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Last published 2026
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Maureen R. McClung

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Researcher

Also affiliated: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2019); Conway School of Landscape Design (2015–2025); University of Otago (2004)

Faculty Researcher

13 h-index 31 pubs 622 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 investigates the ecological and economic impacts of energy development and land use, with a particular focus on ecosystem services. Her work examines the benefits derived from restoring non-producing oil and gas lands and quantifies the ecosystem service values associated with electricity generation in desert environments. McClung also studies the effects of environmental disturbances, such as road traffic noise, on wildlife in Arkansas wetlands. Her recent publications explore the relationship between climate change and butterfly populations across North America, the influence of gentrification on urban biodiversity, and the valuation of ecosystem services in protected areas like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. Her scholarship has resulted in 31 publications, with an h-index of 13 and over 600 citations. She collaborates with researchers from Hendrix College and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 31
  • Citations: 622

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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