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Education

• BSc, Zoology, University of Manitoba
• MSc, Zoology, University of British Columbia
• PhD, Zoology, University of British Columbia

Biography

Dr. Ken Lertzman is interested in a broad range of topics related to ecosystem dynamics, conservation, and management. His research has focused on how natural disturbance regimes and management interact to produce pattern and dynamics in forest stands and landscapes. Dr. Lertzman has an ongoing interest in how changing climate drives ecosystems and the landscapes and resources available to people who live in them.
Increasingly Ken鈥檚 work focuses on trying to understand the complex dynamics and resilience of coupled social-ecological systems. This is being applied in his collaborative, multi-disciplinary work associated with the Hakai Institute on the Central Coast of British Columbia, where Ken works in partnership with First Nations and others to conduct and apply research about ecosystem-based management and sustainability on the British Columbia Coast. Ken helps lead the Hakai Institute鈥檚 Kwakshua Watershed鈥檚 research program which focuses on the drivers of forest variability and understanding biogeochemical and hydrological connections between hypermaritime watersheds and the nearshore marine environment (https://www.hakai.org/research/kwakshua-watersheds-program).
Dr. Lertzman and his students work closely with researchers from other disciplines, as well as representatives of government agencies, First Nations, industries, and other non-governmental groups in applying their research to problems in ecosystem conservation, restoration, and management.

Representative recent publications:

• 锘縂iesbrecht, I. J. W., Tank, S. E., Frazer, G. W., Hood, E., Gonzalez Arriola, S. G., Butman, D. E., D鈥橝more, D. Hutchinson, A. Bidlack, and K. Lertzman. 2022. . Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, e2021GB007047.
  
• Giesbrecht, I., S. Tank, G. Frazer, E. Hood, S. Gonzalez-Arriola, D. Butman, D. D鈥橝more, D. Hutchinson, A. Bidlack, and K. Lertzman.  2022. Data from: , Dryad, Dataset, 
• Vynne C, Dovichin E, Fresco N, Dawson N, Joshi A, Law BE, Lertzman K, Rupp S, Schmiegelow F and Trammell EJ.  2021.  The Importance of Alaska for Climate Stabilization, Resilience, and Biodiversity Conservation.  Front. For. Glob. Change 4:701277.  doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.701277
• 脕lvaro Fern谩ndez-Llamazares, Dana Lepofsky, Ken Lertzman, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Michael C. Gavin, Phil O鈥橞. Lyver, George P. Nicholas, Pua鈥檃la Pascua, Nicholas J. Reo, Victoria Reyes-Garc铆a, Nancy J. Turner, Johanna Yletyinen, E. N. Anderson, William Bal茅e, Joji Cari帽o, Dominique M. David-Chavez, Christopher P. Dunn, Stephen C. Garnett, Spencer Greening (La鈥檊oot), Shain Jackson (Niniwum Selapem), Harriet Kuhnlein, Zsolt Moln谩r, Guillaume Odonne, Gunn-Britt Retter, William J. Ripple, L谩szl贸 S谩fi谩n, Abolfazl Sharifian Bahraman, Miquel Torrents-Tic贸, and Mehana Blaich Vaughan. 2021.  . Journal of Ethnobiology 41(2): 144-171. DOI: 10.2993/0278-0771-41.2.144
• Benner J, Nielsen J, Lertzman K. 2021. Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Understand the Diversity and Abundance of Culturally Important Trees. Journal of Ethnobiology. 41(2):209-28.
• Giesbrecht IJ, Floyd WC, Tank SE, Lertzman KP, Hunt BP, Korver MC, Oliver AA, Brunsting R, Sanborn P, Gonzalez Arriola SG, Frazer GW.  KA,  S,   J,  C, S,  B, M,  L,  E,  I,  R,  DJ, CE, JM, WW,  SJ,   J. 2021. The Kwakshua Watersheds Observatory, central coast of British Columbia, Canada. Hydrological Processes. 35(6):e14198.
• St. Pierre, K. A., Hunt, B. P. V., Tank, S. E., Giesbrecht, I., Korver, M. C., Floyd, W. C., Oliver, A. A., and Lertzman, K.P.  2021. , Biogeosciences, 18, 3029鈥�3052, 2021.
• Hoffman, K. M., B. M. Starzomski, K. P. Lertzman, I. J. W. Giesbrecht, and A. J. Trant. 2021. Old-growth forest structure in a low-productivity hypermaritime rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Ecosphere 12(5):e03513.
  
• Bidlack, AL,  SM Bisbing, BJ Buma, H Diefenderfer, JB Fellman, I Giesbrecht, K Lertzman, S Perakis, D. Butman, D D鈥橝more, W Floyd, S Fleming, EW Hood, B Hunt, P Kiffney, G McNicol, B Menounos, S Tank.  2021.  Climate-Mediated Changes to Linked Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems across the North Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest Margin., BioScience. 71(6):581-595
• St. Pierre, K.A., Oliver, A.A., Tank, S.E., Hunt, B.P.V., Giesbrecht, I., Kellogg, C.T.E., Jackson, J.M., Lertzman, K.P., Floyd, W.C. and Korver, M.C. 2020. . Limnology and Oceanography 65(11):2657-2675.
• Haider, W., D. Knowler, R. Trenholm, J. Moore, P. Bradshaw, K. Lertzman.  2019. .  Can. J. For. Res. 49: 1242鈥�1255.
  
• Talucci, A. C., K.P. Lertzman, and M.A. Krawchuk.  2019.  , Forest Ecology and Management 451:117500.
  
• Benner, J., A. Knudby, J. Nielsen, M. Krawchuk, and K. Lertzman.  2019.  Combining data from field surveys and archaeological records to predict the distribution of culturally important trees.  Diversity and Distributions 25:1375-1387.
• Lepofsky, D. and K. Lertzman. 2019. Reflections on the History of Collaborations in British Columbia between Academics and First Nations Communities, 1970s 鈥� Present.  BC Studies 200 (Winter 2018/19).
• Mori, A.S., K. Lertzman, L. Gustafson. 2016. . Journal of Applied Ecology.
• Hoffman K.M., D. G. Gavin, K. P. Lertzman, D. J. Smith and B. M. Starzomski. 2016. . Ecosphere.
• Savo V., D.S. Lepofsky, J.P. Benner, K.E. Kohfeld, H.J. Bailey, and K.P. Lertzman. 2016. . Nature Climate Change 6:462鈥�473.
• Spry, C.M., K.E. Kohfeld, D.M. Allen, D. Dunkley and K. Lertzman. 2014. . Canadian Water Resources Journal 39:302-323.
• Benner, J., K. Lertzman, E.W. Pinkerton. 2014. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44(8):903-913.
• Palen, W.P, T.D. Sisk, M.E. Ryan, J.L. Arvai, M. Jaccard, A.K. Salomon, T. Homer-Dixon, and K.P. Lertzman. 2014. Consider the global impacts of oil pipelines: debates over oil-sands infrastructure obscure a broken policy process that overlooks broad climate, energy and environment issues. Nature (June 26) 510:465-467.
• McKechnie, I, D. Lepofsky, M.L. Moss, V.L. Butler, T.J. Orchard, G. Coupland, F. Fosterg, M. Caldwell, and K. Lertzman. 2014. Archaeological Data Provide Alternative Hypotheses on Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Distribution, Abundance, and Variability. PNAS 111(9):E807-E816.
• Heyerdahl, E.K., K. Lertzman, and C. M. Wong. 2012. Mixed-severity fire regimes in dry forests of southern interior British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42: 88鈥�98.
• Mori, A.S. and K.P. Lertzman. 2011. Historic variability in fire-generated landscape heterogeneity of subalpine forests in the Canadian Rockies. Journal of Vegetation Science 22:45鈥�58.