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Peter Anderson
Department of Geography
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
phone: (406) 243-6126
Current research efforts: biophysical land analysis and classification, natural area conservation and management, vegetation dynamics
Gregory P. Asner
CIRES/Center for the Study of Earth from Space
Campus Box 216
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0216
phone: (303) 492-5130
email: asner@sces.colorado.edu
Current research efforts: ecosystem ecology, remote sensing, ecological modeling
Robert G. Bailey
USDA Forest Service
3825 East Mulberry Street
Fort Collins, CO 80524
phone: (970) 498-1773
Current research efforts: ecosystem geography, ecoregions
Recent publications:
Bailey, R.G. 1996. Ecosystsem Geography. New York: Springer-Verlag 204 pp.
Bailey, R.G. 1995. Description of the Ecoregions of the United States. 2nd edition, revised and expanded. Miscellaneous Publication Number 1391. Washington, D.C.: USDA Forest Service. 108 pp. with separate map at 1:7,500,000.
William L. Baker
Department of Geography and Recreation
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY 82071
phone: (307) 766-2925
email: bakerwl@uwyo.edu
Current research efforts: potential response of the forest-tundra ecotone to global change, spatial fire history of Rocky Mountain subalpine forests, forest fragmentation by logging in the Rocky Mountains
Recent publications:
Baker, W.L. 1995. Longterm response of disturbance landscapes to human intervention and global change. Landscape Ecology 10: 143-159.
Baker, W.L. and G.M. Walford. 1995. Multiple stable states and models of riparian vegetation succession on the Animas River, Colorado. Annals of the AAG 85: 320-338.
Baker, W.L. and P.J. Weisberg. 1995. Landscape analysis of the forest-tundra ecotone in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Professional Geographer 47: 361-375.
Jacob Bendix
Department of Geography and Center for Environmental Policy and Administration Syracuse
University
144 Eggers Hall
Syracuse, NY 13244-1090
phone: (315) 443-3819
email: jbendix@maxwell.syr.edu
Current research efforts: Plant biogeography, human impacts on vegetation and landforms, geomorphology, media coverage of environmental and geographic issues
Recent publications:
Parker, K.C. and J. Bendix. In press. Landscape-scale geomorphic influences on vegetation patterns in four physiographic environments. Physical Geography.
Bendix, J. In Press. Liebler, C.M. and J. Bendix. Old-growth forests on network news: News sources and the framing of environmental controversy, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
Bendix, J. 1994. Scale, direction and pattern in riparian vegetation-environment relationships. Annals of the AAG 84: 654-667.
Bendix, J. 1994. Among-site variation in riparian vegetation of the Southern California Transverse Ranges. American Midland Naturalist 132: 136-151.
Bendix, J. 1992. Fluvial adjustments on varied timescales in Bear Creek Arroyo, Utah, U.S.A. Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie 36: 141-163.
Robert W. Buddenmeier
Kansas Geological Survey
1930 Constant Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66047
phone: (913) 864-3965
email: Bob_Buddemeier@MSMAIL.KGS.UKANS.EDU
Current research efforts: effects of natural and artificial groundwater salinization on water resources and ecosystems, effects of climate change on water resources and their use, responses of coral reefs and other shallow-water marine ecosystems to global change.
Recent publications:
Buddemeier, R.W. 1991. Climate change and biology: a proposal for scientific impact assessment and response. In Unity of Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 1. E.C. Dudley, ed. Pp. 161- 169. Discorides Press, Portland, Oregon.
Buddemeier, R.W. and D.G. Fautin. 1993. Coral bleaching as an adaptive mechanism: a testable hypothesis. Bioscience 43: 320-326.
Buddemeier, R.W. and J.A. Oberdorfer. 1990. Climate change and island groundwater resources. In Inplications of Expected Climate Changes in the South Pacific Region: an Overview. UNDP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 128. J.C. Pernetta and P.J. Hughes, eds. Pp. 56-67. United Nationas Environment Programme.
Smith, S.V. and R.W. Buddemeier. 1994. Global climate change and coral reefs: implications for people and reefs. Report of the UNEP-IOC-ASPEI-IUCN Global Task Team on the Implications of Climate Change on Coral Reefs. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
David R. Butler
Department of Geography
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3220
phone: (919) 962-3923
email: butler@geog.unc.edu
Current research efforts: landscape changes brought about by beaver, Glacier National Park, alpine treeline and interactions with geomorphic processes, animals as geomorphic agents, physical geography of mountains
Recent publications:
Butler, D.R. 1995. Zoogeomorphology: Animals as geomorphic agents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Butler, D.R. and G.P. Malanson. 1995. Sedimentation rates and patterns in beaver ponds in a mountain environment. Geomorphology 13: 255-269.
Butler, D.R. 1994. Guest editor, Special issue on Physical Geography and Alpine Treeline. Physical Geography 15: 1-199.
Butler, D.R., G.P. Malanson, and D.M. Cairns. 1994. Stability of alpine treeline in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A. Phytocoenology 22: 485-500.
Walsh, S.J., D.R. Butler, T.R. Allen, and G.P. Malanson. 1994. Influence of snow patterns and snow avalanches on the alpine treeline ecotone. Journal of Vegetation Science 5(5): 657-672.
Laura E. Conkey
Department of Geography
Dartmouth College
6017 Fairchild Hall
Hanover, NH 03755-3571
phone: (603) 646-3381
email: conkey@dartmouth.edu
Current research efforts: dendrochronology, forest ecology and dynamics, old-growth red spruce across northern New England, range limit dynamics of jack pine and pitch pine in eastern US/Canada, isotopes and wood density in NE China
Recent publications:
Conkey, L.E., P. Sheppard, and L. Graumlich. In press. Reflected-light image analysis of conifer tree rings for reconstructing climate. The Holocene.
Conkey, L.E., M. Keifer and A.H. R. Lloyd. 1995. Disjunct jack pine (Pinus banksiana) structure and dynamics, Acadia National Park, Maine. Ecoscience 2: 168-176.
Conkey, L.E. and C.V. Cogbill. 1989. Historical dynamics of an old-growth red spruce stand: Reconstruction from tree rings and stand analysis. Bulletin Ecological Society of America 70: 85- 86.
Conkey, L.E. 1988. Decline in old-growth red spruce in western Maine: An analysis of wood density and climate. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 18: 1063-1068.
Mark Cowell
Department of Geography, Geology and Anthropology
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
phone: (812) 237-2256
email: gecowell@scifac.indstate.edu
Current research efforts: Vegetation-environment relations in eastern North American forests; disturbance history of eastern forests; presettlement vegetation patterns; human impacts on vegetation
Recent publications:
Cowell, C.M. 1995. Presettlement piedmont forests: Patterns of composition and disturbance in central Georgia. Annals of the AAG 85: 65-83.
Cowell, C.M. 1993. Environmental gradients in secondary forests of the Georgia Piedmont, U.S.A. Journal of Biogeography 20: 199-207.
Cowell, C.M. 1993. Ecological restoration and environmental ethics. Environmental Ethics 15: 19-32.
James Dyer
Department of Geography
Clippinger Labs
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
phone: (614) 593-1140
email: dyer@helios.phy.ohiou.edu
Current research efforts: presettlement vegetation reconstruction in northwestern Minnesota, forest stand characteristics of sites situated at prairie ecotone, using water balance to predict species range and project displacement under climate warming.
Recent publications:
Dyer, J.M. and P.R. Baird. In review. Wind disturbance in remnant forest stands along the prairie-forest ecotone, Minnesota. Forest Ecology and Management.
Dyer, J.M. 1995. Assessment of climatic warming using a model of forest species migration. Ecological Modeling 79: 199-219.
Dyer, J.M. 1994. Implications of habitat fragmentation on climatic change-induced forest migration. Professional Geographer 46: 449-459.
Dyer, J.M. 1994. Land use pattern, forest migration, and global warming. Landscape and Urban Planning 29: 77-82.
Miriam Lee Fearn
Department of Geology and Geography
University of South Alabama
LSCB 136
Mobile, AL 36688
phone: (334) 479-1230
email: mfearn@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
Current research efforts: prehistoric Gulf Coast hurricane records, Gulf Coast Holocene sea level, phytoliths as a toool for paleoecoological interpretation of grass pollen
Recent publications:
Fearn, M.L. and K.B. Liu. 1995. 3500 B.P. maize pollen from southern Alabama. American Antiquity 60: 109-117.
Liu, K.B. and M.L. Fearn. 1993. Lake sediment record of late Holocene hurricane activities from coastal Alabama. Geology 21: 793-796.
Bruce C. Forbes
Arctic Center
University of Lapland
Box 122 - SF-96101
Rovaniemi, Finland
phone: 358-60-324-786
email: bforbes@levi.urova.fi
Current research efforts: human impact on tundra vegetation and soil, arctic biogeography, tundra restoration
Recent publications:
Forbes, B.C. 1995. Vehicle tracks on high arctic tundra: their effects on the soil vegetation and soil anthropods. Journal of Applied Ecology 32: 655-667.
Forbes, B.C. 1994. The importance of Bryophytes in the classification of human-disturbed high arctic tundra. Journal of Vegetation Science 5: 877-884.
Forbes, B.C. 1993. Small-scale wetland restoration in the high arctic: a long-term perspective. Restoration Ecology 1: 59-68.
Michelle Gorman
501 McCone Hall
Department of Geography
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone: (919) 968-1254
email: gorman@acpub.duke.edu
Current research efforts: paleogeography of San Francisco Bay; paleoenvironmental change, Veracruz, Mexico
Ricardo Grau
Department of Geography
Campus Box 260
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
phone: (303) 492-4785
email: grau@ucsu. colorado.edu
Current research efforts: disturbances and regeneration of tropical montane forests, bamboo ecology
Recent publications:
Grau, R. and A.D. Brown. 1995. Patterns of tree species diversity along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients in the Argentina subtropical montane forest. In P. Churchill, E. Foreno, and H. Balslev. eds. Biodiversity and Conservation of Neotropical Montane Forests. NY Botanical Garden Press.
Grau, H.R. and A.D. Brown. 1955. Los deslizamientos de ladera como condicionantes de la estructura y composicion de la selva subtropical de montana. In A.D. Brown and H.R. Grau, eds. Investigacion, Conservacion y Desarrollo en la Selva Subtropical de Montana.
Brown, A.D. and H.R. Grau, eds. 1995. Investigacion, Conservacion y Desarrollo en la Selva Subtropical de Montana. German Society of Technical Cooperation and Universidad Nacional de Tucuman.
Lisa J. Graumlich
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
phone: (602) 621-6465
email: graumlich@ LTRR.arizona.edu
Current research efforts: climatic variation on annual to centennial time scales, long-term vegetation dynamics
Recent publications:
Graumlich, L.J. and L.B. Brubaker. 1994. Long-term records of growth and distribution of conifers: implications for ecophysiology. In Physiological Ecology of North American Forests, W. Smith and T. Hinckley, eds. Academic Press: New York.
Graumlich, L.J. 1993. Response of tree growth to climatic variation in the mixed conifer and deciduous forests of the Upper Great Lakes region. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23: 133-143.
Graumlich, L.J. and M.B. Davis. 1993. Holocene variation in spatial scales of vegetation pattern in the Upper Great Lakes. Ecology 74: 826-839.
Graumlich, L.J. 1993. A 1000-year record of temperature and precipitation in the Sierra Nevada. Quat. Res. 39: 249-255.
Graumlich, L.J. 1991. Subalpine tree growth, climate, and increasing Co2: an assessment of recent growth trends. Ecology 72: 1-11.
Duane Griffin
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin
550 N. Park Street
Madison, WI 53706
phone: (608) 238-7264
email: dgriffin@students.wisc.edu
Current research efforts: fine scale species diversity, Quaternary paleoecology, vegetation dynamics
Recent publications:
Griffin, D. In press. Wisconsin's vegetation history and the balance of nature. In R. Ostegren and T. Vale, eds. Wisconsin Land and Life. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Griffin, D. Pollen analog dates for the Upper Midwest oak savannas. Pp. 91-97 in Proceedings of the North American Conference on Barrens and Savannas. J.S. Fralish et al., eds. Chicago: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Keith S. Hadley
Department of Geography
Western Oregon State College
Monmouth, OR 97361
phone: (503) 838-8855
email: hadleyk@fsa.wosc.osshe.edu
Current research efforts: disturbance and succession, forest dynamics, landscape ecology, dendroecology, environmental conservation
Recent publications:
Hadley, K. and M. Savage. In press. Wind disturbance and forest edge dynamics in the Oregon Coast Range, U.S.A. Physical Geography.
Hadley, K.S. 1994. The role of disturbance, topography, and forest structure in the development of a montane forest landscape. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 121: 47-61.
Hadley, K.S. 1994. Vegetation. In J.G. Ashbaugh, ed. The Pacific Northwest: Geographical Perspective Pp. 99-116. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co: Dubuque, IA.
Veblen, T.T., K.S. Hadley, L. Nel, T. Kitzberger, M. Reid, and R. Villalba. 1994. The disturbance regime and disturbance interactions in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest. Journal of Ecology 82: 125-135.
Hadley, K.S., and T.T. Veblen. 1993. Stand response to western spruce budworm and Douglas- fir bark beetle outbreaks in the Colorado Front Range. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23: 479-491.
Lawrence R. Handley
National Biological Service
Southern Science Center
700 Cajun Boulevard
Lafayette, LA 70506
phone: (318) 266-8691
email: handleyl@nwrc.gov
Current research efforts: seagrass mapping (Gulf coast), wetland mapping, wetland change, wetland loss
Recent publications:
Handley, L.R. 1995. Gulf of Mexico coastal wetlands: Case studies of loss trends in our living resources. A report to the nation on the distribution, abundance and health of U.S. plants, animals and ecosystems. E.T. Laros, et al., eds. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Biological Service.
Seagrass distribution in the northern Gulf of Mexico. In same as above.
Kathy Hansen
Department of Earth Sciences
Traphagon Hall
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
phone: (406) 994-6912
email: ueskh@msu.oscs.montana.edu
Recent publications:
Hansen, K., Wyckoff, W., Banfield, J. 1995. Shifting forests: Historical grazing and forest invasion in southwestern Montana. Forest and Conservation History 39(2): 66-76.
Birkeland, K., Hansen, K., and Brown, R. 1995. The spatial variability of snow resistance on potential avalanche slopes. Journal of Glaciology 41(137): 183-190.
L. Edward Harvey
Department of Geography
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New Zealand
phone: 64 9 - 373 7599
email: e.harvey@auckland.ac.nz
Current research efforts: ecological biogeography, biogeographical consequences of environmental and land-use change, applications of landscape ecology to preservation of biodiversity, spatial analysis of biodiversity using remote sensing and GIS, spatial and multivariate statistics.
Recent publications:
Laituri, M.J. and L.E. Harvey. 1995. Bridging the space between indigenous ecological knowledge and New Zealand conservation management using GIS. Pp. 122-133 in Nature Conservation: The Role of Networks. Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty and Sons.
Strachan, I. and L.E. Harvey. In press. Quantifying the effects of temporal autocorrelation on climatological regression models using geostatistical techniques. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
Young, B. and L.E. Harvey. 1995. A spatial analysis of the relationship between mangrove (Avicennia marina var. australasica) physiognomy and sediment accretion in the Hauraki Plains, New Zealand. Esturine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
Linzey, A. and L.E. Harvey. 1995. Modelling bird species distribution for gap analysis of the Tutamoe Ecological District, Northland. Proceedings 7th AURISA/SIRC Coloquium, Spatial Information Research Center: Otago. Pp. 189-202.
Harvey, L.E. 1994. Spatial patterns of inter-island plant and bird species movements in the Galapagos Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 24: 45-63.
Elizabeth Hobbs
2849 43rd Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55406
phone: (612) 373-6502
email: taiga@mailhost.primenet.com
Current research efforts: State-wide archaeological predictive model for Minnesota, historical vegetation
Sally P. Horn
Department of Geography
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1420
phone: (423) 974-6030
fax: (423) 974-6025
email: shorn@utk.edu
Current research efforts: Vegetation and environmental history in tropical Latin America
Recent publications:
Horn, S.P. 1997. Postfire Resprouting of Hypericum irazuense in the Costa Rican Paramos: Cerro Asuncion Revisited. Biotropica (forthcoming).
Northrop, L.A. and Horn, S.P. 1996. Precolumbian Agriculture and Forest Disturbance in Costa Rica: Paleoecological Evidence from Two Lowland Rainforest Lakes. The Holocene (forthcoming).
Rodgers III, J.C. and Horn, S.P. 1996. Modern Pollen Spectra from Costa Rica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (forthcoming).
Horn, S.P. 1993. Postglacial Vegetation and Fire History in the Chirripo Paramo of Costa Rica.
Quaternary Research 40(1): 107-116.
Horn, S.P. and Haberyan, K.A. 1993. Physical and Chemical Properties of Costa Rican Lakes. National Geographic Research and Exploration 9(1): 86-103.
Toshi Ikagawa
Eastern Kentucky University
Department of Geography and Planning
201 Roark Building
Richmond, KY 40475-3129
phone: (606) 622-1422
email: GEOIKAGA@ACS.EKU.EDU
Current research efforts: traditional Japanese garden style as a transported landscape in Hawai'i, species diversity of ornamental plants in residential yards, fong-shui and landscape.
Recent publications:
Ikagawa, T. 1994. People, plants and proto-paysage: a study of ornamental plants in residential front yards in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Journal of Home and Consumer Horticulture 1: 109-116.
Ikagawa, T. 1993. White sand and blue pines: a nostalgic landscape of Japan. Landscape 32: 1- 7.
Steven Jennings
Department of Geography
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX 77843-3147
phone: (409) 845-5219
email: saj4283@venus.tamu.edu
Current research efforts: Quaternary biogeography of southwestern North America, environmental change in Kenya
Recent publications:
Jennings, S.A. In press. Late Pleistocene changes in pinyon and juniper distributions in the White Mountain region of California and Nevada. Physical Geography.
Jennings, S.A. and D.L. Elliott-Fisk. 1993. Packrat midden evidence of late Quaternary vegetation change in the White Mountains, California-Nevada. Quat. Res. 214-221.
Don Johnson
Department of Geography
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801
phone: (217) 356-7437
email: djohnson@uxlcso.uiuc.edu
Current research efforts: integrating biotic processes with new geomorphic and pedagogic explanatory frameworks, modelling bioturbation processes.
Recent publications:
D. Johnson. 1993. Dynamic denudation evolution of tropical, subtropical and temperate landscapes with three-tiered soils: Toward a general theory of landscape evolution. Quat. International 17: 67-78.
D. Johnson. 1993. Biomechanical processes and the Gaia paradigm in a unified pedogeomorphic and pedoarchaeologic framework: Dynamic denudation. In, Proc. 1st International Conf. on Pedoarchaeology, J.E. Foss, M.W. Morris and M.E. Timpson, eds. pp. 41-68, spec. pub. Ag. Exp. Sta., Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
D. Johnson and F. Hole. 1994. Soil formation theory: A summary of its principal impacts on geography, geomorphology, soil-geomorphology, quaternary geology and paleopedology. In, Factors of Soil Formation--A Fifieth Anniversary Retrospective, R. Amundson ed. pp. 111-126. Soil Sci. Am. Spec. Pub. 33
Greg Jones
261 Clark Hall
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22903
phone: (804) 924-0576
email: gujzh@virginia.edu
Current research efforts: phenology of viticulture; climatology of plant distributions
Recent publications:
Jones, G.V. and R.E. Davis. 1995. Forthcoming. Climatology of Nor'easters and the 30 Kpa polar jet. Journal of Coastal Research.
Lee Klinger
NCAR
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307
phone: (303) 497-1474
email: klinger@acd.ucar.edu
Current research efforts: Gaia theory; trace gas biogeochemistry; ecological succession; evolutionary theory; complexity theory.
Recent publications:
Klinger, L.F., J. Taylor, and L. Franzen. In press. The potential role of peatlands in ice age initiation. Quaternary Research.
Klinger, L.F., P.R. Zimmerman, J.P. Greenberg, L.E. Heidt, and A.B. Guenther. 1994. Carbon trace gas fluxes along a successional gradient in the Hudson Bay lowland. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: 1469-1494.
Roulet, N.T., A. Jano, C.A. Kelley, L.F. Klinger, T.R. Moore, R. Protz, and W.R.R. Rouse. 1994. The role of the Hudson Bay lowland as a source of atmospheric methane. Journal of Geophysical Research 99: 1439-1454.
Walter LeBon
809 Ridgewood Drive
Metairie, LA 70001
phone: (504) 833-7483
Current research efforts: palynology; historical plant geography; wetlands
George P. Malanson
Department of Geography
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
phone: (319) 335-0158
email: malanson@cgrer.uiowa.edu
Current research efforts: boundaries, fragmentation, riparian and/or mountain environments, modeling/simulation.
Recent publications:
Malanson, G.P. 1995. In press. Effects of dispersal and mortality on diversity in a forest stand model. Ecological Modelling.
Malanson, G.P. and D.M. Cairns. 1995. Effects of increased cloud-cover on a montane forest landscape. Ecoscience 2: 75-82.
Malanson, G.P. and D.R. Butler. 1994. Tree-tundra competitive hierarchies, soil fertility gradients, and treeline elevation in Glacier National Park, Montana. Physical Geography 15: 166- 180.
Malanson, G.P. 1993. Riparian Landscapes. Cambridge Studies in Ecology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 296 pp.
Malanson, G.P. and J.A. Kupfer. 1993. Simulated fate of leaf litter and woody debris at a riparian cutbank. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23: 582-590.
Nicholas Mandrake
Department of Biological Sciences
Fort Hays State University
600 Park Street
Hays, KS 67601-5820
email: binm@fhsuvm.fhsu.edu
Current research efforts: the effects of spatial correlation on biogeographical analyses, biogeographic patterns of fish communities in relation to historical and ecological factors (Algonquin Par, Ontario; Kansas; Russia's Far East), biogeography of introduced fishes
Recent publications:
Mandrake, N.E. 1995. Biogeographic patterns of fish species richness in Ontario lakes in relation to historical and environmental factors. Can. J. Fish Aquat. Sci.
Mandrake, N.E. 1994. Biogeographic patterns of freshwater fishes in relation to historical and environmental processes in Ontario lakes and streams. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto.
Mandrake, N.W. and E.J. Crossman. 1992. A checklist of Ontario freshwater fishes annotated with distribution maps. Roy. Ont. Mus., Life Sci Publ., Toronto, Ontario. 184 pp.
Mandrake, N.E. and E.J. Crossman. 1992. Postglacial dispersal of freshwater fishes into Ontario. Can. J. Zool. 70: 2247-2259.
Mandrake, N.E. 1989. Potential invasion of the Great Lakes by fish species associated with climatic warming. J. Great Lakes Res. 15: 306-316.
Joy Nystrom Mast
Department of Geography and Public Planning
College of Ecosystem Science and Management
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-15016
phone: (520) 523-6549
email: jnm@alpine.for.nau.edu
Current research efforts: forest dynamics, vegetation change,/disturbances, landscape ecology, GIS/image processing, dendrochronology
Recent publications:
Mast, J.N. and T.T. Veblen. 1994. A dendrochronological method of studying tree mortality patterns. Physical Geography 15: 529-542.
Rebertus, A.J., T.T. Veblen, L.M. Roover, and J.N. Mast. 1992. Structure and dynamics of old- growth Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir in Colorado. USFS General Technical Report, RM - 213. Fort Collins, Co. Pp. 139-153.
Gordon Matzke
Geosciences Department
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97337-5506
phone: (503) 737-1217
email: matzkeg@bcc.orst.edu
Current research efforts: impacts of community of Zimbabwe wilderness/wildlife areas
Recent publications:
Matzke, G.E. In press. Game ranching for meat in Africa--the fading promise. In Perspectives in Resource Management in Developing Countries. Volume 9. Bioresource Depletion and Conservation: The Concepts International Series in Geography - 4. Baldeswahr Thakur, ed., New Delhi: Concept Publishing Co.
Matzke, G.E. In press. A rapid appraisal method for approximating wildlife presence and abundance. African Journal of Ecology 33.
Matzke, G.E. and Nabane, N. 1995. African wildlife conservation, utilization and community enpowerment: Zambezi developments continue. AMBIO August, Vol. 24 (5): 318-319.
Matzke, G.E. 1993. Hunting and fishing. Pp. 148-152 in Atlas of the Pacific Northwest. J.A. Kimberling and P. Jackson, eds. Eighth Edition. Oregon State University Press.
Matzke, G.E. and D. Mazambani. 1993. Resource sharing schemes for state owned land in Zimbabwe: Conceptual issues needing consideration in the development and planning of co- management regimes. CASS Occasional Paper Series, No. 54/93. Harare: University of Zimbabwe, Center for Applied Social Sciences. 33 pp.
Kimberly E. Medley
Geography
Miami University
217 Shideler Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
phone: (513) 529-1558
email: kmedley@acs.muohio.edu
Current research efforts: landscape ecology, environmental and human influences on forest community ecology, conservation, Eastern decidious forest, riverine forest of East Africa
Recent publications:
Medley, K.E. M.F. McDonnell, and S.T.A. Pickett. 1995. Forest-landscape structure along an urban-to-rural gradient. Professional Geographer 42: 159-168.
Medley, K.E. 1994. Identifying a strategy for forest restoration in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya. Pp. 154-167 in A.D. Baldwin, J. de Luce and C. Pletsch, eds. Beyond Preservation: Restoring and inventing landscapes. University of Minnesota Press.
Medley, K.E., B.W. Okey, G.W. Barrett, M.F. Lucas, and W.H. Renwick. 1995. Landscape change with agricultural intensification in a rural watershed, southwestern Ohio, U.S.A. Landscape Ecology 10: 1612-176.
Medley, K.E. 1993. Tana River primate conservation: An examination of the forest habitat. Conservation Biology 7: 109-121.
Medley, K.E. 1993. Extractive forest resources of the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya. Economic Botany 47: 171-183.
Ella C. Newton
408 G and G Building
Geography Department
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-1420
phone: 974-2418
email: Enewton@etkvx.utk.edu
Current research efforts: cloud forest, Montserrat, West Indies
William A. Noble
Geography Department
15 Stewart Hall
University of Missouri
Columbus, MO 65211
phone: (314) 882-4587
Current research efforts: Factors which make the Nilgiris unique; Nilgiris as India's first Biosphere Reserve
Recent publications:
Noble, W.A. In press. The Nilgiris of Tamil Nadu, India, as a distinctive upland island.
Claudia L. Oakes
2006 Peachtree Street
Austin, TX 78704
phone: (512) 326-4734
email: cl.oakes@mail.utexas.edu
Current research efforts: consequences of prairie dog eradication in the semi-desert grassland (SW New Mexico/NW Chihuahua)
Recent publications:
Whitington, C.L. 1992. Interactions between Lar gibbons and pig-tailed macaques at fruit sources. American Journal of Primatology 26: 61-64.
Whitington, C.L. 1991. Selection and treatment of food plants by white-handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand.
Brian Okey
Department of Geography
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario
CANADA N1G 2W1
phone: (519) 821-4120 x 2684
email: grokey@geonet.css.uoguelph.ca
Current research efforts: agroecosystems, ecosystem health, agricultural habitat, Mennonite farming systems
Recent publications:
Medley, K.E., B.W. Okey, G.W. Barrett, M.F. Lucas, and W.H. Renwick. 1995. Landscape change with agricultural intensification in a rural watershed, Southwestern Ohio U.S.A. Landscape Ecology 10: 161-176.
Medley, K.E., M.F. Lucas, B.W. Okey, G.W. Barrett, and C.M. Butalla. 1994. Cultural and ecological influences on the functioning of forests in agricultural watersheds. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 75 (supplement): 151.
Kathleen C. Parker
Department of Geography
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-2502
phone: (706) 542-2337
email: kcparker@uga.cc.uga.edu
Current research efforts: geomorphic influences on vegetation patterns, genetic and ecological analysis of sand pine (Pinus clausa) in Florida, vegetation patterns on arid alluvial fans
Recent publications:
Parker, K.C. and J.L. Hamrick. In press. Genetic variation in sand pine (Pinus clausa). Can. J. For. Res.
Parker, K.C. 1995. Effects of complex geomorphic history on soil and vegetation patterns on arid alluvial fans. Journal of Arid Environments 30: 19-39.
Parker, A.J. and K.C. Parker. 1995. Structural variability of mature lodgepole pine stands on gently sloping terrain in Taylor Park Basin, Colorado. Can. J. of For. Research 24: 2020-2029.
Parker, K.C. 1993. Climatic effects on regeneration trends for two columnar cacti in the northern Sonoran Desert. Annals of the AAG 83: 452-474.
Richard C. Rounds
Director, Rural Development Institute
Brandon University
Brandon, Manitoba
CANADA R7A 6A9
phone: (204) 727-9734
email: rounds@bu.ca
Current research efforts: rural development, rural environments, rural resources, ecotourism
Recent publications:
Weaver, D., C.L. Glenn and R.C. Rounds. 1995. Ecotourism in Manitoba. RDI Publication Series 1995-5, The Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, Brandon MB 49 pp.
Rounds, R.C., B. Milne, and J. Rolheiser. 1995. Towards defining a woodlot management program for the prairie provinces. RDI Report Series 1995-3, The Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, Brandon, MB 116 pp.
Cowan, W.F., R.C. Rounds, T. Beckley and A. Sprenger. 1995. The economic, social, political and cultural dimensions of forest-dependence in Eastern Manitoba. RDI Report Series 1995-1, The Rural Development Institute, Brandon University, Brandon, MB. 61 pp.
Melissa Savage
Department of Geography
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
phone: (310) 825-1912
email: savage@geog.sscnet.ucla.edu
Current research efforts: forest dynamics, natural and anthropogenic disturbance, diversity, Southwestern conifer forests
Recent publications:
Hadley, K. and M. Savage. In press. Wind disturbance and forest edge dynamics in the Oregon Coast Range, U.S.A. Physical Geography.
Savage, M., P. Brown and J. Feddema. In press. The role of climate in a pine forest regeneration pulse in the Southwestern United States. Ecoscience.
Savage, M. 1994. Anthropogenic and natural disturbance and patterns of mortality in a mixed conifer forest in California. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24: 1149-1159.
Savage, M. 1994. Structural dynamics of a montane pine forest: effects of land use change in northern Thailand. Mountain Research of Development 14: 245-520.
Savage, M. 1991. Structural dynamics of a southwestern pine forest under chronic human disturbance. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 81: 271-289.
David Shankman
Department of Geography
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
phone: (205) 348-1534
email: dhankma@uAlvm.UA.EDU
Current research efforts: channel migration and vegetation patterns; deforestation of alluvial wetlands, human impact on Coastal Plain streams.
Recent publications:
Shankman, D. and K.M Wills. In press. Pre-European forest communities of the Talladege Mountains, Alabama. Southeastern Geographer. 35: 117-130.
Shankman, D. and R.M. Kontright. 1994. Hydrogeomorphic conditions limiting the distribution of baldcypress in the Southeastern U.S. Physical Geography 15: 282-295.
Shankman, D. 1993. Channel migration and vegetation patterns in the southeastern Coastal Plain. Conservation Biology 7: 176-183.
Shankman, D. and B. Pugh. 1992. Discharge response to channelization of a Coastal Plain stream. Wetlands 12: 157-162.
Shankman, D. 1991. Botanical evidence for the age of oxbow lakes: a test of Harper's hypothesis. Southeastern Geographer 31: 67-74.
Alan H. Taylor
Department of Geography
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
phone: (814) 865-3433
email: AHT1@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Current research efforts: Vegetation dynamics, conservation, fire history, landscape change, dendroecology
Recent publications:
Taylor, A.H. 1995. Forest expansion and climate change in the mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) zone, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, USA. Arctic and Alpine Research 27: 207-216.
Taylor, A.H. 1993. Fire history and structure of red fir (Abies magnifica) forests, Swain Mountain Experimental Forest, Cascade Range, northeast California. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23: 1672-1678.
Taylor, A.H. and Qin Zisheng. 1993. Structure and dynamics of bamboo in the Wolong Natural Reserve, China. American Journal of Botany 80: 375-384.
Taylor, A.H. and Qin Zisheng. 1992. Tree regeneration after bamboo dieback in Chinese Abies- Betula forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 3: 253-260.
Joseph Tosi
Apartado 8-3870
San Jose, Costa Rica
phone: (506) 253-3308
fax: (506) 253-4963
Current research efforts: natural regeneration in intensively managed degraded primary forest (tropical forest sensu Holdridge)
Recent publications:
Tosi, J., V. Watson, and J. Echeverria. 1992. Potential impacts of climatic change on the productive capacity of Costa Rican forests: a case study. Tropical Science Center, San Jose, Costa Rica.
Miklas D.F. Udvardy
Department of Biological Science 111 114
California State University
Sacramento, CA 95819
phone: (916) 278-6535
fax: (916) 278-6993
Current research efforts: vegetation classification and mapping, zoogeography of sea birds, revision of my 1975/1978 map: Biogeographical Provinces of the World.
Recent publications:
Udvardy, M.D.F. 1995. Baltic marine areas - a review. Pacific Seabirds. 22: 24.
Udvardy, M.D.F. 1994. Status and conservation of seabirds, a review. Pacific Seabirds 21:34.
Udvardy, M.D.F. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds - Western Region. Revised edition. Revised by J. Farrand, Jr. Borzoi Book, A.A. Knopf, NY. 824 pp.
Udvardy, M.D.F. Bird populations: a journal of global avian biogeography - a review. Pacific Seabirds 21:29.
Udvardy, M.D.F. Birds of Europe with North Africa and the Middle East - a review in Hungarian. Aquila 101: 259-260.
Thomas Vale
Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
phone: (608) 262-6301
email: vale@geogaphy.wisc.edu
Current research efforts: nature protection in the United States, revisiting John Muir's "First Summer in the Sierra," animal guilds
Recent publications:
Vale, T. In press. From End Moraines and Alfisols to White Pines and Frigid Winters: An Introduction to the Environmental Systems of Wisconsin. In R. Ostergren and T. Vale, eds. Wisconsin Land and Life. University of Wisconsin Press.
Vale, T. In press. Mountains and Moisture in the West, Pp. 142-165 in W. Wyckoff and L. Dilsaver, eds. The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography. University of Nebraska Press.
Vale, T. and G. Vale. 1994. Time and the Tuolume Landscape: Continuity and change in the Yosmite High Country. University of Utah Press.
Vale, T, 1990. Vegetation management and nature protection. Pp. 75-86 in G. Malanson, ed. Natural Areas Facing Climate Change. SPB Academic Press.
Vale, T. and G. Vale. 1989. Western Images, Western Landscapes: Travels along U.S. 89. University of Utah Press.
Thomas T. Veblen
Department of Geography
Campus Box 260
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0260
phone: (303) 492-8528
email: veblen@spot.colorado.edu
Current research efforts: forest dynamics in relation to natural and anthropogenic disturbances and climatic variation in the southern Andes and the southern Rocky mountains
Recent publications:
T.T. Veblen, R.S. Hill and J. Read. 1996. Eds. Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forests. Yale University Press. ~ 400 pp. (In press)
T.T. Veblen, K.S. Hadley, E.M. Neal, T. Kitzberger, M. Reid, and R. Villalba. 1994. Disturbance regime and disturbance interactions in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest. J. of Ecology 82: 125-135.
T.T. Veblen, T. Kitzberger, and A. Lara. 1992. Disturbance and forest dynamics along a transect from the Andean rain forest to Patagonian shrublands. J. Vegetation Science 3: 507-520.
T.T. Veblen and D.C. Lorenz. 1991. The Colorado Front Range: A Century of Ecological Change. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 186 pp.
T.T. Veblen, K.S. Hadley, M.S. Reid, and A.J. Rebertus. 1991. The response of subalpine forests to spruce beetle outbreak in Colorado. Ecology 72: 213-231.
John M. Welch
West Chester University
Geography and Planning
West Chester, PA 19383
phone: (610) 436-2940
email: jwelch@wcupa.edu
Current research efforts: forest patterns and interior forest habitat, effects of deer browse on forest regeneration, landscape ecology, conservation biogeography
Recent publications:
Soleuki, W.D. and J.M. Welch. 1995. Urban parks: green spaces or greenwalls? Landscape and Urban Planning 32: 93-106.
Welch, J.M. 1994. Street and park trees of Boston: a comparison of urban forest structures. Landscape and Urban Planning 29: 131-143.
Cathy Whitlock
Department of Geography
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
phone: (503) 346-4566
email: whitlock@oregon.uoregon.edu
Current research efforts: vegetation and climate history of Western North America, fire history of Western conifer forests, future climate change and biotic distributions, data-model comparisons of paleoenvironmental data
Recent publications:
Millsbaugh, S.H. and C. Whitlock. In press. A 750-yr fire history based on lake sediment records in central Yellowstone National Park. The Holocene.
Sea, D.S. and C. Whitlock. 1995. Postglacial vegetation and climate of the Cascade Range, central Oregon. Quaternary Research 43: 370-381.
Whitlock, C. 1993. Posstglacial vegetation and climate of Grant Teton and southern Yellowstone National Parks. Ecological Monographs 63: 173-198.
Whitlock, C. and P.J. Bartlein. 1993. Spatial variations of Holocene climatic change in the Yellowstone region. Quaternary Research 39: 231-238.
Whitlock, C. 1992. Vegetational and climatic history of the Pacific Northwest during the last 20,000 years: implications for understanding present-day biodiversity. The Northwest Environmental Journal 8: 5-28.
Peter Yaukey
Department of Geography
University of New Orleans
phone: (504) 286-7133
email: phyga@uno.edu
Current research efforts: continental and regional scale analysis of geographical ranges of birds, effects of urbanization on birds of forested habitats, habitat use patterns of migrating birds.
Recent publications:
Yaukey, P. In press. Patterns of avian population density, habitat use, and flocking behavior in urban and rural habitats during winter. The Professional Geographer.
Yaukey, P. In press. Effects of food supplementation and predator simulation on nuthatches and parids within mixed-species flocks. Wilson Bulletin.
Yaukey, P. 1994. Variation in racial dominance within the winter range of the dark-eyed junco (J. hyenalis L.). Journal of Biogeography 21: 359-368.
Yaukey, P. 1992. Habitat use by migrant birds in a disturbed habitat. Physical Geography 13: 149-159.
Kenneth R. Young
Department of Geography
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21228
phone: (410) 455-3078
email: kyoung@umbc2.umbc.edu
Current research efforts: tropical conservation, tropical vegetation
Recent publications:
Young, K.R. 1994. Roads and the environmental degradation of tropical montane forests. Conservation Biology 8: 972-976.
Young, K.R. 1993. Tropical timberline: Changes in forest structure and regeneration between two Peruvian timberline margins. Arctic and Alpine Research 25: 167-174.
Young, K.R. 1993. National park protection in relation to the ecological zonation of a neighboring human community: An example from northern Peru. Mountain Research and Development 13: 267-280.
Susy Svatek Ziegler
550 N. Park Street
384 Science Hall
Madison, WI 53706
phone: (608) 262-1857
email: sziegler@geography.wisc.edu
Current research efforts: forest dynamics in eastern North America; old growth stand dynamics in eastern U.S.
Recent publications:
Ziegler, S.S. Relict Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobis L.) stands in southwestern Wisconsin. Am. Midl. Nat. 133: 88-100.
