Symposium Proceedings

Weigel, J.R., G.A. Rasmussen, G.R. McPherson, and H.A. Wright. 1988. Prescribed burning redberry juniper communities in the Texas Rolling Plains. Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conference 10:256-258.

McPherson, G.R. and S.P. Bratton. 1991. Effects of disturbance on community boundary dynamics on Cumberland Island, Georgia. Proceedings of the Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference 17:163- 182.

McPherson, G.R. 1992. Ecology of oak woodlands in Arizona. Pages 24-33 in P.F. Ffolliott, G.J. Gottfried, D.A. Bennett, V.M. Hernandez C., A. Ortega-Rubio, and R.H. Hamre (technical coordinators), Ecology and Management of Oak and Associated Woodlands: Perspectives in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Experiment Station General Technical Report RM-218, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Weltzin, J.F., and G.R. McPherson. 1995. Potential role of climate change on lower treeline in the southwestern United States. Pages 180-193 in L.F. DeBano, P.F. Ffolliott, A. Ortega- Rubio, G.J. Gottfried, R.H. Hamre, and C.B. Edminster (technical coordinators), Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Experiment Station General Technical Report RM-264, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Villanueva-Diaz, J., and G.R. McPherson. 1995. Forest stand structure in mountains of Sonora, Mexico and New Mexico, USA. Pages 416-423 in L.F. DeBano, P.F. Ffolliott, A. Ortega-Rubio, G.J. Gottfried, R.H. Hamre, and C.B. Edminster (technical coordinators), Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Experiment Station General Technical Report RM-264, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Villanueva-Diaz, J. and G.R. McPherson. 1996. Reconstruction of precipitation and PDSI from tree-ring chronologies developed in mountains of New Mexico, USA and Sonora, Mexico. Hydrology and Water Resources in Arizona and the Southwest 26:45-54.

Ford, P.L. and G.R. McPherson. 1996. Ecology of fire in shortgrass prairie of the southern Great Plains. Pages 20-39 in D.M. Finch (editor), Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A Symposium Proceedings. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Experiment Station General Technical Report RM-285, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Villanueva-Diaz, J. and G.R. McPherson. 1997. Effects of climate, fire, land-use history, and structural development on forest communities. Pages 85-98 in P.F. Ffolliott, L.F. DeBano, M.B. Baker, Jr., G.J. Gottfried, G. Solis-Garza, C.B. Edminster, D.G. Neary, L.S. Allen, and R.H. Hamre (technical coordinators), Effects of Fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems: A Symposium Proceedings. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Experiment Station General Technical Report RM-289, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Villanueva-Diaz, J. and G.R. McPherson. 1997. Properties of forest soils on mountains of New Mexico, USA and Sonora, Mexico. Pages 229-234 in P.F. Ffolliott, L.F. DeBano, M.B. Baker, Jr., G.J. Gottfried, G. Solis-Garza, C.B. Edminster, D.G. Neary, L.S. Allen, and R.H. Hamre (technical coordinators), Effects of Fire on Madrean Province Ecosystems: A Symposium Proceedings. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Experiment Station General Technical Report RM-289, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Suedkamp, K.M. and G.R. McPherson. 1997. Effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on oak woodlands in southeastern Arizona. Pages 365-368 in D. Harmon (editor), Making Protection Work: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Research and Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands.

Germaine, H.L., G.R. McPherson, K.J. Rojahn, A.M. Nicholas, and J.F. Weltzin. 1997. Constraints on germination and emergence of Emory oak. Pages 225-230 in N.H. Pillsbury, J. Verner, and W.D. Tietje (technical coordinators), Oak Woodlands: Ecology, Management, and Urban Interface Issues. USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Experiment Station General Technical Report PSW-160, Albany, California.

Ford, P.L. and G.R. McPherson. 1998. Experimental fire research in semi-arid shortgrass prairie. Pages 107-116 in B. Tellman, D.M. Finch, C. Edminster, and R. Hamre (editors), The Future of Arid Grasslands: Identifying Issues, Seeking Solutions. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station Proceedings RMRS-P-3, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Abbott, L.B. and G.R. McPherson. 1999. Nonnative grasses in southern Arizona: historical and contemporary perspectives. Pages 3-6 in L. Benson and B. Gebow (editors), A Century of Parks in Southern Arizona: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Research and Resource Management in Southern Arizona National Parks. National Park Service, Tucson, Arizona.

Ford, P.L. and G.R. McPherson. 1999. Ecology of fire in shortgrass prairie communities of the Kiowa National Grasslands proposed Research Natural Area. Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conference 15:71-76.

McPherson, G.R. 2001. Oak savannas of the American Southwest: ecological interactions and implications for management. Pages 171-183 in P. Campos Palacin and G. Montero Gonzalez (coordinators), Workshop on Environmental and Commercial Benefits of Restoration and Natural Regeneration in Mediterranean Oak Forests. Madrid, Spain, 19-20 November 2001.

McPherson, G.R. 2001. Invasive plants and fire: integrating science and management. Tall Timbers Research Station Miscellaneous Publication 11:141-146.

McPherson, G.R. 2005. Bridging the cultural divide: seeking common ground in the management of natural resources. Pages 51-61 in Marty Peale and Barbara Johnson (editors), Ranching at the Crossroads: Forging a West that Works. Proceedings of the Second Annual Quivira Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Geiger, E.L. and G.R. McPherson. 2005. No positive feedback between fire and a nonnative perennial grass. Pages 465-468 in G.J. Gottfried, B.S. Gebow, L.G. Eskew, and C.B. Edminster (compilers), Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago II. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station Proceedings RMRS-P-36.

McDonald, C.J. and McPherson, G.R. 2005. Pollination of Pima pineapple cactus (Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina): Does pollen flow limit abundance of this Endangered species? Pages 529-532 in G.J. Gottfried, B.S. Gebow, L.G. Eskew, and C.B. Edminster (compilers), Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: Biodiversity and Management of the Madrean Archipelago II. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station Proceedings RMRS-P-36.

McPherson, G.R. 2006. Fire ecology and management in grasslands of the American Southwest. Pages 26-30 in X. Basurto and D. Hadley (editors), Grasslands Ecosystems, Endangered Species, and Sustainable Ranching in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands: Conference Proceedings. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station Proceedings RMRS-P-40, Fort Collins, Colorado.

Rice, Peter M., Guy R. McPherson, and Lisa J. Rew. 2008. Fire and nonnative plants in the interior west bioregion. Chapter 8 (pages 141-173) in Kristin Zouhar, Jane Kapler Smith, Steve Sutherland, and Matthew L. Brooks (editors), Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants, Volume 6. USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-42, Ogden, Utah.

Brooks, M.L. and G.R. McPherson. 2008. Fire regimes of the American Southwest. Pages E-18 - E-34 in HydroGeoLogic, 2008. Proceedings from the Southwest Region Threatened, Endangered, and At-Risk Species Workshop, 22-25 October 2007, Tucson, Arizona. Prepared for the Legacy Resource Management Program, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, and Environmental Security Technology Certification Program by HydroGeoLogic, Inc., Reston, Virginia.



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