Christopher Anderson

Earth scientist

© 2025 Christopher Anderson

Research

Peer-reviewed publications

I’ve spent my career as a research ecologist, working to understand the geography of biodiversity, forest carbon, wildfire, and vector-borne disease.

Find me on Google Scholar¹, ORCID² or ResearchGate³.

Personal References

My Dissertation

Stanford University

My CV

Christopher B. Anderson

Syntheses of the work I’ve done.

Publications & Reports

Peer-reviewed and otherwise.

Designing multi-modal ecosystem monitoring technologies

EcoEvoRXiv

Local tree cover predicts mosquito community composition

Landscape Ecology

elapid: modern species distribution modeling

JOSS

Centering justice to improve nature access

People and Nature

Benefits of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica

Ecosystem services

Biodiversity, infrastructure & tourism in Costa Rica

PNAS

Long-term shifts in tropical bird communities

Nature

Nature experience as an ecosystem service

Nature sustainability

Environmental drivers of vector-borne disease

Oxford University Press

Hydrological ecosystem services resilience in the Amazon

Idea Gráfica

Improving wildland-urban interface resilience

Fire Protection Research Foundation

Technologies for immediate wildfire response

Moore Foundation

Frontiers for earth observations in ecosystem services

Science of the Total Environment

Tree species classification

PeerJ

Scale in ecology and remote sensing

Ecology Letters

The biogeography of ecoregions

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Scale dependence in canopy trait expression

New Phytologist

Revealing the diversity of the Amazon

Science

Tree species mapping in Panama

Remote Sensing

Progressive drought stress in California's forests

PNAS

Geophysical controls on canopy trait distributions

PNAS

Oak hemiparasite mapping

Ecological Applications

Peru-wide carbon mapping

PNAS

Regional drivers of Amazon structure and function

PLOS One

Large-scale airborne canopy trait mapping

Remote Sensing of Environment

Tree species mapping on BCI

PLOS One

Species diversity mapping in Panama

Remote Sensing of Environment

Carbon mapping in Osa, Costa Rica

PLOS One

Canopy biogeochemistry in the Amazon lowlands

Nature Geoscience

Bias in estimates of forest structure

PNAS

The carbon geography of Peru

Ministry of Environment, Peru

Targeted carbon conservation

PNAS

Understory community mapping in Panama

Remote Sensing of Environment

Forest structure changes along elevation gradients

Biogeosciences

Biological diversity of foliar spectra

New Phytologist

Functional diversity from canopy chemistry

PNAS

Carbon mapping in Panama

Carbon Balance and Management

Forest canopy gap dynamics in Peru

PLOS One

A tale of two forests

PLOS One

The Carnegie Airborne Observatory

Remote sensing of Environment

Decadal Deforestation in Peru

Ministry of Environment, Peru

Spectroscopy of canopy chemicals in the tropics

Remote sensing of Environment