In collaboration with Jake Brenner (Ithaca College) and Van Butsic (UC Berkeley), Ian Wang has published a new paper in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on the effects of cannabis grows on forest fragmentation in Northern California. The paper quantifies the landscape impacts of expanding cannabis production and puts forward a new approach for analyzing the per-unit-area effects of emerging agricultural land-uses. The study has already garnered a lot of attention in mainstream media, including Anthropocene Magazine and Vice.
Wang I.J., Brenner J.C., and Butsic V. (2017) An emerging agricultural crop leads to deforestation and fragmentation. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15: 495-501. [pdf]