Kevin M. Potter, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Qinfeng Guo, Frank H. H. Koch, Kevin M. Potter, Karun Pandit, Simone Lim-Hing, Elizabeth R. Matthews. 2026. Perspectives on the Future Roles of AI for Forest Health Monitoring
• Kevin M. Potter, Qinfeng Guo, Frank H. H. Koch, Simone Lim-Hing, Elizabeth R. Matthews, Karun Pandit. 2026. U.S. National Forests Are More Diverse, Denser and Less Invaded than Neighboring Forests
• Hannah L. Clipp, Kevin M. Potter, Matthew Peters, Anantha M. Prasad, Stephen Matthews, Andrew Gougherty. 2026. Warming temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns may exacerbate pest damage in North American forests
• Erin T. H. Crockett, Qinfeng Guo, Jeff W. Atkins, Ge Sun, Kevin M. Potter, Jennifer Costanza, Scott V. Ollinger, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Steve McNulty, Carl Trettin, Justin Holgerson, Jingfeng Xiao. 2026. Influences of Structural and Species Diversity on Forest Resistance to Drought
• Kevin M. Potter, Basil Iannone, Kurt Riitters, Qinfeng Guo, Karun Pandit, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2025. United States forests are increasingly invaded by problematic non-native plants
• Jennifer Costanza, Kevin M. Potter, David Walker, Frank H. H. Koch, Andrew Gray, John W. Coulston. 2025. Old-growth forest area projected to increase on United States federal lands under alternative future scenarios
• Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter. 2025. Generalist Pests Cause High Tree Infestation, but Specialist Pests Cause High Mortality
• Marcelo Ardón, Kevin M. Potter, Elliott White, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2025. Coastal carbon sentinels: A decade of forest change along the eastern shore of the US signals complex climate change dynamics
• Kevin M. Potter, J.L. Paschke. 2024. Broad-scale patterns of insect and disease damage across the United States from the national Insect and Disease Survey, 2022
• Kevin M. Potter. 2024. Broad-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the United States and the Caribbean territories, 2022
• Kevin M. Potter, K. Pandit, Barbara Conkling. 2024. Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter, Kurt Riitters, Basil V Iannone, Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei. 2024. Forest plant invasions in the eastern United States: evidence of invasion debt in the wildland-urban interface
• Jingfeng Xiao, Ge Sun, Kevin M. Potter, Johnny Boggs, Qingyuan Zhang, Steven G. McNulty. 2024. Do Experimental Forests and Ranges of the Southeastern United States Represent the Climate, Ecosystem Structure, and Ecosystem Functions of the Region?
• Carolyn C. Pike, C. Dana Nelson, Kevin M. Potter. 2024. Loblolly Pine: Guidance for Seed Transfer Within the Eastern United States
• Kevin M. Potter, Christopher M. Oswalt, James M. Guldin. 2024. Range-Wide Assessment of Recent Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) Area and Regeneration Trends
• Emma J. Hudgins, Brian Leung, Chris J.K. MacQuarrie, Deborah G. McCullough, Abraham Francis, Gary M. Lovett, Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Catherine I. Cullingham, Frank H. H. Koch, Jordanna N. Bergman, Allison D. Binley, Courtney Robichaud, Morgane Henry, Yuyan Chen, Joseph R. Bennett. 2024. Five organizing themes for invasive forest insect and disease management in Canada and the United States
• Frank H. H. Koch, Kevin M. Potter. 2024. Indicator 3.15: area and percent of forests affected by biotic processes and agents beyond reference conditions, 2017
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2023. Forest Health Monitoring: National Status, Trends and Analysis, 2022
• Kevin M. Potter, Christian P. Giardina, Flint F. Hughes, Susan Cordell, Olaf Kuegler, Amy Koch, Emma Yuen. 2023. How invaded are Hawaiian forests? Non-native understory tree dominance signals potential canopy replacement.
• Kevin M. Potter. 2023. Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2023. Broad-scale patterns of insect and disease activity across the United States from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2021
• Kevin M. Potter. 2023. Broad-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the United States and the Caribbean territories, 2021
• Erin T.H. Crockett, Jeff W. Atkins, Qinfeng Guo, Ge Sun, Kevin M. Potter, Scott Ollinger, Carlos A. Silva, Hao Tang, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Justin J. Holgerson, Jingfeng Xiao. 2023. Structural and species diversity explain aboveground carbon storage in forests across the United States: Evidence from GEDI and forest inventory data
• Christopher Asaro, Frank H. H. Koch, Kevin M. Potter. 2023. Denser forests across the USA experience more damage from insects and pathogens
• Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Hai Ren, Peixia Zhang. 2023. Impacts of exotic pests on forest ecosystems: An update
• Jennifer Costanza, Frank H. H. Koch, Matt C. Reeves, Kevin M. Potter, Karen G. Schleeweis, Kurt Riitters, Sarah Anderson, Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Linda A. Joyce, Prakash Nepal, Benjamin Poulter, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, J. Morgan Varner, David M. Walker. 2023. Disturbances to Forests and Rangelands
• Elizabeth LaRue, Jonathan Knott, Grant M. Domke, Han YH Chen, Qinfeng Guo, Masumi Hisano, Christopher M. Oswalt, Sonja Oswalt, Nicole Kong, Kevin M. Potter, Songlin Fei. 2023. Structural diversity as a reliable and novel predictor for ecosystem productivity
• Kevin M. Potter, R.M. Jetton, Andy Whittier, B.S. Crane, Valerie Hipkins, C. Echt, G.R. Hodge. 2022. Table Mountain pine (Pinus pungens): Genetic diversity and conservation of an imperiled conifer
• Kevin M. Potter, Kurt Riitters, Qinfeng Guo. 2022. Non-native tree regeneration indicates regional and national risks from current invasions.
• Kevin M. Potter. 2022. Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2022. Broad-scale patterns of insect and disease activity across the 50 United States from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2020
• Kevin M. Potter. 2022. Broad-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the 50 United States and the Caribbean territories, 2020
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2022. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2021
• Ariel Lugo, James Smith, Kevin M. Potter, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Cassandra Kurtz. 2022. The contribution of nonnative tree species to the structure and composition of forests in the conterminous United States in comparison with tropical islands in the Pacific and Caribbean
• Ann Willyard, David S. Gernandt, Alejandro López-Reyes, Kevin M. Potter. 2021. Mitochondrial phylogeography of the ponderosa pines: widespread gene capture, interspecific sharing, and two unique lineages
• Kevin M. Potter, Kurt Riitters. 2021. A national multi-scale assessment of regeneration deficit as an indicator of potential risk of forest genetic variation loss
• Sean Hoban, Catriona D. Campbell, Jessica M. da Silva, Robert Ekblom, W. Chris Funk, Brittany A. Garner, José A. Godoy, Francine Kershaw, Anna J. MacDonald, Joachim Mergeay, Melissa Minter, David O'Brien, Ivan Paz Vinas, Sarah K. Pearson, Sílvia Pérez-Espona, Kevin M. Potter, Isa-Rita M. Russo, Gernot Segelbacher, Cristiano Vernesi, Margaret E. Hunter. 2021. Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators are insufficient
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke, Frank H. H. Koch, Erin Berryman. 2021. Chapter 2 - Broad-scale patterns of insect and disease activity across the 50 United States from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2019
• Kevin M. Potter. 2021. Chapter 3 - Broad-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the 50 United States and the Caribbean Territories, 2019
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2021. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2020
• Kevin M. Potter. 2021. Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Sarah Anderson, Linda S. Heath, Marla R. Emery, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Jeremy S. Littell, Alan Lucier, Jeffrey G. Masek, David L. Peterson, Richard Pouyat, Kevin M. Potter, Guy Robertson, Jinelle Sperry. 2021. Developing a set of indicators to identify, monitor, and track impacts and change in forests of the United States
• Kevin M. Potter, Maria E. Escanferla, Barbara S. Crane, Robert M. Jetton, Gary Man. 2020. A national prioritization of United States tree species threatened by Insect and disease infestation
• C. Dana Nelson, Jennifer Koch, Kevin M. Potter, Susan Mccord, Adam Costanza, Mark Coggeshall, Margaret Staton, Albert Abbott. 2020. Better forest health through tree resistance-collaborative approaches
• Kevin M. Potter, Julie C. Canavin, Frank H. H. Koch. 2020. Chapter 6 - A forest health retrospective: national and regional results from 20 years of Insect and Disease Survey data
• Kevin M. Potter. 2020. Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke, Frank H. H. Koch, Erin Berryman. 2020. Chapter 2 - Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii from the national Insect and Disease Survey, 2018
• Kevin M. Potter. 2020. Chapter 3 - Broad-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the 50 United States and the Caribbean Territories, 2018
• Carolyn Pike, Kevin M. Potter, Paul Berrang, Barbara Crane, Joanne Baggs, Laura Leites, Tom Luther. 2020. New Seed-Collection Zones for the Eastern United States: The Eastern Seed Zone Forum
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2020. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2019
• Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei, Kevin M. Potter, Andrew M. Liebhold, Jun Wen. 2019. Tree diversity regulates forest pest invasion
• Kevin M. Potter, Robert M. Jetton, Lia Campbell, John M. Hastings, Sedley A. Josserand, Valerie Hipkins, C. Dana Nelson, William S. Dvorak. 2019. Molecular genetics and the effort to conserve southern hemlocks decimated by the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2019. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2018
• Kevin M. Potter. 2019. Chapter 1: Introduction
• Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. H. Koch, Kurt Riitters. 2019. Impacts of nonnative species on the health of natural and planted forests
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter. 2019. Chapter 6 - The invasibility and invadedness of Eastern U.S. forest types
• Kevin M. Potter. 2019. Chapter 3 - Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the 50 United States and the Caribbean territories, 2017
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke, Frank H. H. Koch, Mark O. Zweifler. 2019. Chapter 2 - Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii from the national Insect and Disease Survey, 2017
• Kevin M. Potter. 2019. Chapter 1- Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter, Maria E. Escanferla, Robert M. Jetton, Gary Man, Barbara S. Crane. 2019. Prioritizing the conservation needs of United States tree species: Evaluating vulnerability to forest insect and disease threats
• Kevin M. Potter, Maria Escanferla, Robert Jetton, Gary Man. 2019. Important insect and disease threats to United States tree species and geographic patterns of their potential impacts
• Basil V Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter, Qinfeng Guo, Christopher M. Oswalt, Insu Jo, Songlin Fei. 2018. Environmental harshness drives spatial heterogeneity in biotic resistance
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter, Basil Iannone, Christopher M. Oswalt, Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei. 2018. Exposure of protected and unprotected forest to plant invasions in the eastern United States
• Qinfeng Guo, Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter. 2018. A subcontinental analysis of forest fragmentation effects on insect and disease invasion
• Kaitlin Maguire, Douglas Shinneman, Kevin M. Potter, Valerie Hipkins. 2018. Intraspecific niche models for ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) suggest potential variability in population-level response to climate change
• Jacek P. Siry, Frederick W. Cubbage, Kevin M. Potter, Kathleen McGinley. 2018. Current perspectives on sustainable forest management: North America
• Kevin M. Potter. 2018. Do United States protected areas effectively conserve forest tree rarity and evolutionary distinctiveness?
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2018. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2017
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanne L. Paschke, Mark O. Zweifler. 2018. Chapter 2 - Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii from the national Insect and Disease Survey, 2016
• Kevin M. Potter. 2018. Chapter 3 - Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States, Alaska and Hawaii, 2016
• Insu Jo, Kevin M. Potter, Grant M. Domke, Songlin Fei. 2018. Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions
• Kevin M. Potter, Angelia Rose Campbell, Sedley A. Josserand, C. Dana Nelson, Robert M. Jetton. 2017. Population isolation results in unexpectedly high differentiation in Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana), an imperiled southern Appalachian endemic conifer
• John M. Hastings, Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. H. Koch, Mark Megalos, Robert M. Jetton. 2017. Prioritizing conservation seed banking locations for imperiled hemlock species using multi-attribute frontier mapping
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter, Basil V. Iannone, Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo. 2017. Landscape correlates of forest plant invasions: A high-resolution analysis across the eastern United States
• Kevin M. Potter, Douglas J. Shinneman, Robert E. Means, Valerie Hipkins, Mary Mahalovich. 2017. Synthesizing genetic divergence and climate modeling to inform conservation planning for ponderosa pine
• Barbara S. Crane, Kevin M. Potter. 2017. USDA forest service southern region – It’s all about GRITS
• J.M. Hastings, Kevin M. Potter, F.H. Koch, M.A. Megalos, R.M. Jetton. 2017. Using climate and genetic diversity data to prioritize conservation seed banking for imperiled hemlock species
• Barbara S. Crane, Valerie Hipkins, Kevin M. Potter. 2017. Project CAPTURE: a U.S. national prioritization assessment of tree species for conservation, management, and restoration
• Murphy Westwood, Anne Frances, Gary Man, David Pivorunas, Kevin M. Potter. 2017. Coordinating the IUCN red list of North American tree species: a special session at the USFS gene conservation of tree species workshop
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2017. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2016
• Songlin Fei, Johanna M. Desprez, Kevin M. Potter, Insu Jo, Jonathan Knott, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2017. Divergence of species responses to climate change
• Anantha M. Prasad, Kevin M. Potter. 2017. Macro-scale assessment of demographic and environmental variation within genetically derived evolutionary lineages of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), an imperiled conifer of the eastern United States
• Kevin M. Potter, Robert M. Jetton, Andrew Bower, Douglass F. Jacobs, Gary Man, Valerie Hipkins, Murphy Westwood. 2017. Banking on the future: progress, challenges and opportunities for the genetic conservation of forest trees
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara S. Crane, William Hargrove. 2017. A United States national prioritization framework for tree species vulnerability to climate change
• Qinfeng Guo, Basil V. Iannone III, Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir, Kevin M. Potter, Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei. 2017. Species pool, human population, and global versus regional invasion patterns
• Matthew B. Russell, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Kevin M. Potter, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2017. Interactions between white-tailed deer density and the composition of forest understories in the northern United States
• Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter. 2016. Macrosystems ecology: novel methods and new understanding of multi-scale patterns and processes
• Basil V. Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter, Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil, Whitney Huang, Hao Zhang, Qinfeng Guo, Christopher M. Oswalt, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Songlin Fei. 2016. Evidence of biotic resistance to invasions in forests of the Eastern USA
• Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. H. Koch, Christopher M. Oswalt, Basil V. Iannone. 2016. Data, data everywhere: detecting spatial patterns in fine-scale ecological information collected across a continent
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2016. Chapter 2: Large-Scale Patterns of Insect and Disease Activity in the Conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2014
• Kevin M. Potter. 2016. Chapter 3: Large-Scale Patterns of Forest Fire Occurrence in the Conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii, 2014
• Ann Willyard, David S. Gernandt, Kevin M. Potter, Valerie Hipkins, Paula E. Marquardt, Mary Mahalovich, Stephen K. Langer, Frank W. Telewski, Blake Cooper, Connor Douglas, Kristen Finch, Hassani H. Karemera, Julia Lefler, Payton Lea, Austin Wofford. 2016. Pinus ponderosa : A checkered past obscured four species
• Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo, Basil V. Iannone III, Sonja Oswalt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Kevin M. Potter. 2016. Corrigendum: A subcontinental view of forest plant invasions
• Douglas J. Shinneman, Robert E. Means, Kevin M. Potter, Valerie Hipkins, Tzen-Yuh Chiang. 2016. Exploring climate niches of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex Lawson) haplotypes in the western United States: implications for evolutionary history and conservation
• Kevin M. Potter, Valerie Hipkins, Mary Mahalovich, Robert E. Means. 2015. Nuclear genetic variation across the range of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa): Phylogeographic, taxonomic and conservation implications
• Kevin M. Potter. 2015. Chapter 1: Introduction: National Status,Trends,and Analysis 2013
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine Paschke. 2015. Chapter 2: Large-Scale Patterns of Insect and Disease Activity in the Conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2012
• Kevin M. Potter. 2015. Chapter 3: Large-Scale Patterns of Forest Fire Occurrence in the Conterminous United States and Alaska,2012
• Kevin M. Potter, William Hargrove, Frank H. H. Koch. 2015. Assessing forest tree risk of extinction and genetic degradation from climate change
• Kevin M. Potter, J.L. Paschke. 2015. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska and Hawaii from the national insect and disease survey, 2013
• Kevin M. Potter. 2015. Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2013
• Songlin Fei, Basil V. Iannone III, Christopher M. Oswalt, Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Sonja Oswalt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir. 2015. Understanding macroscale invasion patterns and processes with FIA data
• Kevin M. Potter, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Christopher M. Oswalt, Basil V. III Iannone, Songlin Fei. 2015. When does biodiversity matter? Assessing ecosystem services across broad regions using forest inventory and analysis data
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara S. Crane, William Hargrove. 2015. Project CAPTURE: using forest inventory and analysis data to prioritize tree species for conservation, management, and restoration
• Linda S. Heath, Sarah M. Anderson, Marla R. Emery, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Jeremy Littell, Alan Lucier, Jeffrey G. Masek, David L. Peterson, Richard Pouyat, Kevin M. Potter, Guy Robertson, Jinelle Sperry, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Sarah Jovan, Miranda H. Mockrin, Robert C. Musselman, Bethany K. Schulz, Robert Smith, Susan I. Stewart. 2015. Indicators of climate impacts for forests: recommendations for the US National Climate Assessment indicators system
• Basil V. Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew M. Liebhold, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei. 2015. Biological invasion hotspots: a trait-based perspective reveals new sub-continental patterns
• Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Christopher M. Oswalt, Basil V. Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter. 2015. A unified approach for quantifying invasibility and degree of invasion
• Kevin M. Potter. 2015. Introduction Chapter 1
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2015. Forest Health Monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2014
• Basil V. Iannone, Christopher M. Oswalt, Andrew M. Liebhold, Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir, Sonja Oswalt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Songlin Fei, Bethany Bradley. 2015. Region-specific patterns and drivers of macroscale forest plant invasions
• Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo, Basil V. Iannone III, Sonja Oswalt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Kevin M. Potter. 2015. A subcontinental view of forest plant invasions
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2015. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2013
• Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. H. Koch. 2014. Patterns of forest phylogenetic community structure across the United States and their possible forest health implications
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2014. Forest health monitoring: National status, trends, and analysis 2012
• Kevin M. Potter. 2014. Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2014. Chapter 2 - Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2011
• Kevin M. Potter. 2014. Chapter 3 - Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2011.
• Kevin M. Potter, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2014. Does biodiversity make a difference? Relationships between species richness, evolutionary diversity, and aboveground live tree biomass across US forests
• Kurt Riitters, Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Forest health monitoring in the United States: focus on national reports
• Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2013. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Detection Survey Database, 2010
• Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Large-Scale Patterns of Forest Fire Occurrence in the Conterminous United States and Alaska, 2010
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2013. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2011
• Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter, William Hargrove. 2013. Quantitative metrics for assessing predicted climate change pressure on North American tree species
• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Karen Abt, Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. H. Koch. 2013. An economic assessment of mountain pine beetle timber salvage in the west
• Kevin M. Potter, Valerie Hipkins, Mary Mahalovich, Robert E. Means. 2013. Mitochondrial DNA haplotype distribution patterns in Pinus ponderosa (pinaceae): range-wide evolutionary history and implications for conservation
• Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska from the national insect and disease detection survey, 2009
• Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2009
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2013. Forest Health Monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2010
• Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. H. Koch. 2012. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2006
• Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic community structure of forest trees across the conterminous United States
• W. Devine, C. Aubry, J. Miller, Kevin M. Potter, A. Bower. 2012. Climate change and forest trees in the Pacific Northwest: guide to vulnerability assessment methodology
• Kevin M. Potter, Bill Smith. 2012. Large-Scale Assessment of Invasiveness and Potential for Ecological Impact by Nonnative Tree Species.
• Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the Conterminous United States and Alaska, 2001-08
• Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Introduction
• Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the Conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Detection Survey Database, 2007 and 2008
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2012. Forest health monitoring: 2009 national technical report
• Kevin M. Potter, William Hargrove. 2012. Determining suitable locations for seed transfer under climate change: a global quantitative method
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara S. Crane. 2012. Silviculture and the assessment of climate change genetic risk for southern Appalachian forest tree species
• Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Book Review: Molecular approaches in natural resource conservation and management.Landscape Ecol 27:467–468.
• Kevin M. Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2012. Forest health monitoring: 2008 national technical report
• Kevin M. Potter, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2012. Trends over time in tree and seedling phylogenetic diversity indicate regional differences in forest biodiversity change
• Kevin M. Potter, Robert M. Jetton, William S. Dvorak, Valerie Hipkins, Rusty Rhea, W. Andrew Whittier. 2012. Widespread inbreeding and unexpected geographic patterns of genetic variation in eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), an imperiled North American conifer
• Kevin M. Potter. 2011. Summary
• Kevin M. Potter, John Frampton, Sedley A. Josserand, C. Dana Nelson. 2010. Evolutionary history of two endemic Appalachian conifers revealed using microsatellite markers
• Kevin M. Potter, John Frampton, Sedley A. Josserand, C. Dana Nelson. 2010. Evolutionary history and population genetics of fraser fir and intermediate fir, southern Appalachian endemic conifers imperiled by an exotic pest and climate change
• Kevin M. Potter, William Hargrove, Frank H. H. Koch. 2010. Predicting climate change extirpation risk for central and southern Appalachian forest tree species
• William S. Dvorak, Kevin M. Potter, Valerie Hipkins, Gary R. Hodge. 2009. Genetic diversity and gene exchange in Pinus oocarpa, a Mesoamerican Pine with resistance to the pitch canker fungus (Fusarium circinatum)
• Robert Jetton, William Dvorak, Andrew Whittier, Kevin M. Potter, Rusty Rhea. 2009. Genetics and conservation of hemlock species threatened by the hemlock woolly adelgid
• W.S. Dvorak, Kevin M. Potter. 2009. Genetic diversity and gene exchange in Pinus oocarpa, a Mesoamerican pine with resistance to the pitch canker fungus (Fusarium circinatum)
• Kevin M. Potter. 2009. From genes to ecosystems: Measuring evolutionary diversity and community structure with Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data
• S.A. Josserand, Kevin M. Potter, Craig Echt, C.D. Nelson. 2008. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana)
• Kevin M. Potter, W. S. Dvorak, B. S. Crane, Valerie Hipkins, R. M. Jetton, W. A. Whittier, R. Rhea. 2008. Allozyme variation and recent evolutionary history of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in the southeastern United States
• Kevin M. Potter, John Frampton, Sedley A. Josserand, Dana C. Nelson. 2008. Genetic variation and population structure in Fraser fir (Abies fraseri): a microsatellite assessment of young trees
• Kevin M. Potter, John Framton, Sedley A. Josserand, C. Dana Nelson. 2008. Genetic variation and population structure in fraser fir (Abies fraseri): a microsatellite assessment of young trees
• S.A. Josserand, Kevin M. Potter, G. Johnson, J.A. Bowen, J. Frampton, C.D. Nelson. 2006. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in Fraser fir (Abies fraseri)

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Forecasts of Climate-Associated Shifts in Tree Species (ForeCASTS)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/products/dataandtools/forecasts-climate-associated-shifts-tree-species-forecasts

• Project
  

  Future-proofing forest restoration decisions with genetic information (ERR26)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/projects/future-proof-restoration
  Station

  Southern Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (SRS-4854)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/centers/efetac
  Station

  Southern Research Station

Other Publications

• Infographic
  

  Perspectives on the future role of AI in forest health monitoring: Supplementary Materials

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/understory/perspectives-future-role-ai-forest-health-monitoring-supplementary-materials

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Invasive Species in Eastern Forests: Extent, Impact, and Response

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/webinars/invasive-species-eastern-forests-extent-impact-and-response
• Webinars

  Invasive Species in Eastern Forests: Extent, Impact, and Response (SRS)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/products/multimedia/webinars/invasive-species-eastern-forests-extent-impact-and-response-srs
• Webinars

  SCIENCEx Genetics: Shifting Perspectives

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/sciencex-genetics-shifting-perspectives

• North Carolina State University, Ph.D. Forestry, Forest Ecology and Genetics, 2006
• North Carolina State University, M.S. Natural Resources, Natural Resource Management, 2002
• Drake University, B.A. Journalism and Mass Communication, News Reporting, 1993