Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications from lab members

Reprints can be requested from Jill Johnstone via email
  • Kearns, N. B., M. Jean, E. J. Tissier, and J. F. Johnstone. 2015. Recovery of tundra vegetation three decades after hydrocarbon drilling with and without seeding of non-native grasses. Arctic, in press.
  • Roland, C. A., J. H. Schmidt, and J. F. Johnstone. 2014. Climate sensitivity of reproduction in a mast-seeding boreal conifer across its distributional range from lowland to treeline forests. Oecologia 174:665–677. 
  • Tissier, E. J., J. Sheard, P.D. McLoughlin, and J.F. Johnstone. 2014. Distribution of vegetation along environmental gradients on Sable Island, Nova Scotia. EcoScience, 20: 361-372. 
  • Walker, X. and J. F. Johnstone. 2014. Widespread negative correlations between black spruce growth and temperature across topographic moisture gradients in the boreal forest. Environmental Research Letters, 9:064016. 
  • Buma, B., C. D. Brown, D. C. Donato, J. B. Fontaine, and J. F. Johnstone. 2013. The impacts of changing disturbance regimes on serotinous plant populations and communities. BioScience 63:866–876. 
  • Hollingsworth, T.N.H., Johnstone, J.F., Bernhardt, E.L., and Chapin, F.S., III (2013) Fire severity filters regeneration traits to shape community assembly in Alaska's boreal forest. PLoS ONE 8(2):e56033
  • Viglas, J., Brown, C.B. and Johnstone, J.F. (2013) Age and size effects on seed productivity of northern black spruce. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 43: 534-543.
  • Shenoy, A., Kielland, K, and Johnstone, J.F. (2013) Effects of fire severity on plant nutrient uptake reinforce alternate pathways of succession in boreal forests. Plant Ecology DOI 10.1007/s11258-013-0191-0
  • Brown, C. and Johnstone, J.F. (2012) Once burned, twice shy: Repeat fires reduce seed availability and alter substrate constraints on Picea mariana regeneration. Forest Ecology and Management 266: 34-41.
  • Johnstone, J.F., Rupp, T.S., Olsen, M. and Verbyla, D. (2011) Modeling impacts of fire severity on successional trajectories and future fire behavior in Alaskan boreal forests. Landscape Ecology, 26(4): 487-500.
  • Brown, C. and Johnstone, J.F. (2011) How does increased fire frequency affect carbon loss from fire? A case study in the northern boreal forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire 20: 829-837.
  • Pieper, S., Loewen, V., Gill, M. and Johnstone, J.F. (2011) Plant responses to natural and experimental variations in temperature in alpine tundra, southern Yukon, Canada. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 43: 442-456.
  • Shenoy, A., Johnstone, J. F., Kasischke, E. S. and Kielland, K. (2011) Persistent effects of fire severity on early successional forests in interior Alaska. Forest Ecology and Management 261(3): 381-390.
  • Johnstone, J.F., McIntire, E.J.B., Pedersen, E.J., King, G., and Pisaric, M.J.F. (2010) A sensitive slope: estimating landscape patterns of forest resilience in a changing climate. Ecosphere 1: art14. DOI: 10.1890/ES10-00102.1.
  • Johnstone, J.F., Hollingsworth, T.K.N., Chapin, F.S., III, and Mack, M.C. (2010) Changes in fire regime break the legacy lock on successional trajectories in Alaskan boreal forest. Global Change Biology 16: 1281-1295.
  • Johnstone, J.F., Chapin, F.S., III, Hollingsworth, T.K.N., Mack, M.C., Romanovsky, V. and Turetsky, M. (2010) Fire, climate change, and forest resilience in interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1302-1312.
  • Johnstone, J.F., Boby, L., Tissier, E., Mack, M.C., Verbyla, D.L., and Walker, X. (2009) Post-fire seed rain of black spruce, a semi-serotinous conifer, in forests of interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 1575-1588.
  • J.F. Johnstone, T. Hollingsworth, and F.S. Chapin, III (2008) A key for predicting post-fire successional trajectories in black spruce stands of interior Alaska. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-767. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 37p.
  • Johnstone, J.F. and Kokel, S.V. (2008) Environmental conditions and vegetation recovery at abandoned-drilling mud sumps in the Mackenzie Delta region, NWT, Canada. Arctic 61: 199-211.
  • Kasischke, E.S., Bourgeau-Chavez, L., and Johnstone, J. F. (2007) Assessing spatial and temporal variations in surface soil moisture in fire-disturbed black spruce forests in Interior Alaska using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery - implications for post-fire tree recruitment. Remote Sensing of Environment 108: 42-58.
  • Johnstone, J.F. (2006) Response of boreal plant communities to variations in previous fire-free interval. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15:497-508.
  • Johnstone, J. and F.S. Chapin, III (2006) Fire interval effects on successional trajectory in boreal forests of Northwest Canada. Ecosystems 9: 268-277
  • Johnstone, J.F. and Chapin, F.S., III. (2006) Effects of soil burn severity on patterns of post-fire tree recruitment in boreal forests. Ecosystems 9: 14-31.
  • Chapin, F.S., III, Robards, M., Huntington, H.P., Johnstone, J.F., Trainor, S.F., Kofinas, G.P., Ruess, R.W., Fresco, N., Natcher, D., and Naylor, R.L. (2006) Directional changes in ecological communities and social-ecological systems: A framework for prediction based on Alaskan examples. American Naturalist 168:S36-S49.
  • Johnstone, J.F. and Kasischke, E.S. (2005) Stand-level effects of soil burn severity on post-fire regeneration in a recently-burned black spruce forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2151-2163.
  • Kasischke, E.S. and Johnstone, J.F. (2005) Variation in ground layer surface fuel consumption and its effects on site characteristics in a black spruce forest complex in interior Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 2164-2177.
  • Johnstone, J.F. (2005) Effects of aspen (Populus tremuloides) removal on post-fire establishment and growth of conifer seedlings in central Alaska. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 483-486.
  • Bergner, B., Johnstone, J.F. and Treseder, K.K. (2004) Experimental warming and burn severity alter soil CO2 flux and soil functional groups in a recently burned boreal forest. Global Change Biology 10: 1996-2004.
  • Johnstone, J.F., Chapin, F.S., III, Foote, J., Kemmet, S., Price, K., and Viereck, L. (2004) Decadal observations of tree regeneration following fire in boreal forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 267-273.
  • Chapin, F.S.,III, Callaghan, T. V., Bergeron, Y., Fukuda, M., Johnstone, J.F., Juday, G., and Zimov, S.A. (2004) Global change and the boreal forest: Thresholds, shifting states or gradual change? Ambio 33(6): 361-365.
  • Johnstone, J. and F.S. Chapin, III (2003). Non-equilibrium succession dynamics indicate continued northern migration of lodgepole pine. Global Change Biology.
  • Johnstone, J., D.E. Russell and B. Griffith (2002). Variations in plant forage quality in the range of the Porcupine Caribou Herd. Rangifer 22(1): 65-74.