Recent Research Papers

Walker, L. R., N. Hölzel, R. Marrs, R. del Moral & K. Prach.   2014.Optimization of intervention levels in ecological restoration. Applied Vegetation Science  17: 187-192.

del Moral, R. & B. Magnusson.   2014. Comparing early succession rates on Mount St. Helens and Surtsey. Biogeosciences 11: 2099-2111.

del Moral, R. & D. M. Wood.   2012. a href="publications/2012RDM&DMWEA.pdf">Vegetation development on permanently established grids, Mount St. Helens (1986-2010). Ecological Archives http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-0344.1  93:2125.

del Moral, R., L. A. Thomason, A. C. Wenke, N. Lozanoff & M. D. Abata.   2012.Primary succession trajectories on pumice at Mount St. Helens, Washington. Journal of Vegetation Science   23: 73 - 85.

del Moral, R.   2010c. Lessons from Mount St. Helens for restoration. Bran-Blanquetia (Invited paper)   46: 217-223.

del Moral, R.  2010. Thirty years of permanent vegetation plots, Mount St. Helens, Washington. Ecology   EO91: 152.

del Moral, R.  2010. The importance of long-term studies of recovery after the eruption of Kasatochi Island. Arctic, Antarctic & Alpine Research   42: 335-341.

del Moral, R., J.M. Saura, & J.N. Emenegger  2010. Primary succession on a barren plain, Mount St. Helens, Washington. Journal of Vegetation Science   21: 857-867.

del Moral, R.  2010. Primary succession on Mount St. Helens, with reference to Surtsey. Surtsey Research   12: 151-155.

Walker, L.R. & R. del Moral  2009. Transition dynamics in succession: implications for rates, trajectories and restoration. Chapter 3. . New models for ecosystem dynamics and restoration  In K. Suding & R.J. Hobbs (eds). Island Press, Washington D.C.

del Moral, R.   2009. Increasing deterministic control of primary succession on Mount St. Helens, Washington. Journal of Vegetation Science   20: 1145-1154.

del Moral, R., J. E. Sandler & C. P. Muerdter. 2009. (Proof) Spatial factors affect primary succession on the Muddy River lahar, Mount St. Helens, Washington. Plant Ecology 202:177-190.

Walker, L. R. & R. del Moral. 2009. Lessons from primary succession for restoration of severely damaged habitats. Applied Vegetation Science 12: 55-67.

Walker, L. R. & R. del Moral. 2009. Transition dynamics in succession: implications for rates, trajectories and restoration. >Ch. 3 in Suding, K. and R. J. Hobbs (eds.). New Models for Ecosystem Dynamics, Island Press.

Carey, Susan, A. Ostling, J. Harte & R. del Moral. 2007. Impact of curve construction and community dynamics on the species-time relationship. Ecology 88: 2145-2153.

del Moral, R.  2007. Limits to convergence of vegetation during early primary succession.. Journal of Vegetation Science (Invited paper).  18: 479-488.

del Moral, R. & L. R. Walker.  2007.  Environmental Disasters, Natural Recovery and Human Response.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Walker, L. R., J. Walker & R. del Moral.    Forging a New Alliance between Succession and Restoration. Chapter 1 in L. R. Walker, J. Walker & R. H. Hobbs, Linking Restoration and Succession in Theory and in Practice. New York: Springer.

del Moral, R., L. R. Walker & J. P. Bakker.  2007.Insights gained from succession for the restoration of structure and function.   Chapter 2 in L. R. Walker, J. Walker & R. H. Hobbs, Linking Restoration and Succession in Theory and in Practice.  New York: Springer. 

Carey, Susan, John Harte & R. del Moral. 2006.  Effect of community assembly and primary succession on the species-area relationship in disturbed systems.  Ecography  29:866-872.

del Moral, R. & I. L. Lacher. 2005. Vegetation patterns 25 years after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington. American Journal of Botany 92: 1948-1956.

del Moral, R. & L.R. Rozzell. 2005. Long-term effects of Lupinus lepidus on vegetations dynamics at Mount St Helens. Plant Ecology 181: 203-215.

Jones, Chad C. & R. del Moral. 2005. Effects of microsite conditions on seedling establishment on the foreland of Coleman Glacier, Washington. Journal of Vegetation Science 16: 293-300.

Jones, Chad C. & R. del Moral. 2005. Patterns of primary succession on a foreland of Colman Galcier, Washingtion, USA. . Plant Ecology 180: 105-116.

del Moral, R., D.M. Wood, J.H. Titus. 2005. Proximity, microsites, and biotic interactions during early succession & ecological responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. (V. H. Dale, F. Swanson & C. Crisafulli, eds). Springer-Verlag. pp 93-110.

del Moral, R. & A. J. Eckert. 2005. Colonization of volcanic deserts from productive patches. American Journal of Botany 92:27-36.

del Moral, R. & E. E. Ellis. 2004. Gradients in heterogeneity and structure on lahars, Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA. Plant Ecology 175: 273-286.

del Moral, R. 2004. How Lupinus lepidus affects primary succession on Mount St. Helens. In: E. van Santen (ed.), Wild and Cultivated Lupins from the Tropics to the Poles. Proc. 10th International Lupin Conference, Laugarvatn, Iceland, 19-24 June, 2002. Int. Lupin Association, Canterbury, New Zealand. Pg. 208-215.

Davis, Mark, Jan Pergl, Anne-Marie Truscot, Jan Bakker, Karel Prach, Anne-Helene Prieur-Richard, Roos Veeneklaas, Petr Pysek, R. del Moral, Richard Hobbs, Scott Collins & S. T. A. Pickett. 2004. Vegetation change: a reunifying concept in plant ecology. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Systematics and Evolution 7: 69-76.

Riege, D. & R. del Moral. 2004. Arrested succession in old fields within a temperate rainforest. American Midland Naturalist 151: 251-264.

Walker, L.R. & R. del Moral. 2003 Primary succession and Ecosystem Rehabilitation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. March, 2003.

Fuller, R. N. & R. del Moral. 2003. The role of refugia and dispersal in primary succession on Mount St. Helens, Washington. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 637-644.

del Moral, R & C. C. Jones. 2002. Early spatial development of vegetation on pumice at Mount St. Helens. Plant Ecology. 162: 9-22.

Odland, A. & R. del Moral. 2002. Primary succession on newly revealed lake shores. Plant Ecology. 162: 185-198.

del Moral, R. 2000a. Succession and species turnover on Mount St. Helens, Washington. Acta Phytogeographica Suecica 85: 53-62.

del Moral, R. 2000b. Local species turnover on Mount St. Helens. P. 195-197, in Proc. 41st Symposium of the IUVS (P. White, editor).

Wood, D.M., & del Moral, R. 2000. Seed rain during early primary succession on Mount St. Helens, Washington. Madroño 47: 1-9.

del Moral, R. 1999. Predictability of primary successional wetlands on pumice, Mount St. Helens. Madroño 46: 177-186.

del Moral, R. 1999. Plant succession on pumice at Mount St. Helens. American Midland Naturalist 141: 101-114.

del Moral, R. & S. Yu. Grishin. 1999. The consequences of volcanic eruptions. In L. R. Walker (ed.), Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground, Chapter 5; Ecosystems of the World Series (D. W. Goodall (Editor-in-Chief), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam.

Dlugosch, K. & R. del Moral. 1999. Vegetational heterogeneity along environmental gradients. Northwest Science. 43: 12-18.

Titus, J. H., P. J. Titus & R. del Moral. 1999. Wetland development in primary and secondary successional substrates fourteen years after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA. Northwest Science 73: 186-204.

del Moral, R. 1998. Early succession on lahars spawned by Mount St. Helens. American Journal of Botany 85: 820-828.

Titus, J. H., R. del Moral & S. Gamiet. 1998. The distribution of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae on Mount St. Helens, Washington. Madroño 45: 162-170.

Titus, J. H. & R. del Moral. 1998. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae influence Mount St. Helens pioneer species in greenhouse experiments. Oikos 81: 495-510.

Titus, J. H. & R. del Moral. 1998. Seedling establishment in different microsites on Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA. Plant Ecology 134: 13-26.

Titus, J. H. & R. del Moral. 1998. The role of mycorrhizae in primary succession on Mount St. Helens. American Journal of Botany 85: 370-375.

Inderjit & R. del Moral. 1997. Is separating resource competition from allelopathy realistic? Botanical Reviews 63:221 - 230.

Tsuyuzaki, S., J. H. Titus & R. del Moral. 1997. Seedling establishment patterns on the Pumice Plain, Mount St. Helens, Washington. Journal of Vegetation Science 8: 727-734.

Grishin, S. Yu., R. del Moral, P. V. Krestov, & V. P. Verkholat. 1996. Succession following the catastrophic eruption of Ksudach volcano (Kamchatka, 1907). Vegetatio 127: 129-153.

del Moral, R., J. H. Titus & A. M. Cook. 1995. Early primary succession on Mount St. Helens, USA. Journal of Vegetation Science 6: 107-120.

Tsuyuzaki, S. & R. del Moral.  1995. Species attributes in early primary succession on volcanoes.. Journal of Vegetation Science   6: 517-522.

Tsuyuzaki, S. & R. del Moral. 1994. Canonical correspondence analysis of early succession on Mount Uzu, Hokkaido. Ecological Research 9:143-150

del Moral, R. & D. M. Wood. 1993a. Early primary succession on the volcano Mount St. Helens. Journal of Vegetation Science 4: 223-234.

del Moral, R. & D. M. Wood. 1993b. Early primary succession on a barren volcanic plain at Mount St. Helens, Washington. American Journal of Botany 80: 981-991.

del Moral, R. & L. C. Bliss. 1993. Mechanism of primary succession: Insights resulting from the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Advances in Ecological Research 24: 1-66.

Wood, D.M. & R. del Moral. 1988. Colonizing plants on the Pumice Plains, Mount St. Helens, Washington. American Journal of Botany 75: 1228-1237.

del Moral, R. & D. M. Wood. 1988. Dynamics of herbacous vegetation recovery on Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA, after a volcanic eruption. Vegetatio 74: 11-27.

del Moral, R. & D. M. Wood. 1988. The high elevation flora of Mount St. Helens, Washington. Madrono 35: 309-319.

Wood, D.M. & R. del Moral. 1987. Mechanisms of early primary succession in subalpine habitats on Mount St. Helens. Ecology 68: 780-790.

del Moral, R. & C. A. Clampitt.   1985. Growth of native plant species on recent volcanic substrates from Mount St. Helens.. American Midland Naturalist   14: 3374-383.

del Moral, R. 1983. Initial recovery of subalpine vegetation on Mount St. Helens. American Midland Naturalist 109: 72-80.

del Moral, R. 1981. Initial Life Returns to Mount St. Helens. Natural History 90: 36-49..