et al., 2002). ...

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Harnessing Pseudomonas spp. for sustainable plant crop protection