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Daniel W. McKenney

Daniel W. McKenney

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Ecology and Evolution

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51
Citations
10815
World Ranking
3620
National Ranking
249

Overview

Daniel W. McKenney is affiliated with Natural Resources Canada in Canada and focuses on research within Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics addressed in their research are Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Forest Ecology and Management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

McKenney has contributed to multiple recent publications. Among these are:

  • Combining US and Canadian forest inventories to assess habitat suitability and migration potential of 25 tree species under climate change, 2020, Diversity and Distributions
  • Critical seed transfer distances for selected tree species in eastern North America, 2021, Journal of Ecology
  • Assessing the climate suitability and potential economic impacts of Oak wilt in Canada, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A compilation of North American tree provenance trials and relevant historical climate data for seven species, 2021, Scientific Data
  • North American historical monthly spatial climate dataset, 1901-2016, 2020, Scientific Data

Frequent co-authors in their research include John Pedlar, Heather MacDonald, Kevin Lawrence, Emily S. Hope, and Anantha Prasad. McKenney's work has appeared in several publication venues, most notably Scientific Reports, The Forestry Chronicle, Data in Brief, Diversity and Distributions, and Scientific Data.

Best Publications

  • Climate Change and Forest Fire Potential in Russian and Canadian Boreal Forests

    B. J. Stocks;M. A. Fosberg;T. J. Lynham;L. Mearns

  • Potential Impacts of Climate Change on the Distribution of North American Trees

    Daniel W. McKenney;John H. Pedlar;Kevin Lawrence;Kathy Campbell

  • A comparison of two statistical methods for spatial interpolation of Canadian monthly mean climate data

    David T. Price;Daniel W. McKenney;Ian A. Nalder;Michael F. Hutchinson

  • Development and Testing of Canada-Wide Interpolated Spatial Models of Daily Minimum–Maximum Temperature and Precipitation for 1961–2003

    Michael F. Hutchinson;Dan W. McKenney;Kevin Lawrence;John H. Pedlar

  • Customized spatial climate models for North America

    Daniel W. McKenney;Michael F. Hutchinson;Pia Papadopol;Kevin Lawrence

  • Pest Risk Maps for Invasive Alien Species: A Roadmap for Improvement

    Robert C. Venette;Darren J. Kriticos;Roger D. Magarey;Frank H. Koch

  • Placing Forestry in the Assisted Migration Debate

    John H. Pedlar;Daniel W. McKenney;Isabelle Aubin;Tannis Beardmore

  • Coarse woody debris in relation to disturbance and forest type in boreal Canada

    John H. Pedlar;Jennie L. Pearce;Lisa A. Venier;Daniel W. McKenney

  • Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

    I. Aubin;A. D. Munson;F. Cardou;F. Cardou;P. J. Burton

  • The development of 1901–2000 historical monthly climate models for Canada and the United States

    Daniel W. McKenney;John H. Pedlar;Pia Papadopol;Michael F. Hutchinson

  • Impact of Aligning Climatological Day on Gridding Daily Maximum–Minimum Temperature and Precipitation over Canada

    Ron F. Hopkinson;Daniel W. McKenney;Ewa J. Milewska;Michael F. Hutchinson

  • Canada’s plant hardiness zones revisited using modern climate interpolation techniques

    Daniel McKenney;Michael Hutchinson;Jennifer Kesteven;Lisa Venier

  • Revisiting projected shifts in the climate envelopes of North American trees using updated general circulation models

    Daniel W. McKENNEY;John H. Pedlar;Richard B. Rood;David Price

  • Spatial models of site index based on climate and soil properties for two boreal tree species in Ontario, Canada

    Daniel W McKenney;John H Pedlar

  • Effects of organic matter removal, soil compaction and vegetation control on 10th year biomass and foliar nutrition: LTSP continent-wide comparisons

    Felix Ponder Jr.;Robert L. Fleming;Shannon Berch;Matt D. Busse

  • Why we disagree about assisted migration: Ethical implications of a key debate regarding the future of Canada's forests

    I. Aubin;C. M. Garbe;S. Colombo;C. R. Drever

  • Beyond Traditional Hardiness Zones: Using Climate Envelopes to Map Plant Range Limits

    Daniel W. McKenney;John H. Pedlar;Kevin Lawrence;Kathy Campbell

  • Influence of habitat and microhabitat on epigeal spider (Araneae) assemblages in four stand types

    J.L. Pearce;L.A. Venier;G. Eccles;J.H. Pedlar

  • Cost estimates for carbon sequestration from fast growing poplar plantations in Canada.

    Daniel W. McKenney;Denys Yemshanov;Glenn Fox;Elizabeth Ramlal

  • Fast-growing poplar plantations as a bioenergy supply source for Canada

    Denys Yemshanov;Daniel McKenney

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael F. Hutchinson
Michael F. Hutchinson Australian National University
Lisa A. Venier
Lisa A. Venier Natural Resources Canada
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Brendan Mackey
Brendan Mackey Griffith University
Alfons Weersink
Alfons Weersink University of Guelph
Louis R. Iverson
Louis R. Iverson US Forest Service
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Shusen Wang
Shusen Wang Natural Resources Canada
Brian J. Stocks
Brian J. Stocks Canadian Forest Service

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