Dr. David Robert Johnson

  • Assoc Professor of Instruction at Biology, College of Science & Engineering

Scholarly and Creative Works

2019

  • Scharnagle, K., Johnson, D. R., & Ebert-May, D. (2019). Shrub expansion and alpine plant community change: 40-year record from Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Plant Ecology and Diversity, 12, 407–416. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2019.1641757

2018

  • Gough, L., & Johnson, D. R. (2018). Mammalian herbivory exacerbates plant community responses to long-term increased soil nutrients in two Alaskan tundra plant communities. Arctic Science, 4, 153–166. https://doi.org/10.1139/AS-2017-0025

2017

  • Lara, M. J., Johnson, D. R., Andresen, C., Hollister, R., & Tweedie, C. (2017). Peak season carbon exchange shifts from a sink to a source following 50+ years of herbivore exclusion in an Arctic tundra ecosystem. Journal of Ecology, 105, 122–131. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12654

2016

  • Johnson, D. R. (2016). Annual Report: Determining patters of plant succession, ecosystem services and hydrology at Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve.

2015

  • Johnson, D. R. (2015). Annual Report: Determining interannual variability in vegetation structure and exploring leaf decomposition and fungal metabolism at Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve.

2014

  • Johnson, D. R. (2014). Annual Report: Determining interannual variability in vegetation structure and the relationship between structure and ecosystem function at Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve.

2013

  • Johnson, D. R. (2013). Annual Report: Vegetation survey at Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve and Adjacent BCP Vireo Preserve.
  • Johnson, D. R., & Gough, L. (2013). Two arctic tundra graminoids differ in tolerance to herbivory when grown with added soil nutrients. Botany, 91, 82–90. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2012-0143

2012

  • Lin, D. H., Johnson, D. R., Andresen, C., & Tweedie, C. (2012). High spatial resolution decade-time scale land cover change at multiple locations in the Beringian Arctic (1948 – 2000s). Environmental Research Letters, 7, 025502+14. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/025502
  • Gough, L., Moore, J. C., Shaver, G. R., Simpson, R., & Johnson, D. R. (2012). Above- and belowground responses of arctic tundra ecosystems to altered soil nutrients and mammalian herbivory. Ecology, 93, 1683–1694. https://doi.org/10.1890/11-1631.1
  • Elmendorf, S., Henry, G., Hollister, R., Björk, R. G., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Cooper, E. J., … Wipf, S. (2012). Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming. Nature Climate Change, 2, 453–457. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1465
  • Villarreal, S., Hollister, R., Johnson, D. R., Lara, M. R., Webber, P., & Tweedie, C. (2012). Tundra vegetation change near Barrow, Alaska (1972-2010). Environmental Research Letters, 7, 015508+10. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015508
  • Lara, M., Villarreal, S., Johnson, D. R., Hollister, R., Webber, P., & Tweedie, C. (2012). Estimated change in tundra ecosystem function near Barrow, Alaska between 1972 and 2010. Environmental Research Letters, 7, 015507+10. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015507

2011

  • Tweedie, C., Johnson, D. R., Lara, M., & Villarreal, S. (2011). IPY-Back to the Future (BTF): Re-sampling research sites established more than 25 years ago to assess future trajectories of change in high latitude terrestrial ecosystem structure and function.
  • Johnson, D. R., Lara, M., Shaver, G., Batzli, G. O., Shaw, J., & Tweedie, C. (2011). Exclusion of brown lemmings reduces vascular plant cover and biomass in Arctic coastal tundra: resampling of a 50+ year exclosure experiment near Barrow, Alaska. Environmental Research Letters, 6, 045507+8. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045507
  • Johnson, D. R., Ebert-May, D., Webber, P., & Tweedie, C. (2011). Forecasting alpine vegetation change using repeat sampling and a novel modeling approach. Ambio, 40, 693–704. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0175-z
  • Callaghan, T. V., Tweedie, C., Åkerman, J., Andrews, C., Bergstedt, J., Butler, M., … Zemtsov, V. (2011). Multi-decadal changes in tundra environments and ecosystems: synthesis of the international Polar Year – Back to the Future Project (IPY-BTF). Ambio, 40, 705–716. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-011-0179-8

2010

  • Tweedie, C., Johnson, D. R., Lara, M., & Villarreal, S. (2010). IPY Back to the Future (BTF): Resampling research sites established more than 25 years ago to assess future trajectories of change in high latitude terrestrial ecosystem structure and function.

2009

  • Tweedie, C., Johnson, D. R., Lara, M., & Villarreal, S. (2009). IPY Back to the Future (BTF): Resampling research sites established more than 25 years ago to assess future trajectories of change in high latitude terrestrial ecosystem structure and function.

2008

  • Gough, L., Shrestha, K., Moon, B., & Johnson, D. R. (2008). Long-term mammalian herbivory and nutrient addition alter lichen community structure in Alaskan dry heath tundra. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 40, 65–73.

2007