Jeffrey W. Matthews

About

Jeffrey W. Matthews is an Associate Professor and plant ecologist who focuses on understanding the drivers of change in ecological communities. He employs field experiments and observational studies of plant communities in both natural and restored ecosystems. His research aims to apply this understanding to address challenges in ecological restoration, contributing to the advancement of restoration science and practice.

Research topics

• Ecology
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Artificial Intelligence
• Economics
• Agroforestry
• Business
• Natural resource economics
• Environmental planning
• Environmental science

Selected publications

• Seed production areas are crucial to conservation outcomes: benefits and risks of an emerging restoration tool

  Biodiversity and Conservation · 2021 · 31 citations

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• Machine learning with high-resolution aerial imagery and data fusion to improve and automate the detection of wetlands

  International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation · 2021 · 25 citations

  Wetlands serve many important ecosystem services, yet the United States lacks up-to-date, high-resolution wetland inventories. New, automated techniques for developing wetland segmentation maps from high-resolution aerial imagery can improve our understanding of the location and amount of wetlands. We assembled training and testing data sets (patch sizes of 28 × 28 m2 and 56 × 56 m2) of high-resolution aerial imagery of wetlands using Illinois Natural History Survey wetland location data and Nat…

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• Evaluating the ability of wetland mitigation banks to replace plant species lost from destroyed wetlands

  Journal of Applied Ecology · 2023-03-09 · 17 citations

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  Abstract Offset policies are used world‐wide as a means to compensate for destruction of ecosystems by requiring developers to restore or preserve ecosystems elsewhere. A key challenge to effectively implementing offset policies is ensuring ecological equivalence between impacted ecosystems and compensation sites, yet equivalence is rarely tested. Using data from wetland mitigation banks and naturally occurring wetlands in Illinois, USA, we evaluated the ability of wetland offsetting to replace…

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• Restored wetlands are greatly influenced by hydrology and non-native plant invasion

  Wetlands Ecology and Management · 2022-12-23 · 15 citations

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• Species Composition and Ecological Characteristics of Native Seed Mixes in the Midwest (USA)

  Ecological Restoration · 2022-12-01 · 7 citations

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  <h3>ABSTRACT</h3> The midwestern United States has a well-developed native plant industry with a wide variety of native seed mixes available to buyers, often for the purpose of ecological restoration. Despite the influence of seed mixes on site-level restoration outcomes, there has yet to be a comprehensive overview of seed mixes available in the Midwest. We characterized seed mix composition by analyzing a database of 1,031 commercially available native seed mixes. Our objectives were: 1) to de…

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Frequent coauthors

• Greg Spyreas

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  41 shared

• Jack Zinnen

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  36 shared

• Kenneth R. Olson

  Indiana University School of Medicine

  36 shared

• J. Sloan

  University College Dublin

  36 shared

• Geoffrey E. Pociask

  Illinois Archaeological Survey

  34 shared

• Anton G. Endress

  31 shared

• Angela D. Kent

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  30 shared

• Ariane L. Peralta

  East Carolina University

  22 shared

Labs

• Matthews LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2008

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