Albert J. Parker
Professor
Ph.D., 1980, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Albert J. Parker and Kathleen C. Parker are co-directors of the Tree-Ring Laboratory.
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Biogeography, forest ecology, vegetation dynamics, disturbance regimes, environmental history
I have a long-standing interest in the composition, structure, and dynamics of temperate conifer forests. Most of my research is empirically based fieldwork, with appropriate ties to related conceptual themes. Historically, I concentrated my attention on the mountainous terrain of western North America, having worked in the Sierra Nevada, Cascade Range, Northern and Southern Rocky Mountains, and Basin and Range. More recently, I have collaborated with Kathleen C. Parker to explore the sand pine forests of Florida. Principal themes of my work include vegetation patterns along physical environmental gradients (i.e., climate, topography, soils); diameter- and age-structure of coniferous forests, with inferences for disturbance history and stand-level population dynamics; and environmental history.
Parker, K.C., Parker, A.J., and Vale, T.R. 2001. Vertebrate feeding guilds in California’s Sierra Nevada: Relations to environmental condition and change in spatial scale. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91:245-262.
Parker, A. J., K. C. Parker, T. D. Faust, and M. M. Fuller. 2001. The effects of climatic variability on radial growth of two varieties of sand pine (Pinus clausa) in Florida, U.S.A. Annals of Forest Science 58:333-350.
Parker, K.C., J.L.Hamrick, A.J. Parker, J.D. Nason. 2001. Fine-scale genetic structure in Pinus clausa (Pinaceae) populations: Effects of disturbance history. Heredity 87:99-113.
Parker, A.J, K.C. Parker, and D.H. McCay. 2002. Geographic and ecological variation in seedling growth rates of sand pine (Pinus clausa) Southeastern Geographer 42:20-28.