Selected publications

Swette, B., S. Charnley, A. Hulet, L. Huntsinger, K. A. Hopping. 2026. What drives institutional action for wildfire resilience? Determinants of targeted grazing attitudes and adoption on national forests in the western US. Environmental Research Letters. 21(18): 184031.

Swette, B., K. A. Hopping. 2025. Psychosocial factors of U.S. Forest Service staff that influence targeted grazing practice on national forests. Rangelands. 47(3): 181-188.

Swette, B., K. Hopping, T. Padilla, H. Heyrend, R. Garcia, D. Coultrap. 2025. Targeted Grazing on Forest Service Lands: Research Brief to Support USFS Staff. January 2025. 21 p.

Netherton-Morrison, H., M. Burnham, R. L. Som Castellano, M. A. Williamson, K. A. Hopping. In press. A mixed-methods approach to understanding diverse values for working sagebrush landscapes. Society and Natural Resources.

Hart-Fredeluces, G., K. A. Hopping, M. Burnham. 2026. Negative impacts of an invasive pasture grass on a native wetland herb increase with hydroperiod. Wetlands. 46:117.

Netherton-Morrison, H. K., M. A. Williamson, M. Burnham, R. L. Som Castellano, K. A. Hopping. 2025. Politics, proximity, and preferences: Spatial and contextual patterns in management opinions for an imperiled multifunctional landscape.‍ ‍Land Use Policy. 157:107667.

Puntenney, C., A. Hulet, K. Hopping. 2025. Comparing ranchers’ and federal land managers’ mental models of rangelands across an environmental gradient.‍ Rangeland Ecology and Management. 98:94-109.

Hart-Fredeluces, G., K. A. Hopping, M. Burnham, T. Gregory. 2025. Indirect and interactive effects drive impacts of prescribed fire and invasive grass on a native wetland herb. Restoration Ecology. 3(1):e14331.

Caughlin, T., M. Clark, L. Jochems, N. Kolarik, A. Zaiats, C. Hall, J. Winiarski, B. Powers, M. Brabec, K. Hopping. 2025. Socio-ecological interactions promote outbreaks of a harmful invasive plant in an urban landscape. Ecological Solutions and Evidence. 4:e12247.

Dorji, T., K. A. Hopping, F. Meng, S. Wang, L. Jiang, J. A. Klein. 2020. Impacts of climate change on flowering phenology and production in alpine plants: the importance of end of flowering. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. 291:106795.

Nyima, Y. and K. A. Hopping. 2019. Tibetan lake expansion from a pastoral perspective: local observations and coping strategies for a changing environment. Society and Natural Resources. 32(9):965-982.

Hopping, K. A., S. M. Chignell, E. F. Lambin. 2018. The demise of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region due to climate change and overharvesting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(45):11489-11494.

Hopping, K. A., A. K. Knapp, T. Dorji, J. A. Klein. 2018. Warming and land use change concurrently erode ecosystem services in Tibet. Global Change Biology. 24(11):5534-5548.

Yang, Y., K. A. Hopping, G. Wang, J. Chen, A. Peng, J. A. Klein. 2018. Permafrost and drought regulate vulnerability of Tibetan Plateau grasslands to warming. Ecosphere. 9(5):e02233.

Hopping, K. A., E. T. Yeh, Gaerrang, R. B. Harris. 2018. Linking people, pixels, and pastures: a multi-method, interdisciplinary investigation of how rangeland management affects vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau. Applied Geography. 94:147-162.

Zinda, J. A., K. A. Hopping, E. Schmitt, E. T. Yeh, S. Harrell, E. N. Anderson. 2016. China’s ecosystems: Sacrificing the poor. Science. 353(6300):657-658.

Hopping, K. A., C. Yangzong, J. A. Klein. 2016. Local knowledge production, transmission, and the importance of village leaders in a network of Tibetan pastoralists coping with environmental change. Ecology and Society. 21(1):25.

Klein, J. A., K. A. Hopping, E. T. Yeh, Y. Nyima, R. B. Boone, K. A. Galvin. 2014. Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: Local and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer. Global Environmental Change. 28:141-152.

Yeh, E. T., Y. Nyima, K. A. Hopping, J. A. Klein. 2014. Tibetan pastoralists' vulnerability to climate change: A political ecology analysis of capacity to cope with snowstorms. Human Ecology. 42(1):61-74.

MacDougall, A.,…K. A. Hopping,…M. B. Siewert (140 authors). 2026. The global extent of the grassland biome and its implications for the terrestrial carbon sink. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 10:246–257.

Soininen, E. M., I. Barrio, R. Bjørkås, K. Björnsdóttir, D. Ehrich, K. A. Hopping, (37 authors), J. D. M. Speed. 2021. Location of studies and evidence of effects of herbivory on Arctic vegetation: a systematic map. Environmental Evidence. 10(1):25.

Thorn, J. P. R., J. A. Klein, C. Steger, K. A. Hopping, C. Capitani, C. M. Tucker, R. S. Reid, R. A. Marchant. 2021. Scenario archetypes reveal risks and opportunities for global mountain futures. Global Environmental Change. 69:102291.

Thorn, J. P. R., J. A. Klein, C. Steger, K. A. Hopping, C. Capitani, C. M. Tucker, A. W. Nolin, R. S. Reid, R. Seidl, V. S. Chitale, R. Marchant. 2020. A systematic review of participatory scenario planning to envision mountain social-ecological systems futures. Ecology and Society. 25(3):6.

Klein, J. A., C. M. Tucker, A. W. Nolin, K. A. Hopping, R. S. Reid, C. Steger, A. Grêt-Regamey, S. Lavorel, B. Müller, E. T. Yeh, R. B. Boone, P. Bourgeron, V. Butsic, E. Castellanos, X. Chen, S. K. Dong, G. Greenwood, M. Keiler, R. Marchant, R. Seidl, T. Spies, J. Thorn, K. Yager, Mountain Sentinels Network. 2019. Catalyzing transformations to sustainability in the world’s mountains. Earth’s Future. 7(5):547-557.

Ernakovich, J. G., K. A. Hopping, A. B. Berdanier, R. T. Simpson, E. J. Kachergis, H. Steltzer, M. Wallenstein. 2014. Predicted responses of arctic and alpine ecosystems to altered seasonality under climate change. Global Change Biology. 20(10):3256-3269.

Matarrita Cascante, D., K. A. Hopping, L. Roche, H. Qin, A. Theophilus, A. E. Luloff, C. Baldauf, T. Schohr. In press. Rethinking Community in U.S. Rangeland Management: Insights from Interactional Community Field Theory. Ecology and Society.

Dade, M., A. Bonn, F. Eigenbrod, M. F. Lucia, B. Fisher, B. Goldstein, R. Holland, K. Hopping, S. Lavorel, Y. le Polain de Waroux, G. MacDonald, L. Mandle, J. P. Metzger, U. Pascual, J. Rieb, A. Vallet, G. Wells, C. Ziter, E. Bennett, B. Robinson. 2025. Landscapes—A Lens for Assessing Sustainability. Landscape Ecology. 40(2):28.

le Polain de Waroux, Y., R. Garrett, M. Chapman, C. Friis, J. Hoelle, L. Hodel, K. A. Hopping, J. G. Zähringer. 2021. The role of culture in land system science. Journal of Land Use Science. 16(4):450-466.

Steger, C. E., J. A. Klein, R. S. Reid, S. Lavorel, C. M. Tucker, K. A. Hopping, R. Marchant, T. Teel, A. Cuni-Sanchez, T. Dorji, G. Greenwood, R. Huber, K.-A. Kassam, D. Kreuer, A. Nolin, A. Russell, J. L. Sharp, M. Šmid Hribar, J. P. R. Thorn, G. Grant, M. Mahdi, M. Moreno, D. Waiswa. 2021. Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work. Global Environmental Change. 68:102240.