Steven G. Cumming

Chercheur régulier
Modélisation des écosystèmes boréaux

Université Laval
Faculté de foresterie et de géomatique
Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt
Pavillon Abitibi-Price, local 2117
2405 Rue de la Terrasse
Québec (Québec) Canada, G1V 0A6

Téléphone: (418) 656-2131 poste 402593
Télécopieur: (418) 656-5262

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FORMATION
  • Ph.D. en écologie forestière, 1997 (Université de la Colombie-Britannique)
  • M.Sc. en informatique, 1986 (Simon Fraser University)
  • B.Sc. en informatique, 1981 (Université d'Alberta)

Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en modélisation des écosystèmes boréaux de 2006 à 2016.

THÈMES DE RECHERCHE

Mes activités de recherche englobent l’analyse spatiale et la modélisation des processus écologiques. Je m’intéresse depuis longtemps à la modélisation de la dynamique des peuplements forestiers et tout particulièrement à l’étude des perturbations par le feu dans les forêts boréales. Au cours des dernières années, je me suis joint au Boreal Avian Modelling Project, où j’applique mon expertise en modélisation au développement de modèles statistiques en vue de prédire la distribution et l’abondance de la faune aviaire.

RÉALISATIONS RÉCENTES

Mes collaborateurs et moi avons développé de nouvelles méthodes de modélisation écologique et spatiale qui peuvent être appliquées aussi bien à l’étude de processus naturels (par exemple, les feux de forêt) que de processus anthropiques (par exemple, l’aménagement forestier). Nous avons en outre démontré que nos modèles pouvaient s’appliquer à l’échelle régionale. Les travaux en cours incluent le développement d’un modèle dynamique adapté à la forêt boréale québécoise. Dans le cadre du Boreal Avian Modelling Project, nous avons mis en place des outils méthodologiques permettant l’élaboration de modèles pour près de 100 espèces d’oiseaux et travaillons présentement au développement de modèles pour la sauvagine.

PROJETS DE RECHERCHE

You can download all my bibliography in the BibTeX, BibTeX-CSV or EndNote format.
PUBLICATIONS
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Boreal Avian Modelling Project Reports
Books



Book chapters


  1. Krawchuk, M., Lisgo, K., Leroux, S., Vernier, P., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F. (2014) Boreal forest, Canada. In Climate and conservation: Landscape and seascape science, planning, and action, Island Press-Center for Resource Economics, pages 69-79
  2. Krawchuk, M., Lisgo, K., Leroux, S., Vernier, P., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F. (2012) Boreal Forest, Canada. (Chap. 6) In Climate and Conservation: Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action. (Hilty, J.A., Chester, C.C. and Cross, M.S., Eds.) Island Press
  3. Messier, C., Fortin, M.-J., Schmiegelow, F., Doyon, F., Cumming, S.G., Kimmins, J.P., Seely, B., Welham, C., Nelson, J. (2003) Modelling tools to assess the sustainability of forest management scenarios. (Chap. 14) In Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest. (Burton, P.J., Messier, C., Smith, D.W. and Adamowicz, W.L., Eds.) NRC Research Press, pages 531-580
  4. Greenway, K., Cumming, S.G., Grover, B. (2002) Regeneration of trees after wildfire and harvesting. (Chap. 8) In Ecological basis for stand management: A summary and synthesis of ecological responses to wildfire and harvesting in boreal forests. (Song, S.J., Eds.) Alberta Research Council Inc., pages 1-26


Edited books, special journal editions and proceedings


  1. Cumming, S.G., Darveau, M., Naujokaitis-Lewis, I. and Barker, N., Eds. (2019) Conservation of Boreal Birds. The Resilience Alliance


Peer-reviewed articles


  1. Micheletti, T., Hache, S., Stralberg, D., Stewart, F.E.C., Chubaty, A.M., Barros, C., Bayne, E.M., Cumming, S.G., Docherty, T.D.S., Dookie, A. et al. (2023) Will this umbrella leak? A caribou umbrella index for boreal landbird conservation. Conservation Science and Practice, 5(4):e12908
  2. Reid, K.A., Day, N.J., Alfaro-Sanchez, R., Johnstone, J.F., Cumming, S.G., Mack, M.C., Turetsky, M.R., Walker, X.J., Baltzer, J.L. (2023) Black spruce (Picea mariana) seed availability and viability in boreal forests after large wildfires. Annals of Forest Science, 80:1-16
  3. Barros, C., Luo, Y., Chubaty, A.M., Eddy, I.M.S., Micheletti, T., Boisvenue, C., Andison, D.W., Cumming, S.G., McIntire, E.J.B. (2023) Empowering ecological modellers with a PERFICT workflow: Seamlessly linking data, parameterisation, prediction, validation and visualisation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14:173-188
  4. Stewart, F.E.C., Micheletti, T., Cumming, S.G., Barros, C., Chubaty, A.M., Dookie, A.L., Duclos, I., Eddy, I., Hache, S., Hodson, J. et al. (2023) Climate-informed forecasts reveal dramatic local habitat shifts and population uncertainty for northern boreal caribou. Ecological Applications, 33(3):e2816
  5. Vernier, P.R., Leroux, S.J., Cumming, S.G., Lisgo, K., Esteban, A.S, Krawchuk, M.A., Schmiegelow, F. (2022) Comparing Global and Regional Maps of Intactness in the Boreal Region of North America: Implications for Conservation Planning in One of the World’s Remaining Wilderness Areas. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5
  6. Alfaro-Sanchez, R., Johnstone, J.F., Cumming, S.G., Day, N.J., Mack, M.C., Walker, X.J., Baltzer, J.L. (2022) What Drives Reproductive Maturity and Efficiency in Serotinous Boreal Conifers? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10
  7. Edwards, M., Lisgo, K., Leroux, S., Krawchuk, M., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F. (2022) Conservation planning integrating natural disturbances: Estimating minimum reserve sizes for an insect disturbance in the boreal forest of eastern Canada. PLOS ONE, 17(5):1-20
  8. Day, N.J., Johnstone, J.F., Reid, K.A., Cumming, S.G., Mack, M.C., Turetsky, M.R., Walker, X.J., Baltzer, J.L. (2022) Material Legacies and Environmental Constraints Underlie Fire Resilience of a Dominant Boreal Forest Type. Ecosystems
  9. Diop, S.A, Duchesne, T., Cumming, S.G., Diop, A., Talbot, D. (2022) Confounding adjustment methods for multi-level treatment comparisons under lack of positivity and unknown model specification. Journal of Applied Statistics, 49(10):2570-2592
  10. McIntire, E.J.B., Chubaty, A.M., Cumming, S.G., Andison, D., Barros, C., Boisvenue, C., Hache, S., Luo, Y., Micheletti, T., Stewart, F.E.C. (2022) PERFICT: A Re-imagined foundation for predictive ecology. Ecology Letters, 25(6):1345-1351
  11. Micheletti, T., Stewart, F.E.C., Cumming, S.G., Hache, S., Stralberg, D., Tremblay, J.A., Barros, C., Eddy, I.M.S., Chubaty, A.M., Leblond, M. et al. (2021) Assessing Pathways of Climate Change Effects in SpaDES: An Application to Boreal Landbirds of Northwest Territories Canada. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9
  12. Day, N.J., Cumming, S.G., Dunfield, K.E., Johnstone, J.F., Mack, M.C., Reid, K.A., Turetsky, M.R., Walker, X.J., Baltzer, J.L. (2021) Corrigendum: Identifying Functional Impacts of Heat-Resistant Fungi on Boreal Forest Recovery After Wildfire (Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, (2020), 3, (68), 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00068). Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4
  13. Greuel, R.J., Degre-Timmons, G.E., Baltzer, J.L., Johnstone, J.F., McIntire, E.J.B., Day, N.J., Hart, S.J., McLoughlin, P.D., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Turetsky, M.R. et al. (2021) Predicting patterns of terrestrial lichen biomass recovery following boreal wildfires. Ecosphere, 12(4)
  14. Adde, A., Casabona i Amat, C., Mazerolle, M.J., Darveau, M., Cumming, S.G., O'Hara, R.B. (2021) Integrated modeling of waterfowl distribution in western Canada using aerial survey and citizen science (eBird) data. Ecosphere, 12(10)
  15. Adde, A., Darveau, M., Barker, N., Imbeau, L., Cumming, S.G. (2021) Environmental covariates for modelling the distribution and abundance of breeding ducks in northern North America: a review. Écoscience, 28(1):33-52
  16. Day, N.J., Cumming, S.G., Dunfield, K.E., Johnstone, J.F., Mack, M.C., Reid, K.A., Turetsky, M.R., Walker, X.J., Baltzer, J.L. (2020) Identifying Functional Impacts of Heat-Resistant Fungi on Boreal Forest Recovery After Wildfire. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 3
  17. Adde, A., Stralberg, D., Logan, T., Lepage, C., Cumming, S.G., Darveau, M. (2020) Projected effects of climate change on the distribution and abundance of breeding waterfowl in Eastern Canada. Climatic Change, 162(4):2339-2358
  18. Stewart, F.E. C., Nowak, J.J., Micheletti, T., McIntire, E.J.B., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Cumming, S.G. (2020) Boreal Caribou Can Coexist with Natural but Not Industrial Disturbances. The Journal of Wildlife Management, 84(8):1435-1444
  19. Bauduin, S., Cumming, S.G., St-Laurent, M.-H., McIntire, E.J.B. (2020) Integrating functional connectivity in designing networks of protected areas under climate change: A caribou case-study. PLOS ONE, 15(9):1-19
  20. Solymos, P., Toms, J.D., Matsuoka, S.M., Cumming, S.G., Barker, N.K.S., Thogmartin, W.E., Stralberg, D., Crosby, A.D., Denes, F.V., Hache, S. et al. (2020) Lessons learned from comparing spatially explicit models and the Partners in Flight approach to estimate population sizes of boreal birds in Alberta, Canada. Condor, 122(2)
  21. Day, N.J., White, A.L., Johnstone, J.F., Degre-Timmons, G.E., Cumming, S.G., Mack, M.C., Turetsky, M.R., Walker, X.J., Baltzer, J.L. (2020) Fire characteristics and environmental conditions shape plant communities via regeneration strategy. Ecography, 43(10):1464-1474
  22. Adde, A., Darveau, M., Barker, N., Cumming, S.G. (2020) Predicting spatiotemporal abundance of breeding waterfowl across Canada: A Bayesian hierarchical modelling approach. Diversity and Distributions, 26(10):1248-1263
  23. Marchal, J., Cumming, S.G., McIntire, E.J.B. (2020) Turning Down the Heat: Vegetation Feedbacks Limit Fire Regime Responses to Global Warming. Ecosystems, 23(1):204-216
  24. Miquelajauregui, Y., Cumming, S.G., Gauthier, S. (2019) Sensitivity of Boreal Carbon Stocks to Fire Return Interval, Fire Severity and Fire Season: A Simulation Study of Black Spruce Forests. Ecosystems, 22(3):544-562
  25. Miquelajauregui, Y., Cumming, S.G., Gauthier, S. (2019) Short-term responses of boreal carbon stocks to climate change: A simulation study of black spruce forests. Ecological Modelling, 409
  26. Walker, X.J., Baltzer, J.L., Cumming, S.G., Day, N.J., Ebert, C., Goetz, S., Johnstone, J.F., Potter, S., Rogers, B.M., Schuur, E.A.G. et al. (2019) Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils. Nature, 572(7770):520-523
  27. Crosby, A.D., Bayne, E.M., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Denes, F.V., Tremblay, J.A. (2019) Differential habitat selection in boreal songbirds influences estimates of population size and distribution. Diversity and Distributions, 25(12):1941-1953
  28. Tremblay, P.-O., Duchesne, T., Cumming, S.G. (2018) Survival analysis and classification methods for forest fire size. PLOS ONE, 13(1)
  29. Solymos, P., Matsuoka, S.M., Cumming, S.G., Stralberg, D., Fontaine, P., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Song, S.J., Bayne, E.M. (2018) Evaluating time-removal models for estimating availability of boreal birds during point count surveys: Sample size requirements and model complexity. Condor, 120(4):765-786
  30. Walker, X.J., Baltzer, J.L., Cumming, S.G., Day, N.J., Johnstone, J.F., Rogers, B.M., Solvik, K., Turetsky, M.R., Mack, M.C. (2018) Soil organic layer combustion in boreal black spruce and jack pine stands of the Northwest Territories, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27(2):125-134
  31. Walker, X.J., Rogers, B.M., Baltzer, J.L., Cumming, S.G., Day, N.J., Goetz, S.J., Johnstone, J.F., Schuur, E.A. G., Turetsky, M.R., Mack, M.C. (2018) Cross-scale controls on carbon emissions from boreal forest megafires. Global Change Biology, 24(9):4251-4265
  32. Bauduin, S., McIntire, E.J.B., St-Laurent, M.-H., Cumming, S.G. (2018) Compensatory conservation measures for an endangered caribou population under climate change. Scientific Reports, 8
  33. Marchal, J., Cumming, S.G., McIntire, E.J.B. (2017) Correction: Land cover, more than monthly fire weather, drives fire-size distribution in Southern Québec forests: Implications for fire risk management (PLOS ONE (2017) 12:6 (e0179294) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0179294). PLOS ONE, 12(9)
  34. Marchal, J., Cumming, S.G., McIntire, E.J.B. (2017) Land cover, more than monthly fire weather, drives fire-size distribution in Southern Quebec forests: Implications for fire risk management. PLOS ONE, 12(6)
  35. Marchal, J., Cumming, S.G., McIntire, E.J.B. (2017) Exploiting Poisson additivity to predict fire frequency from maps of fire weather and land cover in boreal forests of Québec, Canada. Ecography, 40(1):200-209
  36. Miquelajauregui, Y., Cumming, S.G., Gauthier, S. (2016) Modelling variable fire severity in boreal forests: Effects of fire intensity and stand structure. PLOS ONE, 11(2)
  37. Mahon, C.L., Holloway, G., Solymos, P., Cumming, S.G., Bayne, E.M., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Song, S.J. (2016) Community structure and niche characteristics of upland and lowland western boreal birds at multiple spatial scales. Forest Ecology and Management, 361:99-116
  38. Bayne, E., Leston, L., Lisa Mahon, C., Solymos, P., Machtans, C., Lankau, H., Ball, J.R., Van Wilgenburg, S.L., Cumming, S.G., Fontaine, T. et al. (2016) Boreal bird abundance estimates within different energy sector disturbances vary with point count radius. Condor, 118(2):376-390
  39. Bauduin, S., McIntire, E.J.B., St-Laurent, M.-H., Cumming, S.G. (2016) Overcoming challenges of sparse telemetry data to estimate caribou movement. Ecological Modelling, 335:24-34
  40. Roy, C., McIntire, E.J.B., Cumming, S.G. (2016) Assessing the spatial variability of density dependence in waterfowl populations. Ecography, 39(10):942-953
  41. Erickson, A., Nitschke, C., Coops, N., Cumming, S.G., Stenhouse, G. (2015) Past-century decline in forest regeneration potential across a latitudinal and elevational gradient in Canada. Ecological Modelling, 313:94-102
  42. Stralberg, D., Matsuoka, S.M., Hamann, A., Bayne, E.M., Solymos, P., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Wang, X., Cumming, S.G., Song, S.J. (2015) Projecting boreal bird responses to climate change: The signal exceeds the noise. Ecological Applications, 25(1):52-69
  43. Stralberg, D., Bayne, E.M., Cumming, S.G., Solymos, P., Song, S.J., Schmiegelow, F.K.A. (2015) Conservation of future boreal forest bird communities considering lags in vegetation response to climate change: a modified refugia approach. Diversity and Distributions, 21(9):1112-1128
  44. Cumming, S.G., Drever, C.R., Houle, M., Cosco, J., Racine, P., Bayne, E., Schmiegelow, F.K. (2015) A gap analysis of tree species representation in the protected areas of the canadian boreal forest: Applying a new assemblage of digital forest resource inventory data1. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 45(2):163-173
  45. Barker, N.K.S., Fontaine, P.C., Cumming, S.G., Stralberg, D., Westwood, A., Bayne, E.M., Solymos, P., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Song, S.J., Rugg, D.J. (2015) Ecological monitoring through harmonizing existing data: Lessons from the boreal avian modelling project. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 39(3):480-487
  46. Roy, C., Cumming, S.G., McIntire, E.J.B. (2015) Spatial and temporal variation in harvest probabilities for American black duck. Ecology and Evolution, 5(10):1992-2004
  47. Cumming, S.G., Stralberg, D., Lefevre, K.L., Solymos, P., Bayne, E.M., Fang, S., Fontaine, T., Mazerolle, D., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Song, S.J. (2014) Climate and vegetation hierarchically structure patterns of songbird distribution in the Canadian boreal region. Ecography, 37(2):137-151
  48. Barker, N.K.S., Slattery, S.M., Darveau, M., Cumming, S.G. (2014) Modeling distribution and abundance of multiple species: Different pooling strategies produce similar results. Ecosphere, 5(12)
  49. Barker, N.K.S., Cumming, S.G., Darveau, M. (2014) Models to predict the distribution and abundance of breeding ducks in Canada. Avian Conservation and Ecology, 9(2)
  50. Beguin, J., McIntire, E.J.B., Fortin, D., Cumming, S.G., Raulier, F., Racine, P., Dussault, C. (2013) Explaining geographic gradients in landscape selection by boreal caribou with implications under global changes. PLOS ONE
  51. Solymos, P., Matsuoka, S.M., Bayne, E.M., Lele, S.R., Fontaine, P., Cumming, S.G., Stralberg, D., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Song, S.J. (2013) Calibrating indices of avian density from non-standardized survey data: Making the most of a messy situation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4(11):1047-1058
  52. Powers, R.P., Coops, N.C., Morgan, J.L., Wulder, M.A., Nelson, T.A., Drever, C.R., Cumming, S.G. (2013) A remote sensing approach to biodiversity assessment and regionalization of the Canadian boreal forest. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 37(1):36-62
  53. Wang, X., Hamann, A., Cumming, S.G. (2012) Measuring boreal forest fragmentation after fire: Which configuration metrics are best? Ecological Indicators, 13(1):189-195
  54. Garet, J., Raulier, F., Pothier, D., Cumming, S.G. (2012) Forest age class structures as indicators of sustainability in boreal forest: Are we measuring them correctly? Ecological Indicators, 23:202-210
  55. Beguin, J., Martino, S., Rue, H., Cumming, S.G. (2012) Hierarchical analysis of spatially autocorrelated ecological data using integrated nested Laplace approximation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(5):921-929
  56. Matsuoka, S.M., Bayne, E.M., Solymos, P., Fontaine, P.C., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Song, S.J. (2012) Using binomial distance-sampling models to estimate the effective detection radius of point-count surveys across boreal Canada. Auk, 129(2):268-282
  57. Wang, X.L., Cumming, S.G. (2011) Measuring landscape configuration with normalized metrics. Landscape Ecology, 26(5):723-736
  58. Krawchuk, M.A., Cumming, S.G. (2011) Effects of biotic feedback and harvest management on boreal forest fire activity under climate change. Ecological Applications, 21(1):122-136
  59. Cumming, S.G., Lefevre, K.L., Bayne, E., Fontaine, T., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Song, S.J. (2010) Toward Conservation of Canada's Boreal Forest Avifauna: Design and Application of Ecological Models at Continental Extents. Avian Conservation and Ecology, 5(2):8
  60. Leroux, S.J., Krawchuk, M.A., Schmiegelow, F., Cumming, S.G., Lisgo, K., Anderson, L.G., Petkova, M. (2010) Global protected areas and IUCN designations: Do the categories match the conditions? Biological Conservation, 143(3):609-616
  61. Desrochers, A., McIntire, E.J.B., Cumming, S.G., Nowak, J., Sharma, S. (2010) False negatives – a false problem in studies of habitat selection? Ideas in Ecology and Evolution, 3:20-25
  62. Hauer, G., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F., Adamowicz, W., Weber, M., Jagodzinski, R. (2010) Tradeoffs between forestry resource and conservation values under alternate policy regimes: A spatial analysis of the western Canadian boreal plains. Ecological Modelling, 221(21):2590-2603
  63. Wang, X., Cumming, S.G. (2010) Configuration dynamics of boreal forest landscapes under recent fire and harvesting regimes in western Canada. Landscape Ecology, 25(9):1419-1432
  64. Arienti, M.C., Cumming, S.G., Krawchuk, M.A., Boutin, S. (2009) Road network density correlated with increased lightning fire incidence in the Canadian western boreal forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 18(8):970-982
  65. Krawchuk, M.A., Cumming, S.G., Flannigan, M.D. (2009) Predicted changes in fire weather suggest increases in lightning fire initiation and future area burned in the mixedwood boreal forest. Climatic Change, 92(1-2):83-97
  66. Azeria, E.T., Fortin, D., Lemaitre, J., Janssen, P., Hebert, C., Darveau, M., Cumming, S.G. (2009) Fine-scale structure and cross-taxon congruence of bird and beetle assemblages in an old-growth boreal forest mosaic. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 18(3):333-345
  67. Krawchuk, M.A., Cumming, S.G. (2009) Disturbance history affects lightning fire initiation in the mixedwood boreal forest: Observations and simulations. Forest Ecology and Management, 257(7):1613-1622
  68. Wang, X.L., Cumming, S.G. (2009) Modeling configuration dynamics of harvested forest landscapes in the Canadian boreal plains. Landscape Ecology, 24(2):229-241
  69. Cumming, S.G., Trindade, M., Greene, D.F., MacDonald, E.S. (2009) Canopy and emergent white spruce in "pure" broadleaf stands: Frequency, predictive models, and ecological importance. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 39(10):1997-2004
  70. Vernier, P.R., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Hannon, S., Cumming, S.G. (2008) Generalizability of songbird habitat models in boreal mixedwood forests of Alberta. Ecological Modelling, 211(1-2):191-201
  71. Leroux, S.J., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Cumming, S.G., Lessard, R.B., Nagy, J. (2007) Accounting for system dynamics in reserve design. Ecological Applications, 17(7):1954-1966
  72. Leroux, S.J., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Lessard, R.B., Cumming, S.G. (2007) Minimum dynamic reserves: A framework for determining reserve size in ecosystems structured by large disturbances. Biological Conservation, 138(3-4):464-473
  73. Arienti, M.C., Cumming, S.G., Boutin, S. (2006) Empirical models of forest fire initial attack success probabilities: the effects of fuels, anthropogenic linear features, fire weather, and management. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 36(12):3155-3166
  74. Martell, K.A., Foote, A.L., Cumming, S.G. (2006) Riparian disturbance due to beavers (Castor canadensis) in Alberta's boreal mixedwood forests: Implications for forest management. Ecoscience, 13(2):164-171
  75. Krawchuk, M.A., Cumming, S.G., Flannigan, M.D., Wein, R.W. (2006) Biotic and abiotic regulation of lightning fire initiation in the mixedwood boreal forest. Ecology, 87(2):458-468
  76. Cumming, S.G. (2005) Effective fire suppression in boreal forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 35(4):772-786
  77. Greene, D.F., Macdonald, S.E., Cumming, S.G., Swift, L. (2005) Seedbed variation from the interior through the edge of a large wildfire in Alberta. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 35(7):1640-1647
  78. Cumming, S.G., Armstrong, G.W. (2004) Divided landbase, overlapping tenures, and fire risk. Forestry Chronicle, 80(4):478-484
  79. Armstrong, G.W., Adamowicz, W.L., Beck, J.A., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F.K.A. (2003) Coarse filter ecosystem management in a nonequilibrating forest. Forest Science, 49(2):209-223
  80. Armstrong, G.W., Cumming, S.G. (2003) Estimating the cost of land base changes due to wildfire using shadow prices. Forest Science, 49(5):719-730
  81. Cumming, S.G., Vernier, P. (2002) Statistical models of landscape pattern metrics, with applications to regional scale dynamic forest simulations. Landscape Ecology, 17(5):433-444
  82. Cumming, S.G. (2002) Fire smart forests? New research study supports concept. Forestry Chronicle, 78(2):204
  83. Cumming, S.G., Armstrong, G.W. (2001) Divided land base and overlapping forest tenure in Alberta, Canada: A simulation study exploring costs of forest policy. Forestry Chronicle, 77(3):501-508
  84. Cumming, S.G. (2001) A parametric model of the fire-size distribution. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 31(8):1297-1303
  85. Cumming, S.G. (2001) Forest type and wildfire in the alberta boreal mixedwood: What do fires burn? Ecological Applications, 11(1):97-110
  86. Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Burton, P.J. (2000) Gap dynamics in boreal aspen stands: Is the forest older than we think? Ecological Applications, 10(3):744-759
  87. Armstrong, G.W., Cumming, S.G., Adamowicz, W.L. (1999) Timber supply implications of natural disturbance management. Forestry Chronicle, 75(3):497-504
  88. Bugmann, H.K.M., Yan, X.D., Sykes, M.T., Martin, P., Lindner, M., Desanker, P.V., Cumming, S.G. (1996) A comparison of forest gap models: Model structure and behaviour. Climatic Change, 34(2):289-313
  89. Cumming, S.G., Burton, P.J., Klinkenberg, B. (1996) Boreal mixedwood forests may have no representative areas: Some implications for reserve design. Ecography, 19(2):162-180
  90. Cumming, S.G., Burton, P.J. (1996) Phenology-mediated effects of climatic change on some simulated British Columbia forests. Climatic Change, 34(2):213-222
  91. Burton, P.J., Cumming, S.G. (1995) Potential effects of climatic-change on some western canadian forests, based on phenological enhancements to a patch model of forest succession. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, 82(1-2):401-414
  92. Cumming, S.G., Burton, P.J., Prahacs, S., Garland, M.R. (1994) Potential conflicts between timber supply and habitat protection in the boreal mixedwood of Alberta, Canada - a simulation study. Forest Ecology and Management, 68(2-3):281-302
  93. Cumming, S.G., Burton, P.J. (1993) Programmable shell and graphics system for forest stand simulation. Environmental Software, 8(4):219-230
  94. Burton, P.J., Balisky, A.C., Coward, L.P., Cumming, S.G., Kneeshaw, D.D. (1992) The value of managing for biodiversity. Forestry Chronicle, 68(2):225-237


Articles published in proceedings



Scientific reports, manuals and others


  1. Micheletti, T., Stewart, F., McIntire, E.J.B., Eddy, I., Barros, C., Marchal, J., Stralberg, D., van Telgen, M., Raymundo, A., Chubaty, A.M. et al. (2019) Simulation effects of climate change on fire regime: implications for Boreal Caribou and landbird communities in the Northwest Territories. Technical report
  2. Hache, S., Solymos, P., Fontaine, T., Bayne, E., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F., Stralberg, D. (2014) Analyses to support critical habitat identification for Canada Warbler, Olivesided Flycatcher, and Common Nighthawk (Project K4B20-13-0367). Technical report, Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk, Environment Canada
  3. Houle, H., Cumming, S.G., Racine, P. (2013) Common Attribute Schema for Forest Resource Inventory (CASFRI): Technical Assessment for Integration within CFS to Support an “Integrated Systems Approach”. Technical report, ISA Secretariat, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada
  4. Guerette-Montminy, A., Berthiaum,e E., Darveau, M., Cumming, S.G., Bordage, D., Lapointe, S., Lemelin, L-V. (2009) Répartition de la sauvagine en période de nidification entre les 51e et 58e de latitude nord dans la province de Québec. Technical report Q14, Canards Illimités Canada - Québec, Québec
  5. Lisgo, K., Cumming, S.G., Flynn, N., Schmiegelow F.K.A. (2008) Evaluation of Saskatchewan Designated Protected Lands as Ecological Benchmarks for Forest Management. Technical report, Saskatchewan Environment Forest Service
  6. Hauer, G., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Adamowicz, W., Weber, M., Jagodzinski, R. (2007) Tradeoffs between forestry resource and conservation values under alternate forest policy regimes: A spatial analysis of the western Canadian boreal plains. Technical report, Dep?t Rural Economy, University of Alberta
  7. Vernier, P., Cumming, S.G., Schmiegelow, F.K.A. (2006) Application of Remote Areas Project (RAP) models to Alpac?s DFMP process. Technical report, Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Inc, Boyle Alberta


Theses, dissertations and essays


  1. Cumming, S.G. (1997) Landscape dynamics of the boreal mixedwood forest. PhD thesis, University of British Colombia
  2. Cumming, S.G. (1986) Axiomatising the logic of distributed computation. Master's thesis, Simon Fraser University


Supervised theses, dissertations and essays


  1. Adde, A. (2020) Modélisation de la distribution et de l’abondance de la sauvagine au Canada. PhD thesis, Université Laval
  2. Marchal, J. (2017) Prévoir pour mieux s'adapter : sensibilité de l'activité des incendies de forêt aux changements climatiques et de couverture terrestre. PhD thesis, Université Laval
  3. Miquelajauregui, Y. (2017) An integrated model of stand dynamics, soil carbon and fire regime : pplications to boreal ecosystem response to climate change. PhD thesis, Université Laval
  4. Bauduin, S. (2016) Integrating functional connectivity and climate change in the design of protected area networks. PhD thesis, Université Laval
  5. Roy, C. (2015) Dynamique spatio-temporelle des populations de canards barboteurs et de leur habitat. PhD thesis, Université Laval
  6. Barker, N. (2015) Modelling waterfowl abundance and distribution to inform conservation planning in Canada. PhD thesis, Université Laval
  7. Bokenge, A. (2013) Mesure et modélisation du taux d'effondrement et de dépérissement de la canopée du peuplier faux-tremble, en Alberta. Master's thesis, Université Laval
  8. Saucier, F. (2011) Développement d'une approche de planification systématique pour l'élaboration de réseaux de conservation représentatifs faits d'aires protégées qui visent la persistance de la biodiversité à long terme: étude de cas au Moyen Nord du Québec. Master's thesis, Université Laval


Non peer-reviewed articles



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