Scholars

Professor and Head

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Map of Science

ORCID

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. (2020). A global framework for linking alpine‐treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes. Ecography. 44(2), 265-292.
Rees, W. G., Hofgaard, A., Boudreau, S., Cairns, D. M., Harper, K., Mamet, S., ... Tutubalina, O. (2020). Is subarctic forest advance able to keep pace with climate change?. Global Change Biology. 26(7), 3965-3977.
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.
Chhetri, P. K., & Cairns, D. M. (2018). Low recruitment above treeline indicates treeline stability under changing climate in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve, Western Nepal. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 39(4), 1-14.

Johnson, J. S., Krutovsky, K. V., Rajora, O. P., Gaddis, K. D., & Cairns, D. M. (2018). Advancing Biogeography Through Population Genomics. Population Genomics. (pp. 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. (pp. 261-322). Springer International Publishing.
Cairns, D. M. (2017). Polar Region Ecosystems. International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. (pp. 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. (pp. 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 Invasibility of Alpine Tundra by Tree Species from the Subalpine Forest. The Changing Alpine Treeline - The Example of Glacier National Park, MT, USA. (pp. 35-61). Elsevier.