Basic Biographical Information

Bruce McCune, Professor Oregon State University Department of Botany and Plant Pathology 2082 Cordley Hall Corvallis, OR 97331-2902 U.S.A. EMAIL: Bruce.McCune@science.oregonstate.edu OFFICE PHONE: 541-737-1741 FAX: 541-737-3573 EDUCATION 1982, Ph.D., Plant Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1979, M.A., Botany, University of Montana, Missoula 1974, B.A., Botany/Biology, University of Montana, Missoula

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999-present: Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis

1993-1999: Associate Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis

1991-1993: Assistant Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis

1987-1991: Assistant Professor, Department of General Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis

1987: Visiting Professor (summer), University of Montana Biological Station, Flathead Lake

1985-1987: Research Scientist, Holcomb Research Institute, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana

1984-1985: Research Associate, Holcomb Research Institute, Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana

1982-1984: Visiting Professor (summers), University of Montana Biological Station, Flathead Lake, Montana

1984: Project Associate, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison (same project as above)

1983: Faculty Assistant, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1982-1983: Project Associate, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Analysis of population and community dynamics in an oak woods)

1981-1982: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellow

1979-1981: Teaching Assistant, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1979: Instructor (summer), Department of Botany, University of Montana, Missoula

1977-1979: Teaching Assistant, Department of Botany, University of Montana, Missoula

RESEARCH INTERESTS
I work in four overlapping, interdependent areas:

• Tools for analysis of ecological communities and habitats: My research on analytical tools concerns how species abundance as a response variable differs from the ideal variables, how this creates problems, how to deal effectively with those problems. My current research in this area focuses on species response surfaces in multidimensional predictor spaces.
• Ecology of temperate forest epiphytes: My work in this area include basic research on the distribution, abundance, and dispersal limitations of temperate forest epiphytes and applied work on how changing forest practices will alter our future ecosystems. We have studied the long-term consequences of green-tree retention, how different species and functional groups of lichens are distributed in young, seemingly monotonous forests, and whether the structure of young forests be changed to enhance the re-entry and development of old-growth associated epiphytes.
• Taxonomic syntheses of lichens in the Pacific Northwest: My work on regional lichen floras has been crucial to facilitating work on the ecology of lichens in the Pacific Northwest . Regional floras for macrolichens have been completed; work on crustose groups is continuing.
• Systematics of Hypogymnia and other selected lichenized fungi.