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Steven G. Cumming

Steven G. Cumming

Overview

Steven G. Cumming is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research encompasses a diverse set of topics and demonstrates a strong focus on ecology, ecological modeling, and global environmental changes.

The scientist's work includes the following recent papers:

  • Fire characteristics and environmental conditions shape plant communities via regeneration strategy, 2020, Ecography
  • Boreal Caribou Can Coexist with Natural but Not Industrial Disturbances, 2020, Journal of Wildlife Management
  • PERFICT: A Re-imagined foundation for predictive ecology, 2022, Ecology Letters
  • Assessing Pathways of Climate Change Effects in SpaDES: An Application to Boreal Landbirds of Northwest Territories Canada, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Lessons learned from comparing spatially explicit models and the Partners in Flight approach to estimate population sizes of boreal birds in Alberta, Canada, 2020, Ornithological Applications

Frequent co-authors reflect the collaborative nature of Steven G. Cumming's research. These include:

  • Fiona K. A. Schmiegelow
  • Merritt R. Turetsky
  • Jennifer L. Baltzer
  • Eliot J. B. McIntire
  • Samuel Haché

Publications have often appeared in journals and venues focusing on forests, global change, and ecology. The three most frequent publication venues for this researcher are:

  • Ecosphere
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecography
  • Journal of Wildlife Management

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Atmospheric Science at the subfield level.

Research topics cover a range of areas related to climate and ecosystems such as:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Best Publications

  • Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils

    Xanthe J. Walker;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Steven G. Cumming;Nicola J. Day

  • The value of managing for biodiversity

    P. J. Burton;A. C. Balisky;L. P. Coward;D. D. Kneeshaw

  • FOREST TYPE AND WILDFIRE IN THE ALBERTA BOREAL MIXEDWOOD: WHAT DO FIRES BURN?

    S. G. Cumming

  • BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC REGULATION OF LIGHTNING FIRE INITIATION IN THE MIXEDWOOD BOREAL FOREST

    M. A. Krawchuk;S. G. Cumming;M. D. Flannigan;R. W. Wein

  • Global protected areas and IUCN designations: Do the categories match the conditions?

    Shawn J. Leroux;Meg A. Krawchuk;Fiona Schmiegelow;Steven G. Cumming

  • Predicted changes in fire weather suggest increases in lightning fire initiation and future area burned in the mixedwood boreal forest

    Meg A. Krawchuk;Steve G. Cumming;Mike D. Flannigan

  • Calibrating indices of avian density from non‐standardized survey data: making the most of a messy situation

    Péter Sólymos;Péter Sólymos;Steven M. Matsuoka;Erin M. Bayne;Subhash R. Lele

  • Projecting boreal bird responses to climate change: the signal exceeds the noise

    D. Stralberg;S. M. Matsuoka;A. Hamann;E. M. Bayne

  • Empirical models of forest fire initial attack success probabilities : the effects of fuels, anthropogenic linear features, fire weather, and management

    M Cecilia Arienti;Steven G Cumming;Stan Boutin

  • Cross‐scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest megafires

    Xanthe J. Walker;Brendan M. Rogers;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Steven G. Cumming

  • Boreal mixedwood forests may have no representative areas : some implications for reserve design

    S. G. Cumming;P. J. Burton;B. Klinkenberg

  • POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF CLIMATIC CHANGE ON SOME WESTERN CANADIAN FORESTS, BASED ON PHENOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENTS TO A PATCH MODEL OF FOREST SUCCESSION

    P. J. Burton;S. G. Cumming

  • Hierarchical analysis of spatially autocorrelated ecological data using integrated nested Laplace approximation

    Julien Beguin;Sara Martino;Håvard Rue;Steven G. Cumming

  • Conservation of future boreal forest bird communities considering lags in vegetation response to climate change: a modified refugia approach

    Diana Stralberg;Erin M. Bayne;Steven G. Cumming;Péter Sólymos

  • Modelling tools to assess the sustainability of forest management scenarios.

    C. Messier;M. J. Fortin;F. Schmiegelow;F. Doyon

  • Using Binomial Distance-Sampling Models to Estimate the Effective Detection Radius of Point-Count Surveys Across Boreal Canada

    Steven M. Matsuoka;Erin M. Bayne;Péter Sólymos;Patricia C. Fontaine

  • Seedbed variation from the interior through the edge of a large wildfire in Alberta

    David F Greene;S Ellen Macdonald;Steve Cumming;Lynn Swift

  • Phenology-mediated effects of climatic change on some simulated British Columbia forests

    Steven G. Cumming;Philip J. Burton

  • Effects of biotic feedback and harvest management on boreal forest fire activity under climate change

    Meg A. Krawchuk;Steve G. Cumming

  • Road network density correlated with increased lightning fire incidence in the Canadian western boreal forest

    M. Cecilia Arienti;Steven G. Cumming;Meg A. Krawchuk;Stan Boutin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jill F. Johnstone
Jill F. Johnstone University of Saskatchewan
Erin M. Bayne
Erin M. Bayne University of Alberta
Jennifer L. Baltzer
Jennifer L. Baltzer Wilfrid Laurier University
Merritt R. Turetsky
Merritt R. Turetsky University of Colorado Boulder
Michelle C. Mack
Michelle C. Mack Northern Arizona University
Scott J. Goetz
Scott J. Goetz Northern Arizona University
Brendan M. Rogers
Brendan M. Rogers Woodwell Climate Research Center
Philip J. Burton
Philip J. Burton University of Northern British Columbia
Meg A. Krawchuk
Meg A. Krawchuk Oregon State University
Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University

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