Education

• Ph.D. Biology, University of Miami (2003)
• M.S. Zoology, University of South Florida (1994)
• B.S. Biology, Florida State University (1991)

Research Interests

• Forest pest insect
• Spatiotemporal population dynamics
• Population modeling
• Climate change biology
• Conservation biology

Select Publications

• Nunez-Mir GC, Walter JA, Grayson KL, Johnson DM. 2022. Assessing drivers of localized invasive spread to inform large-scale management of a high-profile insect pest. Ecological Applications. 32:e2538.
• Büntgen U, Gonzalez-Rouco F, Luterbacher J, Stenseth NC & Johnson DM. 2020. Extending the climatological concept of ‘Detection and Attribution’ to global change ecology in the Anthropocene. Functional Ecology 34(11): 2270-2283.   
• Grayson, KL & Johnson DM. 2018. Novel insights on population and range edge dynamics using an unparalleled spatiotemporal record of species invasion. Journal of Animal Ecology 87:3 581-593. 
• Johnson DM, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Kausrud K, Haynes KJ, Liebhold AM, Esper J & Stenseth NC. 2010. Climate warming disrupts recurrent Alpine insect outbreaks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 20576-20581.
• Johnson DM, Tobin PC, Liebhold AM & Bjørnstad ON. 2006. Allee effects and pulsed invasions by the gypsy moth. Nature 444: 361-363.
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Courses

• BIOL 459: Infectious Disease Ecology
• BIOL 430: Invasion Biology
• BIOL 520: Population Ecology