PUBLICATIONS

Bamzai-Dodson, A., Svancara, L., Benedict, L., Cushing, J., DellaSala, D., Goldberg,
J., James, L., Neville, H., Sesser, A., & Foster, V. S. (in prep). Chapter 8b: US
policy options and solutions in a complex and changing environment. In J.
Bradford, I. Cote, E. Enkerlin, & M. C. Lemos (Eds.), Biodiversity and Climate
Change Assessment.
A.L. Sesser, Magness, D.R., Lynch, A.J., Guilbeau K.G., Miles W., Wilkening J.L. In
revision. RADaptation: integrating the Resist-Accept-Direct framework into
natural resource decision making processes for climate adaptation. Submitted
to Conservation Biology
Daniel Egerson; Bradly S. Thornton; Sathishkumar Samiappan; Amanda Sesser;
Diego Thompson; Shannon M. Westlake; Mark D. McConnell; Kristine O. In
review. Evans Participants informing process: Developing decision support
tools for enhancing participation in USDA’s Conservation Reserve Program.
Submitted to Agriculture and Human Values.
N.K. Ward, A. Shultz, A.L. Sesser, M. Waasegiizhig Price, D.R. Magness, A.J. Lynch,
Jon Hansen, K.G. Guilbeau. In review. Holistic processing of uncertainty for
proactive and collaborative global change decision making. Submitted to
Ecosphere.
Magness, D. R., K. Guilbeau, W. Miles, A. Sesser, and J. L. Wilkening. 2025. RADical
Shifts: A Futurist’s Guide to Ecological Transformation and Biodiversity
Stewardship. Innovative Earth Collective. DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14683911.
Sathishkumar Samiappan, Andrew Shamaskin, Jiangdong Liu, Yong Liang, Jennifer
Roberts, Amanda L. Sesser, Shannon M. Westlake, Anna Linhoss, Kristine O.
Evans, John Tirpak, Todd E. Hopkins, Steve Ashby, L. Wes Burger. 2022.
Evidence-based land conservation framework using multi-criteria acceptability
analysis: A geospatial tool for strategic land conservation in the Gulf coast of
the United States. Environmental Modelling & Software. Volume 156, 105493.
Amanda L. Sesser, Kristine Evans, Shannon Westlake, Todd Hopkins, Carey
Schafer, John Tirpak, Jennifer Roberts, Yvonne Allen, Jiangdong Liu, Sathish
Samiappan, Andrew Shamaskin, Anna Linhoss. 2022. Co-producing
knowledge: Strategic Conservation Assessment for Gulf Coast Landscapes.
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. Volume 4: 100156.

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Jacobson, Cynthia A., Amanda L. Sesser, Elsa Haubold 2020. Translating
Landscape Ecology to Management: A Landscape Conservation Cooperatives
(LCC) approach. In Wildlife and Landscapes: Principles and Applications for
Landscape Management. Eds. William F. Porter, Chad J. Parent, David M.
Williams. John Hopkins University Press.
Euskirchen, Eugenie; Time, Kristin; Breen, Amy; Gray, Stephen; Rupp, T.; Martin,
Philip; Reynolds, Joel; Sesser, Amanda; Murphy, Karen; Littell, Jeremy;
Bennett, Alec; Bolton, Robert; Carman, Tobey; Genet, Hélène; Griffith, Brad;
Kurkowski, Tom; Lara, Mark; Marchenko, Sergei; Nicolsky, Dmitry; Panda,
Santosh; Romanovsky, Vladimir; Rutter, Ruth; Tucker, Colin; McGuire, A.
David. 2020. Co-producing knowledge: The Integrated Ecosystem Model for
Resource Management in Arctic Alaska. Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment.
Sesser, A.L., Rockhill, A.P., Magness, D.R., Reid, D., DeLapp, J., Burton, P.,
Schroff, E., Barber, V., Markon, C., eds. 2019. Drivers of landscape change
in the northwest boreal region of North America—Implications on policy and
land management: Alaska University Press.
Matsuoka, S. M., J. C. Hagelin, M. A. Smith, T. F. Paragi, A. L. Sesser and M.A. Ingle.
2019.
Pathways for avian science, conservation, and management in boreal Alaska.
Avian Conservation and Ecology 14 (1):15.
Magness, D.R., Sesser, A.L. & Hammond, T. 2018. Using topographic geodiversity to
connect conservation lands in the Central Yukon, Alaska. Landscape Ecology.
33: 547.
Nicotra, A.B., E.A. Beever., A.L. Robertson, G.E. Hoffman, J. O’leary. 2015.
Assessing the components of adaptive capacity to improve conservation
and management efforts under global change. Conservation Biology.
Beever, Erik A., John O’Leary, Claudia Mengelt, Jordan M. West, Susan Julius,
Nancy Green, Dawn Magness, Laura Petes, Bruce Stein, Adrienne B.
Nicotra, Jessica J. Hellmann, Amanda L. Robertson, Michelle D.
Staudinger, Andrew A. Rosenberg, Eleanora Babji, Jean Brennan, Gregor
W. Schuurman, Gretchen E. Hofmann. 2015. Improving Conservation
Outcomes with a New Paradigm for Understanding Species’ Fundamental
and Realized Adaptive Capacity. Conservation Letters.
Balint, M., L. Bartha, R.B. O’hara, M.S. Olson, J. Ottie, M. Pfenninger, A.L.
Robertson, P. Tiffin, I. Schmitt. 2015. Relocation, high-latitude arming and
host genetic identity shape the foliar microbiome of poplars. Molecular
Ecology. 24(1): 235-248.
Steven T. Gray, Alec Bennet, W. Robert Bolton, Amy L. Breen, Tobey Carman,
Eugenie Euskirchen, Helene Genet, Elchin Jafarov, Jennifer Jenkins, Tom
Kurkowski, Michael Lundgren, Philip Martin, Stephanie McAfee, A. David
McGuire, Sergie Marchenko, Reginald Muskett, Santosh Panda, Joel
Reynolds, Amanda L. Robertson, Vladmir Romanovsky, T. Scott Rupp,
Kristin Timm, Yujin Zhang. 2014. Using Integrated Ecosystem Modeling
to Understand Climate Change. Alaska Park Science. 12 (2).
Yadvinder Malhi, Filio Farfan Amezquita, Javier Silva-Epsejo, Cecile A.J. Girardin,

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Daniel B. Metcalf, Louis, E.O.C. Aragao, L. P. Huaraca-QUispe, I.
Alzamora-Taype, T.R. Matthews, Katherine Halladay, Amanda L.
Robertson, Joshua B. Fisher, J. Zaragoza-Castells, C.M. Rojas-Villagra, Y.
Peleaz-Tapia, Norma Salinas, Patrick Meir, Oliver L. Philips. 2014. The
productivity, metabolism, and carbon budget of two lowland tropical forest
plots in SW Amazonia, Peru. Plant Ecology and Diversity. 7(2): 85-105.
Cynthia A. Jacobson, Amanda L. Robertson. 2012. Landscape Conservation
Cooperatives: Bridging entities to facilitate adaptive co-governance of
social-ecological systems. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 17(5): 333-
343.
Amanda L. Robertson, Diana E. Wolf. 2012. The role of epigenetics in plant
adaptation. Trends in Evolutionary Biology. 4(1): 19-25.
Amanda L. Robertson, Yadvinder Malhi, Filio Farfan-Amezquita, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão,
Javier E. Silva Espejo, Matthew A. Robertson. 2010. Stem respiration across
an east-west and elevation gradient in Amazonia and the Andes. Global
Change Biology. 16: 3193- 3204.
Matthew S. Olson, Amanda L. Robertson, Naoki Takebayashi, Salim Silim,
William R. Schroeder, Peter Tiffin. 2010. Nucleotide diversity and linkage
disequilibrium in balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera). New Phytologist.
186: 526-536.
Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Amanda L. Robertson, Vilany M. Carneiro, Adriano J.Lima,
Marie-Louise Smith, Lucy Plourde, Niro Higuchi. 2009. Hyperspectral
remote detection of niche partitioning among canopy trees driven by
blowdown gap disturbances in the Central Amazon. Oecologia. 160: 107-
117.
Yadvinder Malhi, Luiz Eduardo O. C. Aragão, Daniel B. Metcalfe, Romilda Paiva,
Carlos A. Quesada, Samuel Almeida, Liana Anderson, Paulo Brando, Jeffrey
Q. Chambers, Antonio C. L. da Costa, Lucy R. Hutyra, Paulo Oliveira, Sandra
Patiño, Elizabeth H. Pyle, Amanda L. Robertson, Liliane M. Teixeiria. 2009.
Comprehensive assessment of carbon productivity, allocation and storage in
three Amazonian forests. Global Change Biology. 15(5): 1255-3204.