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Dr. Soto’s research centers on the modeling of coupled natural-human systems at different spatial and temporal scales—for both fundamental insight and practical real-world applications. His current focus involves the use of non-market valuation and survey-based methodologies to examine ecosystem services, which are embedded in complex, social-ecological systems. He collaborates with natural scientists, along with local, state, and federal land managers to investigate issues related to wildlife, climate change, forest water yield, carbon sequestration, and invasive species. Show Less
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Courses
- ESSMEcosystem Services: Science and Management
- ESVMEcosystem Service Valuation Methods
- TESCNRThe Economics & Social Connections to Natural Resources
Grants
- Economics of Active Land Management Prescriptions in Cross-Timbers Region
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$123.5K
Active - An Instrument to Assess Recreation-related Ecosystem Services on the San Dimas Experimental Forest
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$20.0K
Active - CNH2-L: Solving Grand Challenges in Coupled Natural Human Systems: Predicting Effective Governance Strategies for Manning Invasive Species
Key Personnel (KP)
2020
$1.6M
Active - Towards an Accessible Agribusiness Education for College Students in Borderland Areas of the U.S. Southwest: An Agribusiness Analytics Minor
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$250.0K
Active - Understanding Synergies and Tradeoffs Between Conservation and Development by Integrating Ecosystem Services into Land Use Planning
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$6.4K
Active - CAZMEX: Building a Binational Research Network to Address the Role of Climate Change and the Built Environments on Emerging Vector-Borne Disease Threats
Co-Investigator (COI)
2019
$45.3K
Active - A Future Without Fences? Optimizing Animal and Land Management Through Applications of Precision Animal Management on Complex Southwestern Rangelands
Co-Investigator (COI)
2023
$220.1K
- Understanding Public Preferences and Barriers to the Use of a Critical Climate Change Mitigation Tool: Economics of Longleaf Pine and Ecosystem Services
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$75.0K
Publications (36)
Recent
- On Lessons from Water Recharge Projects in Mexico: Science-Policy Collaboration and Stakeholder Participation
2022
- Obstacles to the Development of Integrated Land-Use Planning in Developing Countries: The Case of Paraguay
2022
- A composite human wellbeing index for ecosystem-dependent communities: A case study in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh
2022
- Modeling the complex associations of human wellbeing dimensions in a coupled human-natural system: In contexts of marginalized communities
2022
- Diverse stakeholders and their interests matter to the US Forest Service: a network of action situations analysis of how stakeholders affect forest plan outcomes
2022
- How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity
2021
- Public Preferences for Longleaf Pine Restoration Programs in the Southeastern United States.
2021
- Grassification and Fast-Evolving Fire Connectivity and Risk in the Sonoran Desert, United States
2021
- Telecoupled payments for ecosystems services can address international impediments to the conservation of migratory species: A case study of endangered Black-faced spoonbill.
2021
- Recognizing the insurance value of resilience: Evidence from a forest restoration policy in the southeastern US
2021
- The complex associations of human wellbeing dimensions in a coupled human-natural system: evidence from the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest, Bangladesh
2021
- Heterogeneous preferences and economic values for urban forest structural and functional attributes.
2021
- Economic and ethical motivations for forest restoration and incentive payments
2021
- Drug delivery in catheterized arterial blood flow with atherosclerosis
2020
- Policy lessons from spatiotemporal enrollment patterns of payment for ecosystem service programs in Argentina
2020
- Improving the Modeling of the Height–Diameter Relationship of Tree Species with High Growth Variability: Robust Regression Analysis of Ochroma pyramidale (Balsa-Tree).
2020
- Open Standards for conservation as a tool for linking research and conservation agendas in complex socio-ecological systems.
2020
- Public Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Invasive Forest Pest Prevention Programs in Urban Areas
2020
- A bioeconomic model for estimating potential economic damages from a hypothetical Asian beetle introduced via future trade with Cuba
2019
- Would county residents vote for an increase in their taxes to conserve native wildlife habitat and ecosystem services? Funding conservation in Palm Beach County, Florida
2019
- Would County Residents Vote for an Increase in Their Taxes to Conserve Native Habitat and Ecosystem Services? Funding Conservation in Palm Beach County, Florida
2019
- Can land management alter ecoclimate teleconnections across North America in the face of forest die-off?
2019
- Socioeconomic and ecological perceptions and barriers to urban tree distribution and reforestation programs
2018
- Structuring Legal Trade in Rhino Horn to Incentivize the Participation of South African Private Landowners
2018
- Small-scale forestry and carbon offset markets: An empirical study of Vermont Current Use forest landowner willingness to accept carbon credit programs
2018
- Consumer demand for urban forest ecosystem services and disservices: Examining trade-offs using choice experiments and best-worst scaling
2018
- Economic Feasibility of Managing Loblolly Pine Forests for Water Production under Climate Change in the Southeastern United States
2017
- Creating Voluntary Payment Programs: Effective Program Design and Ranchers’ Willingness to Conserve Florida Panther Habitat
2017
- Expected Timber-Based Economic Impacts of a Wood-Boring Beetle (Acanthotomicus Sp.) That Kills American Sweetgum
2017
- A distributional analysis of the socio-ecological and economic determinants of forest carbon stocks
2016
- Pre-invasion economic assessment of invasive species prevention: A putative ambrosia beetle in Southeastern loblolly pine forests
2016
- Economic Sustainability of Payments for Water Yield in Slash Pine Plantations in Florida
2016
- Does policy process influence public values for forest-water resource protection in Florida?
2016
- Landowner attitudes and willingness to accept compensation from forest carbon offsets: Application of best–worst choice modeling in Florida USA
2016
- Public and Private Preferences for Urban Forest Ecosystem Services
2016
- An Overview of Carbon Markets for Florida Forest Landowners1
2014