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Courtney Davis

She/Her/Hers

Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment Section

Courtney Davis, Assistant Professor, Natural Resources and the Environment

Contact Information

211B Fernow Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

cld74 [at] cornell.edu

Selected Publications

Neugarten, R.A., Davis, C.L., Duran, G., & Rodewald, A.D. Co-benefits of nature for birds, people, and climate in the United States. 2025. Ecosystem Services 73:101733. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101733

Johnston, A., Rodewald, A.D., Strimas-Mackey, M., Auer, T., Hochachka, W.M., Stillman, A.N., Davis, C.L., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Dokter, A.M., Miller, E.T., Robinson, O., Ligocki, S., Oldham Jaromczyk, L, Crowley, C., Wood, C.L., & Fink, D. 2025. North American bird declines are greatest where species are most abundant. Science, 388:532–537.DOI: 10.1126/science.adn4381

Smith, O.M., Jeffery, B., Leuenberger, W., Mack, C., Pizzo, G., Zhang, B., & Davis, C.L. 2025. Widespread lack of article accessibility policies among ecology and evolution journals. In press at Nature Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02694-8

Smith, O.M., Davis, K.L., Waterman, R., Pizza, R.B., Mack, C., Conway, E.E., Dobson, K.C., Foster, B., Hristova, A.E., Jarvey, J.C., Nourn, N., & Davis, C.L. 2024. Journals must expand access to peer review data. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 39(4): 311–314. DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2024.02.003

Zipkin, E., Doser, J. Davis, C.L., Leuenberger, W., Ayebare, S., & Davis, K. 2023. Integrated community models: A framework combining multispecies data sources to estimate the status, trends and dynamics of biodiversity. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(12): 2248–2262. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.14012

Davis, C.L., Bai, Y., Chen, D., Robinson, O., Ruiz-Gutierrez, V., Gomes, C.P., & Fink, D. 2023. Deep-learning with citizen science data enables estimation of species diversity and composition at continental extents. Ecology,104(12): e4175. DOI:10.1002/ecy.4175

Rich, L.N., Medel, I., Bangen, S., Wengert, G., Toenies, M., Tucker, J., Gabriel, M., & Davis, C.L. 2023. Integrating existing data to assess the risk of an expanding land use change on mammals. Landscape Ecology, 38: 3189–3204. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-023-01780-1

Smith, O.M., Davis, K.L., Pizza, R., Waterman, R., Dobson, K., Foster, B., Jarvey, J., Jones, L., Leuenberger, W., Nourn, N., Conway, E., Fiser, C., Hansen, Z., Hristova, A., Mack, C., Saunders, A., Utley, O.J., Young, M., & Davis, C.L. 2023. Peer review perpetuates barriers to historically excluded groups. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7, 512–523. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-01999-w

Davis, C.L., Walls, S.C, Barichivich, W.J., Brown, M.E., & Miller, D.A.W. 2023. Disentangling direct and indirect effects of extreme events on coastal wetland communities. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(6): 1135–1148. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13874

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