individual publications

• academic article

  • Stabilizing selection for within-season flowering phenology confirms pollen limitation in a wind-pollinated tree.  Journal of Ecology.  100:758-763. 2012
  • Testing the environmental prediction hypothesis for mast-seeding in California oaks.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research.  40:2115-2122. 2010
  • Latitudinal decrease in acorn size in bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is due to environmental constraints, not avian dispersal.  Botany.  87:349-356. 2009
  • Mast-producing trees and the geographical ecology of western scrub-jays.  Ecography.  32:561-570. 2009
  • No trade-off between seed size and number in the valley oak Quercus lobata.  American Naturalist.  173:682-688. 2009
  • A negative correlation does not imply a tradeoff between growth and reproduction in California oaks.  Proceedings at the National Academy of Science USA.  104:16982-16985. 2007
  • Long-term growth and persistence of blue oak (Quercus douglasii) seedlings in a California oak savanna.  Madroño.  54:269-274. 2007
  • Seed-crop size and eruptions of North American boreal seed-eating birds.  Journal of Animal Ecology.  70:609-620. 2001
  • Annual variation in xylem water potential in California oaks.  Madroño.  47:106-108. 2000
  • Patterns of annual seed production by northern hemisphere trees: a global perspective.  American Naturalist.  155:59-69. 2000
  • Spatial dynamics in the absence of dispersal: acorn production by oaks in central coastal California.  Ecography.  22:499-506. 1999
  • Synchrony and asynchrony of acorn production at two coastal California sites.  Madroño.  46:20-24. 1999
  • The ecology of blue oak (Quercus douglasii) acorn production.  Journal of the International Oak Society.  9:60-68. 1999
  • Scale of mast-seeding and tree-ring growth.  Nature.  396:225-226. 1998
  • Testing for spatial autocorrelation in ecological studies.  Ecography.  21:423-429. 1998
  • On the relationship between nutrient use efficiency and fertility in forest ecosystems.  Oecologia.  110:550-556. 1997
  • Site fertility and leaf nutrients of sympatric evergreen and deciduous species of Quercus in central coastal California.  Plant Ecology.  130:121-131. 1997
  • Acorn production by oaks in central coastal California: influence of weather at three levels.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research.  26:1677-1683. 1996
  • Estimating acorn crops using visual surveys.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research.  24:2105-2112. 1994
  • Water use strategies of five sympatric oaks in central coastal California.  Madroño.  41:290-301. 1994

• article

  • The mystery of masting in trees 2005

• booksection

  • The behavioral ecology of masting in oaks 2002

• conference paper

  • Arboreal seed removal and insect damage in three California oaks.  Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Oaks in California’s Changing Landscape. 2002
  • Patterns of geographic synchrony in growth and reproduction of oaks within California and beyond.  Proceedings of the Symposium on Oak Woodlands: Ecology, Management, and Urban Interface Issues. 101-108. 1997