Kevin M. Potter
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2254
United States
Kevin M. Potter is a Research Ecologist at the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center of the USDA Forest Service's Southern Research Station.
He is a landscape ecologist and conservation geneticist who applies the disciplines of landscape ecology, conservation biology and population genetics to assess and mitigate threats to tree species and forest communities, particularly across broad scales.
His research work includes conservation assessments of vulnerable tree species, rangewide genetic diversity studies of tree species at risk, and broad-scale studies of the ecosystem functions associated with biodiversity.
Kevin Potter's research leverages the disciplines of landscape ecology, conservation biology and population genetics to assess and mitigate threats to tree species and forest communities, particularly across broad scales. His research focuses on developing and applying innovative qualitative methods and models to address broad-scale, complex threats to forest health, with an emphasis on delivering tools that can enable better-informed management of forests and the tree species that constitute them.
Forests cover a vast area of the United States, approximately one-third of the Nation’s land area. These forests possess the capacity to provide a broad range of goods and services to current and future generations, to safeguard biological diversity, and to contribute to the resilience of ecosystems, societies, and economies. Their ecological roles include supplying large and consistent quantities of clean water, preventing soil erosion, and providing habitat for a broad diversity of plant and animal species. Their socioeconomic benefits include wood products, nontimber goods, recreational opportunities, and pleasing natural beauty. Both the ecological integrity and the continued capacity of these forests to provide ecological and economic goods and services are at risk in the face of a long list of threats, including insect and disease infestation, fragmentation and forest conversion to other land uses, catastrophic fire, invasive species, and the effects of climate change.
To maintain the ecological integrity and socioeconomic importance of forests, we first need to better quantify their function and complexity, and second to understand their vulnerability to the threats they face. Taking a large-scale perspective is critical, both for assessing the relationship among biotic and abiotic factors driving forest threats, and for making management decisions.
- North Carolina State University, Ph.D. Forestry, Forest Ecology and Genetics, 2006
- North Carolina State University, M.S. Natural Resources, Natural Resource Management, 2002
- Drake University, B.A. Journalism and Mass Communication, News Reporting, 1993
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United States Department of Agriculture Certificate of Appreciation, 2020
For “outstanding contributions to fulfilling the Forest Service mission of monitoring and reporting on the health of United States forests”
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W.S. Cooper Award from the Ecological Society of America, 2019
For an outstanding publication in the field of geobotany, physiographic ecology, plant succession, or the distribution of plants along environmental gradients, for the paper “Divergence of species responses to climate change” (Fei, S., J.M. Desprez, K.M.
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United States Department of Agriculture Certificate of Appreciation, 2012
For “long-term, outstanding efforts in co-editing the Annual [USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Monitoring] National Technical Report”
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Belle Baruch Foundation Award for best poster, 31st Southern Forest Tree Improvement Conference, 2011
For the poster “Potter, K.M., R.M. Jetton, W.S. Dvorak, V.D. Hipkins, J. Rhea, W.A. Whittier. 2011. “Range-Wide Assessment of Genetic Variation and Structure in Eastern Hemlock, an Imperiled Conifer, Using Microsatellites.”
- Kevin M. Potter, Robert M. Jetton, Andrew Bower, Douglass F. Jacobs, Gary Man, Valerie D. Hipkins, Murphy Westwood. 2017. Banking on the future: progress, challenges and opportunities for the genetic conservation of forest trees
- Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei, Kevin M. Potter, Andrew M. Liebhold, Jun Wen. 2019. Tree diversity regulates forest pest invasion
- Kevin M. Potter, Maria E. Escanferla, Robert M. Jetton, Gary Man, Barbara S. Crane. 2019. Prioritizing the conservation needs of United States tree species: Evaluating vulnerability to forest insect and disease threats
- Kevin M. Potter. 2018. Do United States protected areas effectively conserve forest tree rarity and evolutionary distinctiveness?
- Kevin M. Potter, Valerie D. Hipkins, Mary F. Mahalovich, Robert E. Means. 2013. Mitochondrial DNA haplotype distribution patterns in Pinus ponderosa (pinaceae): range-wide evolutionary history and implications for conservation
- Kevin M. Potter, Angelia Rose Campbell, Sedley A. Josserand, C. Dana Nelson, Robert M. Jetton. 2017. Population isolation results in unexpectedly high differentiation in Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana), an imperiled southern Appalachian endemic conifer
- Kevin M. Potter, Christopher W. Woodall. 2014. Does biodiversity make a difference? Relationships between species richness, evolutionary diversity, and aboveground live tree biomass across US forests
- Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. Koch, Christopher M. Oswalt, Basil V. Iannone. 2016. Data, data everywhere: detecting spatial patterns in fine-scale ecological information collected across a continent
- Kevin M. Potter, Kurt Riitters. 2021. A national multi-scale assessment of regeneration deficit as an indicator of potential risk of forest genetic variation loss
- Kevin Potter, Kurt Riitters, Qinfeng Guo. 2022. Non-native tree regeneration indicates regional and national risks from current invasions.
- Ariel E. Lugo, James E. Smith, Kevin M. Potter, Humfredo Marcano Vega, Cassandra M. Kurtz. 2022. The contribution of nonnative tree species to the structure and composition of forests in the conterminous United States in comparison with tropical islands in the Pacific and Caribbean
- Kevin Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2022. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2021
- Kevin M. Potter. 2022. Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2022. Broad-scale patterns of insect and disease activity across the 50 United States from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2020
- Kevin M. Potter. 2022. Broad-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the 50 United States and the Caribbean territories, 2020
- Sarah M. Anderson, Linda S. Heath, Marla R. Emery, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Jeremy S. Littell, Alan Lucier, Jeffrey G. Masek, David L. Peterson, Richard Pouyat, Kevin M. Potter, Guy Robertson, Jinelle Sperry. 2021. Developing a set of indicators to identify, monitor, and track impacts and change in forests of the United States
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2021. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2020
- Kevin M. Potter. 2021. Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke, Frank H. Koch, Erin M. Berryman. 2021. Chapter 2 - Broad-scale patterns of insect and disease activity across the 50 United States from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2019
- Kevin M. Potter. 2021. Chapter 3 - Broad-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the 50 United States and the Caribbean Territories, 2019
- Sean Hoban, Catriona D. Campbell, Jessica M. da Silva, Robert Ekblom, W. Chris Funk, Brittany A. Garner, José A. Godoy, Francine Kershaw, Anna J. MacDonald, Joachim Mergeay, Melissa Minter, David O'Brien, Ivan Paz Vinas, Sarah K. Pearson, Sílvia Pérez-Espona, Kevin M. Potter, Isa-Rita M. Russo, Gernot Segelbacher, Cristiano Vernesi, Margaret E. Hunter. 2021. Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators are insufficient
- Ann Willyard, David S. Gernandt, Alejandro López-Reyes, Kevin Potter. 2021. Mitochondrial phylogeography of the ponderosa pines: widespread gene capture, interspecific sharing, and two unique lineages
- C. Dana Nelson, Jennifer Koch, Kevin Potter, Susan Mccord, Adam Costanza, Mark Coggeshall, Margaret Staton, Albert Abbott. 2020. Better forest health through tree resistance-collaborative approaches
- Kevin M. Potter, Maria E. Escanferla, Barbara S. Crane, Robert M. Jetton, Gary Man. 2020. A national prioritization of United States tree species threatened by Insect and disease infestation
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2020. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2019
- Carolyn Pike, Kevin Potter, Paul Berrang, Barbara Crane, Joanne Baggs, Laura Leites, Tom Luther. 2020. New Seed-Collection Zones for the Eastern United States: The Eastern Seed Zone Forum
- Kevin Potter. 2020. Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke, Frank H. Koch, Erin M. Berryman. 2020. Chapter 2 - Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii from the national Insect and Disease Survey, 2018
- Kevin M. Potter. 2020. Chapter 3 - Broad-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the 50 United States and the Caribbean Territories, 2018
- Kevin M. Potter, Julie C. Canavin, Frank H. Koch. 2020. Chapter 6 - A forest health retrospective: national and regional results from 20 years of Insect and Disease Survey data
- Kevin Potter, Maria Escanferla, Robert Jetton, Gary Man. 2019. Important insect and disease threats to United States tree species and geographic patterns of their potential impacts
- Kevin M. Potter. 2019. Chapter 1- Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke, Frank H. Koch, Mark O. Zweifler. 2019. Chapter 2 - Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii from the national Insect and Disease Survey, 2017
- Potter Kevin M. 2019. Chapter 3 - Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence across the 50 United States and the Caribbean territories, 2017
- Kurt Riitters, Kevin Potter. 2019. Chapter 6 - The invasibility and invadedness of Eastern U.S. forest types
- Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. Koch, Kurt H. Riitters. 2019. Impacts of nonnative species on the health of natural and planted forests
- Kevin Potter. 2019. Chapter 1: Introduction
- Kevin Potter, Barbara Conkling. 2019. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2018
- Kevin M. Potter, Robert M. Jetton, Lia Campbell, John M. Hastings, Sedley A. Josserand, Valerie D. Hipkins, C. Dana Nelson, William S. Dvorak. 2019. Molecular genetics and the effort to conserve southern hemlocks decimated by the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
- Insu Jo, Kevin M. Potter, Grant M. Domke, Songlin Fei. 2018. Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2018. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2017
- Kevin M. Potter, Jeanne L. Paschke, Mark O. Zweifler. 2018. Chapter 2 - Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii from the national Insect and Disease Survey, 2016
- Kevin M. Potter. 2018. Chapter 3 - Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States, Alaska and Hawaii, 2016
- Jacek P. Siry, Frederick W. Cubbage, Kevin M. Potter, Kathleen McGinley. 2018. Current perspectives on sustainable forest management: North America
- Kaitlin Maguire, Douglas Shinneman, Kevin Potter, Valerie D. Hipkins. 2018. Intraspecific niche models for ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) suggest potential variability in population-level response to climate change
- Qinfeng Guo, Kurt Riitters, Kevin Potter. 2018. A subcontinental analysis of forest fragmentation effects on insect and disease invasion
- Basil V Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter, Qinfeng Guo, Christopher M. Oswalt, Insu Jo, Songlin Fei. 2018. Environmental harshness drives spatial heterogeneity in biotic resistance
- Kurt Riitters, Kevin Potter, Basil Iannone, Christopher Oswalt, Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei. 2018. Exposure of protected and unprotected forest to plant invasions in the eastern United States
- Matthew B. Russell, Christopher W. Woodall, Kevin M. Potter, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2017. Interactions between white-tailed deer density and the composition of forest understories in the northern United States
- John M. Hastings, Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. Koch, Mark Megalos, Robert M. Jetton. 2017. Prioritizing conservation seed banking locations for imperiled hemlock species using multi-attribute frontier mapping
- Qinfeng Guo, Basil V. Iannone III, Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir, Kevin M. Potter, Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei. 2017. Species pool, human population, and global versus regional invasion patterns
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara S. Crane, William W. Hargrove. 2017. A United States national prioritization framework for tree species vulnerability to climate change
- Anantha M. Prasad, Kevin M. Potter. 2017. Macro-scale assessment of demographic and environmental variation within genetically derived evolutionary lineages of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), an imperiled conifer of the eastern United States
- Songlin Fei, Johanna M. Desprez, Kevin M. Potter, Insu Jo, Jonathan A. Knott, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2017. Divergence of species responses to climate change
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2017. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2016
- Murphy Westwood, Anne Frances, Gary Man, David Pivorunas, Kevin M. Potter. 2017. Coordinating the IUCN red list of North American tree species: a special session at the USFS gene conservation of tree species workshop
- J.M. Hastings, K.M. Potter, F.H. Koch, M.A. Megalos, R.M. Jetton. 2017. Using climate and genetic diversity data to prioritize conservation seed banking for imperiled hemlock species
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara S. Crane, Valerie D. Hipkins. 2017. Project CAPTURE: a U.S. national prioritization assessment of tree species for conservation, management, and restoration
- Barbara S. Crane, Kevin M. Potter. 2017. USDA forest service southern region – It’s all about GRITS
- Kevin M. Potter, Douglas J. Shinneman, Robert E. Means, Valerie D. Hipkins, Mary Frances Mahalovich. 2017. Synthesizing genetic divergence and climate modeling to inform conservation planning for ponderosa pine
- Kevin M. Potter, Lia Campbell, Sedley A. Josserand, C. Dana Nelson, Robert M. Jetton. 2017. Population isolation results in low genetic variation and high differentiation in Carolina hemlock (tsuga caroliniana), an imperiled southern Appalachian conifer
- Insu Jo, Kevin M. Potter, Grant M. Domke, Songlin Fei. 2017. Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions
- Kurt Riitters, Kevin Potter, Basil V. Iannone, Christopher Oswalt, Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo. 2017. Landscape correlates of forest plant invasions: A high-resolution analysis across the eastern United States
- Basil V. Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter, Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil, Whitney Huang, Hao Zhang, Qinfeng Guo, Christopher M. Oswalt, Christopher W. Woodall, Songlin Fei. 2016. Evidence of biotic resistance to invasions in forests of the Eastern USA
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2016. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2015
- Douglas J. Shinneman, Robert E. Means, Kevin M. Potter, Valerie D. Hipkins, Tzen-Yuh Chiang. 2016. Exploring climate niches of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex Lawson) haplotypes in the western United States: implications for evolutionary history and conservation
- Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo, Kevin Potter. 2016. Macrosystems ecology: novel methods and new understanding of multi-scale patterns and processes
- Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo, Basil V. Iannone III, Sonja N. Oswalt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Kevin M. Potter. 2016. Corrigendum: A subcontinental view of forest plant invasions
- Ann Willyard, David S. Gernandt, Kevin Potter, Valerie Hipkins, Paula E. Marquardt, Mary Frances Mahalovich, Stephen K. Langer, Frank W. Telewski, Blake Cooper, Connor Douglas, Kristen Finch, Hassani H. Karemera, Julia Lefler, Payton Lea, Austin Wofford. 2016. Pinus ponderosa : A checkered past obscured four species
- Kevin Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2016. Chapter 2: Large-Scale Patterns of Insect and Disease Activity in the Conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2014
- Kevin Potter. 2016. Chapter 3: Large-Scale Patterns of Forest Fire Occurrence in the Conterminous United States, Alaska, and Hawaii, 2014
- Kevin M. Potter, Valerie D. Hipkins, Mary F. Mahalovich, Robert E. Means. 2015. Nuclear genetic variation across the range of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa): Phylogeographic, taxonomic and conservation implications
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2015. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2013
- Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei, Qinfeng Guo, Basil V. Iannone III, Sonja N. Oswalt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Kevin M. Potter. 2015. A subcontinental view of forest plant invasions
- Basil V. Iannone, Christopher M. Oswalt, Andrew M. Liebhold, Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir, Sonja N. Oswalt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Songlin Fei, Bethany Bradley. 2015. Region-specific patterns and drivers of macroscale forest plant invasions
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2015. Forest Health Monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2014
- K.M. Potter. 2015. Introduction Chapter 1
- Linda S. Heath, Sarah M. Anderson, Marla R. Emery, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Jeremy Littell, Alan Lucier, Jeffrey G. Masek, David L. Peterson, Richard Pouyat, Kevin M. Potter, Guy Robertson, Jinelle Sperry, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Sarah Jovan, Miranda H. Mockrin, Robert Musselman, Bethany K. Schulz, Robert J. Smith, Susan I. Stewart. 2015. Indicators of climate impacts for forests: recommendations for the US National Climate Assessment indicators system
- Basil V. Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew M. Liebhold, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Christopher M. Oswalt, Songlin Fei. 2015. Biological invasion hotspots: a trait-based perspective reveals new sub-continental patterns
- Qinfeng Guo, Songlin Fei, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Christopher M. Oswalt, Basil V. Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter. 2015. A unified approach for quantifying invasibility and degree of invasion
- Basil V. III Iannone, Kevin M. Potter, Hao Zhang, Christopher M. Guo Oswalt, Christopher W. Woodall, Songlin Fei. 2015. Using forest inventory and analysis data to understand biotic resistance to plant invasions across the Eastern United States
- Kevin M. Potter, Christopher W. Woodall, Christopher M. Oswalt, Basil V. III Iannone, Songlin Fei. 2015. When does biodiversity matter? Assessing ecosystem services across broad regions using forest inventory and analysis data
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara S. Crane, William W. Hargrove. 2015. Project CAPTURE: using forest inventory and analysis data to prioritize tree species for conservation, management, and restoration
- Songlin Fei, Basil V. Iannone III, Christopher M. Oswalt, Qinfeng Guo, Kevin M. Potter, Sonja N. Oswalt, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir. 2015. Understanding macroscale invasion patterns and processes with FIA data
- K.M. Potter, J.L. Paschke. 2015. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States, Alaska and Hawaii from the national insect and disease survey, 2013
- K.M. Potter. 2015. Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2013
- Kevin M. Potter, William Hargrove, Frank H. Koch. 2015. Assessing forest tree risk of extinction and genetic degradation from climate change
- Kevin Potter. 2015. Chapter 1: Introduction: National Status,Trends,and Analysis 2013
- Kevin Potter, Jeanine Paschke. 2015. Chapter 2: Large-Scale Patterns of Insect and Disease Activity in the Conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2012
- Kevin Potter. 2015. Chapter 3: Large-Scale Patterns of Forest Fire Occurrence in the Conterminous United States and Alaska,2012
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2014. Forest health monitoring: National status, trends, and analysis 2012
- Kevin M. Potter. 2014. Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2014. Chapter 2 - Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Survey, 2011
- Kevin M. Potter. 2014. Chapter 3 - Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2011.
- Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. Koch. 2014. Patterns of forest phylogenetic community structure across the United States and their possible forest health implications
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2013. Forest Health Monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2010
- Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska from the national insect and disease detection survey, 2009
- Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2009
- Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Karen L. Abt, Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. Koch. 2013. An economic assessment of mountain pine beetle timber salvage in the west
- Kevin M. Potter, William W. Hargrove. 2013. Quantitative metrics for assessing predicted climate change pressure on North American tree species
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2013. Forest health monitoring: national status, trends, and analysis 2011
- Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter, Jeanine L. Paschke. 2013. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Detection Survey Database, 2010
- Kevin M. Potter. 2013. Large-Scale Patterns of Forest Fire Occurrence in the Conterminous United States and Alaska, 2010
- Kurt Riitters, Kevin Potter. 2013. Forest health monitoring in the United States: focus on national reports
- Kevin M. Potter, Christopher W. Woodall. 2012. Trends over time in tree and seedling phylogenetic diversity indicate regional differences in forest biodiversity change
- Kevin M. Potter, Robert M. Jetton, William S. Dvorak, Valerie D. Hipkins, Rusty Rhea, W. Andrew Whittier. 2012. Widespread inbreeding and unexpected geographic patterns of genetic variation in eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), an imperiled North American conifer
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2012. Forest health monitoring: 2008 national technical report
- Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Book Review: Molecular approaches in natural resource conservation and management.Landscape Ecol 27:467–468.
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara S. Crane. 2012. Silviculture and the assessment of climate change genetic risk for southern Appalachian forest tree species
- Kevin M. Potter, William W. Hargrove. 2012. Determining suitable locations for seed transfer under climate change: a global quantitative method
- Kevin M. Potter, Barbara L. Conkling. 2012. Forest health monitoring: 2009 national technical report
- Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the Conterminous United States and Alaska from the National Insect and Disease Detection Survey Database, 2007 and 2008
- Kevin M. Potter, William D. Smith. 2012. Large-Scale Assessment of Invasiveness and Potential for Ecological Impact by Nonnative Tree Species.
- Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the Conterminous United States and Alaska, 2001-08
- W. Devine, C. Aubry, J. Miller, K. Potter, A. Bower. 2012. Climate change and forest trees in the Pacific Northwest: guide to vulnerability assessment methodology
- Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Introduction
- Kevin M. Potter. 2012. Evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic community structure of forest trees across the conterminous United States
- Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. Koch. 2012. Large-scale patterns of insect and disease activity in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2006
- Kevin M. Potter. 2011. Summary
- Kevin M. Potter, John Frampton, Sedley A. Josserand, C. Dana Nelson. 2010. Evolutionary history of two endemic Appalachian conifers revealed using microsatellite markers
- Kevin M. Potter, William W. Hargrove, Frank H. Koch. 2010. Predicting climate change extirpation risk for central and southern Appalachian forest tree species
- Kevin M. Potter, John Frampton, Sedley Josserand, C. Dana Nelson. 2010. Evolutionary history and population genetics of fraser fir and intermediate fir, southern Appalachian endemic conifers imperiled by an exotic pest and climate change
- Kevin M. Potter. 2009. From genes to ecosystems: Measuring evolutionary diversity and community structure with Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data
- W.S. Dvorak, K.M. Potter. 2009. Genetic diversity and gene exchange in Pinus oocarpa, a Mesoamerican pine with resistance to the pitch canker fungus (Fusarium circinatum)
- Robert Jetton, William Dvorak, Andrew Whittier, Kevin Potter, Rusty Rhea. 2009. Genetics and conservation of hemlock species threatened by the hemlock woolly adelgid
- William S. Dvorak, Kevin M. Potter, Valerie D. Hipkins, Gary R. Hodge. 2009. Genetic diversity and gene exchange in Pinus oocarpa, a Mesoamerican Pine with resistance to the pitch canker fungus (Fusarium circinatum)
- Kevin M. Potter, John Framton, Sedley A. Josserand, C. Dana Nelson. 2008. Genetic variation and population structure in fraser fir (Abies fraseri): a microsatellite assessment of young trees
- K. M. Potter, W. S. Dvorak, B. S. Crane, V. D. Hipkins, R. M. Jetton, W. A. Whittier, R. Rhea. 2008. Allozyme variation and recent evolutionary history of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in the southeastern United States
- Kevin M. Potter, John Frampton, Sedley A. Josserand, Dana C. Nelson. 2008. Genetic variation and population structure in Fraser fir (Abies fraseri): a microsatellite assessment of young trees
- S.A. Josserand, K.M. Potter, C.S. Echt, C.D. Nelson. 2008. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana)
- S.A. Josserand, K.M. Potter, G. Johnson, J.A. Bowen, J. Frampton, C.D. Nelson. 2006. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers in Fraser fir (Abies fraseri)