Kondo, M.C., Barboza, E.P., Iungman, T., Locke, D. H., Yeager, R., Steed, A.-C., Jimenez, M.P., Rojas, D., Nieuwenhuijsen, M.. (2026). Health Impact Assessment of City-Level Tree Canopy Goal Attainment in the US. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2026.125205 [LINK]
Darling, L. E., Locke, D. H., Rollinson, C. R., Roshi, R., Fahey, R. T., Morzillo, A. T., & Hardiman, B. S. (2026). Canopy inequity persists beyond the urban core, but its underlying drivers vary across a large metropolitan region. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 124(April), 129594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2026.129594 [LINK]
Lyall, J. D., Darling, L. E., Locke, D. H., & Hardiman, B. S. (2025). Turning a new leaf: Social and land use drivers of urban tree canopy change in the Chicago Metropolitan Area 2010 – 2017. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 113(April), 128999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128999
Berland, A., Herrmann, D.L., Locke, D.H., Schwarz, K., 2025. Soil access is an equity issue for urban climate resilience. Landscape and Urban Planning. 260, 105395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105395 [LINK]
Winkler, R.L., Clark, J.A.G., Locke, D.H., Kremer, P., Aronson, M.F.J., Hoover, F.-A., J.H. Joo, La Rosa, D., KangJae J.L., Lerman, S.B., Pearsall, H., Vargo, T., Lepczyk, C., Nilon, C.. (2024). Unequal access to social, environmental, and health amenities in urban parks. Nature Cities. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00153-2 [LINK] Data https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0039
Locke, D. H., Ossola, A., Paul Schmit, J., & Morgan Grove, J. (2025). Sub-parcel scale analysis is needed to capture socially-driven canopy cover change in Baltimore, MD. Landscape and Urban Planning, 253(September 2024), 105187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105187 [LINK]
Locke, D. H., Baker, M., Alonzo, M., Yang, Y., Ziter, C. D., Murphy-Dunning, C., & O’Neil‐Dunne, J. P. M. (2024). Variation the in relationship between urban tree canopy and air temperature reduction under a range of daily weather conditions. Heliyon, 10(3), e25041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25041 Data/code: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0012
Locke, D.H., Grove, J.M., Pickett, S.T.A. (2023). The Role of Urban Tree Canopies in Environmental Justice and Conserving Biodiversity. In: Urban Biodiversity and Equity: Justice-Centered Conservation in Cities. Edited by: Max R. Lambert & Christopher J. Schell, Oxford University Press. (2023). DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198877271.003.0006 [LINK]
Browning, M. H. E. M.; Locke, D.H.; Konijnendijk, C.; S.M. Labibd; Rigolon, A.; Yeager, R.; Bardhan, M.a,g; Berland, A.; Dadvand, P.; Helbich., M; Li, F.; Li, H.; James, P; Klompmaker, J.; Reuben, A., Roman, L.A.; Tsai, W-L., Patwary, M., O’Neil-Dunne, J., Ossola, A., Wang, R.; Yang, B.; Yi, L.; Zhang, J.., Nieuwenhuijsen, M. (2023). Measuring[…]
Mockrin, M. H., Locke, D. H., Syphard, A. D., & O’Neil‐Dunne, J. P. M. (2023). Using high-resolution land cover data to assess structure loss in the 2018 Woolsey Fire in Southern California. Journal of Environmental Management, 347(September), 118960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118960
Locke, D.H., Fix, R.L., Gobaud, A.N., Morrison, C.N., Jay, J., Kondo, M. (2023). Vacant building removals associated with relative reductions in violent and property crimes in Baltimore, MD 2014-2019. Journal of Urban Health. doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00758-3. [LINK]
Locke, D.H., Roman, R., Henning, J., Healy, M.. Four decades of urban land cover change in Philadelphia (2023). Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104764 [LINK]
Berland, A., Locke, D.H., Herrmann, D.L., Schwarz, K.. (2023). Residential land owner type mediates the connections among vacancy, overgrown vegetation, and equity. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127826
Martinuzzi, S., Cook, B.D, Helmer, E.H., Keller, M., Locke, D.H., Marcano-Vega, H., Uriarte, M., Morton, D.C.. (2022). Patterns and controls on island-wide biomass accumulation in second-growth forests of Puerto Rico. Biotropica. doi:10.1111/btp.13122 [LINK]
Locke, D.H., Phillips de Lucas, A.K., Murphy-Dunning, C., Henning, D., Zinn, G. 2021. Contextual Considerations of Green Infrastructure Siting. Cities And The Environment. 10.15365/cate.2021.140202 [LINK]
Locke, D.H., Ossola, A., Minor, E., Lin, B.. (2021) Spatial contagion structures urban vegetation from parcel to landscape. People and Nature. 00(August 2020): 1–15. doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10254 [LINK] metadata, data, and reproducible code available here via Locke, D. H., Ossola, A., Minor, E., & Lin, B. (2021). Yards, block groups, and vegetationcover measures. Dryad Digital Repository, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.jdfn2z3bbOr https://www.fs.usda.gov/rds/archive/catalog/RDS-ext-2021-0003
Martinuzzi, S., Locke, D. H., Ramos-González, O., Sanchez, M., Grove, J.M., Muñoz-Erikson, T. A., Arendt, W. J., & Bauer, G. (2021). Exploring the relationships between tree canopy cover and socioeconomic characteristics in tropical urban systems: The case of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 62(April). doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127125 [LINK]
Rollinson, C.R., Finley, A., Alexander, M.R., Banerjee, S., Hamil, K-A.D., Koenig, L.E., Locke, D.H., Peterson, M., Tingley, M., Wheeler, K., Youngflesh, C., Zipkin, E.F.. (2021). Working across space and time: approaches to ecological nonstationarity. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. doi:10.1002/fee.2298 [LINK]
Kondo, M.C., Mueller, N., Locke, D.H., Roman, L.A., Rojas-Rueda, D., Schinasi, L., Gascon, M., Nieuwenhuijsen, M.J. (2020). Greening Cities Can Prevent Premature Deaths: Health Impact Assessment of Philadelphia’s 2025 Tree Canopy Cover Goals. The Lancet Planetary Health. [LINK]
Browning, M.H.E.M., Locke, D.H. (2020). The greenspace-academic performance link varies by remote sensing measure and urbanicity around Maryland Public Schools. Landscape and Urban Planning. doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103706 [LINK]
Ossola, A., Locke, D.H., Lin, B., Minor, E.S. (2019). Yards and home gardens increase connectivity of urban landscapes. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00923-7 [LINK]
Ossola, A., Locke, D. H., Lin, B., & Minor, E. (2019). Urban form, architecture and the structure of front and backyard vegetation. Landscape and Urban Planning, 185(November 2018), 141–157. doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.02.014 [LINK]
Martinuzzi, S., Ramos-González, O. M., Muñoz-Erickson, T. A., Locke, D.H., Lugo, A. E., Radeloff, V. C.. (2018). The assessment of urban vegetation from high-resolution aerial imagery and its relationship to socioeconomic factors in a tropical city. Ecological Applications. doi: 10.1002/eap.1673 [LINK]
Locke, D.H., Romolini, R., Galvin, M. F., O’Neil-Dunne, J. P. M., Strauss, E. G.. (2017). Tree canopy change in Coastal Los Angeles, 2009 – 2014. Cities And The Environment (CATE) [LINK]
Locke, D.H.. (2017). A New Look at Residential Ecosystems Management: Heterogeneous Practices and the Landscape Mullets Concept (Doctoral Dissertation). [LINK to submitted draft]
Chuang, W-C., Boone, C. G., Locke, D.H., Grove, J. M., Buckley, G. L., Whitmer, A., Zhang.. (2017) Tree canopy change and neighborhood stability: A comparative analysis of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD. Accepted at Urban Forestry and Urban Greening on March 28, 2017. [LINK]
Locke, D.H., Han, S., Kondo, M., Murphy-Dunning, C., Cox, M.. (2017). Did community greening reduce crime? Evidence from New Haven, CT, 1996-2007 Landscape and Urban Planning 161,72–79. 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.01.006 [LINK]
Locke, D. H., Landry, S., Grove, J. M., Roy Chowdhury, R.. (2016). What’s scale got to do with it? Models for urban tree canopy. Journal of Urban Ecology. 2(1): 1-16. DOI: 10.1093/jue/juw006 [LINK]
Sachdeva, S., McCaffrey, S., & Locke, D.H.. (2016). Social media approaches to modeling wildfire smoke dispersion: spatiotemporal and social scientific investigations. Information, Communication & Society, 4462(August), 1–16. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2016.1218528 [LINK]
Locke, D. H., Grove, J. M., Galvin, M. F., O’Neil-Dunne, J. P. M., & Murphy, C.. (2013). Applications of Urban Tree Canopy Assessment and Prioritization Tools: Supporting Collaborative Decision Making to Achieve Urban Sustainability Goals. Cities and the Environment (CATE), 6(1). [LINK]
King, K. L., & Locke, D. H.. (2013). A Comparison of Three Methods for Measuring Local Urban Tree Canopy Cover. Journal of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry, 39(2), 62-67. [LINK]