Placed-Based Studies Program Priorities
VCNP Status of Natural Resources Inventory and Monitoring Work
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Land Use History of the Colorado Plateau: Canyons, Cultures and Environmental Change
USGS Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources: Southwest
Allen, C.D. 1989. Changes in the landscape of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 346 p.
Allen, C.D. 1994. Ecological perspective: Linking ecology, GIS, and remote sensing to ecosystem management. Pages 111-139 in V.A. Sample (ed.). Remote sensing and GIS in ecosystem management. Island Press, Covelo, CA. 369 p.
Allen, C.D. 1998. A ponderosa pine natural area reveals its secrets. Pages 551-552 in M.J. Mac, P.A. Opler, C.E. Puckett Haecker, and P.D. Doran (eds.). Status and trends of the nation's biological resources. Vol. 2. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
Allen, C.D. 1998. Where have all the grasslands gone? Fire and vegetation change in northern New Mexico. Adapted from: Allen, C.D. 1998. Where have all the grasslands gone? Quivera Coalition Newsletter, Spring/Summer. 5 p.
Allen, C.D. 2002. Rumblings in Rio Arriba: Landscape changes in the southern Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico. Pages 239-253 in J.S. Baron (ed.). Rocky Mountain Futures: An ecological perspective. Island Press, Covelo, CA.
Allen, C.D., J.L. Betancourt, and T.W. Swetnam. 1998. Landscape changes in the southwestern United States: Techniques, long-term data sets, and trends. Pages 71-84 in T.D. Sisk (ed.). Perspectives on the land use history of North America: A context for understanding our changing environment. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR-1998-0003. 104 p.
Allen, C.D, and D.D. Breshears. 1998. Drought-induced shift of a forest-woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95:14839-14842.
Allen, C.D., R. Touchan, and T.W. Swetnam. 1995. Landscape-scale fire history studies support fire management action at Bandelier. Park Science 15(3). National Park Service, Denver, CO.
Bogan, M.A., C.D. Allen, E.H. Muldavin, S.P. Platania, J.N. Stuart, G.H. Farley, P. Mehlhop, and J. Belnap. 1998. Southwest. Pages 543-592 in M.J. Mac, P.A. Opler, C.E. Puckett Haecker, and P.D. Doran (eds.). Status and trends of the nation's biological resources. Vol. 2. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
Breshears, D.D., and C.D. Allen. 2002. The importance of rapid, disturbance-induced losses in carbon management and sequestration. Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 11(1):1-15.
Committee on Abrupt Climate Change, National Research Council. 2002. Chapter 5, Economic and ecological impacts of abrupt climate change. Pages 118-152 in Abrupt climate change: Inevitable surprises. National Academy Press, Washington, DC.
Christensen, N.L., et al. 1996. The report of the Ecological Society of America committee on the scientific basis for ecosystem management. Ecological Applications 6:665-691.
Johnson, N.C., A.J. Malk, R.C. Szaro, and W.T. Sexton, eds. 1998. Ecological stewardship: A common reference for ecosystem management. Vols. I-III. Elsevier Science Ltd., Oxford, UK.
Leopold, A. 1941. Wilderness as a land laboratory. Living Wilderness 6:3.
Mills, T.J., T.M. Quigley, and F.J. Everest. 2001. Science-based natural resource decisions: What are they? Renewable Resources Journal, Summer 2001:10-15
Moir, W.H., and W.M. Block. 2001. Adaptive managment on public lands in the United States: Commitment or rhetoric? Environmental Management 28(2):141-148.
Parsons, D.J. 1998. Integrating science into natural resource planning and management. Pages 37-40 in L.M. Hill (ed.). Learning from the land: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Science Symposium Proceedings, 1997 November 4-5, Cedar City, UT. BLM/UT/GI-98-006-1220.
Swetnam, T.W., C.D. Allen, and J. Betancourt. 1999. Applied historical ecology: Using the past to manage for the future. Ecological Applications 9(4):1189-1206.
Swetnam, T.W. and J.L. Betancourt. 1998. Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11:3128-3147.
Allen, C.D. 1998. A ponderosa pine natural area reveals its secrets. Pages 551-552 in M.J. Mac, P.A. Opler, C.E. Puckett Haecker, and P.D. Doran (eds.). Status and trends of the nation's biological resources. Vol. 2. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
Allen, C.D. 2002. Runoff, erosion, and restoration studies in piñon-juniper woodlands of the southeastern Jemez Mountains. USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Jemez Mountains Field Station, Los Alamos, NM.
Allen, C.D., M. Savage, D.A. Falk, K.F. Suckling, T.W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P.B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman, and J. Klingel. 2002. Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: A broad perspective. Ecological Applications 12(5):1418-1433.
Davenport, D.W., D.D. Breshears, B.P. Wilcox, and C.D. Allen. 1998. Viewpoint: Sustainability of piñon-juniper ecosystemsA unifying perspective of soil erosion thresholds. Journal of Range Management 51(2):229-238.
Gottfried, G., T.W. Swetnam, C.D. Allen, J.L. Betancourt, and A. Chung-MagCoubrey. 1995. Pinyon-juniper woodlands. Pages 95-132 in D.M. Finch and J.A. Tainter (tech. eds.). Ecology, diversity, and sustainability of the Middle Rio Grande Basin. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report RM-GTR-268. Fort Collins, CO. 195 p.
Jacobs, B.F., R.G. Gatewood, and C.D. Allen. 2000. Ecological restoration of a wilderness and cultural landscapePaired watershed study, Bandelier National Monument: Interim report to U.S. Geological Survey. On file at Bandelier National Monument, Los Alamos, NM. 20 p.
Sydoriak, C.A., C.D. Allen, and B.F. Jacobs. 2000. Would ecological landscape restoration make the Bandelier Wilderness more or less of a wilderness? Wild Earth 10(4):83-90.
Wilcox, B.P., D.D. Breshears, and C.D. Allen. (In press.) Ecohydrology of a resource-conserving semiarid woodland: Temporal and spatial relationships and the role of disturbance. Ecological Monographs.
Fire Research at the Fort Collins Science Center
Past Fires Shed Light on Future
Allen, C.D. 2002. Fire and vegetation history of the Jemez Mountains. USGS Fort Collins Science Center, Jemez Mountains Field Station, Los Alamos, NM.
Allen, C.D. 2002. Lots of lightning and plenty of people: An ecological history of fire in the upland Southwest. 2002. Pages 143-193 in T.R. Vale (ed.). Fire, native peoples, and the natural landscape. Island Press, Covelo, CA. 238 p.
Allen, C.D. (tech. ed.). 1996. Fire effects in southwestern forests: Proceedings of the Second La Mesa Fire Symposium, 1994 March 29-31, Los Alamos, New Mexico. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-286. Fort Collins, CO. 216 p.
Allen, C.D., M. Savage, D.A. Falk, K.F. Suckling, T.W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P.B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman, and J. Klingel. 2002. Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: A broad perspective. Ecological Applications12(5):1418-1433.
Brunner-Jass, R. 1999. Fire occurrence and paleoecology at Alamo Bog and Chihuahueños Bog, Jemez Mountains, NM. Unpubished M.S. thesis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. 140 p.