Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2018 or In Press
Nelson et al. (in review). Evaluating relocation extent versus covariate resolution in habitat selection models across spatiotemporal scales. Ecological Informatics.
Landry et al. (in press). Canopy cover estimation from Landsat images: understory impact on top-of-canopy reflectance in a northern hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing.
Smith, M. et al. (Accepted). Using Place-Based Economically Relevant Organisms to Improve Student Understanding of the Roles of Carbon Dioxide, Sunlight, and Nutrients in Photosynthetic Organisms. CourseSource.
Smith, R.J., Nelson, P.R., Jovan, S., Hansen, P.J. and B. McCune (accepted). Novel Climates Reverse Carbon Uptake of Atmospherically-Dependent Epiphytes: Climatic Constraints on the Iconic Boreal Forest Lichen Evernia Mesomorpha. American Journal of Botany.
Nelson, P.R., McCune, B. , Wheeler, T., Geiser, L. & C. Crisafulli. 2018. Lichen community development along a disturbance gradient at Mount St. Helens: In Ecological Responses Revisited 35 years after the 1980 Eruptions of Mount St. Helens. Eds V.H. Dale & C. H. Crisafulli, Springer-Verlag, New York.
2017
Vargas Castillo, R., Stanton, D., & Nelson, P. R. (2017). Aportes al conocimiento de la biota liquénica del oasis de neblina de Alto Patache, Desierto de Atacama. Revista de geografía Norte Grande, (68), 49-64.
Lücking, R., Forno, M.D., Moncada, B., Coca, L.F., Vargas-Mendoza, L.Y., Aptroot, A., … P.R. Nelson (and 46 other co-authors listed alphabetically) et al. 2016. Turbo-Taxonomy to Assemble a Megadiverse Lichen Genus: Seventy New Species of Cora (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), Honouring David Leslie Hawksworth’s Seventieth Birthday. Fungal Diversity 1–69.
Macander, M., Frost, G.V., Nelson, P.R. & C. Swingley. 2017. Regional Quantitative Cover Mapping of Tundra Plant Functional Types in Arctic Alaska. Remote Sensing (10): early online view.
2016
Lücking, R., Forno, M.D., Moncada, B., Coca, L.F., Vargas-Mendoza, L.Y., Aptroot, A., Arias, L.J., Besal, B., Bungartz, F., Cabrera-Amaya, D.M., Cáceres, M.E.S., Chaves, J.L., Eliasaro, S., Gutiérrez, M.C., Marin, J.E.H., Herrera-Campos, M. de los Á., Holgado-Rojas, M.E., Jonitz, H., Kukwa, M., Lucheta, F., Madriñán, S., Marcelli, M.P., Martins, S.M. de A., Mercado-Díaz, J.A., Molina, J.A., Morales, E.A., Nelson, P.R., Nugra, F., Ortega, F., Paredes, T., Patiño, A.L., Peláez-Pulido, R.N., Pérez, R.E.P., Perlmutter, G.B., Rivas-Plata, E., Robayo, J., Rodríguez, C., Simijaca, D.F., Soto-Medina, E., Spielmann, A.A., Suárez-Corredor, A., Torres, J.-M., Vargas, C.A., Yánez-Ayabaca, A., Weerakoon, G., Wilk, K., Pacheco, M.C., Diazgranados, M., Brokamp, G., Borsch, T., Gillevet, P.M., Sikaroodi, M. & Lawrey, J.D. 2016. Turbo-taxonomy to assemble a megadiverse lichen genus: seventy new species of Cora (Basidiomycota: Agaricales: Hygrophoraceae), honouring David Leslie Hawksworth’s seventieth birthday. Fungal Diversity 1–69.
Cornejo, C., Nelson, P.R., Stepanchikova, I., Himelbrant, D., Jørgensen, P.M. & C. Scheidegger. 2016. Contrasting Pattern of Photobiont Diversity in the Atlantic and Pacific Populations of Erioderma Pedicellatum (Pannariaceae). The Lichenologist 48(4): 275–291.
Nelson, P.R. & T.B. Wheeler. 2016. Persistence of epiphytic lichens along a tephra-depth gradient produced by the 2011 Cordon-Caulle eruption in Parque Nacional Puyehue, Chile. Bosque 37: 97-105.
2015
Stehn, S., Walton, J., Nelson, P.R., Hampton-Miller, C. & C. Roland. 2015. A lichen species list for Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, with comments on several new and noteworthy records. Evansia 32: 195-215.
Nelson, P.R., McCune, B. & D. Swanson. 2015. Lichen traits and species as indicators of vegetation and environment. The Bryologist 118: 252-263.
Nelson, P.R., McCune, B., Roland, C., Stehn, S. 2015. Nonparametric methods reveal nonlinear functional trait variation in lichens along environmental and fire age gradients. Journal of Vegetation Science 26: 848-865.
2013
Nelson, P.R., Roland, C., Macander, M.J. & B. McCune. 2013. Detecting lichen abundance for mapping winter caribou forage at landscape spatial scales. Remote Sensing of Environment 137: 43-54.
Nelson, P.R. & T. Wheeler. 2013. Cephalodia found on Fuscopannaria viridescens. The Lichenologist 45: 694-696.
Stehn, S., Nelson, P., Roland, C. & J. Jones. 2013. Patterns in the occupancy and abundance of the globally rare lichen Erioderma pedicellatum in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. The Bryologist 116: 2-14.
2012
Nelson, P.R., Kepler, R., Walton, J., Nelson, L., Fankhauser, J. & W.L. Song. 2012. Parmelina yalungana resurrected and reported from Alaska, Russia and China. The Bryologist 115: 557-565.
Muggia, L., P. Nelson, T. Wheeler, L. S. Yakovchenko, T. Tønsberg, & T. Spribille. 2011. Convergent evolution of a symbiotic duet: The case of the lichen genus Polychidium (Peltigerales, Ascomycota). American Journal of Botany 98: 1647–1656.
2009-2011
Nelson, P., J. Walton, H. Root & T. Spribille. 2011. Hypogymnia pulverata (Parmeliaceae) and Collema leptaleum (Collemataceae), two macrolichens new to Alaska. North American Fungi 6:1-8.
Root, H. T. & P. R. Nelson. 2011. Does phylogenetic distance aid in detecting environmental gradients related to species composition? Journal of Vegetation Science 22:1143-148.
Nelson, P., J. Walton & C. Roland. 2009. Erioderma pedicellatum (Hue) P.M.Jorg. new to the United States and western North America, discovered in Denali National Park and Preserve and Denali State Park, Alaska. Evansia 26:19-23.
Educational Publications
Stehn, S. & P. R. Nelson. 2011. Virtual Tour of the Lichens and Mosses of Denali National Park and Preserve. Murie Science and Learning Center.
Nelson, P.R. 2008. Lichen lesson plans. Prepared for and published on the USFS lichen air quality monitoring program's website.
Nelson, P.R. & S. Stehn. 2011. Poster of Lichens and Mosses of Denali National Park and Preserve. Murie Science and Learning Center. Contact the National Park Service in Denali or the Murie Science and Learning Center about obtaining one.
Wheeler, T.B. & P.R. Nelson. 2011. Poster of Lichens of the Valdivian Rainforest. Support our on-going research on this poorly studied lichen community by purchasing one of these posters. Contact me if interested.
Conference Presentations
2016
American Geophysical Union (AGU) (poster). San Francisco, California, USA.
International Association of Lichenologists (IAL8) (posters). Helsinki, Finland.
Josselyn Botanical Society (invited oral presentation). Fort Kent, Maine, USA.
2015
American Geophysical Union (AGU) (poster). San Francisco, California, USA.
Botanical Society of America (BSA) & American Bryological & Lichenological Society (ABLS) & Mycological Society of America (MSA) (poster). Edmondton, Alberta.
2014
American Geophysical Union (AGU) (poster). San Francisco, California, USA. "Quantitative Modeling of Arctic Tundra Vegetation: Leveraging Field Data, Landsat Time-Series, and High-Resolution Imagery in Northern Alaska"
Botanical Society of America (BSA) & American Bryological & Lichenological Society (ABLS) (oral presentation). Boise, Idaho, USA. "Nonlinear lichen community functional trait variation along environmental and fire age gradients revealed by nonparametric methods"
Black Hills Area Ecology & Botany Workshop (oral presentation). Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. “Lichens and bryophytes of the Black Hills: Research, education and outreach”
2013
School of Natural Sciences Seminar Colloquium Lecture Series, Black Hills State University (invited oral presentation). Spearfish, South Dakota, USA. “Lichen community studies in Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska, USA”
2012
Norbeck Society (invited oral presentations), Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
Mycological Society of America (MSA) (poster), Fairbanks, Alaska, USA .“Mapping lichens using satellite imagery”.
Northwest Science (oral presentations), Boise, Idaho, USA. “Mapping lichens using satellite imagery”.
2008-2010
Northwest Science (oral presentations)
American Geophysical Union (AGU) (poster). San Francisco, California, USA.
- "Mapping lichen color-groups in western Arctic Alaska using seasonal Landsat composites".
International Association of Lichenologists (IAL8) (posters). Helsinki, Finland.
- "Mapping lichens in western Arctic Alaska, using new species proxies and high-resolution imagery".
- "Blowing in the wind: Genetic and population assessment of diverse vagrant lichen patch".
Josselyn Botanical Society (invited oral presentation). Fort Kent, Maine, USA.
- "Variation in macrolichen communities among rock glaciers in DeBoullie State Reserve".
2015
American Geophysical Union (AGU) (poster). San Francisco, California, USA.
- "Lichen persistence and recovery in response to varied volcanic disturbances".
Botanical Society of America (BSA) & American Bryological & Lichenological Society (ABLS) & Mycological Society of America (MSA) (poster). Edmondton, Alberta.
- "Lichen persistence and recovery in response to varied volcanic disturbances".
2014
American Geophysical Union (AGU) (poster). San Francisco, California, USA. "Quantitative Modeling of Arctic Tundra Vegetation: Leveraging Field Data, Landsat Time-Series, and High-Resolution Imagery in Northern Alaska"
Botanical Society of America (BSA) & American Bryological & Lichenological Society (ABLS) (oral presentation). Boise, Idaho, USA. "Nonlinear lichen community functional trait variation along environmental and fire age gradients revealed by nonparametric methods"
Black Hills Area Ecology & Botany Workshop (oral presentation). Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. “Lichens and bryophytes of the Black Hills: Research, education and outreach”
2013
School of Natural Sciences Seminar Colloquium Lecture Series, Black Hills State University (invited oral presentation). Spearfish, South Dakota, USA. “Lichen community studies in Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska, USA”
2012
Norbeck Society (invited oral presentations), Rapid City, South Dakota, USA.
- Nov. 8. “Caribou, Vegetation & Climate Change in Denali, Alaska”
- Apr. 12.“Lichens of the Chilean Valdivian Rainforest”
Mycological Society of America (MSA) (poster), Fairbanks, Alaska, USA .“Mapping lichens using satellite imagery”.
Northwest Science (oral presentations), Boise, Idaho, USA. “Mapping lichens using satellite imagery”.
2008-2010
Northwest Science (oral presentations)
- 2010, Centralia, Washington, USA. “A new species of Parmelina (Parmeliaceae) from the northern hemisphere”.
- 2009. Seattle, Washington, USA. “Observations on the disjunct population of the rare and endangered boreal felt lichen Erioderma pedicellatum in southcentral Alaska”.
- 2008, Boise, Idaho, USA. “Lichens of the Valdivian Rainforest”.
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