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Dr. Amy Langston [she/her]
Assistant Research Professor, Environmental Data Science
E-Mail 
Amy.Langston@dri.edu
Campus 
Reno Campus
Division 
Earth and Ecosystem Sciences

Publications
2025
Langston, A., Smith, A., Gedan, K., & Kirwan, M. (2025). Ecosystem structure and salinity thresholds in retreating coastal forests along the Mid-Atlantic, USA. Climatic Change, 178(6), 108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-025-03948-x

2024
Kaalstad, S., Osland, M., Devlin, D., Proffitt, C., Feher, L., Armitage, A., Day, R., Swanson, K., Anderson, G., Berger, B., Cebrian, J., Cummins, K., Dunton, K., Feller, I., Fierro-Cabo, A., Flores, E., From, A., Hughes, A., Kaplan, D., Langston, A., Martinez, M., Martinez, B., Miller, C., Reaver, N., Sanspree, C., Snyder, C., Stetter, A., Thompson, J., & Zamora-Tovar, C. (2024). Temperature Thresholds for Leaf Damage from Two Extreme Freeze Events (2018 and 2021) Near the Northern Range Limit of Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans) in Southeastern North America. Estuaries and Coasts, 47(1), 292-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-023-01279-7

2023
Page, D. J., Rybarski, S. C., Hartshorn, E. J., Harsha, G. L., Feldman, A. D., Nikolich, G., Langston, A., & Sion, B. (2023). Letter Report: YTC Degraded Visual Environments Prototype Hardware and Integration, 2. Report prepared for U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground under contract W9115121D0004

Langston, A., Rybarski, S. C., Page, D. J., & Sion, B. (2023). Letter Report: YTC Degraded Visual Environment Modeling Software Development, 3. Report prepared for U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground under contract W9115121D0004

Langston, A., MacCabe, S. R., Kielhofer, J., Minor, T. B., Page, D. J., & Sion, B. (2023). Technical Report: Geological Terrain and Soils Database and Visualization Tool, 16. Report prepared for U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground under contract W9115121D0004

Martinez, M., Osland, M., Grace, J., Enwright, N., Stagg, C., Kaalstad, S., Anderson, G., Armitage, A., Cebrian, J., Cummins, K., Day, R., Devlin, D., Dunton, K., Feher, L., Fierro-Cabo, A., Flores, E., From, A., Hughes, A., Kaplan, D., Langston, A., Miller, C., Proffitt, C., Reaver, N., Sanspree, C., Snyder, C., Stetter, A., Swanson, K., Thompson, J., & Zamora-Tovar, C. (2023). Integrating Remote Sensing with Ground-based Observations to Quantify the Effects of an Extreme Freeze Event on Black Mangroves (Avicennia germinans) at the Landscape Scale. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-023-00871-z

2022
Langston, A., Coleman, D., Jung, N., Shawler, J., Smith, A., Williams, B., Wittyngham, S., Chambers, R., Perry, J., & Kirwan, M. (2022). The Effect of Marsh Age on Ecosystem Function in a Rapidly Transgressing Marsh. Ecosystems, 25(2), 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00652-6

2021
Messerschmidt, T., Langston, A., & Kirwan, M. (2021). Asymmetric root distributions reveal press–pulse responses in retreating coastal forests. Ecology, 102(10), e03468. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3468

Langston, A., Alexander, C., Alber, M., & Kirwan, M. (2021). Beyond 2100: Elevation capital disguises salt marsh vulnerability to sea-level rise in Georgia, USA. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 249, 107093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.107093

2020
Langston, A. & Kaplan, D. (2020). Modelling the effects of climate, predation, and dispersal on the poleward range expansion of black mangrove (Avicennia germinans). Ecological Modelling, 434, 109245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109245

Langston, A., Durán Vinent, O., Herbert, E., & Kirwan, M. (2020). Modeling long-term salt marsh response to sea level rise in the sediment-deficient Plum Island Estuary, MA. Limnol Oceanogr, 65(9), 2142-2157. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11444

Osland, M., Day, R., Hall, C., Feher, L., Armitage, A., Cebrian, J., Dunton, K., Hughes, A., Kaplan, D., Langston, A., Macy, A., Weaver, C., Anderson, G., Cummins, K., Feller, I., & Snyder, C. (2020). Temperature thresholds for black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) freeze damage, mortality and recovery in North America: Refining tipping points for range expansion in a warming climate. J Ecol, 108(2), 654-665. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13285

2017
Langston, A., Kaplan, D., & Putz, F. (2017). A casualty of climate change? Loss of freshwater forest islands on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Glob Change Biol, 23(12), 5383-5397. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13805

Langston, A., Kaplan, D., & Angelini, C. (2017). Predation restricts black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) colonization at its northern range limit along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Hydrobiologia, 803(1), 317-331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3197-0