Representative Publications
Alpert, P. The advantages and disadvantages of being introduced. Biological Invasions. In press
Alpert, P. 2005. The limits and frontiers of desiccation-tolerant life.
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 45: in press.
Alpert, P. 2005. Sharing the secrets of life without water. Integrative and Comparative
Biology, 45: in press (preface to special issue).
Alpert, P., S. Miao, M. Dong and X. Han. 2005. Meeting report: the Beijing International
Symposium on Biological Invasions, 6-11 June 2004. Acta Phytoecologica Sinica, 29: 520-522.
Alpert, P. 2004. Managing the wild. Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment, 2: 494-495. (lead essay for set of essays).
Alpert, P., C. Holzapfel and C. Slominski. 2003. Differences in performance between genotypes
with different degrees of resource sharing in Fragaria chiloensis. Journal of Ecology, 91: 27-35.
Alpert, P. and A. Keller. 2003. The ecology-policy interface. Frontiers in Ecology and the
Environment, 1: 45-46 (lead essay for set of essays).
Holzapfel, C., and P. Alpert. 2003. Root cooperation in a clonal plant: connected
strawberries segregate roots. Oecologia, 134: 72-77.
Kolb, A., and P. Alpert. 2003. Effects of salinity and nitrogen on competition between an invasive,
non-native grass and a native congener. Biological Invasions, 5: 229-238.
Alpert, P., C. Holzapfel and J.M. Benson. 2002. Hormonal modification of resource sharing in the
clonal plant Fragaria chiloensis. Functional Ecology, 16: 191-197.
Alpert, P. and M.J. Oliver. 2002. Drying without dying. Pages 3-43 in: M. Black
and H. W. Pritchard (eds.). Desiccation and survival in plants: drying without dying.
CAB International, Wallingford, UK.
Alpert, P., and E.L. Simms. 2002. Relative advantages of plasticity and fixity in different
environments: when is it good for a plant to adjust? Evolutionary Ecology, 16: 285-297.
Kolb, A., P. Alpert, D. Enters and C. Holzapfel. 2002. Patterns of invasion within a grassland community.
Journal of Ecology, 90: 871-881.
Alpert, P. 2001. The concept of stewardship. Pages 481-494 in: S. Levin, ed. Encyclopedia of biodiversity,
Vol 5. Academic Press, New York.
Alpert, P. 2000. The discovery, scope, and puzzle of desiccation tolerance in plants.
Plant Ecology, 151: 5-17.
Alpert, P. and J.L. Maron. 2000. Carbon addition as a countermeasure against biological invasion by
plants. Biological Invasions, 2: 33-40.
Alpert, P. and Z. Tuba, guest eds. 2000. Desiccation tolerance in plants. Plant Ecology, 151(1).
(special issue of journal).
Alpert, P. and Z. Tuba. 2000. Editorial: the cactus, the sunflower, and the moss. Plant Ecology 151: 1-4.
Alpert, P., E. Bone and C. Holzapfel. 2000. Invasiveness, invasibility, and the role of environmental
stress in preventing the spread of non-native plants. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 3: 52-66.
Alpert, P. 1999. Clonal integration in Fragaria chiloensis differs between populations: ramets from
grassland are selfish. Oecologia, 120: 69-76.
Alpert, P. 1999. Effects of clonal integration on plant plasticity in Fragaria chiloensis.
Plant Ecology, 141: 99-106.
Alpert, P. and T.F. Colton. 1999. Public unawareness of biological invasions by plants.
Wildland Weeds, 2(2): 10-12 (popular article).
Alpert, P., F.T. Griggs, and D.R. Peterson. 1999. Restoring riparian forests along the Sacramento
River. Restoration Ecology 7: 360-368.
Murphy, K., P. Alpert, and D. Cosentino. 1999. Local impacts of a rural coal-burning generating
station on lichen abundance in a New England forest. Environmental Pollution, 105: 349-354.
Alpert, P. and J. Kagan. 1998. The utility of community types: a practical review of riparian vegetation
in the intermountain U.S. Natural Areas Journal, 18: 124-137.
Colton, T.F. and P. Alpert. 1998. Lack of public awareness of biological invasions by
plants. Natural Areas Journal 8: 262-266.
Alpert, P. and J.F. Stuefer. 1997. Division of labour in clonal plants. Pages 137-154 in H.
de Kroon and J. van Groenendael (eds.). The ecology and physiology of clonal plants.
Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Lewis, D.M. and P. Alpert. 1997. International trophy hunting and wildlife conservation in Zambia.
Conservation Biology, 11: 59-68.
Alpert, P. 1996. Integrated conservation and development projects. Examples from Africa.
BioScience, 46: 845-855.
Alpert, P. 1996. Nutrient sharing in natural clonal fragments of Fragaria chiloensis.
Journal of Ecology 84: 395-406.
Alpert, P. and H.A. Mooney. 1996. Resource heterogeneity generated by shrubs and topography
on coastal sand dunes. Vegetatio 122: 83-93.
Alpert, P. 1995. Does clonal growth increase plant performance in natural communities?
Abstracta Botanica, 19: 11-16.
Alpert, P. 1995. Incarnating ecosystem management. Conservation Biology, 8: 952-955.
Alpert, P. 1995. Applications of ecological research to integrated conservation and development
projects. Ecological Applications, 5: 857-860.
Alpert, P. 1995. The boulder and the sphere: subjectivity and implicit values in biology. Environmental
Values, 4: 3-15.
Alpert, P., J. Lubchenco, and P.G. Risser. 1995. The Sustainable Biosphere Project of SCOPE.
Ambio, 24: 133-134.
Alpert, P. 1994. USAID's expanded program to conserve biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ambio, 23: 167.
Alpert, P. and J.L. Maron. 1994. The M.S./Ph.D in natural resources and biology: a graduate program
to link basic science and practical management. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 75: 42-44.
Root, T.L. and P. Alpert. 1994. Volunteers and the NBS. Science, 263: 1205. (letter).
Alpert, P. 1993. Conserving biodiversity in Cameroon. Ambio, 22: 44-49.
Alpert, P. 1993. Support for biodiversity research from the US Agency for International Development.
BioScience, 43: 628-631.
Alpert, P., R. Lumaret and F. Di Giusto. 1993. Population structure inferred from allozyme analysis
in the clonal herb Fragaria chiloensis (Rosaceae). American Journal of Botany, 80: 1002-1006.
Roy, J., M.L. Navas, L. Sonié and P. Alpert. 1992. Invasion of Mediterranean-type regions by
annual species of Bromus. Pages 389-393 in J. A. Conesa and J. Recasens (eds.). Actes dei Simposi
Internacional de Botànica Pius Font i Quer, 1988. Vol. II. Fanerogàmia. Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain.
Alpert, P. 1991. Nitrogen-sharing among ramets increases clonal growth in Fragaria chiloensis.
Ecology, 72: 69-80.
Alpert, P., F.R. Warembourg and J. Roy. 1991. Transport of carbon among ramets of Eichhornia crassipes
at normal and high levels of CO2. American Journal of Botany, 78: 1459-1466.
Friedman, D. and P. Alpert. 1991. Reciprocal transport between ramets increases growth of Fragaria
chiloensis when light and nitrogen occur in separate patches but only if patches are
rich. Oecologia, 86: 76-80.
Alpert, P. 1990. Water sharing among ramets in a desert population of Distichlis spicata.
American Journal of Botany, 77: 1648-1651.
Alpert, P. 1990. Microtopography as habitat structure for mosses on
rocks. Pages 120-140 in E. McCoy, S. A. Bell and H. Mushinsky (eds.). Habitat structure: the physical
arrangement of objects in space. Chapman and Hall, London.
Méthy, M., P. Alpert and J. Roy. 1990. Effects of light quality and quantity on growth of clonal groups
of Eichhornia crassipes. Oecologia, 84: 265-271.
Alpert, P. 1989. Translocation in the nonpolytrichaceous moss Grimmia laevigata. American Journal
of Botany, 76: 1524-1529.
Alpert, P. 1988. Survival of a desiccation-tolerant plant outside its observed microdistributional
range. Journal of Bryology, 15: 219-227.
Alpert, P. and W.C. Oechel. 1987. Comparative patterns of net photosynthesis in an assemblage of
mosses with contrasting microdistributions. American Journal of Botany, 74: 1787-1796.
Alpert, P. and H.A. Mooney. 1986. Resource sharing among ramets in the clonal herb,
Fragaria chiloensis. Oecologia, 70: 227-233.
Alpert, P. 1985. Distribution quantified by microdistribution in an assemblage of saxicolous
mosses. Vegetatio, 64: 131-139.
Alpert, P., E.A. Newell, C. Chu, J. Glyphis, S.L. Gulmon, D.Y. Hollinger, N.D. Johnson, H.A. Mooney
and G. Puttick. 1985. Allocation to reproduction in the chaparral shrub, Diplacus
aurantiacus. Oecologia, 66: 309-316.
Alpert, P. and W.C. Oechel. 1985. Carbon balance limits microdistribution of Grimmia
laevigata, a desiccation-tolerant plant. Ecology 66: 660-669.
Godfrey, P.J. and P. Alpert. 1985. Racing to save the coastal heaths. The Nature
Conservancy News 35(4): 10-13 (popular article).
Alpert, P. 1984. Applicability of extraction in DMSO to analysis of chlorophyll content
in mosses. Bryologist, 87: 363-365.
Alpert, P. and W.C. Oechel. 1984. Microdistribution and water relations of bryophytes in
Alaskan tussock tundra. Holarctic Ecology, 7: 111-118.
Miller, N.G. and P. Alpert. 1984. Plant associations and edaphic features of a high
arctic mesotopographic setting. Arctic and Alpine Research 16:11-24.
Alpert, P. and W.C. Oechel. 1982. Bryophyte vegetation and ecology along a topographic gradient
in montane tundra in Alaska. Holarctic Ecology, 5: 99-108.
Alpert, P. 1979. Desiccation of desert mosses following a summer rainstorm. Bryologist, 82: 65-71.
Schmid, R. and P. Alpert. 1977. A test of Burck's hypothesis relating anther dehiscence to nectar
secretion. New Phytologist, 78: 487-498.
Alpert, P. 1974. Phenotypic variation in Pinus caribaea
and P. oocarpa. In: J. Burley and D. C. Nikles (eds.). Tropical provenance and progeny
research and international cooperation. Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford.
Technical reports:
Alpert, P., S. Cirillo, R. Haueber, K. Alderman, J. Lubchenco, and P. Risser. 1993. The Sustainable
Biosphere Project: science and policy for the sustainable use of ecological systems. Project brief
for the Scientific Committee On Problems of the Environment, Paris.
Alpert, P. and A. DeGeorges. 1992. Midterm evaluation of the Zambia Natural Resources Management
Project. Report to the U. S. Agency for International Development, Lusaka, Zambia.
Alpert, P. 1992. Revenue sharing at Amboseli National Park. Report to the U. S. Agency for International
Development, Nairobi, Kenya.
Alpert, P. 1991. Conservation of tropical forests and biodiversity in Cameroon. Report to the U. S.
Agency for International Development, Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Alpert, P. 1985. Lanphere-Christiansen Dunes. Evaluation for National Natural Landmark status. Report
to the Oregon Natural Heritage Program for the U.S. National Park Service, Portland, Oregon.
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