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James P. Kimmins was affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their academic work focused primarily on areas within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's research addressed several specialized subfields, including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Insect Science

Main topics covered in their studies involved:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

James P. Kimmins contributed to scholarly literature with publications in the journal Forests. One noted paper includes:

  • "Highlighting Complex Long-Term Succession Pathways in Mixed Forests of the Pacific Northwest: A Markov Chain Modelling Approach," published in 2021 in Forests

Their frequent co-authors included:

  • Juan A. Blanco
  • Yueh-Hsin Lo
  • Adrian C. J. Weber

Throughout their career, James P. Kimmins pursued research that intersected forest ecology with landscape-scale environmental processes and management policies.

Best Publications

  • The ecological effects of clear-cutting

    Rodney J. Keenan;J. P. (Hamish) Kimmins

  • Forest Ecology: A Foundation for Sustainable Management

    James P. Kimmins

  • Forest ecology : a foundation for sustainable forest management and environmental ethics in forestry

    James P. Kimmins

  • Modelling forest ecosystem net primary production : the hybrid simulation approach used in FORECAST

    J.P. Kimmins;Daniel Mailly;Brad Seely

  • Evaluation of the consequences for future tree productivity of the loss of nutrients in whole-tree harvesting

    J.P. Kimmins

  • Above- and below-ground biomass and production of lodgepole pine on sites with differing soil moisture regimes

    Philip G. Comeau;James P. Kimmins

  • “Without bamboo, the land dies”: Biomass, litterfall, and soil organic matter dynamics of a Javanese bamboo talun-kebun system

    L. Christanty;D. Mailly;J.P. Kimmins

  • Yield decline in Chinese-fir plantations: a simulation investigation with implications for model complexity

    J. Bi;J. Bi;J. A. Blanco;J. A. Blanco;B. Seely;B. Seely;J. P. Kimmins;J. P. Kimmins

  • Complexity in modelling forest ecosystems: How much is enough?☆

    James P. (Hamish) Kimmins;Juan A. Blanco;Brad Seely;Clive Welham

  • Relationships between climate and tree radial growth in interior British Columbia, Canada

    Yueh-Hsin Lo;Juan A. Blanco;Brad Seely;Clive Welham

  • MASS AND NUTRIENT CONTENT OF WOODY DEBRIS AND FOREST FLOOR IN WESTERN RED CEDAR AND WESTERN HEMLOCK FORESTS ON NORTHERN VANCOUVER-ISLAND

    Rodney J. Keenan;Cindy E. Prescott;J.P. Hamish Kimmins

  • ‘Without bamboo, the land dies’: A conceptual model of the biogeochemical role of bamboo in an Indonesian agroforestry system☆

    L Christanty;J.P Kimmins;D Mailly

  • The use of soil organic matter as a criterion of the relative sustainability of forest management alternatives: a modelling approach using FORECAST

    Dave M. Morris;J.P. (Hamish) Kimmins;Dan R. Duckert

  • Mass and nutrients in woody debris in harvested and wildfire-killed lodgepole pine forests in the central interior of British Columbia

    X Wei;J P Kimmins;K Peel;O Steen

  • Distribution and chemistry of fine roots in a white spruce – subalpine fir stand in British Columbia: implications for management

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  • Above- and below-ground biomass and nutrient distribution of a paper birch and subalpine fir mixed-species stand in the Sub-Boreal Spruce zone of British Columbia

    Jian Rang Wang;Tony Letchford;Phil Comeau;J.P Kimmins

  • Importance of Soil and Role of Ecosystem Disturbance for Sustained Productivity of Cool Temperate and Boreal Forests

    J. P. Kimmins

  • Above- and below-ground vegetation recovery in recently clearcut and burned sites dominated by Gaultheria shallon in coastal British Columbia

    Christian Messier;James P. Kimmins

  • GROWTH OF PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII AND TSUGA HETEROPHYLLA SEEDLINGS ALONG A LIGHT GRADIENT : RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND MORPHOLOGICAL ACCLIMATION

    D. Mailly;J. P. Kimmins

  • Aboveground biomass and nutrient accumulation in an age sequence of paper birch (Betula papyrifera) in the Interior Cedar Hemlock zone, British Columbia

    J.R. Wang;A.L. Zhong;S.W. Simard;J.P. Kimmins

  • Disturbances and the sustainability of long-term site productivity in lodgepole pine forests in the central interior of British Columbia—an ecosystem modeling approach

    X. Wei;J.P. Kimmins;G. Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Rodney J. Keenan
Rodney J. Keenan University of Melbourne
Cindy E. Prescott
Cindy E. Prescott University of British Columbia
Philip G. Comeau
Philip G. Comeau University of Alberta
Xiaohua Wei
Xiaohua Wei University of British Columbia
Benjamin Gilbert
Benjamin Gilbert University of Toronto
Suzanne W. Simard
Suzanne W. Simard University of British Columbia
John Pastor
John Pastor University of Minnesota, Duluth
Wiktor L. Adamowicz
Wiktor L. Adamowicz University of Alberta
Guangsheng Zhou
Guangsheng Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences

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