Sean MP. Cahoon, PhD
Research Ecologist
sean.cahoon@usda.gov
Treesearch Publications
- Sean MP. Cahoon, KaDonna Randolph, George C. Gaines, Susan Crocker, Valerie Thomas, Holly Munro. 2026. Advancing forest inventory science for enhanced insights into tomorrow’s forests
- Courtney Giebink, Kelly A. Heilman, Sean MP. Cahoon, Grant M. Domke. 2025. An assessment of the selection criteria, roles, and representativeness of indicator trees in the nationwide forest inventory of the United States
- Melissa A. Pastore, Ashley Lang, John D. Shaw, Sean MP. Cahoon, Hayley Peter-Contesse, Suzanne M. Owen, Randall Morin, Jonathan Knott, Grant M. Domke, Belinda Esham, Erin Berryman. 2025. Beneath the surface: A 25-year review of soil monitoring in the U.S
- Sean MP. Cahoon, Colin Maher, Daniel Crawford, Patrick F. Sullivan. 2024. White spruce presence increases leaf miner effects on aspen growth in interior Alaska
- Sean MP. Cahoon, Kathryn C. Baer, Kate Legner, Loretta Winton, Garret Dubois, Will Putman, Patrick Sullivan, Kate C. Marcille, Hans Andersen, Jacob L. Strunk, Richard Smith, John M. Chase, Glenn Christensen, Jane Terzibashian, Andrew Gray. 2022. Forest resources of the Tanana unit, Alaska: 2018
- Sean MP. Cahoon, Patrick F. Sullivan, Andrew Gray. 2022. Interactions among wildfire, forest type and landscape position are key determinants of boreal forest carbon stocks
- Margaret E. K. Evans, R. Justin DeRose, Stefan Klesse, Martin P. Girardin, Kelly A. Heilman, M. Ross Alexander, Andre Arsenault, Flurin Babst, Mathieu Bouchard, Sean MP. Cahoon, Elizabeth M. Campbell, Michael Dietze, Louis Duchesne, David C. Frank, Courtney L. Giebink, Armando Gomez-Guerrero, Genaro Gutierrez García, Edward H. Hogg, Juha Metsaranta, Clementine Ols, Shelly A. Rayback, Anya Reid, Martin Ricker, Paul Schaberg, John D. Shaw, Patrick F. Sullivan, Sergio Armando Villela Gaytan. 2021. Adding tree rings to North America's National Forest Inventories: An essential tool to guide drawdown of atmospheric CO2
- Eric Post, Sean MP. Cahoon, Jeffrey T. Kerby, Christian Pedersen, Patrick F. Sullivan. 2021. Herbivory and warming interact in opposing patterns of covariation between arctic shrub species at large and local scales
- Sean MP. Cahoon, Olaf Kuegler, Glenn Christensen. 2020. Coastal Alaska’s forest resources, 2004–2013: Ten-year Forest Inventory and Analysis report
- Andrea Watts, Sean MP. Cahoon, Patrick Sullivan. 2020. Using the past to inform the future: Alaska’s changing boreal forest from a tree-ring perspective
- Sean MP. Cahoon, Patrick F. Sullivan, Annalis H. Brownlee, Robert Pattison, Hans Andersen, Kate Legner, Teresa Hollingsworth. 2018. Contrasting drivers and trends of coniferous and deciduous tree growth in interior Alaska
- Patrick F. Sullivan, Robert Pattison, Annalis H. Brownlee, Sean MP. Cahoon, Teresa Hollingsworth. 2017. Limited evidence of declining growth among moisture-limited black and white spruce in interior Alaska
- Patrick F Sullivan, Robert Pattison, Annalis H Brownlee, Sean MP. Cahoon, Teresa Hollingsworth. 2016. Effect of tree-ring detrending method on apparent growth trends of black and white spruce in interior Alaska
Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications
- Post, Eric; Kaarlejärvi, Elina; Macias-Fauria, Marc; Watts, David A.; Bøving, Pernille Sporon; Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Higgins, R. Conor; John, Christian; Kerby, Jeffrey T.; Pedersen, Christian; Post, Mason; Sullivan, Patrick F. 2023. Large herbivore diversity slows sea ice–associated decline in arctic tundra diversity. Science. 380(6651): 1282-1287. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add2679.
- Sullivan, Patrick F.; Brownlee, Annalis H.; Ellison, Sarah B. Z.; Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Bellingham, Peter. 2021. Comparative drought sensitivity of co‐occurring white spruce and paper birch in interior Alaska. Journal of Ecology. 109(6): 2448-2460. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13654.
- Ellison, Sarah B. Z.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Hewitt, Rebecca E. 2019. Poor nutrition as a potential cause of divergent tree growth near the Arctic treeline in northern Alaska. Ecology. 100(12): e02878. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2878.
- Anderson, N. John; Saros, Jasmine E.; Bullard, Joanna E.; Cahoon, Sean M. P.; McGowan, Suzanne; Bagshaw, Elizabeth A.; Barry, Christopher D.; Bindler, Richard; Burpee, Benjamin T.; Carrivick, Jonathan L.; Fowler, Rachel A.; Fox, Anthony D.; Fritz, Sherilyn C.; Giles, Madeleine E.; Hamerlik, Ladislav; Ingeman-Nielsen, Thomas; Law, Antonia C.; Mernild, Sebastian H.; Northington, Robert M.; Osburn, Christopher L.; Pla-Rabès, Sergi; Post, Eric; Telling, Jon; Stroud, David A.; Whiteford, Erika J.; Yallop, Marian L.; Yde, Jacob C. n.d. The Arctic in the Twenty-First Century: Changing Biogeochemical Linkages across a Paraglacial Landscape of Greenland. BioScience. 67(2): 118-133. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw158.
- Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Post, Eric. 2016. Greater Abundance of Betula nana and Early Onset of the Growing Season Increase Ecosystem CO2 Uptake in West Greenland. Ecosystems. 19(7): 1149-1163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-9997-7.
- Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Post, Eric; Peters, D. P. C. 2016. Carbon and water relations of contrasting Arctic plants: implications for shrub expansion in West Greenland. Ecosphere. 7(4): e01245. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1245.
- Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Gamm, Cassandra; Welker, Jeffrey M.; Eissenstat, David; Post, Eric. 2016. Limited variation in proportional contributions of auto- and heterotrophic soil respiration, despite large differences in vegetation structure and function in the Low Arctic. Biogeochemistry. 127(2-3): 339-351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-016-0184-x.
- Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Shaver, Gaius R.; Welker, Jeffrey M.; Post, Eric; Holyoak, Marcel. 2012. Interactions among shrub cover and the soil microclimate may determine future Arctic carbon budgets. Ecology Letters. 15(12): 1415-1422. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01865.x.
- Cahoon, Sean M. P.; Sullivan, Patrick F.; Post, Eric; Welker, Jeffrey M. 2012. Large herbivores limit CO2 uptake and suppress carbon cycle responses to warming in West Greenland. Global Change Biology. 18(2): 469-479. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02528.x.
- Penn State University, Ph.D, Ecology, 2015
- University of Alaska Anchorage, Master Of Science, Biology, 2010
- University of Alaska Anchorage, B.S, Natural Science, 2006
Last updated June 8, 2026