Peter S. White
Selected
Publications by Subject
Collected
Publications to 2005 Indexed HERE
Newsletter
Columns to 2008 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
White, P. S. 2013.
Derivation of the extrinsic values of biodiversity from its intrinsic value and
both from the first principles of evolutionary biology. Conservation Biology
27:1279-1285.
White, P. S., and J. P.
Tuttle. 2013. Ecological sustainability as the fourth landmark in the
development of conservation ethics. Conservation Biology 27:952-957.
Hobbs, R.J., D. N. Cole, L.
Yung, E.S. Zavaleta, G. H. Aplet,
F. Stuart Chapin III, P. B. Landres, D. J. Parsons, N. L. Stephenson, P. S.
White, D. M. Graber, E. S. Higgs, C. I. Millar, J. M. Randall, K. A. Tonnessen, and S. Woodley.
2010. Guiding concepts for park wilderness stewardship in an era of
global environmental change. Frontiers
in Ecology 8:483-490.
White, P.S., L. Yung, D.N. Cole,
and R. J. Hobbs. 2010. Conservation at large scales: systems of
protected areas and protected areas in the matrix. Chapter 12, pp. 197-212, in Beyond
Naturalness. Island Press, Washington, DC.
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
Jenstch,
A., and P. S. White. 2019. A theory
of pulse dynamics and disturbance in ecology.
Ecology 100(7), 2019, e02734.
Wilfahrt, PA, JP Tuttle, PS White, and B.
Collins. 2016. Disturbance, productivity, and functional traits in the Central Hardwoods Region. Pages 295-317
in CH Greenberg and B Collins, Natural Disturbances and Range of Variation:
Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood
Forests. Springer.
White, P. S. 2014. Pattern and process. Invited
contribution to "Paper Trails" in the Bulletin of the Ecological
Society of America in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Society.
Wilfahrt, P.
A., B. Collins, and P. S. White.
2014. Shifts in functional traits
among tree communities across succession in eastern deciduous forest. Forest Ecology and Management 324:
179-185.
White, P.
S., B. Collins, and G. Wiens. 2011. Natural disturbances and early successional
habitats. In Greenberg, C. H., Collins,
B. S., Thompson, F. R. III (eds.), Managing Forest Ecosystems v. 21: Sustaining
Young Forest Communities. Springer, New
York. 310 p.
Fasth, B. G., M. E. Harmon, J, Sexton, and P. White. 2011.
Decomposition of fine woody debris in a deciduous forest in North
Carolina. The Journal of the Torrey
Botanical Society, 138(2):192-206. 2011.
Busing, RT, White, RD, Harmon, ME, and White,
PS. 2009. Hurricane disturbance in a temperate
deciduous forest: patch dynamics, tree mortality, and coarse woody debris. Plant Ecology 201:351-363.
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
Wang, XP,
Fang, JY, Sanders, NJ, White, PS, and Tang, ZY.
2009. Relative importance of
climate vs. local factors in shaping the regional patterns of forest plant
richness across northeast
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
Kuppinger, D.M., M.A. Jenkins,
and P.S. White. 2010. Predicting
post-fire establishment and persistence of an invasive tree species across a
complex gradient. Biological Invasions,
in press.
White, P. S. 2009.
The greenness of gardens and the
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., J. P. Tuttle, and B. S. Collins.
2018. Old-growth forests in the Southern Appalachians: dynamics and
conservation frameworks. Pages 63-82 in A. M. Burton and W. S. Keeton (eds.)
Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old Growth Forests. Island Press.
Schwartz, N, DL Urban, PS White, A Moody, and R.N. Klein. 2016. Vegetation dynamics vary
across topographic and fire severity gradients following prescribed burning in
Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Forest Ecology and Management 365: 1-11.
Tuttle, JP, and PS White. 2016. Structural and
compositional change in Great Smoky Mountains National Park since protection,
1930s-2000s. Pages 263-294 in CH Greenberg and B Collins, Natural Disturbances
and Range of Variation: Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-disturbance
Structure in Central Hardwood Forests. Springer.
Thiemann,
JA, Webster,CR, Jenkins, MA,
Hurley, PM, Rock, JH, White, PS. 2009.
Herbaceous layer impoverisment in a
post-agricultural southern Appalachian landscape. American Midland Naturalist 162:148-168.
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.
Brown AJ,
Payne CJ, White PS, Peet RK. 2019. Do shade tolerance
and mycorrhizal type may influence susceptibility to conspecific
negative density dependence. J. Ecol.
DOI: 10.0000/1365-2745.13237. Video blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K30T51FIb70
Chytry, M., A. Chiarucci, M. Partel, V.D.
Pillar, J.P. Bakker, L. Mucina, R.K. Peet, and P.S. White. 2019. Progress in vegetation science:
trends over the past three decades and new horizons. Editorial, Journal of
Vegetation Science.
Hakkenberg, CR, C. Songhe, RK Peet, and PS White.
2016. Forest structure as a predictor of tree species diversity in the North
Carolina Piedmont. J. Vegetation Science 27:1151-1163.
DeFrenne, P., et al. 2013.
Microclimates moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming. PNAS 110:18561-18565.
Gruhn,
Jennifer A., and Peter S. White. 2011. Magnolia grandiflora L. range expansion: a
case study of a North Carolina Piedmont forest.
Southeastern Naturalist 10 (2): 275-288.
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
Lopez, B. E.,
D. Urban, and P. S. White. 2019. Testing the effects of four urbanization
“filters” on forest plant taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity.
Ecological Applications
Lopez, B. E.,
D. Urban, and P. S. White. 2019. Nativity and seed dispersal mode influence
species’ responses to habitat connectivity and urban environments. Global
Ecology and Biogeography.
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.