Christopher Johnson
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Also affiliated: University of Southern California (1990); California Institute of Technology (1991); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2003); University of Tasmania (2012–2025); British Antarctic Survey (2016); IBM (United States) (2007); University of Arizona (2009–2021); University of Miami (1996); University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1990); University of California, Los Angeles (2010–2015); South Dakota State University (2010); Princeton University (2021–2022); University of Washington (2023); University of Zurich (2021); University of Michigan (2001–2003); AbbVie (United States) (2022); Heriot-Watt University (1977–1995); ETH Zurich (2017–2022); University of Illinois Chicago (1990); IBM Research - Almaden (2007); ExxonMobil (Germany) (1996–2008); Jefferson County Department of Health (2004); Southern Arkansas University Tech (2025); ExxonMobil (France) (2017); University College London (1997–1998); Imperial College London (1998–2016); The Ohio State University (2016); Auburn University (2006); ExxonMobil (United States) (1996–2019)
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Christopher Johnson's research investigates ecological interactions, focusing on how mutualisms and competition influence species coexistence and community dynamics. His work examines the coevolutionary transitions from antagonism to mutualism, drawing on hypotheses such as the Co-Opted Antagonist Hypothesis. Johnson also studies insect responses to climate change, particularly the sensitivity of fitness components across life cycles to temperature variations.
His publications also extend to conservation and rewilding efforts, with studies on the extinction of species like the Tasmanian emu and the potential for reintroduction. Johnson's scholarly output includes 137 publications, with an h-index of 32 and over 3,700 citations. He has collaborated with researchers such as Wayne A. Helmer and S A Shields at Arkansas Tech University.
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- h-index: 32
- Publications: 137
- Citations: 3,735
Positions
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Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency 2026–presentGlobal Sustainability ORCID
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar publications 2025Arkansas Tech University ORCID
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar 2022–2026University of Basel Environmental Sciences ORCID
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Research Scientist 2021–2022University of Washington Biology ORCID
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Associate Research Scholar 2019–2020Princeton University Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ORCID
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2015–2019ETH Zurich Institute of Integrative Biology ORCID
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2013–2015University of Arizona Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ORCID
Selected Publications
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Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care (2025)
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An Inexpensive Flow-Bench for Mechanical Engineering Labs (2025)
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They’re on our coat of arms but extinct in Tasmania. Rewilding with emus will be good for the island state’s ecosystems (2023)
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Temperature Sensitivity of Fitness Components across Life Cycles Drives Insect Responses to Climate Change (2023)
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Extinction of the Tasmanian emu and opportunities for rewilding (2022)
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Competition for pollinators destabilizes plant coexistence (2022)
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EpidemiologiCal POpulatioN STudy of SARS-CoV-2 in Lake CounTy, Illinois (CONTACT): Methodology and Baseline Characteristics of a Community-Based Surveillance Study (2022)
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Coevolutionary transitions from antagonism to mutualism explained by the Co-Opted Antagonist Hypothesis (2021)
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How mutualisms influence the coexistence of competing species (2021)
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Interactions among interactions: The dynamical consequences of antagonism between mutualists (2020)
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Asynchronous range shifts drive alpine plant–pollinator interactions and reduce plant fitness (2020)
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Evidence for a Locally Thinned Lithosphere Associated with Volcanism at Aramaiti Corona (2019)AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts OpenAlex
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Tectono-sedimentary evolution of a fossil ocean-continent transition: Tasna nappe, central Alps (SE Switzerland) (2019)
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Contact and slip mechanics between crosslinked hydrogel surfaces using in situ microscopy (2019)Bulletin of the American Physical Society OpenAlex
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Hydrothermal fluid flow associated to the extensional evolution of the Adriatic rifted margin: Insights from the pre‐ to post‐rift sedimentary sequence (SE Switzerland, N ITALY) (2019)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- The pyrolysis of organometallic compounds IV. Kinetic studies of the decomposition of tetramethylsilane
- C–N bond dissociation energies in some halogenated C-nitroso-compounds and in di-t-butyl nitroxide
- The C–N bond dissociation energy in nitrosyl cyanide
- Carbon–nitrogen bond dissociation energy values in C‐nitrosocompounds
- The pyrolysis of cyclic hydrocarbons. Part 1. 1,4-Dimethylcyclohexane
Showing 5 of 26 shared publications
- Mapping the nature of mantle domains in Western and Central Europe based on clinopyroxene and spinel chemistry: Evidence for mantle modification during an extensional cycle
- Deep crustal structure of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for rift evolution and seafloor spreading
- Influence of the architecture of magma-poor hyperextended rifted margins on orogens produced by the closure of narrow versus wide oceans
- Deep crustal structure in the eastern Gulf of Mexico
- Structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Iberia–Newfoundland hyper-extended rifted margin: a quantitative modelling approach
Showing 5 of 17 shared publications
- Mapping the nature of mantle domains in Western and Central Europe based on clinopyroxene and spinel chemistry: Evidence for mantle modification during an extensional cycle
- Influence of the architecture of magma-poor hyperextended rifted margins on orogens produced by the closure of narrow versus wide oceans
- Structural and stratigraphic evolution of the Iberia–Newfoundland hyper-extended rifted margin: a quantitative modelling approach
- Hydrothermal fluid flow associated to the extensional evolution of the Adriatic rifted margin: Insights from the pre‐ to post‐rift sedimentary sequence (SE Switzerland, N ITALY)
- Long-lived mega fault-scarps and related breccias at distal rifted margins: insights from present-day and fossil analogues
Showing 5 of 12 shared publications
- NO+ CIMS of saturate fraction obtained from a coal liquefaction recycle solvent
- Fluorescence in the dissociative excitation of sulphur dioxide by electron impact
- Emission in the ultraviolet–visible region produced by the electron-impact excitation of polyatomic molecules. Part 1. Amino-compounds
- Methoxyl radical fluorescence in the electron impact excitation of dimethylether and related compounds
- Departmental High Mass-Range Mass Spectrometer
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
- C–N bond dissociation energies in some halogenated C-nitroso-compounds and in di-t-butyl nitroxide
- Carbon–nitrogen bond dissociation energy values in C‐nitrosocompounds
- Mechanism of the reaction of nitrogen dioxide with 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane
- Studies in vacuum ultraviolet photochemistry. Part III. 2-Methyl-2-nitropropane, 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane, and t-butyl nitrite
- ChemInform Abstract: MECHANISMUS DER RK. VON STICKSTOFFDIOXID MIT 2‐METHYL‐2‐NITROSO‐PROPAN
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
- Effects of temperature and resource variation on insect population dynamics: the bordered plant bug as a case study
- Evolution of Thermal Reaction Norms in Seasonally Varying Environments
- A Metric for Quantifying the Oscillatory Tendency of Consumer-Resource Interactions
- Competition for benefits can promote the persistence of mutualistic interactions
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity.
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
- Terrane deletion in northern Guerrero state
- Preliminary Assessment of Stratigraphy and Structure, San Lucas Region, Michoacan and Guerrero States, SW Mexico
- Preliminary Investigation of the Tertiary Balsas Group, Mesa Los Caballos Area, Northern Guerrero State, Mexico Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data
- Terrane Deletion in Southern Mexico
- K/Ar Ages From the Guerrero Transect Date Four Thermotectonic Events Affecting the North America Plate in Mexico from 301 Ma to 29 Ma
- Hydrothermal fluid flow associated to the extensional evolution of the Adriatic rifted margin: Insights from the pre‐ to post‐rift sedimentary sequence (SE Switzerland, N ITALY)
- Long-lived mega fault-scarps and related breccias at distal rifted margins: insights from present-day and fossil analogues
- Tectono-sedimentary evolution of a fossil ocean-continent transition: Tasna nappe, central Alps (SE Switzerland)
- Impact of Mafic Underplating and Mantle Depletion on Subsequent Rifting: A Numerical Modeling Study
- Tectonic History and Structural Evolution of the East Africa Margin
- Terrane deletion in northern Guerrero state
- Preliminary Assessment of Stratigraphy and Structure, San Lucas Region, Michoacan and Guerrero States, SW Mexico
- Tertiary Tectonics and Margin Truncation in Southern Mexico
- Terrane Deletion in Southern Mexico
- Terrane deletion in northern Guerrero state
- Preliminary Assessment of Stratigraphy and Structure, San Lucas Region, Michoacan and Guerrero States, SW Mexico
- Terrane Deletion in Southern Mexico
- K/Ar Ages From the Guerrero Transect Date Four Thermotectonic Events Affecting the North America Plate in Mexico from 301 Ma to 29 Ma
- Terrane deletion in northern Guerrero state
- Preliminary Investigation of the Tertiary Balsas Group, Mesa Los Caballos Area, Northern Guerrero State, Mexico Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data
- Terrane Deletion in Southern Mexico
- K/Ar Ages From the Guerrero Transect Date Four Thermotectonic Events Affecting the North America Plate in Mexico from 301 Ma to 29 Ma
- Plate Kinematics of the Gulf of Mexico Based on Integrated Observations from the Central and South Atlantic
- Inverse methods for modeling non-rigid plate kinematics: Application to mesozoic plate reconstructions of the Central Atlantic
- Global petroleum systems in space and time
- Testing inverse kinematic models of paleocrustal thickness in extensional systems with high‐resolution forward thermo‐mechanical models
- Electronically excited nitric oxide by vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of nitroso-compounds and nitrites
- Fluorescence in the Vacuum Ultraviolet Photolysis of some Nitric Oxide Containing Compounds
- Fluorescence in the vacuum ultraviolet photolysis of some nitric oxide-containing compounds
- Fluoreszenz bei der Vakuumultraviolettphotolyse einiger NO-haltiger Verbindungen
- Mapping the nature of mantle domains in Western and Central Europe based on clinopyroxene and spinel chemistry: Evidence for mantle modification during an extensional cycle
- Influence of the architecture of magma-poor hyperextended rifted margins on orogens produced by the closure of narrow versus wide oceans
- Impact of Mafic Underplating and Mantle Depletion on Subsequent Rifting: A Numerical Modeling Study
- How inheritance, geochemical and geophysical properties of the lithospheric mantle influence rift development and subsequent collision
- Mapping the nature of mantle domains in Western and Central Europe based on clinopyroxene and spinel chemistry: Evidence for mantle modification during an extensional cycle
- Influence of the architecture of magma-poor hyperextended rifted margins on orogens produced by the closure of narrow versus wide oceans
- Impact of Mafic Underplating and Mantle Depletion on Subsequent Rifting: A Numerical Modeling Study
- How inheritance, geochemical and geophysical properties of the lithospheric mantle influence rift development and subsequent collision
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