Huston, M.A. 2003. Heat and Biodiversity (letter in response to “Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule” Allen et al. Science 30, August 2002). Science, 299: 512.
Huston, M.A. 2001. People and Biodiversity in Africa (letter in response to “Conservation conflicts across Africa,” Balmford et al. Science, 30 March 2001).. Science 293: 1591.
Guterman, L. 2000. Have ecologists oversold biodiversity? Some scientists question experiments on how numerous species help ecosystems. The Chronicle of Higher Education. October 13, 2000.
Huston, M.A., A.E. Huston, and J. Scurlock. 2000. Shifting the Carbon Balance (letter). Bioscience 50: 292.
Wardle, D.A. M.A. Huston, J.P. Grime, F. Berendse, E. Garnier, W.K. Lauenroth, H. Setala, and S.D. Wilson. 2000. Biodiversity and ecosystem function: an issue in ecology. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 81:235-239.
Huston, M.A. (interview). 2000. Biodiversity as a Political Football. Environmental Review 7 (7): 8-16.
Kaiser, J. 2000. Rift over biodiversity divides ecologists. Science 289: 1282-1283.
Krause, C. 1996. Life on Earth: Why Biodiversity Varies. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review 29 (4&5): 40-51. www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev29_3/text/life.htm
Huston, M.A. 1995. Biodiversity thrives where crops fail. Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, 1995.
Huston, M.A., and J. Isebrands. 1995. Monitoring interception of photosynthetically active radiation (Report on Workshop). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, June, 1995.
Huston, M.A. 1995. Saving the planet (and U.S. Agriculture) with the 1995 Farm Bill: a farm policy conference (Report on conference). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, June, 1995.
Huston, M.A. 1994. Biological Diversity and Agriculture (response to letters). Science 265:458-9.
Huston, M.A. 1994. Facing the Truth about the Tropics (editorial). Tropinet Newsletter, 5(1): 1.
Huston, M.A.1992. Walker Branch Watershed: DOE's Canary in a Cage. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Review 25(1): 2-9.
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Huston, M.A. (2001). Biodiversity science issues related to remote sensing capabilities. Report for Workshop on Conservation Applications of Remote Sensing, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, Dec. 2001. Sponsored by Conservation International and NASA.
Ecosystem Working Group (M. Huston et al.) (1998). Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Global Change: A Research Strategy. Oak Ridge National Laboratory Technical Memorandum.
Hansen, P.J., D.E. Todd, M.A. Huston, J.D. Joslin, J. Croker, and R. Auge. (1998). Description and Field Performance of the Walker Branch Throughfall Displacement Experiment. 1993-1996. ORNL/TM-13586. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 47 pp.
Environmental Monitoring Team (M. Ruggiero, M. Huston, et al.) (1997). Integrating the Nation's Environmental Monitoring and Research Networks and Programs: A Proposed Framework. Office of Science and Technology Policy, Office of the White House.
Huston, M.A., and Breman, H. (1995). Contributions of Science and Technology to an Integrated Approach to Land Management. Report for United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development and UN Commission on Sustainable Development, addressing Chapter 10 of Agenda 21.
Huston, M.A. (1995). Biodiversity Management for Ecological Sustainability. Report for Science Policy Associates, Inc. as part of Biodiversity Uncertainties and Research Needs (BURN) interagency project.
Hanson, P.J., D.E. Todd, N.T. Edwards, and M.A. Huston. 1995. Field performance of the Walker Branch Throughfall Displacement Experiment. In Ecosystem Manipulation Experiments: Scientific Approaches, Experimental Design, and Relevant Results. A. Jenkins, R.C. Ferrier, and C. Kirby, eds. pp. 307-313. Ecosystem Research Report # 20, Commission of the European Communities, Copenhagen.
Huston, M.A. (1994). Environmental Technology Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration. Contribution to Inter-laboratory Initiative on Technologies for a Sustainable Future.
Huston, M.A. (1994). Instream Ecological Monitoring: Interpretation of Biotic Results. Pages 6:34 - 6:45 in Fourth Report on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program for White Oak Creek Watershed and the Clinch River. J.M. Loar, ed. Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL/TM-11544.
Huston, M.A. (1994). Instream Ecological Monitoring: Interpretation of Biotic Changes. Page 6:28 in Third Report on the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Biological Monitoring and Abatement Program for White Oak Creek Watershed and the Clinch River. J.M. Loar, ed. Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL/TM-11358.
Turner, R.S., P.J. Hansen, M.A. Huston, C.T. Garten, Jr., and P.J. Mulholland. 1993. A large-scale throughfall manipulation experiment on Walker Branch Watershed. In Environmental Manipulations of Biota and Biogeochemical Cycling in Ecosystems: Approach - Methodologies - Findings. L. Rasmussen, T. Brydges, and P. Mathy, eds. pp. 96-105. Commission of the European Communities, Copenhagen.
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Why ecologists are so confused: finding a signal in the noise. Graduate Student Seminar Series, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, October, 2002.
The global pattern of forest structure and growth: implications for conservation and development. Graduate Student Seminar Series, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, October, 2002.
Environmental drivers of land use change. (with H. Gibbs). Symposium on Land use change in rural America: Rates, drivers, and consequences. ESA Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, August, 2002.
The global pattern of forest structure and productivity: implications for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and Australia. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Western Australia, Perth, April, 2002.
Fire and ecological disturbance theory. Keynote presentation. Symposium on Fire in Western Australia, Conservation and Land Management agency of Western Australia, Perth, April, 2002.
Soil nutrients and patterns of early secondary succession in a tropical rainforest. BSA meeting, University of British Columbia, 1980.Predicting the distribution and abundance of exotic plant species. Fourth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Exotic Pest Plant Council, Nashville, TN, April, 2002.
The irrelevance of standard statistical analyses of experimental and observational data in ecology. Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, March 2002.
Topography, soils, and biodiversity: Implications for ecologists and engineers. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Nov. 2001.
Contributions of ecosystem ecology to conservation planning and reserve management. Workshop on Ecologically Functioning Populations, Wildlife Conservation Society, White Oak Plantation,Yulee, FL, Nov. 2001.
Predicting the distribution and abundance of exotic plant species. Symposium on Exotic Species, Natural Areas Association, Cape Canaveral, FL, Oct. 2001
Parallels between terrestrial and marine biodiversity patterns and processes. The Centre for Marine Biodiversity. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Halifax, Nova Scotia. May, 2001.
The history and current status of the biodiversity-ecosystem function controversy. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 2001.
The global pattern of plant mass and productivity: common wisdom strikes out again; The dynamic equilibrium model: a framework for understanding and managing biodiversity in forests and rangelands; Dirt is destiny: balancing conservation and economics in land management. Three lectures in the Colorado State University Distinguished Ecologist Lecture Series. Feb. 2001.
Linking Evolution and Ecosystems: A Research Agenda for the 21st Century. Department of Botany, University of California, Riverside, Jan. 2001.
Biodiversity in landscape decisions. NCASI Conference on Forest Environment Management: Forest Landscape Management in the Real World. Portland, OR. Sept. 2000.
The environmental basis of human society. Conference on Land Use: Changing Landscapes of Rural America. Yellowstone National Park, WY, Sept. 2000.
Understanding the common constraints on man and nature. Environmental Studies Program, Washington and Lee University, Feb. 2000.
Dirt is Destiny: common constraints on plants, animals, and people. Leadoff address for graduate-student organized symposium, Integration across Ecological Scales, Feb. 2000, Texas A&M University.
Impediments to predictive models in community ecology: Misunderstandings of processes, scales, and statistics. Keynote address for international conference, "Predicting species occurrences: issues of scale and accuracy for wildlife habitat modeling," October, 1999, Snowbird, Utah.
Plant species diversity: What processes, what scales? Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Sept. 1999.
Application of ecological principles to the planning and evaluation of ecosystem restoration. Symposium on Environmental Monitoring, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Spokane, WA, August, 1999.
Extracting experimental results from long-term monitoring studies: lessons from droughts and floods. Symposium on Serendipity in Environmental Research, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Spokane, WA, August, 1999.
One or more of the following talks given at each of the Australian institutions listed below
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Misguiding the Field of Ecology: Fundamental Concepts and Misconceptions Restoring the Florida Everglades: Applications of Computer Models to Ecosystem Assessment and Management Evaluating the Ecosystem Function of Biodiversity: A critique of recent experiments Spatial Scale and Ecological Processes: Local versus regional control of species diversity Evaluating the Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Species Diversity: Twenty Years of Relevant and Irrelevant Analyses Endemism and Invasions: Predicting the distributions of rare and problem species. Understanding and managing the patterns of biodiversity on landscapes Biodiversity conservation, sustainable development and social justice The Latitudinal Gradient of Species Diversity: What's Rapoport got to do with it? |
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Australian Institutions visited, January through March, 1999 |
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University of Adelaide CSIRO Marine Science Laboratory, Hobart, Tazmania University of Sydney James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Canberra, ACT Australian National University, Canberra, ACT University of Western Australia, Perth, WA |
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Using computer models and ecological theory to plan ecosystem inventories and monitoring. North American Science Symposium "Toward a Unified Framework for Inventorying and Monitoring Forest Ecosystem Resources, Guadalajara, Mexico, Nov. 1998.
Reconciling scales and processes: the key to a general theory of species diversity. Symposium on Seeking Generality in Ecology. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Baltimore, MD, August, 1998.
Belowground processes and the interaction of productivity and diversity. Institute for Microbial Ecology, Michigan State University, March, 1998.
Misleading the field of ecology: how the search for simplicity leads to irrelevance. Arthur Cronquist CUNY Graduate Students Plant Sciences Symposium, November, 1997
Multimodeling for South Florida Wetland Ecosystems (with L.J. Gross), Symposium on Technology for Landscape Simulation and Analysis. International Society for Ecological Modeling, Providence, RI, Aug., 1996.
Modern computation and conservation biology: giving theory some muscle (with L.J. Gross, presenter), Symposium on The Interface between Theoretical Ecology and Conservation Biology. Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, Aug. 1996.
Biodiversity and Sustainability, Air & Waste Management Association National Meeting, Nashville, TN, June, 1996
The effects of climate change on a deciduous forest: experiments on Walker Branch Watershed, Tennessee. Grinnell College, Feb. 1996.
The regulation of plant community structure on landscapes, Department of Botany, University of California, Riverside, Jan. 1996.
Global patterns of agricultural productivity and biodiversity, Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, Jan. 1996.
The scientific basis of managing genetic and species diversity. Ecological Stewardship Workshop, Tucson, AZ, December 1995.
Global patterns of plant productivity: implications for conservation and development. University of Montreal, December, 1995.
Biological Indicators: a research perspective. National Association of Environmental Professionals, Washington, DC, June, 1995.
Plant species diversity: global patterns and local processes. Southwestern Texas University, San Marcos, TX, April, 1995.
Agriculture and Biodiversity. School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, March, 1995.
The environmental necessity for free farm trade. 1995 Farm Policy Conference, Washington, DC February, 1995.
Patterns of diversity on grasslands: global perspectives. University of Arizona, Tucson, May, 1994.
Global distribution of soil resources: implications for sustainable development. Sustainable Development Forum, Chicago Area Sigma Xi, March, 1994
Integrating local ecosystem processes to address global issues. DOE Workshop on "New Research in the Science of Global Change: A multidisciplinary View," Oakland ,California, September 1993.
Resource mobility, competition, and the diversity of sessile organisms. XV International Botanical Congress, Tokyo. September, 1993.
Soils, biodiversity, and sustainable development in lowland tropical rainforests. XV International Botanical Congress, Tokyo. September, 1993.
Individual-based models of plant interactions. Lectures for Nordic Council on Ecology Course on Individual-based Models. Kronlund Field Station, Sweden, March, 1993.
Biological diversity: global patterns and local processes. University of Kentucky, Lexington, January, 1993.
Biological diversity: global patterns and local processes. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, Sept. 1992.
Integrated ecosystem research on Walker Branch Watershed, Emory University, Atlanta, July, 1992
Biological diversity: global patterns and local processes. Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, SC, May, 1992
Global patterns of biological diversity. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. April 1992
Individual-based forest succession models. School of Forestry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. February, 1992.
Productivity, disturbance, and species diversity. Conference on microbial diversity. Michigan State University, June, 1991.
Plant physiology, competition, and the regulation of species diversity. Duke University, February, 1991.
Integrating plant physiology, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes. Midwest Population Biology Conference, Miami University, Ohio, October, 1990.
Research issues and opportunities on Walker Branch Watershed. University of Tennessee, September, 1990.
The role of plant physiology in ecosystem processes: examples from Walker Branch Watershed, Vanderbilt University, April, 1990
Application of individual-based modeling techniques to ecosystemprocesses on Walker Branch Watershed. Clemson University, November, 1989.
Use of individual physiology and life history to predict community and ecosystem dynamics. Symposium: Methods for translating ecological information across scales. ESA meeting, Toronto, August, 1989.
From physiology to ecosystems: a theory based on individual organisms. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. October 1988.
From physiology to ecosystems: a theory based on individual plants. Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Cary Arboretum. May 1988.
Community and ecosystem patterns in dynamic landscapes. Michigan State University Kellogg Biological Station. May 1987.
Community and ecosystem patterns in a dynamic landscape.Speaker and organizer for symposium: Ecosystem and community implications of population processes, ESA/INTECOL meetings, August 1986.
Light availability and the species diversity of sessile photosynthetic communities in terrestrial and marine environments. Symposium: Factors affecting coral reef benthic community structure, ESA/ASLO meeting, Minneapolis, Mn, June 1985.
Light availability and species diversity in coral reefs and understory plant communities. University of Georgia, February 1985.
Modeling the effects of geology and climate on ecosystem properties. MAB workshop on remote sensing, Athens, Georgia, May, 1985.
The role of symmetric and asymmetric competition in determining plant population size structure, Symposium: Size hierarchies in plant populations, ESA meeting, University of North Dakota, 1983.
Species diversity in oldfield plant communities (with F.C. Evans), Symposium: Plant commumity ecology - community structure and pattern, ESA meeting, Pennsylvania State University, 1982.
The regulation of species diversity: experimental data from three systems. University of California, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Coral reefs and tropical rain forests. University of New Orleans, 1981.
Species diversity in coral reefs and rain forests: a non-equilibrium explanation. University of Minnesota, 1978.
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Land Use Legacy Effects: Exotic Plant Species Distributions Sixty Years After Agricultural Abandonment. (with G. Barlar, W. Johnston, and L. Pounds). Natural Areas Association Annual Meeting, Madison, WI, October 2003.
The distribution of exotic plant species across a recovering landscape (with G. Barlar, W. Johnston, and L. Pounds). Natural Areas Association Annual Meeting, Asheville, NC, October 2002.
The global pattern of forest structure and production: reversing the latitudinal gradient. ESA Meeting, Madison, WI, August, 2001.
Why save biodiversity: can ecosystem function justify species conservation? (with J.P. Grime and D.A. Wardle) ESA Meeting, Snowbird, UT, August, 2000.
Effects of waterflow variability on population and community dynamics of benthic invertebrates in upper Bear Creek, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (poster, S.M. Harrell, J.G. Smith, and M.A. Huston) ESA Meeting, Snowbird, UT, August, 2000.
The begets and begats of diversity, productivity, and stability. ESA Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, August, 1997.
The balance of competition and facilitation in plant communities: a graphical model. ESA meeting, Snowbird, Utah, August, 1995. (Holmgren, M., M. Scheffer, and M. Huston)
Growth and survival of tree seedlings in a large-scale rainfall manipulation experiment. ESA meeting, Snowbird, Utah, August, 1995. (Parikh, N., M. Holmgren, M. Huston, B. Pedersen, and D. Moe).
Growth and physiological responses of tree seedlings to experimental manipulation of light and water. ESA meeting, Snowbird, Utah, August, 1995. (Huston, M., and M. Holmgren).
The 28-year record of ecosystem dynamics on Walker Branch Watershed. ESA meeting, Snowbird, Utah, August, 1995.(Todd, D., M. Huston, B. Pedersen, P. Mulholland, S. LIndberg, D. Johnson, and G. Henderson).
Spatial distribution of understory plants along gradients of water and light availability. ESA meeting, Knoxville, Tennessee, August, 1994. (Holmgren M., M.A. Huston, J. Quiles and S. Warner)
Use of a hydrologic model to predict ecosystem properties. ESA meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, August, 1993 (with C.T. Garten, J.W. Chason, S.P Timmins, and D.E. Todd)
Measuring spatiotemporal variation in canopy leaf area index on a forested landscape, ESA meeting, San Antonio, Texas, August, 1991 (with J. Chason)
Tulip poplar mortality caused by interacting light and water stress during a severe drought on Walker Branch Watershed, Tennessee. ESA meeting, Snowbird, Utah, August, 1990 (with J. Chason)
Generation of digital elevation models from contours and comparison of topographic indices. AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 1989 (with S. Timmins and R.B. Clapp)
Evaluation of hydrograph predictions from a topographically-based hydrologic model on two watersheds with contrasting geology. AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 1989 (with R.B. Clapp and S. Timmins)
The influence of climate, chemical quality and soil fertility on litter decomposition. (Poster with J. Pastor and W.M. Post), ESA meeting, Minneapolis, Mn., June 1985.
The relationship of species diversity to soil nutrients and moisture on Iowa prairies (with M.J. Huston), ESA meeting, University of North Dakota, 1983.
The effect of light availability on the biomass and speciesdiversity of a lowland tropical weed assemblage. ESA/BSA meeting, University of Indiana, 1981.
Dominance and suppression during tropical forest succession: patterns in experimental plantings after two years of growth. ESA/BSA meeting, University of Indiana, 1981.
The influence of soil nutrients on the growth and distribution of selected species in an experimental oldfield ecosystem. ESA/BSA meeting, University of Indiana, 1981.
Maintenance of species diversity in tropical forests: experiments in Costa Rica. Soc. for the Study of Evolution, Iowa City, 1981.
Patterns of species diversity in an experimental oldfield ecosystem, ESA meeting, University of Arizona, 1980.
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