Burak K. Pekin

 

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Purdue University

Dept. of Forestry and Natural Resources

195 Marsteller Street

West Lafayette, IN 47907

Tel:  +1 765 496 1216

E-mail: bpekin@purdue.edu

 

 

 

Ph.D.  Univ. of Western Australia   2010

B.Sc.   Univ. of California, Davis     2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interests: Land cover and vegetation dynamics, environmental impacts of land-use change and land management practices, disturbance ecology, biodiversity conservation, Mediterranean type ecosystems

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Tayyebi A., Pekin B.K., Pijanowski B.C., Plourde J.D., Doucette J., Braun D. (in press) Hierarchical modeling of urban growth across the conterminous USA: Developing meso-scale quantity drivers for the Land Transformation Model. Journal of Land Use Science.

 

Pekin B.K., Boer M.M., Wittkuhn R.S., Macfarlane C., Grierson P.F. (in press) Plant species diversity is linked to nutrient limitation of dominant vegetation in a world biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Vegetation Science, doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01386.x

 

Pekin B.K., Wittkuhn R.S., Boer M.M., Macfarlane C., Grierson P.F. (in press) Response of plant species and life form diversity to variable fire histories and biomass in the jarrah forest of southwest Australia. Austral Ecology,  doi: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02280.x.

 

Pekin B.K., Wittkuhn R.S., Boer M.M., Macfarlane C., Grierson P.F. (2011) Plant functional traits along environmental gradients in seasonally-dry and fire-prone ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science, 22(6), 1009-1020.

 

Villanueva-Rivera L., Pijanowski B.C., Doucette J., Pekin B. (2011) A primer of acoustic analysis for landscape ecologists. Landscape Ecology, 26(9), 1233-1246.

 

Tayyebi A., Pijanowski B.C., Pekin B. (2011) Two rule-based urban growth boundary models applied to the Tehran metropolitan area, Iran. Applied Geography, 31(3), 908-918.

 

Pekin B.K., Boer M.M., Macfarlane C., Grierson P.F. (2009) Impacts of increased fire frequency and aridity on eucalypt forest structure, biomass and composition in southwest Australia. Forest Ecology and Management, 258(9), 2136-2142.

 

Pekin B., Macfarlane C. (2009) Measurement of crown cover and leaf area index using digital cover photography and its application to remote sensing. Remote Sensing, 1(4), 1298-1320.

Articles Submitted to Journals

Pekin B.K., Pijanowski B.C. (in review) Prioritizing terrestrial ecoregions for global biodiversity conservation using the contribution index. Biodiversity and Conservation.

 

Pekin B.K., Pijanowski B.C. (in review) Land use intensity and endangerment status of mammal species. Diversity and Distributions.

 

Pekin B.K., Zhalnin A.V., Pijanowski B.C. (in review) Assessing stream impairment risk using a pollutant loading model: Prioritizing stream catchments for land use mitigation in the St. Joseph River Watershed of Lake Michigan. Environmental Management.

 

Plourde J.D., Pijanowski B.C., Pekin B.K. (in review) Evidence for increased monoculture cropping in the Central United States. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment.