Zest Data Group

Publications

The methods behind our client work come out of peer-reviewed research. A selection is below; the full list lives on Google Scholar.

Citations
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Google Scholar, September 2026.

Citations over time

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Selected work

Thumbnails are figures from the papers themselves.

  1. Map of the south-central United States with the modeled range of Vitis acerifolia and its occurrence points

    Conservation gap analysis for wild grapevines (Vitis L.) of the Americas

    Carver, D., Khoury, C.K., Frances, A., McCarry, N., Diaz-Garcia, L., Galarneau, E., Gora, S., Haidet, M., Heinitz, C., Knapp, W., Meyer, A., Miller, A., Mims, R., Sapkota, S., Spurrier, C., & Wen, J.

    Plants, People, Planet · 2026 · 1 citation

    The most recent application of the workflow, extending the national assessment to a new genus.

  2. Map of the United States colored by Index of Floodplain Integrity

    Degradation of floodplain integrity within the contiguous United States

    Morrison, R.R., Simonson, K., McManamay, R.A., & Carver, D.

    Communications Earth & Environment 4(1), 215 · 2023 · 42 citations

    Continental-scale spatial assessment outside the crop wild relatives domain.

  3. Conservation priority chart with urgent, high, medium, and low bands and species scores

    GapAnalysis: an R package to calculate conservation indicators using spatial information

    Carver, D., Sosa, C.C., Khoury, C.K., Achicanoy, H.A., Diaz, M.V., Sotelo, S., Castañeda-Álvarez, N.P., & Ramírez-Villegas, J.

    Ecography 44(7), 1000–1009 · 2021 · 24 citations

    The open-source implementation of the gap analysis method, and the foundation the GAMMa tool builds on.

Other publications

Grouped by topic. Open a group to see the papers.

Crop wild relatives 8 papers Distribution modeling and conservation gap analyses for the wild relatives of crops.

  1. Distribution and ecology of wild lettuces Lactuca serriola L. and Lactuca virosa L. in central Chile

    Lebeda, A., Křístková, E., Khoury, C.K., Carver, D., & Sosa, C.C.

    Hacquetia 21(1), 173–186 · 2022 · 5 citations

  2. Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action

    Khoury, C.K., Carver, D., Greene, S.L., Williams, K.A., Achicanoy, H.A., Schori, M., León, B., Wiersema, J.H., & Frances, A.

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(52), 33351–33357 · 2020 · 108 citations

  3. Modelled distributions and conservation status of the wild relatives of chile peppers (Capsicum L.)

    Khoury, C.K., Carver, D., Barchenger, D.W., Barboza, G.E., van Zonneveld, M., Jarret, R., Bohs, L., Kantar, M.B., Uchanski, M., Mercer, K., Nabhan, G.P., Bosland, P.W., & Greene, S.L.

    Diversity and Distributions 26(2), 209–225 · 2020 · 83 citations

  4. Crop wild relatives as germplasm resource for cultivar improvement in mint (Mentha L.)

    Vining, K.J., Hummer, K.E., Bassil, N.V., Lange, B.M., Khoury, C.K., & Carver, D.

    Frontiers in Plant Science 11, 1217 · 2020 · 65 citations

  5. Distributions, conservation status, and abiotic stress tolerance potential of wild cucurbits (Cucurbita L.)

    Khoury, C.K., Carver, D., Kates, H.R., Achicanoy, H.A., van Zonneveld, M., Thomas, E., Heinitz, C., Jarret, R., Labate, J.A., Reitsma, K., Nabhan, G.P., & Greene, S.L.

    Plants, People, Planet 2(3), 269–283 · 2020 · 57 citations

  6. Modelled distributions and conservation priorities of wild sorghums (Sorghum Moench)

    Myrans, H., Diaz, M.V., Khoury, C.K., Carver, D., Henry, R.J., & Gleadow, R.

    Diversity and Distributions 26(12), 1727–1740 · 2020 · 24 citations

  7. Research gaps and challenges in the conservation and exploitation of North American wild lettuce (Lactuca L.) germplasm

    Lebeda, A., Křístková, E., Kitner, M., Majeský, L., Doležalová, I., Khoury, C.K., Carver, D., Achicanoy, H.A., Sosa, C.C., Widrlechner, M., & Hu, J.

    Crop Science 59(6), 2337–2356 · 2019 · 30 citations

  8. Distributions and conservation status of carrot wild relatives in Tunisia: a case study in the western Mediterranean basin

    Mezghani, N., Khoury, C.K., Carver, D., Achicanoy, H.A., Simon, P., Flores, F.M., & Spooner, D.

    Crop Science 59(6), 2317–2328 · 2019 · 29 citations

Plant genetic resources and restoration 3 papers Safeguarding germplasm collections and sourcing seed for restoration under a changing climate.

  1. Safeguarding plant genetic resources in the United States during global climate change

    Volk, G.M., Carver, D., Irish, B.M., Marek, L., Frances, A., Greene, S., Khoury, C.K., Bamberg, J., Bethke, P.C., Bisognin, D., & Bradeen, J.M.

    Crop Science 63(4) · 2023 · 28 citations

  2. Using climate-driven adaptive evolution to guide seed sourcing for restoration in a diverse North American herb-shrub species

    Johnson, R.C., Love, S.L., Carver, D., & Irish, B.M.

    Restoration Ecology 31(4), e13856 · 2023 · 7 citations

  3. Seeds of Success: collateral benefits to agricultural crop improvement, research and education

    Greene, S.L., Carver, D., Khoury, C.K., Irish, B., Olwell, P., & Leah, P.

    Crop Science 59(6), 2429–2442 · 2019

Remote sensing and spatial methods 3 papers Detecting vegetation from imagery, checking land-cover products, and teaching the workflow.

  1. Creating presence and absence points, and Working with GPS and weather data

    Engelstad, P., Carver, D., & Young, N.E.

    Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine (book chapters) · 2023

  2. Assessment of the classification accuracy of the Globeland30 forest class for the temperate and tropical forests of Mexico

    Moreno-Sanchez, R., Carver, D.P., Torres-Rojo, J.M., & Anthamatten, P.

    Applied Geomatics 13(2), 147–163 · 2021 · 5 citations

  3. Improved remote sensing methods to detect northern wild rice (Zizania palustris L.)

    O'Shea, K., LaRoe, J., Vorster, A., Young, N., Evangelista, P., Mayer, T., Carver, D., Simonson, E., Martin, V., Radomski, P., Knopik, J., Kern, A., & Khoury, C.K.

    Remote Sensing 12(18), 3023 · 2020 · 15 citations

Rivers and landscape change 2 papers Riparian corridors and long-term landscape evolution in the Colorado and Rio Grande basins.

  1. CO-RIP: a riparian vegetation and corridor extent dataset for Colorado River Basin streams and rivers

    Woodward, B., Evangelista, P., Young, N., Vorster, A., West, A., Carroll, S., Girma, R., Hatcher, E., Anderson, R., Vahsen, M., Vashisht, A., Mayer, T., Carver, D., & Jarnevich, C.

    ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7(10), 397 · 2018

  2. Holocene landscape evolution and geoarchaeology of low-order streams in the Rio Grande basin, San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA

    Carver, D.P., & Beeton, J.M.

    Quaternary Research 82, 331–341 · 2014

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