Edward A Johnson

Edward A. Johnson is Faculty Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary. He was Director of the Biogeoscience Institute at the University of Calgary from 1991 to 2017, and from 2003 to 2007 the G8 Legacy Chair in Ecology. His research interests relate to the coupling of physical processes to ecological processes, specifically natural disturbances. He has completed fieldwork in Australia, Canada, Belize, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and the USA. He has...See more

Edward A. Johnson is Faculty Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary. He was Director of the Biogeoscience Institute at the University of Calgary from 1991 to 2017, and from 2003 to 2007 the G8 Legacy Chair in Ecology. His research interests relate to the coupling of physical processes to ecological processes, specifically natural disturbances. He has completed fieldwork in Australia, Canada, Belize, Sri Lanka, Sweden, and the USA. He has published extensively in refereed scientific journals and has authored four books: Fire and Vegetation Dynamics (Cambridge University Press); Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects (Academic Press); Ecological Education and Environmental Advocacy (Cambridge University Press); and Plant Disturbance Ecology: The Process and the Response, Second Edition (Elsevier Press). He has been part of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada's Network of Centres of Excellence in Sustainable Forest Management and NSERC-NCEs on GEOIDE and Complex Data Systems, and two NSF networks: the Community Surface Dynamic Modeling System (CSDMS) and National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). He received the William S. Cooper Award of the Ecological Society of America for research on wildfire effects on boreal forest dynamics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Ecological Society of America. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, editor from 2008 to 2019 and subject editor of Botany, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vegetation Science, and Ecology/Ecological Monographs. See less