Published Papers
2013
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Wang, L., A. Birt, C. W. Lafon, D. M. Cairns, R. N. Coulson, M. Tchakerian, W. Xi, S. Popescu, and J. M. Guldin. 2013. Computer-based synthetic data to assess the tree delineation algorithm from airborne LiDAR survey. Geoinformatica 17:35-61.
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Kim, D., W. E. Grant, D. M. Cairns, and J. Bartholdy. 2013. Effects of wind-driven sea-level variation on salt marsh dynamics: A quantitative model as proof of concept. Geo-Marine Letters 33:253-261.
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Kim, D., D. M. Cairns, and J. Bartholdy. 2013. Tidal creek morphology and sediment type influence spatial trends in salt marsh vegetation. Professional Geographer 65:544-560.
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Johnson, J. S., D. M. Cairns, and C. Houser. 2013. Coastal marsh vegetation assemblages of Galveston Bay: Insights for the East Texas Chenier Plain. Wetlands 33:861-870.
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Wonkka, C.L., Lafon, C.W., Hutton, C.M., and Joslin, A.J. 2013. A CSR classification of tree life history strategies and implications for ice storm damage. Oikos 122:209–222.
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Flatley, W.T., Lafon, C.W., Grissino-Mayer, H.D., and LaForest, L.B. (2013) Fire history, related to climate and land use in three southern Appalachian landscapes in the eastern United States. Ecological Applications. 23:1250–1266.
2012
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Xi, W., J. D. Waldron, D. M. Cairns, C. W. Lafon, A. G. Birt, M. D. Tchakerian, K. D. Klepzig, and R. N. Coulson. 2012. Restoration of southern pine forests after the southern pine beetle. Pages 321-354 in J. A. e. a. Stanturf, editor. A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration. Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht.
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Kim, D., D. M. Cairns, J. Bartholdy, and C. L. S. Morgan. 2012. Scale-dependent correspondence of floristic and edaphic gradients across salt marsh creeks. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102.
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Cairns, D. M., C. W. Lafon, M. F. Mouton, R. L. Stuteville, A. B. Young, and J. Moen. 2012. Comparing two methods for ageing trees with suppressed, diffuse-porous rings (Betula pubescens ssp. czerepanovii). Dendrochronologia 30:252-256.
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Young, A. B., D. M. Cairns, C. W. Lafon, J. Moen, and L. E. Martin. 2011. Dendroclimatic relationships and possible implications for mountain birch and Scots pine at treeline in northern Sweden through the 21st century. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41:450-459.
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Shankman, D., Lafon, C.W., and Keim, B.D. 2012. Western range boundaries of floodplain trees in the southeastern United States. Geographical Review 102:35–52.
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Lafon, C.W. and Quiring, S.Q. (2012) Relationships of fire and precipitation regimes in temperate forests of the eastern U.S.A. Earth Interactions 16-011, 15 pp.
2011
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Naito, A. T., and D. M. Cairns. 2011. Relationships between Arctic shrub dynamics and topographically derived hydrologic characteristics. Environmental Research Letters 6:045506.
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Naito, A. T., and D. M. Cairns. 2011. Patterns and processes of global shrub expansion. Progress in Physical Geography 35:423-442.
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Kim, D., D. M. Cairns, and J. Bartholdy. 2011. Wind-Driven Sea-Level Variation Influences Dynamics of Salt Marsh Vegetation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101:231-248.
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Kim, D., J. Bartholdy, S. Jung, and D. M. Cairns. 2011. Salt marshes as potential indicators of climate change. Geography Compass 5:219-236.
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Flatley, W.T., Lafon, C.W., and Grissino-Mayer, H.D. 2011. Climatic and topographic controls on patterns of fire in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains, USA. Landscape Ecology 26:195–209.
2010
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Kim, D., D. M. Cairns, and J. Bartholdy. 2010. Environmental controls on multiscale spatial patterns of salt marsh vegetation. Physical Geography 31:58-78.
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Aldrich, S.R., Lafon, C.W., Grissino-Mayer, H.D., DeWeese, G.G., and Hoss, J.A. 2010. Three centuries of fire in montane pine-oak stands on a temperate forest landscape. Applied Vegetation Science 13:36–46.
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DeWeese, G.G., Grissino-Mayer, H.D., Lafon, C.W., and Aldrich, S.R. 2010. Evaluating the dendroclimatological potential of central Appalachian Table Mountain pine (Pinus pungens LAMB.). Dendrochronologia 28:173–186.
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Lafon, C.W. (2010) Fire in the American South: vegetation impacts, history, and climatic relations. Geography Compass 4/8:919–944.
2008
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Moen, J., D. M. Cairns, and C. W. Lafon. 2008. Factors structuring the treeline ecotone in Fennoscandia. Plant Ecology & Diversity 1:77-87.
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Cairns, D. M., C. W. Lafon, J. D. Waldron, M. D. Tchakerian, R. N. Coulson, K. D. Klepzig, A. G. Birt, and W. Xi. 2008. Simulating the reciprocal interaction of forest landscape structure and Southern Pine Beetle herbivory using LANDIS. Landscape Ecology 23:403-415.
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Hoss, J.A., Lafon, C.W., Grissino-Mayer, H.D., Aldrich, S.R.*, and DeWeese, G.G. 2008. Fire history of a temperate forest with an endemic fire-dependent herb. Physical Geography 29:424–441.
2007
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Xi, W., J. D. Waldron, R. N. Coulson, M. D. Tchakerian, D. M. Cairns, C. W. Lafon, A. G. Birt, and K. D. Klepzig. 2007. Landscape modeling for forest restoration: concepts and applications. Pages 92-95 in J. Stanturf, editor. Proceedings of the IUFRO Conference on Forest Landscape Restoration. Seoul, Korea 14-19 May 2007. Korea Forest Research Institute, Seoul, Korea.
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Waldron, J. D., C. W. Lafon, R. N. Coulson, D. M. Cairns, M. D. Tchakerian, A. Birt, and K. D. Klepzig. 2007. Simulating the impacts of southern pine beetle and fire on the dynamics of xerophytic pine landscapes in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Applied Vegetation Science 10:53-64.
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Lafon, C. W., J. D. Waldron, D. M. Cairns, M. D. Tchakerian, J. C. Coulson, and K. D. Klepzig. 2007. Modeling the effects of fire on the long-term dynamics and restoration of yellow pine and oak forests in the southern Appalachian mountains. Restoration Ecology 15:400 - 411.
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Cairns, D. M., C. W. Lafon, J. Moen, and A. Young. 2007. Influences of animal activity on treeline position and pattern: implications for treeline responses to climate change. Physical Geography 28:419-433.
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Lafon, C.W. and Grissino-Mayer, H.D. 2007. Spatial patterns of fire occurrence in the central Appalachian Mountains. Physical Geography 28:1–20.
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Stueve, K.M., Lafon, C.W., Isaacs, R.E. 2007. Spatial patterns of ice storm disturbance on a forested landscape in the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia. Area 39:20–30.
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