| Herbivory influences tree lines DM Cairns, JON Moen Journal of Ecology, 1019-1024, 2004 | 305 | 2004 |
| Patterns and processes of global shrub expansion AT Naito, DM Cairns Progress in Physical Geography 35 (4), 423-442, 2011 | 273 | 2011 |
| The suitability of montane ecotones as indicators of global climatic change JA Kupfer, DM Cairns Progress in Physical Geography 20 (3), 253-272, 1996 | 251 | 1996 |
| Is subarctic forest advance able to keep pace with climate change? WG Rees, A Hofgaard, S Boudreau, DM Cairns, K Harper, S Mamet, ... Global Change Biology 26 (7), 3965-3977, 2020 | 129 | 2020 |
| Relationships between Arctic shrub dynamics and topographically derived hydrologiccharacteristics AT Naito, DM Cairns Environmental Research Letters 6 (4), 045506, 2011 | 115 | 2011 |
| Environmental variables influencing the carbon balance at the alpine treeline: a modeling approach DM Cairns, GP Malanson Journal of vegetation science 9 (5), 679-692, 1998 | 113 | 1998 |
| Landscape genomics: understanding relationships between environmental heterogeneity and genomic characteristics of populations N Balkenhol, RY Dudaniec, KV Krutovsky, JS Johnson, DM Cairns, ... Population genomics: Concepts, approaches and applications, 261-322, 2019 | 112 | 2019 |
| Effects of dispersal, population delays, and forest fragmentation on tree migration rates GP Malanson, DM Cairns Plant Ecology 131, 67-79, 1997 | 100 | 1997 |
| Stability of alpine treeline in Glacier National Park DR Butler, GP Malanson, DM Cairns Montana, USA. Phytocoenologia 22 (4), 485-500, 1994 | 94 | 1994 |
| A comparison of methods for predicting vegetation type DM Cairns Plant Ecology 156, 3-18, 2001 | 90 | 2001 |
| A global framework for linking alpine‐treeline ecotone patterns to underlying processes MY Bader, LD Llambí, BS Case, HL Buckley, JM Toivonen, JJ Camarero, ... Ecography 44 (2), 265-292, 2021 | 81 | 2021 |
| Contemporary and historic population structure of Abies spectabilis at treeline in Barun valley, eastern Nepal Himalaya PK Chhetri, DM Cairns Journal of Mountain Science 12, 558-570, 2015 | 73 | 2015 |
| Influences of animal activity on treeline position and pattern: implications for treeline responses to climate change DM Cairns, C Lafon, J Moen, A Young Physical Geography 28 (5), 419-433, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Patterns of Winter Desiccation in Krummholz Forms of Abies Lasiocarpa at Treeline Sites in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA DM Cairns Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 83 (3), 157-168, 2001 | 72 | 2001 |
| Factors structuring the treeline ecotone in Fennoscandia J Moen, DM Cairns, CW Lafon Plant Ecology & Diversity 1 (1), 77-87, 2008 | 66 | 2008 |
| Review of forest landscape models: types, methods, development and applications W Xi, RN Coulson, AG Birt, ZB Shang, JD Waldron, CW Lafon, DM Cairns, ... Acta Ecologica Sinica 29 (1), 69-78, 2009 | 61 | 2009 |
| Simulating the reciprocal interaction of forest landscape structure and southern pine beetle herbivory using LANDIS DM Cairns, CW Lafon, JD Waldron, M Tchakerian, RN Coulson, ... Landscape Ecology 23, 403-415, 2008 | 61 | 2008 |
| Variability in an edaphic indicator in alpine tundra GP Malanson, DR Butler, DM Cairns, TE Welsh, LM Resler Catena 49 (3), 203-215, 2002 | 57 | 2002 |
| Predicting the suitable habitat of treeline species in the Nepalese Himalayas under climate change PK Chhetri, KD Gaddis, DM Cairns Mountain Research and Development 38 (2), 153-163, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
| Seedling survival at timberline is critical to conifer mountain forest elevation and extent CR Brodersen, MJ Germino, DM Johnson, K Reinhardt, WK Smith, ... Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2, 9, 2019 | 53 | 2019 |
Charles LafonProfessor of Geography, Texas A&M UniversityVerified email at geog.tamu.edu