Nels G. Johnson, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Dylan Hyun, Marc A. Hughes, Nels G. Johnson, Flint F. Hughes, Peter M. Vitousek. 2025. In vitro assays suggest rapid ‘ōhi‘a death fungi can colonize Metrosideros polymorpha fine roots
• David R. Weise, Stephen S. Sackett, Sally M. Haase, Nels G. Johnson, Gloria M. Burke. 2025. Predicting soil temperatures associated with reintroduction of prescribed burning in western coniferous forests
• Francisco J. Escobedo, Kamini Yadav, Onofrio Cappelluti, Nels G. Johnson. 2025. Exploring urban vegetation type and defensible space’s role in building loss during wildfire-driven events in California
• Akihiro Koyama, Nels G. Johnson, Paul Brewer, Colleen T. Webb, Joseph C. von Fischer. 2024. Biological and physical controls of methane uptake in grassland soils across the US Great Plains
• Bernice C. Hwang, Christian P. Giardina, Stephen Adu-Bredu, M. Noelia Barrios-Garcia, Julio C. Calvo-Alvarado, Greta C. Dargie, Haoyu Diao, Virginia G. Duboscq-Carra, Andreas Hemp, Claudia Hemp, Walter Huaraca Huasco, Aleksandr V Ivanov, Nels G. Johnson, Dries P. J. Kuijper, Simon L. Lewis, Paulina Lobos-Catalán, Yadvinder Malhi, Andrew R. Marshall, Levan Mumladze, Alain Senghor K. Ngute, Ana C. Palma, Ion Catalin Petritan, Mariano A. Rordriguez-Cabal, Ifo A. Suspense, Asiia Zagidullina, Tommi Andersson, Darcy F. Galiano-Cabrera, Mylthon Jiménez-Castillo, Marcin Churski, Shelley A. Gage, Nina Filippova, Kainana S. Francisco, Morgan Gaglianese-Woody, Giorgi Iankoshvili, Mgeta Adidas Kaswamila, Herman Lyatuu, Y. E. Mampouya Wenina, Brayan Materu, M. Mbemba, Ruslan Moritz, Karma Orang, Sergey Plyusnin, Beisit L. Puma Vilca, Maria Rodríguez-Solís, Pavel Šamonil, Kinga M. Stępniak, Seana K. Walsh, Han Xu, Daniel B. Metcalfe. 2024. The impact of insect herbivory on biogeochemical cycling in broadleaved forests varies with temperature
• Carine F. Bourgeois, Richard A. MacKenzie, Sahadev Sharma, Rupesh K. Bhomia, Nels G. Johnson, Andre S. Rovai, Thomas A. Worthington, Ken W. Krauss, Kangkuso Analuddin, Jacob J. Bukoski, Jose Alan Castillo, Angie Elwin, Leah Glass, Tim C. Jennerjahn, Mwita M. Mangora, Cyril Marchand, Michael J. Osland, Ismaël A. Ratefinjanahary, Raghab Ray, Severino G. Salmo III, Sigit D. Sasmito, Rempei Suwa, Pham Hong Tinh, Carl C. Trettin. 2024. Four decades of data indicate that planted mangroves stored up to 75% of the carbon stocks found in intact mature stands
• Ted Weller, Jeff Clerc, Matthew Lau, Nels G. Johnson, Thomas Jung. 2023. Rates of seasonal fuel loading do not differ by sex or overwintering strategy in three species of bats
• Kamini Yadav, Francisco J. Escobedo, Alyssa Thomas, Nels G. Johnson. 2023. Increasing wildfires and changing sociodemographics in communities across California, USA
• Marinés de la Peña‐Domene, Gerardo Rodríguez Tapia, Natalia Mesa‐Sierra, Anaitzi Rivero‐Villar, Christian P. Giardina, Nels G. Johnson, Julio Campo, Tom Gillespie. 2022. Climatic and edaphic‐based predictors of normalized difference vegetation index in tropical dry landscapes: A pantropical analysis
• Charlotte J. Alster, Steven D. Allison, Nels G. Johnson, Sydney I Glassman, Kathleen K. Treseder. 2021. Phenotypic plasticity of fungal traits in response to moisture and temperature
• Eric E. Knapp, Yana S. Valachovic, Stephen L. Quarles, Nels G. Johnson. 2021. Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California
• William R. McIver, Scott F. Pearson, Craig Strong, Monique M. Lance, Jim Baldwin, Deanna Lynch, Martin G. Raphael, Richard D. Young, Nels G. Johnson. 2021. Status and trend of marbled murrelet populations in the Northwest Forest Plan area, 2000 to 2018
• Nels G. Johnson, Matthew R. Williams, Erin C. Riordan. 2021. Generalized nonlinear models can solve the prediction problem for data from species‐stratified use‐availability designs
• David R. Weise, Stephen S. Sackett, Sally M. Haase, Nels G. Johnson. 2019. Effects of fire rotation interval and overstory type on ambient soil temperatures in ponderosa pine forests in Arizona
• Jianwei Zhang, Kaelyn Finley, Nels G. Johnson, Martin Ritchie. 2019. Lowering stand density enhances resiliency of ponderosa pine forests to disturbances and climate change
• E. Gregory McPherson, Qingfu Xiao, Natalie S. van Doorn, Nels G. Johnson, Shannon Albers, Paula Peper. 2018. Shade factors for 149 taxa of in-leaf urban trees in the USA
• Ryan Mays, Nels G. Johnson, Scott Salom, Thomas McAvoy. 2017. The effects of shade, fertilizer, and pruning on eastern hemlock trees and hemlock woolly adelgid

• Virginia Tech, Ph.D., Statistics, 2012
• Virginia Tech, M.S., Statistics, 2008
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro, B.S., Mathematics, 2007