Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Jobe, R. T. and P. S. White, in press. A new cost-distance model for human accessibility and an evaluation of accessibility bias in permanent vegetation plots in great smoky mountains. Journal of Vegetation Science .
  • Jobe, R. T., E. Bidgood, I. Breckhiemer, S. Caplow, B. Evans, M. Faestel, G. Gomazo, Andrea, , J. Meuhlbauer, A. Moody, K. Palmquist, S. Seiter, S. Seymour, and S. Tessel, In review. An assessment of the all-taxa biodiversity inventory: Putting the science back in citizen science. Ecological Applications .
  • Jobe, R. T. and A. Moody, In review. Bayesian inference on canopy cover from small-footprint lidar. Ecological Applications .
  • Carrel, M. A., M. Emch, T. Ngyuen, R. T. Jobe, A. Moody, and X.-F. Wan, In Review. Space-time differentiation of h5n1 evolution in vietnam, 2003-2007. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America .
  • Jobe, R. T., 2008. Estimating landscape-scale species richness: Reconciling frequency- and turnover-based approaches. Ecology 89:174-182.

White Papers

  • Jobe, R. T., 2005. Environmental heterogeneity of the northshore road: Northshore road environmental impact assessment. Technical report, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Department of the Interior.
  • Jobe, R. T., 2006. A permanent vegetation monitoring protocol for great smoky mountains national park. Technical report, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Department of the Interior.
  • Jobe, R. T. and B. Zank, 2009. Modelling species distributions for the great smoky mountains national park using maxent. Technical report, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Department of the Interior.

Presentations & Posters

  • Fridley, J. D., R. K. Peet, P. S. White, J. Gramling, T. Jobe, J. Kaplan, M. W. McKnight, A. Senft, and D. Vandermast, 2003. Fine-scale species-area relationships of the vascular flora of the southeast (usa). In The 88th ESA Annual Meeting.
  • Jobe, R. T., 2005. Developing a sampling protocol for long-term vegetation monitoring: Maximizing environmental representation, minimizing sampling effort. In The 90th ESA Annual Meeting.
  • Gramling, J. and R. T. Jobe, 2005. Constructing localized species pools to test dispersal limitation in woody plants of the southeastern us. In The 90th ESA Annual Meeting.
  • Jobe, R. T., 2006. Estimating landscape-scale species richness: the effects of extent and grain. In The 91st ESA Annual Meeting.
  • Moody, A., R. T. Jobe, N. Haddad, and J. Walters, 2007. Animals on the move. The Associaation of American Geographers.
  • Costanza, J., A. Moody, R. Peet, D. Winters, and R. Jobe, 2007. PS 4-49: Plant species turnover along productivity gradients in eastern North Carolina. In The 92nd ESA Annual Meeting.
  • Jobe, R. T., A. Moody, M. Simon, and A. Trainor, 2007. Inferred canopy height profiles from small-footprint multiple-return airborne lidar. In Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop. Strategic Environmental Research Program. Department of Defense.
  • White, J., M. Boyle, L. Jacobs, R. Jobe, K. Kostelnik, E. Matthews, J. Ott, A. Weakley, T. Wentworth, B. Wheeler, et al., 2008. PS 18-7: Geographic affinities of floras: A vector approach. In The 93rd ESA Annual Meeting.

Dissertation

  • Jobe, R. T., 2006. Biodiversity and scale: Determinants of species richness in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Ph.d., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.