Earth Surface System Lab
The dynamics of the Earth’s surface environment under climate change
- The effects of spatial autocorrelation for biogeographic modeling
B.A. 2000.2.
Department of Geography, Seoul National University
M.A. 2004.2.
Department of Geography, Seoul National University
Ph.D. 2009.8.
Department of Geography, Texas A&M University
2020.9. – Present
Professor, Department of Geography, Seoul National University
2019.3. – Present
Director, Institute of Korean Regional Studies, Seoul National University
2018.1. – 2019.12.
Director, Institute of Korean Regional Studies, Seoul National University
2018.1. – 2018.12.
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Seoul National University
2017.9. – 2020.8.
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
2014.7. – 2017.6.
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
[Awards and Honors]
2020.8.
The 13th Yeochon Ecology Award, Yeochon Association for Ecological Research
2020.7.
Best Paper of the Year Award, Korean Federation of Science & Technology Societies (recommended by the Ecological Society of Korea)
2012.2.
J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award, American Association of Geographers
[Editorial Responsibilities]
2020 – Present
Managing Editor, Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure
2020 – Present
Member, Editorial board, Progress in Physical Geography
2019 – Present
Member, Editorial board, The Professional Geographer
2019 – Present
Member, Editorial board, Journal of Ecology and Environment
2018 – Present
Academic Editor, PLOS ONE
2018 – Present
Member, Editorial board, Geomorphology
2017 – Present
Member, Editorial board, Physical Geography
2017 – Present
Member, Editorial board, Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences
2015 – Present
Member, Editorial board, AIMS Geosciences
2015 – Present
Member, Editorial board, International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research
2012 – Present
Present Member, Editorial board,Journal of the Korea Geomorphological Association
2013- 2015
Member, Editorial board,The Geographical Journal of Korea
[Service to Professional Association]
2019 – Present
Chair, Biogeography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers.
2019
Chair of “Vegetation Dynamics II” (sponsored by the Biogeography Specialty Group), Annual Meeting of the Amer ican Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 3-7.
2017 – Present
Board member, Biogeography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers.
2017
Chair of “Vegetation Dynamics II” (sponsored by the Biogeography Specialty Group), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, April 5-9.
2016
Organizer and chair of “Career & Professional Development Advice for International Graduate Students” (s ponsored by the Jobs & Careers Center), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March 29-April 2.
2015 – 2017
Director, Scholarship Committee, Korean–American Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences.
2015 – 2017
Board member, Korean–American Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences.
2013 – 2014
SEDAAG program committee, SouthEastern Division of the Association of American Geographers.
2012 – 2015
Scholarship committee, Korean–American Association for Geospatial and Environmental Sciences.
2012
Organizing committee, International Association for Vegetation Science, Mokpo, South Korea, July 23-28.
2012
Managing Editor, Ecology and Resilient InfrastrucOrganizing committee, Korean Scientists and Engineers Association Kentucky Chapter Winter Conference, Lexington, K Y, January 14.ture
2011 – 2013
Kentucky State Representative and Steering Committee, SouthEastern Division of the Association of American G eographers.
2010
Organizer and chair of “Vegetation Dynamics II” (sponsored by the Biogeography Specialty Group), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 14-18.
2009
Organizer of “Vegetation Dynamics II” (sponsored by the Biogeography Specialty Group), Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27.
[International Journals]
Song, I. & Kim, D. (In press)
Kim, D. & Lee, K. (2022)
Landforms as combined expressions of multiple reciprocally interacting species: Refining the ecosystem engineering concept. Earth-Science Reviews 232: 104152.
Lee, C., Lee, K., Kim, H., Baek, D., Kim, W., Woo, H., Cho, K.-H. & Kim, D. (2022)
Impacts of an extreme flood event on the riparian vegetation of a monsoonal cobble-bed stream in southern Korea: A multiscale fluvial biogeomorphic framework. River Research and Applications 38: 1101–1114.
Bae, J. & Kim, D. (2021)
The interactions between wildfire, bamboo, and aerosols in the southwestern Amazon: A conceptual model. Progress in Physical Geography 45: 621–631.
Kim, D. (2021)
Predicting the magnitude of residual spatial autocorrelation in geographical ecology. Ecography 44: 1121–1130.
Kim, D. & Song, I. (2021)
Predicting model improvement by accounting for spatial autocorrelation: A socio-economic perspective. The Professional Geographer 73: 131–149.
Kim, D. & Ohr, S. (2020)
Coexistence of plant species under harsh environmental conditions: An evaluation of niche differentiation and stochasticity al ong salt marsh creeks. Journal of Ecology and Environment. 44: 19.
Disturbance after disturbance: Combined effects of two successive hurricanes on forest community structure. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110: 571–585.
Incorporation of spatial autocorrelation improves soil–landform modeling at A and B horizons. Catena 183: 10422 6.
Recolonization of native and invasive plants after large-scale clearance of a temperate coastal dunefield. Applied Geogr aphy 109: 102030.
Residual spatial autocorrelation in macroecological and biogeographical modeling: A review. Journal of Ecology and Env ironment 43: 19.
Kim, D.(2019)
Selection of scale can reverse the importance of stochastic controls on community assembly. Physical Geography 40: 1 11-126.
Kim, D.(2018)
Modeling spatial and temporal dynamics of plant species richness across tidal creeks in a temperate salt marsh. Ecological Indicators 93: 188–195.
Miralha, L. & Kim, D.(2018)
Accounting for and predicting the influence of spatial autocorrelation in water quality modeling. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7: 64.
Kim, D. (2018)
Characterizing the pathway and rate of salt marsh vegetation dynamics: A multivariate approach. Estuaries and Coasts 41:1370–1380.
Bartholdy, J., Brivio, L., Bartholdy, A.T., Kim, D. & Fruergaard, M. (2018)
The Skallingen spit, Denmark: Birth of a back-barrier saltmarsh. Geo-Marine Letters 38: 153–166.
Kim, D. & Kupfer, J.A. (2016)
Tri-variate relationships among vegetation, soil, and topography along gradients of fluvial biogeomorphic succession. PLOS ONE 11: e0163223.
Kim, D. & Campbell, J.J.N. (2016)
Effects of tree size, shade-tolerance, and spatial pattern on the mortality of woody plants in a semi-natural urban woodlot, central Kentucky, USA. The Professional Geographer 68: 436–450.
Kim, D., Hirmas D.R., McEwan, R.W., Mueller, T.G., Park, S.J., Šamonil, P., Thompson, J.A. & Wendroth, O. (2016)
Predicting the influence of multi-scale spatial autocorrelation on soil–landform modeling. Soil Science Society of America Journal 80: 409–419.
Kim, D. & Shin, Y.H. (2016)
Spatial autocorrelation potentially indicates the degree of changes in the predictive power of environmental factors for plant diversity. Ecological Indicators 60: 1130–1141.
Kim, D., Bartholdy, J. & Bartholdy, A.T. (2016)
Varying patterns of vegetation dynamics across multiple levels of organization in a salt marsh of the Danish Wadden Sea. Hydrobiologia 771: 67–81.
Kim, D., DeWitt, T.J., Costa, C.S.B., Kupfer, J.A., McEwan, R.W. & Stallins, J.A. (2015)
Beyond bivariate correlations: Three-block partial least squares illustrated with vegetation, soil, and topography. Ecosphere 6: 135.
Corenblit, D., Baas, A., Balke, T., Bouma, T., Fromard, F., Garófano-Gómez, V., González, E., Gurnell, A.M., Hortobágyi, B., Julien, F., Kim, D., Lambs, L., Stallins, J.A., Steiger, J., Tabacchi, E. & Walcker, R. (2015)
Engineer pioneer plants respond to and affect geomorphic constraints similarly along water–terrestrial interfaces world-wide. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24: 1363–1376.
Bartholdy, J., Bartholdy, A.T., Kim, D. & Pedersen, J.T.P. (2014)
On autochthonous organic production and its implication for the consolidation of temperate salt marshes. Marine Geology 351: 53–57.
Kim, D. & Arthur, M.A. (2014)
Changes in community structure and species–landform relationship after repeated fire disturbance in an oak-dominated temperate forest. Ecological Research 29: 661–671.
Kim, D. (2014)
Rates of vegetation dynamics along elevation gradients in a backbarrier salt marsh of the Danish Wadden Sea. Estuaries and Coasts 37: 610–620.
Kim, D. (2013)
Incorporation of multi-scale spatial autocorrelation in soil moisture–landscape modeling. Physical Geography 34: 441 –455.
Kim, D., Cairns, D.M. & Bartholdy, J. (2013)
Tidal creek morphology and sediment type influence spatial trends in salt marsh vegetation. The Professional Geographer 65: 544–560.
(Winner of 2012 J. Warren Nystrom Award from the Association of American Geographers)
Kim, D., Grant, W.E., Cairns, D.M. & Bartholdy, J. (2013)
Effects of the North Atlantic Oscillation and wind waves on salt marsh dynamics: A quantitative model as proof of concept. Geo-Marine Letters 33: 253–261.
Kim, D. & Phillips, J.D. (2013)
Predicting the structure and mode of vegetation dynamics: An application of graph theory to state-and-transition models. Ecological Modelling 265: 64–73.
Kim, D. (2012)
Biogeomorphic feedbacks drive dynamics of vegetation–landform complex in a coastal riparian system. Ecosphere 3: 74.
Kim, D., Cairns, D.M., Bartholdy, J. & Morgan, C.L.S. (2012)
Scale-dependent correspondence of floristic and edaphic gradients across salt marsh creeks. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102: 276–294.
Kim, D. & Zheng, Y. (2011)
Scale-dependent predictability of DEM-based landform attributes for soil spatial variability in a coastal dune system. Geoderma 164: 181–194.
Kim, D., Bartholdy, J., Jung, S. & Cairns, D.M. (2011)
Salt marshes as potential indicators of global climate change. Geography Compass 5: 219–236.
Kim, D., Cairns, D.M. & Bartholdy, J. (2011)
Wind-driven sea-level variation influences dynamics of salt marsh vegetation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 101: 231–248.
Kim, D., Cairns, D.M. & Bartholdy, J. (2010)
Environmental controls on multiscale spatial pattern of salt marsh vegetation. Physical Geography 31: 58–78.
Kim, D., Cairns, D.M. & Bartholdy, J. (2009)
Spatial heterogeneity and domain of scale on the Skallingen salt marsh, Denmark. Danish Journal of Geography 109: 9 5–104.
Kim, D., Cairns, D.M. & Bartholdy, J. (2009)
Scale-dependent interactions and community structure along environmental gradients on a coastal salt marsh. Journal of Coastal Research SI 56: 429–433.
Kim, D. & Yu, K.B. (2009)
A conceptual model of coastal dune ecology synthesizing spatial gradients of vegetation, soil, and geomorphology. Plant E cology 202: 135–148.
Filippi, A.M., Brannstrom, C., Dobreva, I., Cairns, D.M. & Kim, D. (2009)
Unsupervised fuzzy ARTMAP classification of hyperspectral Hyperion data for savanna and agriculture discrimination in the Brazilian Cerrado. GIScience & Remote Sensing 46: 1–23.
Kim, D., Yu, K.B. & Park, S.J. (2008)
Identification and visualization of complex spatial pattern of coastal dune soil properties using GIS-based terrain analysis and geostatistics. Journal of Coastal Research 24(4C): 50–60.
[Korean Journals]
Lee, C., Lee, K., Kim, H., Baek, D., Kim, W., Kim, D., Lee, H., Woo, H. & Cho, K.-H. (2021)
The interrelationship between riparian vegetation and hydraulic characteristics during the 2020 summer extreme flood in the Seomjin-gang River, South Korea. Ecology and Resilient Infrastructure 8: 79–87.
김대현 (2021)
한국 지리학에서 생물지형학적 연구의 동향과 전망. 대한지리학회지 56: 95-112.
Kim, D., Kim, W., Kim, E., Ock, G., Jang, C.-L., Choi, M. & Cho, K.-H. (2020)
Applications and perspectives of fluvial biogeomorphology in the stream management of South Korea. Ecology and Resil ient Infrastructure 7: 1–14.
유근배, 신영호, 김대현, 김성환 (2012)
신두해안사구지대로 유입되는 영양염류의 시공간적 특성. 대한지리학회지 47(2): 193–207.
Park, S.J., Ruecker, G.R., Agyare, W.A., Akramhanov, A., Kim, D. & Vlek, P.L.G. (2009)
Influence of grid cell size and flow routing algorithm on soil–landform modeling. Journal of the Korean Geographical Society 44: 122–145 (in English).
김대현 (2004)
해수와 해빈 모래 기원 영양소의 공간적 분포 – 신두리 해안사구 지대를 대상으로. 지리학논총 43: 57–79.
[Books]
유근배, 신영호, 김대현, 김성환 (2012)
생태서식처로서 한국 서해안 해안사구. 서울대학교 규장각한국학연구원 한국학모노그래프 67.
[Book Reveiw]
Kim D. (2011)
Comparative Biogeography: Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth by Lynne R. Pare nti and Malte C. Ebach & Mapping Species Distributions: Spatial Inference and Prediction by Janet Franklin. Annals of the Association of Amer ican Geographers 101: 1384–1386.
[Encyclopedia]
Kim D. (2017)
Complexity in biogeography, In: Richardson, D. and others (eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Geography, Wiley –Blackwell and AAG.
Kim D. (2015)
Vegetation dynamics, In: The McGraw–Hill Education Encyclopedia (Yearbook of Science & Technology), McGraw–Hi ll, pp. 370–372.
Kim D. (2010)
Complex systems models, In: Warf, B. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Geography, Vol. 2, SAGE Publications, London, pp. 561–567.
[Presentation in conferences and symposia]
Kim, D., Lee, J.Y., Seo, J. & Song, I. (2018) Recolonization of native and invasive plants after large-scale clearance of a temp erate coastal dunefield. 2018 International Conference of the Korean Association of Biological Sciences, Pyeongchang, South Korea, August 22-24.
Kim, D., Lee, J.Y., Seo, J. & Song, I. (2018) Recolonization of native and invasive species after large-scale clearance of a tem perate coastal dunefield. Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science, Bozeman, MT, USA, July 22-27.
Kim, D. (2018). Scale can reverse the importance of stochastic controls on community assembly. Annual Meeting of the Ame rican Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA, April 10-14.
Kim, D. (2018). Scale can reverse the importance of stochastic controls on community assembly. Annual Meeting of the Kore an Association for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Gwangju, South Korea, February 22-23.
