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San Marcos, TX 78666
(512) 245-2129
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Publications Reviewed

Books:

• Huston, M.A. 1994. Biological Diversity: The Coexistence of Species on Changing Landscapes.  Cambridge University Press,  708 pp. (10+ published reviews, over 6000 copies sold).
• United Nations Commission on Science and Techology for Development. 1997.  On Solid Ground:  Science, Technology, and Integrated Land Management.  International Research Development Centre, Ottawa, Canada, 67 pp.

Peer-reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

• Huston, M.A. 1979. A general hypothesis of species diversity. American Naturalist 113:81-101.
• Huston, M.A. 1980. Soil nutrients and tree species richness in Costa Rican forests. Journal of Biogeography 7:147-157.
• Huston, M.A. 1982. The effect of soil nutrients and light on tree growth and interactions during tropical forest succession. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Michigan.
• Huston, M.A. 1985. Patterns of species diversity on coral reefs. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 16:149-77.
• Huston, M.A. 1985. Variation in coral growth rates with depth at Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Coral Reefs 4: 19-25.
• Huston, M.A. 1985. Patterns of species diversity in relation to depth at Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Bulletin of Marine Science 37:928-935.
• Huston, M.A. 1986. Size bimodality in plant populations: an alternative hypothesis. Ecology 67: 265-269.
• Pastor, J.J., and M.A. Huston. 1986. Predicting ecosystem properties from physical data: a case study of nested soil moisture-climatic gradients along the Appalachian chain. Pages 82-95 in M.I. Dyer and D.A. Crossley, eds. Coupling of ecological studies with remote sensing: Potentials at four Biosphere Reserves in the United States. U.S. Dept. of State. Publ. 9504, Washington, D.C.
• Huston, M.A. and D.L. DeAngelis. 1987. Size bimodality in monospecific populations: A review of potential mechanisms. American Naturalist 129: 678-707.
• Huston, M.A. and  T.M. Smith. 1987. Plant succession: Life history and competition. American Naturalist 130: 168-198.  
• Huston, M.A., D.L. DeAngelis, and W.M. Post. 1988. New computer models unify ecological theory. BioScience 38: 682-692.
• DeAngelis, D.L., and M.A. Huston. 1988. Effects of growth rates in models of size distribution formation in plants and animals. Ecological Modeling 36: 119-137. 
• Robertson, G.P., M.A. Huston, F.C. Evans, and J.M. Tiedje. 1988. Spatial variability in a successional plant community: Patterns of nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification. Ecology 69:1517- 1524.
• Smith, T.M., and M.A. Huston. 1989. A theory of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plant communities. Vegetatio 83: 49-69. 
• Timmins, S., M.A. Huston, and R.B. Clapp. 1989. Generation of digital elevation models from contours and comparison of topographic indices (abstract).  Eos 70:  1094. 
• DeAngelis, D.L., P.J. Mulholland, A.V. Palumbo, M.A. Huston, and J.W. Elwood. 1989. Nutrient dynamics and food web stability.  Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 20: 71-95.
• Richter, D.D., L.I. Babbar, M.A. Huston, M. Jaeger. 1990. Effects of annual tillage on organic-carbon in a fine textured udalf - the importance of root dynamics to soil carbon storage. Soil Science 149: 78-83.
• Chason, J., D. Baldocchi, and M.A. Huston. 1991. A comparison of direct and indirect methods for estimating forest canopy leaf area. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 57: 107-128. 
• Huston, M.A. 1991.  Use of individual-based forest  succession  models to link physiological whole-tree models to landscape-scale ecosystem models.  Tree Physiology, 9:293-306.
• Huston, M.A., R.K. Colwell, et al. 1991. Conceptual framework and research issues for species diversity at the community level.  Pages 37-69 in From Genes to Ecosystems: A Research Agenda for Biodiversity, Report of an IUBS-SCOPE-UNESCO Workshop at Harvard Forest, ed. O.T. Solbrig. Cambridge, Mass.: International Union of Biological Sciences.
• Huston, M.A. 1992. Individual-based forest succession models and the theory of plant competition.  In Individual-based Models and Approaches in Ecology, ed. D.L. DeAngelis and L.J. Gross. Chapman and Hall, New York. pp. 408-420.(10)
• Huston, M.A. 1992. Biological diversity and human resources. Impact of Science on Society (UNESCO), 166: 121-130. 
• Clapp, R.T., S.P. Timmins, and M.A. Huston. 1992. Visualizing the surface hydrodynamics of a forested watershed. In Computational Methods in Water Resources IX Vol. 2: Mathematical Modeling in Water Resources. ed. T.F. Russell, R.E. Ewing, CA. Brebbia, W.G. Gray, G.F. Pinder. pp. 765-772. Southampton: Computational Mechanics Publications and London: Elsevier Applied Science.
• DeAngelis, D.L., and M.A. Huston. 1993. Further considerations on the debate over herbivore optimization theory. Ecological Applications 3: 30-31.
• Huston, M.A. 1993. Biological diversity, soils, and economics. Science  262:1676-80.
• Huston, M.A., and D.L. DeAngelis. 1994. Competition and coexistence: the effects of resource transport and supply rates.  American Naturalist, 144: 954-977. (55)
• Garten, C.T., M.A. Huston, and C. Thoms. 1994.  Topographic variation of soil nitrogen dynamics at Walker Branch Watershed, Tennessee.  Forest Science   40:497-513.  
• Huston, M.A., and T. Fontaine. 1994. Predicting temporal and spatial flood dynamics using a pre-calibrated model. Water Resources Bulletin,  30:651-661. 
• Huston, M.A. 1996. Modeling and management of coarse woody debris. In Biodiversity and Coarse Woody Debris,  ed. J. McMinn and D. A. Crossley,  U.S. Forest Service Southeastern Experiment Station, Gen. Tech. Rep. SE-94. 
• Huston, M.A., and L.E. Gilbert.  1996. Consumer diversity and secondary production. Pages 33-47 In Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes in Tropical Rainforests,   ed. G. Orians, R. Dirzo, and J.H. Cushing . SCOPE/Springer-Verlag, Berlin.  
• Huston, M.A. 1997.  Hidden Treatments in Ecological Experiments: Re-evaluating the Ecosystem Function of Biodiversity.  Oecologia 110:449-460.
• Holmgren, M., M. Scheffer, and M.A. Huston. 1997. The interplay of facilitation and competition in plant communities.  Ecology 78: 1966-1975.
• DeAngelis, D.L., L.J. Gross, M.A. Huston, W.F. Wolff, D.M. Flemming, E.J. Comiskey, and S.M. Sylvester. 1998.  Landscape modeling for  Everglades ecosystem restoration.  Ecosystems 1: 64-75. 
• Huston, M.A.  1999. Microcosm experiments have limited relevance for community and ecosystem ecology: Synthesis of comments.  Ecology 80: 1088-1089. 
• Huston, M.A., G. McVicker and J. Nielsen. 1999. A Functional Approach to Ecosystem Management: Implications for Species Diversity.  Pages 45-85 in Ecological Stewardship: A Common Reference for Ecosystem Management , Vol. II,   R.C. Szaro, N.C. Johnson, W.T. Sexton, and A.J. Malk, eds. Elsevier Science, Oxford.
• Huston, M. A. 1999.  Local  processes and regional   patterns:  appropriate scales for understanding variation in  the diversity of  plants and animals.  Oikos 86: 393-401. 
• Huston, M.A. 1999.  Forest  productivity and diversity: Using ecological  theory and landscape models to guide sustainable forest  management.  Pages 329-341 in North American Science Symposium: Toward a Unified Framework for Inventorying and Monitoring Forest Ecosystem Resources.  C. Aguirre-Bravo and C.R. Franco, eds. USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-12.  
• Huston, M.A., L.W. Aarssen, M.P. Austin, B.S. Cade, J.D. Fridley, E. Garnier, J.P. Grime, J. Hodgson, W.K. Lauenroth, K. Thompson, and D.A. Wardle.  2000. No consistent effect of plant diversity on productivity.  Technical  comment  on "Plant  diversity and productivity experiments in  European  grasslands," A. Hector et al., Science, Nov. 5, 1999. Science 289: 1255a (www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/289/5483/1255a). 
• LaFon, C.W., M.A. Huston, and S.P.Horn.  2000. Effects of agricultural soil loss on forest succession rates and tree diversity in East Tennessee.  Oikos 90: 431-441. 
• Hastwell, G.T., and M.A. Huston.  2001. On disturbance and diversity: a reply to Mackey and Currie (2000).  Oikos 92: 367-371. 
• Loreau, M., S. Naeem, P. Inchausti, J. Bengtsson, J.P. Grime, A. Hector, D.U. Hooper, M.A. Huston, D. Raffaelli, B. Schmid, D. Tilman, and D.A. Wardle. 2001. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: current knowledge and future challenges.  Science 294: 804-808.
•  Huston, M.A.  2002. Introductory Essay: Critical   issues for improving predictions.  Pages 7-21 In Predicting Species Occurrences,: Issues of Scale and Accuracy.   J. M. Scott, P.J. Heglund, M.L. Morrison et al. eds. Island Press, Washington, DC.  
• Huston, M.A., and A.C. McBride. 2002. Evaluating the relative strengths of biotic versus abiotic controls  on   ecosystem  processes. Pages 47-60 in Approaches to Understanding Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function  , M. Loreau, S. Naeem, and P. Inchausti, eds. Oxford University Press.
• Huston, M.A., D. E. Todd, and D.G. Barlar.  2003. Long-term forest dynamics and tree growth on the TDE site, Walker Branch Watershed.   Pages 227-254 in  Responses of Eastern Deciduous Forest to Drought, P.J. Hansen, and S. Wullschleger, eds., Oxford University Press.
• Huston, M.A., M. Holmgren, and M. Kreh. 2003. Responses of understory  tree seedling populations to spatiotemporal variation in soil moisture.  Pages 417-432 in  Responses of Eastern Deciduous Forest to Drought,  P.J. Hansen, and S. Wullschleger, eds., Oxford University Press.
• Huston, M.A., and G. Marland.  2003. Carbon management and biodiversity. Journal of Environmental  Management  67: 77-86. 
• Huston, M.A. 2003. Understanding the effects of fire and other mortality-causing disturbances on species diversity.  Pages 51-84 in Fire in South-Western Australian Forests: Impacts and Management, N.C. Burrows and I. Abbott, eds.  Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. 
• Huston, M.A. 2004. Management strategies for plant invasions: manipulating productivity, disturbance, and competition.  Diversity and Distributions 10: 167-178.
• Saar,  D.A., D.E. Hibbs, and M.A. Huston. 2005. A hierarchical perspective  of  plant diversity. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2005 Jun;80(2):187-212.  

Citation Rate (First Author):

1998-2002 Average – 266 citations  / year

ISI "Highly Cited Researcher"  in Ecology/Environmental Science 1981-1999