Publications

2026

Rayeed, S. M.*, M. Khurana*, A. East*, I. E. Fluck, E. G. Campolongo, S. Stevens, I. Zarubiieva, S. C. Lowe, M. W. Denslow, E. D. Donoso, J. Wu, M. Ramirez, B. Baiser, C. V. Stewart, P. Mabee, T. Berger-Wolf, A. Karpatne, H. Lapp, R. P. Guralnick, G. W. Taylor, and S. Record. (2026). A continental-scale dataset of ground beetles with high-resolution images and validated morphological trait measurements. Nature Scientific Data.
Eichenwald, A., J. M. Grady, A. East, N. Charney, and S. Record. (2026). ScalingFromSkypackage: An R Package to Infer Forest Structure from Remote Sensing Data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
East, A., J. Kumar, and W. Hargrove. (2026). Comprehensive framework for assessing and optimizing existing research networks. Conservation Biology:e70202.
Pahuja, V., S. Stevens, A. East, R. Sydne, and Y. Su. (2026). Automatic Image-Level Morphological Trait Annotation for Organismal Images. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

2025

East, A., Campolongo, E. G., Meyers, L., Rayeed, S. M., Stevens, S., Zarubiieva, I., Fluck, I. E., Girón, J. C., Jousse, M., Lowe, S., Perry, K. I., Betancourt, I., Charney, N., Donoso, E., Fox, N., Landsbergen, K. J., Nepovinnykh, E., Ramirez, M., Singh, P., … Record, S. (2025). Optimizing Image Capture for Computer Vision-Powered Taxonomic Identification and Trait Recognition of Biodiversity Specimens (No. arXiv:2505.17317). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.17317
Carroll, K. A., East, A., Gao, X., McMullen II, J. G., & Emery, N. 2025. Early-Career Publishing and Reviewing: Pitfalls and Perspectives. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, e70023. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.70023
Rayeed, S. M., East, A., Stevens, S., Record, S., & Stewart, C. V. 2025. BeetleVerse: A study on taxonomic classification of ground beetles (No. arXiv:2504.13393; Version 1). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.13393

2024

East, A., Hansen, A.J., Jantz, P.A., Roberts, D. & Armenteras-Pascual, D. 2024. Remote Sensing. Validation and error minimization of GEDI data in the South American Tropics.
Hansen, A.J., East, A., Ashford, Z., Crittenden, C., Jakabosky, O., Quinby, D., Gigliotti, L., van Manen, L., Haroldson, M., Middleton, A., Robinson, N., Theobald, D. 2024 Integrating Ecological Value and Charismatic Species Habitats to Prioritize Habitats for Conservation: A Case Study from Greater Yellowstone. Natural Areas Journal. 14, 3.

2023

East, A., Hansen, A., Armenteras, D., Jantz, P. & Roberts, D. 2023. Measuring Understory Fire effects from space: Canopy change in response to tropical understory fire and what this means for applications of GEDI for tropical Fire. Remote Sensing, 15, 696.

2022

Hansen, A.J., Mullan, K., Theobald, D.M., Robinson, N., East, A. & Powell, S. 2022. Informing conservation decisions to target private lands of highest ecological value and risk of loss. Ecol. Appl., 0–2.

2021

Hansen, A.J., East, A., Keane, R.E., Lavin, M., Legg, K., Holden, Z., Toney, C. & Alongi, F. 2021. Is whitebark pine less sensitive to climate warming when climate tolerances of juveniles are considered? For. Ecol. Manage., 493, 119221.
Hansen, A.J., Mullan, K., Theobald, D.M., Powell, S., Robinson, N.P. & East, A. 2021. Natural vegetation cover on private lands : locations and risk of loss in the northwestern United States. Ecosphere, 12.
Hansen, A.J., Noble, B.P., Veneros, J., East, A., Goetz, S.J., Supples, C., Watson, J.E.M., Jantz, P.A., Pillay, R., Jetz, W., Ferrier, S., Grantham, H.S., Evans, T.D., Ervin, J., Venter, O. & Virnig, A.L.S. 2021. Towards monitoring ecosystem integrity within the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. Conserv. Lett., e12822, 1–23.