Peter S. White
Biology: www.bio.unc.edu
Selected Publications by
Subject
Collected Publications to
2005 Indexed HERE
The Philosophy of Conservation and Environmental Ethics
Disturbance, patch dynamics, scale
Species
richness, biogeography, scale
Exotic species, native species and gardens
Great
Smoky Mountains National Park and the All Taxa
Biodiversity Inventory
Tree
architecture and Aralia spinosa
White’s
First Law of Graduate School
The Philosophy of
Conservation and Environmental Ethics
Cole, D. N., L. Yung,
E.S. Zavaleta, G.H. Aplet,
F. S. Chapin, F.S., D. M. Graber, D.M., E. S. Higgs, R.J. Hobbs, P.B. Landres, C.I. Millar, D.J. Parsons, J.M. Randall, N.L.Stephenson, K.A. Tonnessen,
P.S. White, and S. Woodley. 2008. Naturalness and Beyond: Protected Area
Stewardship in an Era of Global Environmental Change. The George Wright Society Forum 25:36-56.
White, P. S. 2006. Disturbance, the flux of nature, and
environmental ethics at the multipatch scale. Pages 176-198 in D. Lodge and C. Hamlin
(eds.), Religion and the New Ecology: Environmental Responsibility in a World
in Flux.
White, P. S., and A. Jentsch. 2005.
Developing multipatch environmental ethics:
the paradigm of flux and the challenge of a patch dynamic world. Silva Carelica
49:93-106.
White,
P. S., and S. P. Bratton. 1980.
After preservation: the philosophical and practical problems of change. Biol Conserv 18:241‑255
Disturbance, patch dynamics, scale
Meyn, A., P. S.
White, C. Buhk, and A. Jentsch. 2007.
Environmental drivers of large infrequent wildfires: the emerging
conceptual model. Progress in Physical Geography 31:287-312.
White, P. S., and A. Jentsch. 2004.
Disturbance, succession, and community assembly in terrestrial plant
communities. Pages 342-366 in V. Temperton, R. Hobbs,
T. Nuttle, and
Jentsch, A., C. Beierkuhnlein, and P. S.
White. 2002. Scale, the
dynamic stability of forest ecosystems, and the persistence of biodiversity
Silva Fennica 36:1-8.
White, P. S., and A. Jentsch. 2001. The search for generality in studies of disturbance and ecosystem dynamics. Progress in Botany 62:399-450.
Wilds, S. P., and P.S. White. 2001. Dynamic terrestrial ecosystem patterns and processes. Pages 338-351 in: M. E. Jensen and P. S. Bourgeron (eds.), A guidebook for integrated ecological assessment . New York: Springer-Verlag.
White, P. S., J. Harrod J, J. L.Walker, and A. Jentsch. 2000. Disturbance, scale, and boundary in wilderness management. USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-15 2:27-42.
White, P. S.,
J. Harrod, W. Romme, and J.
Betancourt. 1999. The role of
disturbance and temporal dynamics.
Volume 2: 281-312 in Ecological
Stewardship (R. C. Szaro, N. C. Johnson, W. T.
Sexton, and A. J. Malk (eds.). Oxford: Elsevier Science.
Busing, R. T., and P.
S. White. 1997. Species diversity and small‑scale
disturbance in an old‑growth temperate forest: a consideration of gap
partitioning concepts. Oikos 78:562-568.
White, P. S., and J. Harrod. 1997. Disturbance and diversity in a landscape
context. Pages 128-159 in: Wildlife and landscapes (Bissonette, J., ed.).
New York: Springer-Verlag.
White, P. S. 1994. Synthesis: vegetation pattern and process in
the Everglades ecosystem. In: Davis S, Ogden J (eds.) Everglades: the
ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucia Press, Chapter 18: 445-460.
DeAngelis, D. L., and P. S. White 1994. Ecosystems as products of spatially and temporally varying driving forces, ecological processes, and landscapes‑‑a theoretical perspective. Chapter 2, pages 9‑28, in S. Davis and J. Ogden (eds.), Everglades: the ecosystem and its restoration. St. Lucia Press.
Busing,
R. T., and P. S. White.
1993. Effects of area on old‑growth
forest attributes: implications for the
equilibrium landscape concept. Landscape Ecology 8:119‑126.
Busing, R. T., E. E. C. Clebsch, and P. S. White.
1993. Biomass and production of
southern Appalachian cove forests reexamined.
Can. J. For. Res. 23:760‑765.
Canham, C. D., J. S. Denslow, W. J. Platt, J. R. Runkle,
T. A. Spies, and P. S. White. 1990. Light regimes beneath closed canopies and treefall gaps in temperate and tropical forests. Can. J. For. Res. 20:620-
White, P. S. 1987.
Natural disturbance, patch dynamics, and landscape pattern in natural
areas. Natural Areas J 7(1):14‑22
Pickett, S. T. A., and P. S.
White (eds.) 1985. The ecology of
natural disturbance and patch dynamics. Academic Press, New York, pp 3-13.
White, P. S., M. D.MacKenzie, and R. T. Busing. 1985.
A critique of overstory/understory comparisons
based on transition probability analysis of an old growth spruce‑fir
stand in the Appalachians. Vegetatio 64:37‑45
White,
P. S., M. D. MacKenzie, and R. T. Busing. 1985.
Natural disturbance and gap phase dynamics in southern Appalachian
spruce-fir. Can. J. For. Res.
15:233-240.
Harmon, M. E., S. P.
Bratton, and P. S. White. 1983. Disturbance and vegetation response in
relation to environmental gradients in the Great Smoky Mountains. Vegetatio
55:129-139.
White, P.
S. 1979. Pattern, process, and natural disturbance in
vegetation. Bot Rev 45:229‑299
Palmer,
M.A., E.S. Bernhardt, W.H. Schlessinger, K.N. Eshleman, E. Foufoula-Georgiou,
M.S. Hendryx, A.D. Lemly, G.E.
Likens, O.L. Loucks, M.E. Power, P.S. White, and P.R.
Wilcock. 2010. Mountaintop Mining
Consequences. Science 327: 148-149.
Collins, B., P. S. White,
and D. W. Imm. 2001. Introduction to ecology and management of
rare plants of the Southeast. Natural
Areas Journal 21:4-11.
White, P. S., S. P. Wilds, and G. A. Thunhorst. 1998. Southeast. Pages 255-314 in M. J. Mac, P. A. Opler, C. E. Puckett Haecker, and P. D. Doran (eds.). Status and trends of the national’s biological resources. 2 vols. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
White, P. S., and J. L.
Walker. 1997. Approximating nature s variation:
selecting and using reference sites and reference information in restoration
ecology. Restoration Ecology 5:338-249.
Fiedler, P. L., P. S. White,
and R. A. Leidy. 1997. The paradigm shift in ecology and its
implications for conservation. In The
ecological basis of conservation:
Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity (Pickett, S. T. A., R.
S. Ostfeld, M. Shachak, and
G.E. Likens, eds.), pp. 83‑92. New
York: Chapman & Hall.
White, P. S. 1996.
Spatial and biological scales in reintroduction. In
Restoring diversity (Falk, D. A., C. Millar, and M. Olwell,
eds.), pp. 49‑86. New York: Island
Press.
Miller, R. I., S. P.
Bratton, and P. S. White. 1987. A regional strategy for reserve design and
placement based on an analysis of rare and endangered species distribution
patterns. Biol. Conserv. 39:255-268.
Miller,
R. I., and P. S. White. 1986. Considerations for preserve design based on
the distribution of rare plant in Great Smoky Mountains National Park,
USA. Environ. Manage. 6:119-124.
White, P. S. 1984.. Impacts
of cultural and historic resources on natural diversity: Lessons from
Bratton, S. P., and P. S. White. 1980. Rare plant management—after preservation what? Rhodora 82: 49-75.
Species
richness, biogeography, scale
Meghan W. McKnight, Peter S. White, Robert I. McDonald, John F. Lamoreux, Wes Sechrest, Robert S. Ridgely, Simon N. Stuart. 2007. Putting Beta-Diversity on the Map: Broad-Scale Congruence and Coincidence in the Extremes. PLoS Biology 5(10):002-009.
Qian, H., P. S. White, and J.-S. Song. 2007. Distinguishing the effects of historical and regional versus contemporary and ecological factors on plant species richness: an intercontinental analysis. Ecology 88:1440-1453.
Fridley, J. D., H. Qian, P. S. White, and
M. Palmer. 2006. Plant species invasions along the latitudinal
gradient in the
Qian, H. R. E. Ricklefs, and P. S. White. 2005.
Beta diversity of angiosperms in temperate floras of eastern Asia and
eastern
Ricklefs, R. E.,
H. Qian, and P. S. White. 2004.
The region effect on mesoscale plant species
richness between eastern
Nekola, J. C., and P. S. White. 2002. Conservation: the two pillars of ecological explanation and the paradigm of distance. Natural Areas Journal 22: 305-310.
Palmer, M. W., Peter G.
Earls, Bruce W. Hoagland, Peter S. White, Thomas Wohlgemuth.
2002. Quantitative tools for perfecting species lists. Environmetrics
13:121-137.
Nekola, J. C., and P. S. White. 1999.
The distance decay of similarity in biogeography and ecology. Journal of Biogeography 26:867-878.
Withers, M.A., M. W. Palmer, G. L. Wade, P. S. White, and P. R. Neal. 1998. Changing patterns in the number of species in North American floras. Ch.4, pages 23-31 in T.D. Sisk (ed.), Prespectives on the land use history of North America: a context for understanding our changing environment. Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR-1998-0003.
Qian, H., P. S. White, K. Klinka, and C. Chourmouzis. 1999. Phytogeogrpahical
and community similarities of alpline tundras of
Wiser, S. K., R. K. Peet, and P. S. White. 1998.
Prediction of rare plant occurrence: a southern Appalachian
example. Ecological Applications 8:909-920.
Withers, M.A., M. W. Palmer, G. L. Wade, P. S. White, and P.
R. Neal. 1997. Changing patterns in
North American Plant diversity. Retrieved,
Palmer,
M. W., and P. S. White. 1994. Scale dependence and the species‑area
relationship. Amer. Nat. 144:717‑740.
White, P.
S., and J. Nekola. 1992.
Biological diversity in an ecological context. Pages 10‑27 in J. R. Barker and D. T. Tingey (eds.), The effects of air pollution on biodiversity. Van Nostrand
Reinhold.
White, P. S., and
R. I. Miller. 1988. Topographic models of vascular plant richness
in the southern Appalachian high peaks.
J. Ecol. 76:192‑199.
White, P. S.
1983. East Asian-East North
American floristic relations: the plant
community level.
Exotic
species, native species and gardens
White, P. S.
2007. Seed exchange: A Johnny
Appleseed dilemma. The Public Garden
22(2): 34-35.
Reichard, S. H., and P. S. White.
2003. Invasion biology: a
major field of study. Annals of the
White, P. S., and J. Randall. 2002. Carrying out a self-assessment on the invasive plant issue. The Public Garden 12 (4): 18-20.
White, P.
S. 2002. Developing a code of conduct: the North
Carolina Botanical Garden experience.
Pages 22-24 in K. Fay (ed.), Proceedings of the workshop, “Linking
ecology and horticulture to prevent plant invasions”,
White, P. S.
2002. Linking ecology and
horticulture to prevent plant invasions: An introduction to the St.Louis Declaration and the Codes of Conduct. Wildland
Weeds. Winter 2002, 6(1):4-6.
Reichard, S. H.,
and P. S. White. 2001. Horticulture as a pathway of invasive plant
introductions in the
White, P. S.
1999. Exploring wilderness in our
backyards. The Public Garden April (1999):35-36.
White, P. S., 1999. The
White, P. S., and A.
Schwarz. 1998. Where do we go
from here? The challenges of risk
assessment for invasive plants. Weed Technology 12:744-751.
White, Peter S. 1998.
Biodiversity and the exotic species threat. Pages 1-7 in: Exotic pests of eastern forests (Britton, K., ed.). Atlanta:
Tennessee Exotic Plant Council and USDA Forest Service.
White, P. S. 1998. Proclaiming the wonder of the plant
kingdom around us: The importance of native plant collections. The Public Garden 13 (3, July 1998): 31-32.
White, P. S. 1997.
A bill falls due: botanical gardens and the exotic species problem. The Public Garden April 1997:22-25.
White, P. S. 1996.
In search of the conservation garden.
The Public Garden 11(2):11‑13,40.
White, P. S. 2008.
Discover Life in America, Inc., and the All Taxa
Biodiversity Inventory in
White, P. S. 2007. Forward
to the Special Volume on the All Taxa Biodiversity
Inventory in
White, P. S. 2007. The Science Plan for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee. The Southeastern Naturalist Special Issue 1:1-26.
Jenkins, M.A., S. Jose, and P. S. White. 2007. Impacts of a forest fungal disease on forest community composition and structure and the resulting effects on foliar calcium cycling. Ecological Applications 17:869-881.
Hayes, M., Moody, A., White, P. S. & Costanza, J. L. 2007. The influence of logging and topography on the distribution of spruce-fir forests near their southern limits in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Plant Ecology 189:51-70..White, P. S. 2006. Looking for Linnaea: biological diversity and the ATBI in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
White, P. S., and K. Langdon. 2006. The ATBI in the Smokies: An Overview. George Wright Forum 23:18-25.
Langdon, K., P. S. White, and Becky Nichols. 2006. Implications of an ATBI for reserve stewardship. George Wright Forum 23:45-51.
Jenkins, M., and P. S. White. 2002. Cornus florida L. mortality and understory composition changes in western Great Smoky Mountains National Park. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 129:194-206.
White, P. S., S.
Wilds, and D. A. Stratton 2001. The distribution of heath balds in the
White, P. S. et al. 2000. The Science Plan for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee. Discover Life in America, Gatlinburg, TN. 15 pp.
Wiser, S. K., and P. S.
White 1999. High elevation outcrops and
barrens of the southern Appalachian mountains.
Pages 119-132 in: Savannas,
barrens, and rock outcrop plant communities of North America (Anderson, R.
C., J. S. Fralish, and J. M. Baskin, eds.). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Harrod, Jonathan C., M. E. Harmon, and P. S. White. 2000. Post-fire succession and twentieth century reduction in fire frequency on xeric southern Appalachian sites. Journal of Vegetation Science. 11:465-472.
Harrod, J., M. E. Harmon, and P.
S. White. 1998. Changes in xeric forests in western Great
Smoky Mountains National Park, 1936-1995.
Castanea
63:346-360.
MacKenzie, M. D., and P. S. White 1998. The vegetation of Great Smoky Mountains
National Park: 1935-1938. Castanea
63:323-336.
White PS, Sutter RD (1998) Southern Appalachian grassy balds: lessons for management and regional conservation.
In: Peine JD (ed.) Ecosystem management: principles
and practices illustrated by a regional biosphere cooperative. St. Lucie Press,
Delray Beach, Florida, pp 375-396
Cogbill, C. V., P. S. White, and S.
K. Wiser. 1997. Predicting treeline
elevation in the southern Appalachians. Castanea 62:137-146.
Wiser, S. K.,
R. K. Peet, and P. S. White. 1996.
High elevation rock outcrop vegetation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Journal
of Vegetation Science 7:703‑722.
White,
P. S., T. Condon, J. Rock, C. A. McCormick, P. Beaty,
and K. Langdon. 1996. Wildflowers of the Smokies. Gatlinburg, Tennessee: Great Smoky Mountains Natural History
Association. Gatlinburg, Tennessee. 230 pp. [2nd Edition, 2003]
White, P. S. 1995. Conserving biodiversity: lessons from the Smokies. FORUM for Applied Research and Public Policy 10(2):116‑120.
White, P. S., E. Buckner, J. D. Pittillo, and C. V. Cogbill. 1993. High elevation forests: spruce‑fir forests, northern hardwood forests, and associated communities. In "Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States" (W. H. Martin, S. G. Boyce, and A. C. Echternacht, eds.), pp. 305‑338. New York: John Wiley.
Busing, R. T., E. E. C. Clebsch, and P. S. White. 1993. Biomass and production of southern Appalachian cove forests reexamined. Can. J. For. Res. 23:760‑765.
Busing, R. T., P. S. White, and M. D. MacKenzie. 1993. Gradient analysis of old spruce‑fir forests of the Great Smoky Mountains circa 1935. Can. J. Bot. 71:951‑958.
White, P. S., and C. V. Cogbill. 1992. Spruce‑fir forests of eastern North America. Pages 3‑39 in C. Eagar and M. B. Adams (eds.), The ecology and decline of red spruce in the eastern United States. Springer‑Verlag.
Johnson, A. H., S. B. McLaughlin, M. B. Adams, E. R. Cook, D. H. DeHayes, C. Eagar, I. J. Fernandez, D. W. Johnson, R. J. Kohut, V. A. Mohnen, N. S. Nicholas, D. R. Peart, G. A. Schier, and P. S. White. 1992. Why are red spruce declining at high elevations? A synthesis of epidemiological and mechanistic studies. Pages 385‑412 in C. Eagar and M. B. Adams (eds.), The ecology and decline of red spruce in the eastern United States. Springer‑Verlag.
Cogbill, C. V., and P. S.
White. 1991. The latitude‑elevation relationship for
spruce‑fir forest and treeline along the
Appalachian Mountain chain. Vegetatio 94:153‑176.
Callaway, R. M., E. E. C. Clebsch, and P. S. White. 1989. Predicting woody production by canopy trees in forest communities in the western Great Smoky Mountains. Forest Science. 35:338‑348.
Callaway, R. M., E. E. C. Clebsch, and P. S. White. 1987. A multivariate analysis of forest communities in the western Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Amer. Midl. Naturalist 118: 107-120
White, P. S. (ed.). 1984. The southern Appalachian spruce‑fir ecosystem: its biology and threats. USDI, National Park Service, Southeast Regional Office, Research/Resource Manage. Rept. SER‑71. 268 p.
White, P. S. 1982.
The flora of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: an annotated checklist of the vascular plants and a review of
previous floristic work. USDI, National
Park Service, Southeast Regional Office, Research/Resource
Manage. Rept. SER‑55. 219 p.
Jobe, R. Todd, and Peter S. White. 2009. A new cost-distance model for human
accessibility and an evaluation of accessibility bias in permanent vegetation
plots of
Palmer,
Michael W., Robert K. Peet, Rebecca A. Reed, Weimin Xi, and Peter S. White. 2007. A multiscale study
of vascular plants in a North Carolina Piedmont forest.
Ecology 88:2674. Ecological Archives E088-162.
White, P. S., and R. White, Jr. 1996. Old-growth oak
and oak-hickory forests. Pages 178-198 In "Eastern old-growth forests:
prospects for rediscovery and recovery" (M. B. Davis, ed.).
Palmer, M. W.,
and P. S. White. 1994. On the existence of ecological
communities. Journal of Vegetation
Science 5:279‑282.
Reed, R.
A., R. K. Peet, M. W. Palmer, and P. S. White. 1993. Scale dependence of vegetation‑environment
correlations: a case study of a
Tree
architecture and Aralia spinosa
White, P. S.
1988. Prickle distribution in
the small tree Aralia spinsoa
L. Am. J. Bot. 75:282-285.
White, P. S. 1983. Corner's Rules in eastern deciduous
trees: allometry and its implications for the
adaptive architecture of trees. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 110:203-212.
White, P. S. 1983.
Evidence that temperate east North American evergreen woody plants
follow Corner's Rules. New Phytol. 95:139-145.
White,
P. S. 1984. The architecture of devil's walkingstick, Aralia spinosa“ L. (Araliaceae). J. Arnold Arb., Harv. Univ. 65:403-418.
White First Law of
White, P. S. 1996. Nature's predictability and nature's
surprises. Chinkapin 4(2):15-16.