Scholars

Professor and Head

Positions:

UN Sustainable Development Goals:

Map of Science

ORCID

UN Sustainable Development Goals:

overview

Ecosystem Modeling, Landscape Ecology, Biogeography, GIS applications for environmental modeling, and Physical Geography

education and training

selected publications

Bader, M. Y., Llambí, L. D., Case, B. S., Buckley, H. L., Toivonen, J. M., Camarero, J. J., ... Resler, L. M (2021). A global framework for linking alpine‐treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes. Ecography. 44(2), 265-292.
Brodersen, C. R., Germino, M. J., Johnson, D. M., Reinhardt, K., Smith, W. K., Resler, L. M., ... Wieser, G (2019). Seedling Survival at Timberline Is Critical to Conifer Mountain Forest Elevation and Extent. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 2, 9.
Dwight, R. A., & Cairns, D. M (2018). The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Facilitates Shrub Establishment in Northern Alaska. ARCTIC. 71(3), 249-258.
Johnson, J. S., Gaddis, K. D., Cairns, D. M., Konganti, K., & Krutovsky, K. V (2017). Landscape genomic insights into the historic migration of mountain hemlock in response to Holocene climate change.. Am J Bot. 104(3), 439-450.
Johnson, J. S., Gaddis, K. D., Cairns, D. M., & Krutovsky, K. V (2017). Seed dispersal at alpine treeline: an assessment of seed movement within the alpine treeline ecotone. Ecosphere. 8(1),

Johnson, J. S., Krutovsky, K. V., Rajora, O. P., Gaddis, K. D., & Cairns, D. M (2018). Advancing Biogeography Through Population Genomics. Population Genomics. 539-585. Springer International Publishing.
Balkenhol, N., Dudaniec, R. Y., Krutovsky, K. V., Johnson, J. S., Cairns, D. M., Segelbacher, G., ... Joost, S (2017). Landscape Genomics: Understanding Relationships Between Environmental Heterogeneity and Genomic Characteristics of Populations. Population Genomics. 261-322. Springer International Publishing.
Cairns, D. M (2017). Polar Region Ecosystems. International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. 1-9. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Xi, W., Waldron, J. D., Cairns, D. M., Lafon, C. W., Birt, A. G., Tchakerian, M. D., Klepzig, K. D., & Coulson, R. N. (2012). Restoration of Southern Pine Forests After the Southern Pine Beetle. Stanturf, J., Madsen, P., & Lamb, D. (Eds.), A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration. 321-354. Springer Netherlands.
Malanson, G. P., Brown, D. G., Butler, D. R., Cairns, D. M., Fagre, D. B., & Walsh, S. J. (2009). Chapter 3 Ecotone Dynamics. Developments in Earth Surface Processes. Developments in Earth Surface Processes. 35-61. Elsevier.

Xi, W., Chen, S., Birt, A. G., Waldron, J. D., Lafon, C. W., Cairns, D. M., ... Coulson, R. N. (2010). SIMULATING THE INTERACTIONS OF FOREST STRUCTURE, FIRE REGIME, AND PLANT INVASION IN THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS USING LANDIS. PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE INTERAGENCY RESEARCH FORUM ON INVASIVE SPECIES. 75, 143-143.
Filippi, A. M., Brannstrom, C., Cairns, D. M., & Kim, D. (2007). Hyperion and CBERS satellite image classification intercomparison for Cerrado and agricultural mapping. SPIE Proceedings, Remote Sensing. 6749, 674913-674913-12-674913-12.