Publications

  1. Li, K. and S. Goslee. Modeling tools for ecosystem service tradeoffs and synergies in agricultural landscapes. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. In press.

  2. Bosshard, E., M. E. Harrison, F. J. F. van Veen, N. B. Chikkarangappa, J. E. Banks, P. Basu, B. Dalsgaard, A. Dutta, E. Enríquez, N. Escobedo-Kenefic, B. Gemmill-Herren, J. Ghazoul, K. Hansen, A. L. Hass, O. Honnay, J. M. Kasina, A.-M. Klein, I. K. Motzke, S. Krishnan, P. Landaverde, A. O. Latini, K. Li, R. Lucas-Garcia, T. Munyuli, D. Narasimhaiah, D. Obregon, J. J. G. Quezada-Euán, V. Rosas-Guerrero, J. Schrader, F. Severiano-Galeana, T. M. Sitotaw, T. Sritongchuay, P. Tangtorwangsakul, M. Toledo-Hernandez, P. Viswanathan, C. Vogel, K. Wayo, C. Westphal, M. L. Jones, and C. N. Kaiser-Bunbury. Proximity to natural habitat is not consistently associated with pollination services in tropical smallholder farms: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ecology Letters. In press.

  3. Su, C., Z. Hajian-Forooshani, K. Li, J. Vandermeer, and I. Perfecto. Non-independent co-occurrence of two important coffee fungal pathogens suggests a potential trade-off in varietal resistance. Journal of Phytopathology. In press.

  4. Li, K. and S. Goslee. 2025. Benefits of wildflower strips in agricultural field margins differ based on landscape complexity across four ecosystem services. Landscape Ecology 40:173.

  5. Nelson, C. M., K. Li, G. L. Diamond, M. Lambert, and K. D. Bradham. 2025. Estimating accuracy and precision in the bioavailability-adjusted exposure point concentration to support human health risk assessment of lead-contaminated soils. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A

  6. Mora Van Cauwelaert, E., K. Li, Z. Hajian-Forooshani, J. Vandermeer, and M. Benítez. 2025. Interplay between harvesting, planting density, and ripening time affects coffee leaf rust dispersal and infection. Theoretical Ecology 18:14.

  7. Adkins, K. A.*, K. Li*, M. N. Blasko, J. L. Cabrera, B. H. Neal, T. Y. James, Z. Hajian-Forooshani, S. Brines, and I. Perfecto. 2024. A simple mechanism for uncrewed aircraft bioaerosol sampling in the lower atmosphere. Landscape Ecology 39:133. *Denotes equal contribution as co-first authors.

  8. Klenke, G., S. Brines, N. Hernandez, K. Li, R. Glancy, J. Cabrera, B. H. Neal, K. A. Adkins, R. Schroeder, and I. Perfecto. 2024. Farmer Perceptions of Land Cover Classification of UAS Imagery of Coffee Agroecosystems in Puerto Rico. Geographies 4:321–342.

  9. Li, K., J. Fisher, A. Power, and A. Iverson. 2024. A map of pollinator floral resource habitats in the agricultural landscape of Central New York. One Ecosystem 9:e118634.

  10. Kammerer, M., A. L. Iverson, K. Li, J. F. Tooker, and C. M. Grozinger. 2024. Seasonal bee communities vary in their responses to resources at local and landscape scales: implication for land managers. Landscape Ecology 39:97.

  11. Sowers, T. D., C. M. Nelson, M. D. Blackmon, K. Li, M. L. Jerden, A. M. Kirby, K. Kovalcik, D. Cox, G. Dewalt, W. Friedman, E. A. Pinzer, P. J. Ashley, and K. D. Bradham. 2024. United States house dust Pb concentrations are influenced by soil, paint, and house age: insights from a national survey. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology:1–9.

  12. Kammerer, M., A. L. Iverson, K. Li, and S. C. Goslee. 2024. Not just crop or forest: an integrated land cover map for agricultural and natural areas. Scientific Data 11:137.

  13. Li, K.,K. Blackhart, J. Miller, and D. Obenour. 2023. An estuary stress index based on nekton relationships with thematic watershed stressors. Ecological Indicators 154:110678.

  14. Li, K., Z. Hajian-Forooshani, J. Vandermeer, and I. Perfecto. 2023. Coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix) is spread by rain splash from infected leaf litter in a semi-controlled experiment. Journal of Plant Pathology 105:667–672.

  15. Li, K., I. Grass, D. C. Zemp, H. Lorenz, L. Sachsenmaier, F. Nurdiansyah, D. Hölscher, H. Kreft, and T. Tscharntke. 2023. Tree identity and canopy openness mediate oil palm biodiversity enrichment effects on insect herbivory and pollination. Ecological Applications 33:e2862.

  16. Zemp, D. C., N. R. Guerrero-Ramírez, F. Brambach, K. Darras, I. Grass, A. Potapov, A. Röll, I. Arimond, J. Ballauff, B. Hermann, D. Berkelmann, S. Biagioni, D. Buchori, D. Craven, R. Daniel, O. Gailing, F. Ellsäßer, R. Fardiansah, N. Hennings, B. Irawan, W. Khokthong, V. Krashevska, A. Krause, J. Kückes, K. Li, H. Lorenz, M. Maraun, M. Merk, C. C. d. M. Moura, Y. Mulyani, G. P. H. Pebrianti, A. Polle, D. A. Prameswari, L. Sachsenmaier, S. Scheu, D. Schneider, S. Fitta, C. Setyaningsih, L. Sundawati, T. Tscharntke, M. Wollni, D. Hölscher, and H. Kreft. 2023. Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes. Nature.

  17. Perfecto, I., L. F. Chaves, G. M. Fitch, Z. Hajian-Forooshani, B. Iuliano, K. Li, N. Medina, J. Morris, B. O. Jiménez, I. S. Rivera-Salinas, C. Su, J. Vandermeer, A. White, and K. Williams-Guillén. 2023. Looking beyond land-use and land-cover change: Zoonoses emerge in the agricultural matrix. One Earth 6:1131–1142.

  18. Pulungan, Z. N., W. Priawandiputra, I. Grass, K. Li, R. J. Robo, and R. Raffiudin. 2023. Tropical lowland rainforest conversion to rubber monoculture affects flight activity and pollen resources of the stingless bees Tetragonula laeviceps. Jurnal Entomologi Indonesia 20:88–100.

  19. Li, K., I. Grass, T.-Y. Fung, R. Fardiansah, M. Rohlfs, D. Buchori, and T. Tscharntke. 2022. Adjacent forest moderates insect pollination of oil palm. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 338:108108.

  20. Li, K., Z. Hajian-Forooshani, C. Su, I. Perfecto, and J. Vandermeer. 2022. Reduced rainfall and resistant varieties mediate a critical transition in the coffee rust disease. Scientific Reports 12:1564.

  21. Bradham, K. D., C. M. Nelson, T. D. Sowers, D. A. Lytle, J. Tully, M. R. Schock, K. Li, M. D. Blackmon, K. Kovalcik, D. Cox, G. Dewalt, W. Friedman, E. A. Pinzer, and P. J. Ashley. 2022. A national survey of lead and other metal(loids) in residential drinking water in the United States. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology:1–8.

  22. Carneiro de Melo Moura, C., C. A. Setyaningsih, K. Li, M. S. Merk, S. Schulze, R. Raffiudin, I. Grass, H. Behling, T. Tscharntke, C. Westphal, and O. Gailing. 2022. Biomonitoring via DNA metabarcoding and light microscopy of bee pollen in rainforest transformation landscapes of Sumatra. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22:51.

  23. Ong, T. W., K. Li, A. Lucatero, D. Pak, L. Hawkes, M. Hunter, and J. Vandermeer. 2020. Taylor Made Landscapes: Using Taylor’s Law to Scale Between Metapopulations and Source-Sinks in Urban Garden Space. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4.

  24. Otero Jiménez, B., K. Li, and P. K. Tucker. 2020. Landscape drivers of connectivity for a forest rodent in a coffee agroecosystem. Landscape Ecology 35:1249–1261.

  25. Vandermeer, J., I. Armbrecht, A. de la Mora, K. K. Ennis, G. Fitch, D. J. Gonthier, Z. Hajian-Forooshani, H.-Y. Hsieh, A. Iverson, D. Jackson, S. Jha, E. Jiménez-Soto, G. Lopez-Bautista, A. Larsen, K. Li, H. Liere, A. MacDonald, L. Marin, K. A. Mathis, I. Monagan, J. R. Morris, T. Ong, G. L. Pardee, I. S. Rivera-Salinas, C. Vaiyda, K. Williams-Guillen, S. Yitbarek, S. Uno, A. Zemenick, S. M. Philpott, and I. Perfecto. 2019. The Community Ecology of Herbivore Regulation in an Agroecosystem: Lessons from Complex Systems. BioScience 69:974–996.

  26. Darras, K. F. A., M. D. Corre, G. Formaglio, A. Tjoa, A. Potapov, F. Brambach, K. T. Sibhatu, I. Grass, A. A. Rubiano, D. Buchori, J. Drescher, R. Fardiansah, D. Hölscher, B. Irawan, T. Kneib, V. Krashevska, A. Krause, H. Kreft, K. Li, M. Maraun, A. Polle, A. R. Ryadin, K. Rembold, C. Stiegler, S. Scheu, S. Tarigan, A. Valdés-Uribe, S. Yadi, T. Tscharntke, and E. Veldkamp. 2019. Reducing Fertilizer and Avoiding Herbicides in Oil Palm Plantations—Ecological and Economic Valuations. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2.

  27. Li, K., T. Tscharntke, B. Saintes, D. Buchori, and I. Grass. 2019. Critical factors limiting pollination success in oil palm: A systematic review. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 280:152–160.

  28. Egerer, M., K. Li, and T. Ong. 2018. Context Matters: Contrasting Ladybird Beetle Responses to Urban Environments across Two US Regions. Sustainability 10:1829.

  29. Nelson, C. M., K. Li, D. R. Obenour, J. Miller, J. C. Misenheimer, K. Scheckel, A. Betts, A. Juhasz, D. J. Thomas, and K. D. Bradham. 2018. Relating soil geochemical properties to arsenic bioaccessibility through hierarchical modeling. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A 81:160–172.

  30. Bradham, K. D., C. M. Nelson, J. Kelly, A. Pomales, K. Scruton, T. Dignam, J. C. Misenheimer, K. Li, D. R. Obenour, and D. J. Thomas. 2017. Relationship Between Total and Bioaccessible Lead on Children’s Blood Lead Levels in Urban Residential Philadelphia Soils. Environmental Science & Technology 51:10005–10011.

  31. Li, K., Y. He, S. K. Campbell, A. S. Colborn, E. L. Jackson, A. Martin, I. V. Monagan, T. W. Y. Ong, and I. Perfecto. 2017. From endogenous to exogenous pattern formation: Invasive plant species changes the spatial distribution of a native ant. Global Change Biology 23:2250–2261.

  32. Li, K., J. H. Vandermeer, and I. Perfecto. 2016. Disentangling endogenous versus exogenous pattern formation in spatial ecology: a case study of the ant Azteca sericeasur in southern Mexico. Royal Society Open Science 3:160073–160073.

  33. Belasen, A., E. Burkett, A. Injaian, K. Li, D. Allen, I. Perfecto. 2013. Effect of Sub-Canopy on Habitat Selection in the Blue-spotted Salamander (Ambystoma laterale-jeffersonianum unisexual complex). Copeia, 2013(2), 254-261.

  34. Sheldon, J. W., G. Reed, A. C. Burnett, K. Li, R. L. Crabtree. 2009. Coyote, Canis latrans, Predation on a Bison, Bison bison, Calf in Yellowstone National Park. The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 123(3), 260-261.