Dan Kashian
Postdoctoral Fellow
and
Instructor

Department of Forest, Rangeland, & Watershed Stewardship
Warner College of Natural Resources
Colorado
State University

Fort Collins
, Colorado  80523-1472

Phone:  (970) 491-7357
Office:  103 Forestry Building
E-maildank@lamar.colostate.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Monument Bay, 1999

Landscape

Professional Interests:

Landscape ecology of forested ecosystems; forest ecology and stand dynamics; disturbance dynamics and interactions (especially fire); carbon and nutrient cycling; plant/forest succession; plant species-site relationships; geoecology; ecological land classification; invasive species.

For a brief description of past and current research activities . . . . . . click here.

Education:

Ph.D., Zoology and Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, 2002
M.S., Natural Resources (Forest Ecology), University of Michigan, 1998
B.S., Natural Resources, University of Michigan, 1993

Selected Publications:

1.  Binkley, D., D.M. Kashian, S. Boyden, M.W. Kaye, J. Bradford, P. Fornwalt, and M.G. Ryan.  In review.  Patterns of tree age and dominance in forests of the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.  Forest Ecology and Management.

2.  Kashian, D.M., W.H. Romme, and C.M. Regan.  In review.  Reconciling interpretations of aspen decline in the Rocky Mountains: Variation in quaking aspen dynamics in the Colorado Front Range.  
Ecological Applications.


3.  Kashian, D.M., M.G. Ryan, W.H. Romme, D.B. Tinker, and M.G. Ryan.  In press.  Carbon storage in landscapes with stand-replacing fires.  Bioscience.

4.  Schoennagel, T., M.G. Turner, D.M. Kashian, and A. Fall.  In press.  Influence of fire regimes on lodgepole pine stand age and density across the Yellowstone National Park (USA) landscape.  Landscape Ecology.


5.  Kashian, D.M., M.G. Turner, W.H. Romme, and C.G. Lorimer.  2005.  Variability and convergence in stand structure with forest development on a fire-dominated landscape. 
Ecology 86: 643-654.  PDF.

6. Kashian, D.M., M.G. Turner, and W.H. Romme. 2005. Variability in leaf area and stemwood increment along a 300-year lodgepole pine chronosequence.  Ecosystems 8: 48-61.  PDF.

7.  Kashian, D.M., D.B. Tinker, M.G. Turner, and F.L. Scarpace.  2004.  Spatial heterogeneity of lodgepole pine sapling densities following the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 2263-2276.  PDF.

8.  Turner, M.G., D.B. Tinker, W.H. Romme, D.M. Kashian, and C.M. Litton. 2004. Landscape patterns of sapling density, leaf area, and aboveground net primary production in postfire lodgepole pine forests, Yellowstone National Park (USA).  Ecosystems 7: 751-775.  PDF.

9.  Kashian, D.M., B.V. Barnes, and W.S. Walker.  2003.  Ecological species groups of landform-level ecosystems dominated by jack pine in northern Lower Michigan, USA.  Plant Ecology 166: 75-91.  PDF.

10. Kashian, D.M., B.V. Barnes, and W.S. Walker.  2003.  Landscape ecosystems of northern Lower Michigan and the occurrence and management of the Kirtland's warbler.  Forest Science 49: 140-159.  PDF.

11. Walker, W.S., B.V. Barnes, and D.M. Kashian.  2003.  Landscape ecosystems of the Mack Lake burn, northern Lower Michigan, and the occurrence of the Kirtland's warbler.  Forest Science 49: 119-139.  PDF.

12. Kashian, D.M., and B.V. Barnes. 2000. Landscape influence on the spatial and temporal distribution of the Kirtland’s warbler at the Bald Hill burn, northern Lower Michigan, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30: 1985-1904.  PDF.

13. Comer, P.J., D.A. Albert, H.A. Wells, B.L. Hart, J.B. Raab, D.L. Price, D.M. Kashian, R.A. Corner, and D.W. Schuen.  1995.  Michigan's presettlement vegetation, as interpreted from the General Land Office Surveys 1816-1856.  Report to the U.S. E.P.A. Water Division and the Wildlife Division, Michigan Department of Natural Resources.  Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Lansing, MI.  76 pp. and 2 maps.

Courses Taught:

NR 425 -- Sustainability of Renewable Resources, with Dr. Tony Cheng (Spring 2003, Spring 2004)
NR 580 -- Fundamental Landscape Ecology (Spring 2004)  Course Web Page
LA 444 -- Ecology of Landscapes (Fall 2005)
EY 562 -- Philosophy of Landscape Ecology, with Dr. Barry Noon (Fall 2005)

Please see curriculum vitae for complete list of teaching experience.

Outreach:

Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 2003:  "Fire in the West."

Public Presentation, Larimer County Wildfire Education Forum, Fort Collins, Colorado, February 2004:  "Regimes, Risk, and Restoration:  Variable Opportunities for Fire Management in Larimer County."  Click here to download slides.

Public Presentation, Grand Junction Wildfire Education Forum, Grand Junction, Colorado, September 2004:  "Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Ecological Basis for Fire Management in the West."  Click here to download slides.

Manuscript Reviews:

African Environmental Review
American Midland Naturalist
Arid Lands Research and Management
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Conservation Biology
Ecological Applications
Ecological Modelling
Ecoscience
Forest Ecology and Management
Global Change Biology
Journal of Biogeography
Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society
Landscape Ecology
Oecologia
Plant Ecology

Book Reviews:

Landscape Ecology
Plant Ecology

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Last Revised:  October 2005