Craig Allen - USGS

Ecosystem Dynamics

Research Ecologist

Duty Station:
Jemez Mountain Field Station
HCR 1
Box 1, No. 15
Los Alamos, NM 87544

Phone: 505-672-3861 x720
Fax: 505.672.9607
Email: craig_allen@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Western Mountain Initiative — New Mexico
• Long-term Ecological Monitoring and Research at Bandelier National Monument
• Natural Resource Preservation Program: Impacts of Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation on Forested Ecosystem and Social Values in the Front Range, Colorado
• Western Mountain Initiative: Response of Western Mountain Ecosystems to Climatic Variability and Change: Colorado

Publications

• Projected future changes in vegetation in western North America in the 21st century
• Ecosystems Dynamics Branch: interdisciplinary research for addressing complex natural resource issues across landscapes and time
• The Malthusian–Darwinian dynamic and trajectory of civilization
• Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality
• Quantifying tree mortality in a mixed species woodland using multitemporal high spatial resolution satellite imagery
• Statement of Dr. Craig D. Allen, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, 17 August 2012
• The macroecology of sustainability
• Seeing the forest and the trees: USGS scientist links local changes to global scale
• Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials
• Response of western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change: A collaborative research approach [Chapter 8]
• Salvage logging versus the use of burnt wood as a nurse object to promote post-fire tree seedling establishment
• A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests
• Growth, carbon-isotope discrimination, and drought-associated mortality across a Pinus ponderosa elevational transect
• Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States
• Climate-Induced Tree Mortality: Earth System Consequences
• A conceptual framework for dryland aeolian sediment transport along the grassland–forest continuum: Effects of woody plant canopy cover and disturbance
• Climate-induced forest dieback: An escalating global phenomenon?
• Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon–Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States
• Thresholds of climate change in Ecosystems: Final Report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.2
• Tree die-off in response to global-change-type drought: Mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements
• Options for National Parks and Reserves for adapting to climate change
• Bark beetle outbreaks in Western North America: Causes and consequences
• Western Mountain Initiative: Predicting ecosystem responses to climate change
• Geographic patterns of ground-dwelling arthropods across an ecoregional transition in the North American Southwest
• Holocene vegetation and fire regimes in subalpine and mixed conifer forests, southern Rocky Mountains
• Paired charcoal and tree-ring records of high-frequency fire from two New Mexico bog sites
• Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources - A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
• Paired charcoal and tree-ring records of high-frequency Holocene fire from two New Mexico bog sites
• Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: Why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?
• Mapping "old" versus "young" pinon-juniper stands with a predictive topo-climatic model
• National Parks
• Development of the mixed conifer forest in northern New Mexico and its relationship to Holocene environmental change
• Two Middle Pleistocene Glacial-Interglacial Cycles from the Valle Grande, Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico
• An overview of the Valles Caldera National Preserve: the natural and cultural resources
• A stand-replacing fire history in upper montane forests of the southern Rocky Mountains
• Cascading events in linked ecological and socio-economic systems
• Spatial nonlinearities: Cascading effects in the earth system
• Historical and modern disturbance regimes of Pinon-Juniper vegetation in the western U.S
• Climate change and disturbance interactions
• Climate-induced forest dieback as an emergent global phenomenon
• Interactions across spatial scales among forest dieback, fire, and erosion in Northern New Mexico landscapes
• Climate-induced forest dieback as an emergent global phenomenon: Overview and synthesis
• Response of western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change: the Western Mountain Initiative
• Response of western mountain ecosystems to climatic variability and change: the Western Mountain Initiative
• A 21st century perspective on postfire seeding
• Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought
• Nonlinear dynamics in ecosystem response to climatic change: Case studies and policy implications
• A thousand years in the life of a landscape
• A landscape perspective for forest restoration
• Ecological patterns and environmental change in the Bandelier landscape
• Effects of seeding ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) on vegetation recovery following fire in a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forest
• Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events
• Where have all the grasslands gone?
• Ecohydrology of a resource-conserving semiarid woodland: Effects of scale and disturbance
• Fire in the west: It's no simple story
• Rumblings in Rio Arriba: Landscape changes in the southern Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico [Chapter 12]
• Lots of lightning and plenty of people: An ecological history of fire in the upland southwest
• Runoff, Erosion, and Restoration Studies in Piñon-Juniper Woodlands of the Southeastern Jemez Mountains
• The importance of rapid, disturbance-induced losses in carbon management and sequestration
• The heart of the Rockies: Montane and subalpine ecosystems
• Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: A broad perspective
• Fire, thresholds, and USGS: local to global-scale research opportunities
• Economic and ecological impacts of abrupt climate change
• Cascading effects of fire exclusion in Rocky Mountain ecosystems: A literature review
• A sense of place: A place-based approach to science for land management
• Fire history and ecology
• Fire and vegetation history of the Jemez Mountains
• Runoff, erosion, and restoration studies in pinon-juniper woodlands of the Pajarito Plateau
• Would ecological landscape restoration make the Bandelier Wilderness more or less of a wilderness?
• Would ecological landscape restoration make the Bandelier Wilderness more or less of a wilderness?
• Applied historical ecology: Using the past to manage the future
• Past fires shed light on future
• Drought-induced shift of a forest-woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation
• Where have all the grasslands gone? Fire and vegetation change in northern New Mexico
• Southwest
• Landscape changes in the southwestern United States: techniques, long-term datasets, and trends. Chapter 9
• A ponderosa pine natural area reveals its secrets
• Elk reintroductions
• Viewpoint: Sustainability of pinon-juniper ecosystems - a unifying perspective of soil erosion thresholds
• Spatial patterns of prehistoric and historic fires in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico [Abstract]
• Runoff and erosion from a rapidly eroding pinyon-juniper hillslope
• Runoff and erosion on the Pajarito Plateau: observations from the field
• Overview of fire history in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico
• Elk response to the La Mesa fire and current status in the Jemez Mountains
• Overview of La Mesa studies
• Fire effects in southwestern forests: Proceedings of the second La Mesa Fire symposium; 1994 March 29-31; Los Alamos, New Mexico. RM-GTR-286
• Fire history and climatic patterns in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of the Jemez Mountains, Northern New Mexico
• Pinyon-juniper woodlands. Chapter 6
• Landscape-scale fire history studies support fire management action at Bandelier
• A drought-induced shift in a forest/woodland ecotone: rapid response to variation in climate
• Ecological perspective: linking ecology, GIS, and remote sensing to ecosystem management [Chapter 8]
• The Pajarito Plateau: A Bibliography
• The Setting
• Natural Resources References
• Landscape ecology--a concept for protecting park resources
• Changes in the landscape of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico