Plant Disturbance Ecology

Edward A. Johnson is a Professor of Biological Sciences Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Calgary, Canada and up until June 2018, he was also the Director of the Biogeoscience Institute. His research interests are wildfires, avalanches, hillslope and fluvial geomorphic processes, climate, landuse, and other processes as they affect tree populations. He is particularly interested in the explicit coupling of the physical processes to ecological processes. He has over 114 publications and 4,693 total citations. Kiyoko Miyanishi is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, having retired in 2005. She has edited 2 books, written 11 book chapters and has over 30 publications and 1,200 citations.

1. Disturbance and Succession
2. The Turbulent Wind in Plant and Forest Canopies
3. Thunderstorm Downbursts: Windstorms and Blowdowns
4. Understanding How the Interaction of Wind and Trees Results in Windthrow, Stem Breakage, and Canopy Gap Formation
5. Meteorological Conditions Associated with Ice Storm Damage to Forests
6. The Effect of Icing Events on the Death and Regeneration of North American Trees
7. Coastal Dune Succession and the Reality of Dune Processes
8. Fluvial Geomorphic Disturbances and Life History Traits of Riparian Tree Species
9. Water Level Changes in Ponds and Lakes: The Hydrological Processes
10. Development of Post-Disturbance Vegetation in Prairie Wetlands
11. Modelling fire effects on plants: from organs to ecosystems
12. Insect Defoliators as Periodic Disturbances in Northern Forest Ecosystems
13. Revisiting the Relationship between Spruce Budworm Outbreaks and Forest Dynamics over the Holocene in Eastern North America Based on Novel Proxies
14. Beaver as Agents of Plant Disturbance