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2020 - Present

  • Dearborn K* & Danby RK. In press. Changes in vegetation productivity and phenology during population decline of the Bathurst caribou herd. Arctic Science. Accepted May 27, 2001.
  • Stefanuk MA* & Danby RK. 2021. Accumulated heating and chilling are important drivers of forest phenology and productivity in the Algonquin-to-Adirondacks conservation corridor of eastern North America. Forests, 12: 282. doi.org/10.3390/f12030282.
  • Andruko R, Danby RK, Grogan P. 2020. Recent growth and expansion of birch shrubs across a low arctic landscape in continental Canada: A response to declining caribou herbivory rather than climate warming? Ecosystems 23: 1362-1379.
  • Dearborn K* & Danby RK. 2020. Spatial pattern of subarctic alpine treeline varies with slope aspect and shrub cover. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110: 18-35.
  • Williamson SN, Copland L, Anslow FS, Clarke GCW, Danby RK, Flowers G, Hik DS, Holdsworth G, Jarosch AH, Zdanowicz C. 2020. Elevational dependent warming in the St. Elias Mountains, Alaska/Yukon. Journal of Climate 33: 3253-3269.

2010 - 2019

  • Dearborn K* & Danby RK. 2018. Climatic drivers of tree growth at tree line in southwest Yukon change over time and vary between landscapes. Climatic Change 150: 211-225.
  • Bonney MB*, Danby RK, & Treitz P. 2018. Landscape variability of vegetation change across the forest-tundra transition of central Canada. Remote Sensing of Environment 217: 18-29.
  • Dearborn K* & Danby RK. 2018. Topographic influences on ring widths of trees and shrubs across alpine treelines in southwest Yukon. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 50: e1495445.
  • Brehaut L* & Danby RK. 2018. Inconsistent relationships between annual tree ring-widths and satellite-measured NDVI in a mountainous subarctic environment, Canada. Ecological Indicators 91: 698-711.
  • Kambo D* & Danby RK. 2018. Factors influencing the establishment and growth of tree seedlings at subarctic alpine treelines. Ecosphere, 9(4): e02176.
  • Kambo D* & Danby RK. 2018. Influences of fine-scale disturbance on germinant success in a treeline ecotone. Physical Geography, 39: 471-485. DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2018.1434926
  • Dearborn K* & Danby RK. 2017. Aspect and slope are more influential than elevation in determining plant community composition across forest-tundra ecotones in subarctic Canada. Journal of Vegetation Science, 28: 505-604.
  • Kambo D* & Danby RK. 2017. Constraints on treeline advance in a warming climate: a test of the reproduction limitation hypothesis. Journal of Plant Ecology, 11: 411-422.
  • Garrah L*, Danby RK, Eberhardt E, Cunnington G, Mitchell S. 2015. Hot spots and hot times: wildlife road mortality in a regional conservation corridor. Environmental Management, 56: 874-889.
  • Danby RK, Williams A & Hik DS. 2014. Fifty years of science at the Kluane Lake Research Station. Arctic 67 (supl. 1): 3-8.
  • Conway AJ*, Danby RK. 2014. Recent advance of forest ecotones in southwest Yukon grasslands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44: 509-520.
  • Danby RK. 2011. Monitoring forest-tundra ecotones at multiple scales. Geography Compass 5: 623-640.
  • Callaghan TV. et al. 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.
  • Danby RK, Koh S, Hik DS and Price LW. 2011. Four decades of plant community change in the alpine tundra of southwest Yukon. Ambio 40: 660-671.
  • Harper K, Danby RK, DeFields D, Lewis KP, Trant, A, Starzomski BM, Savidge R, Hermanutz L. 2011. Tree spatial pattern within the forest-tundra ecotone: a comparison of sites across Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41: 479-489.

2000 - 2009

  • Danby RK & Hik DS. 2007. Evidence of recent treeline dynamics in southwest Yukon from aerial photographs. Arctic 60 (4): 411-420.
  • Danby RK & Hik DS. 2007. Variability, contingency and rapid change in recent subarctic alpine treeline dynamics. Journal of Ecology 95: 352-363.
  • Danby RK & Hik DS. 2007. Responses of white spruce (Picea glauca) to experimental warming at a subarctic alpine treeline. Global Change Biology 13: 437-451.
  • Danby RK & Slocombe DS. 2005. Regional ecology, ecosystem geography, and transboundary protected areas in the St. Elias Mountains. Ecological Applications 15: 405-422.
  • Danby RK, Hik DS, Slocombe DS & Williams A. 2003. Science and the St. Elias: an evolving framework for sustainability in North America's highest mountains. The Geographical Journal 169: 191-204.
  • Danby RK. 2003. Birds and mammals of the St. Elias Mountain Parks: checklist evidence for a biogeographic tension zone. Canadian Field Naturalist 117: 1-18.
  • Danby RK & Slocombe DS. 2002. Protected areas and intergovernmental cooperation in the St. Elias Region. Natural Resources Journal 42: 247-282.
  • Danby RK. 2002. Analysis of transborder wildlife populations in the St. Elias Mountain Parks. In; S. Bondrup-Nielsen et al. (eds.), Managing Protected Areas in a Changing World. pp. 149-163. SAMPPA, Wolfville, NS.
  • Danby RK. 2002. Fostering an ecosystem perspective through intergovernmental cooperation: a look at two Alaskan examples. In; S. Bondrup-Nielsen et al. (eds.), Managing Protected Areas in a Changing World. pp. 722-735. SAMPPA, Wolfville, NS.
  • Danby RK. 1997. International transborder protected areas: experience, benefits, and opportunities.  Environments 25(1): 1-14.