Susan B. Parsons's research while affiliated with Idaho State University and other places

... We calculated the percentage of respondents mentioning each of the land abandonment items extracted from the open question and then conducted a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and a hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) to identify the clusters of narratives for land abandonment. Cluster analysis is a widely recognized methodology used in sustainability science to delineate for instance social-ecological systems (Aho et al. 2022;Martín-López et al. 2017), identify groups of social preferences from local stakeholders , human well-being components (Fagerholm et al. 2020), or ecosystem services bundles (Queiroz et al. 2015;Quintas-Soriano et al. 2021Torralba et al. 2020). We performed a MCA to avoid correlations between the items of land abandonment and to explore the relationships between the responses on land abandonment items. ...

... However, despite being designated as natural protected areas, deforestation resulting from illegal logging, agriculture, overgrazing, land use changes, soil extraction, and detrimental tourist practices are the main drivers of forest loss, ultimately severing connections between populations (Padilla et al., 2014). Connectivity is crucial as it allows for gene flow, which promotes genetic variability, -a vital component of snake populations (Adavodi et al., 2019;Parsons et al., 2019). Another threat to consider is isolation, as isolated populations tend to experience reductions in numbers, leading to inbreeding and genetic drift, ultimately resulting in a loss of genetic variability and an increased risk of extinction (Luiselli and Capizzi, 1997;Gibbs and Chiucchi, 2012;Wood et al., 2021). ...

... Soils are the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon stocks, comprising both soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon [1]. The global SOC stock ranges from 1500 to 2400 PgC [2]. ...