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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Maureen R. McClung

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Chair, Environmental Studies Judy and Randy Wilbourn Odyssey Professor of Biology

Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019); University of Otago (2004)

13 h-index 32 pubs 633 cited

  • Ecosystem
  • Animals
  • Oil and Gas Fields
  • Biodiversity
  • Arkansas
  • United States
  • Forests
  • Mammals
  • Natural Gas
  • Butterflies
  • Oil and Gas Industry
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Circadian Rhythm
  • Residential Segregation
  • Agriculture

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Maureen R. McClung's research focuses on the impacts of energy development, particularly unconventional oil and gas extraction, on land use and ecosystem services. Her work investigates how these activities affect biodiversity and natural habitats, with a specific interest in areas like Arkansas and the Fayetteville Shale. McClung has examined the costs associated with land use and ecosystem services from oil and gas development, as well as the benefits derived from restoring non-producing energy lands. Her publications also explore broader ecological themes, including the effects of climate change on butterfly populations and the diel activity patterns of mammals. She has collaborated with researchers from Hendrix College and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on shared publications.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 32
  • Citations: 633

Positions

Selected Publications

  • Species Richness Response to Urbanization across Mid-size Cities in the Southeastern United-States (2026)
    Journal of Urban Ecology DOI OpenAlex
  • Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities (2024)
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 12 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Disturbance of wintering waterbirds by simulated road traffic noise in Arkansas wetlands (2023)
    Journal of Wildlife Management 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Global patterns of reported human-wildlife interactions in areas of land-use change     (2023)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ecosystem Services of the Buffalo National River in Arkansas (2022)
    Natural Areas Journal 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Minimizing Impacts of Future Renewable Energy Development on the World's Desert Ecosystems (2022)
    Frontiers in Sustainability 10 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Biodiversity of Parasitic Hymenoptera Across Sky Islands of Arkansas, United States (2022)
    Environmental Entomology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Highland stonerollers (Campostoma spadecium) do not clearly avoid recreational boat noise or preferentially graze algae in quieter areas (2021)
    Environmental Biology of Fishes DOI OpenAlex
  • Distribution and Habitat Preferences of a Frosted Elfin Subspecies (Callophrys irus hadros, Lycaenidae) in Arkansas (2021)
    Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society DOI OpenAlex
  • Comprehensive Valuation of the Ecosystem Services of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (2021)
    Natural Areas Journal 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Recent climate change is creating hotspots of butterfly increase and decline across North America (2021)
    Global Change Biology 76 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Quantifying the ecosystem services values of electricity generation in the US Chihuahuan Desert: A life cycle perspective (2021)
    Journal of Industrial Ecology 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Ecosystem services benefits from the restoration of non-producing US oil and gas lands (2021)
    Nature Sustainability 36 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • New county records of three Baptisia species in Arkansas, with an updated distribution map (2020)
    Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Potential for Reclamation of Abandoned Gas Wells to Restore Ecosystem Services in the Fayetteville Shale of Arkansas (2020)
    Environmental Management 16 citations DOI OpenAlex

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