Publications

Stan, K. D., Watt, G., Sanchez-Azofeifa, G.A. (2026). Novel carbon dynamics assessment framework reveals climate positive land management approaches across North America. Land Use Policy, 162. 107890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107890 

Tucker, C. S., Crowell, A. C., Stan, K. D., & Patterson, T. W. (2025). Tropical Cyclone Response in Annual Tree Growth at Three Different Coastal Sites Along the Gulf of Mexico, USA. Forests, 16(3), 476. https://doi.org/10.3390/f16030476 

Taylor, Z., & Stan, K. (2025). Examining Faculty and Staff Salary Inequities Between Historically-Black Colleges and Universities and Non-HBCU Institutions of Higher Education. Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 10(1). 

Zhao, A., Li, Z., Zou, L., Wu, J., Stan, K., & Sanchez-Azofeif, A. (2025). Evaluating Dynamic Global Vegetation Models in China: Challenges in capturing trends in Leaf Area and Gross Primary Productivity, but effective seasonal variation representation. Earth System Dynamics Discussions, 2025, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-1935-2025 

Taylor, Z., & Stan, K. (2025). Exploring staff and faculty salary inequities between Hispanic-serving institutions and non-Hispanic-serving institutions of higher education. Equity in Education & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/27526461251326929 

Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Sharp, I., & Stan, K. (2024). MODIS fPAR products do not reflect in-situ conditions in a tropical dry forest based on wavelet and cross-wavelet transforms. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 36, 101298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101298 

Taylor, Z. W., & Stan, K. (2024). Exploring the Stratified Nature of Artificial Intelligence Research Funding in United States Educational Systems: A Bibliometric and Network Analysis. Education Sciences, 14(11), 1248. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14111248 

Rankine, C., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., do Espirito-Santo, M. M., & Stan, K. (2024). Succession and seasonality of a Brazilian secondary tropical dry forest: Phenology and climate moderation. Forest Ecology and Management, 568, 122151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122151 

Stan, K. D., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., & Hamann, H. F. (2024). Widespread degradation and limited protection of forests in global tropical dry ecosystems. Biological Conservation, 289, 110425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110425 

Zou, L., Stan, K., Cao, S., & Zhu, Z. (2023). Dynamic global vegetation models may not capture the dynamics of the leaf area index in the tropical rainforests: A data-model intercomparison. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 339, 109562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109562 

Stan, K. D., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., & Ludwig, R. (2022). Sustainability of Costa Rica’s water supply under climate change scenarios. Environmental Science & Policy, 136, 67-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.05.021 

Stan, K., Watt, G. A., & Sanchez-Azofeifa, A. (2021). Financial stability in response to climate change in a northern temperate economy. Nature Communications, 12(1), 7161. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27490-3 

Stan, K. D., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Duran, S. M., Hesketh, M., Laakso, K., Portillo-Quintero, C., ... & Doetterl, S. (2021). Tropical dry forest resilience and water use efficiency: an analysis of productivity under climate change. Environmental Research Letters, 16(5), 054027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abf6f3 

Stan, K., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Calvo-Rodriguez, S., Castro-Magnani, M., Chen, J., Ludwig, R., & Zou, L. (2020). Climate change scenarios and projected impacts for forest productivity in Guanacaste Province (Costa Rica): lessons for tropical forest regions. Regional Environmental Change, 20(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01602-z 

Stan, K., & Sanchez-Azofeifa, A. (2019). Tropical dry forest diversity, climatic response, and resilience in a changing climate. Forests, 10(5), 443. https://doi.org/10.3390/f10050443 

Stan, K., & Sanchez-Azofeifa, A. (2019). Deforestation and secondary growth in Costa Rica along the path of development. Regional Environmental Change, 19(2), 587-597. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1432-5 

Stan, K. D., & Sanchez-Azofeifa, A. (2017). The Edmonton-Calgary corridor: Simulating future land cover change under potential government intervention. Land use policy, 63, 356-368. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.039 

Soltani, M., Laux, P., Kunstmann, H., Stan, K., Sohrabi, M. M., Molanejad, M., ... & Martin, M. V. (2016). Assessment of climate variations in temperature and precipitation extreme events over Iran. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 126(3), 775-795. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-015-1609-5 

Stan, K., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Espírito-Santo, M., & Portillo-Quintero, C. (2015). Simulating deforestation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, under changing government policies and socioeconomic conditions. PLoS One, 10(9), e0137911. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137911 

Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Stan, K., & Mashhadi, N. (2025). Tropical dry climates. In Phenology: an integrative environmental science (pp. 155-170). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.