EDUCATION BSc (Botany, minor in Physical Sciences) from Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, 6/63. PhD (Botany, emphasis in Ecology) from Duke University, Durham, NC, 9/67. Major Professor, W.D. Billings. Dissertation title: "Ecoclinal patterns in the physiological ecology of a desert shrub, Larrea divaricata."

EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Botany Department, University of California, Davis, CA, 1967-1971; Associate Professor, 1971-1976; Professor, 1976-1993;

CURRENT POSITION: Professor of Environmental Horticulture and plant ecologist at UCD, 1993-present.

AWARDS Magna cum laude, Michigan State University, 1963. Fulbright Fellow, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 1964. NDEA Fellow, Duke University, 1965-1967. Guggenheim Fellow, 1978; Visiting Professor, Marine Sciences Department, Louisiana State University, 1984; Botany Department, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1989-90; and Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, 1999. Outstanding Teaching Award, University of California, Davis, 1989; Humanities Institute Fellow, University of California, 1994. Recipient of research grants from NSF, NOAA Sea Grant, USDA Forest Service, California Department of Parks and Recreation, UCD Faculty Research Grant, UCD Bridge Grant, USDA Hatch Funds, US State Department (MAB program), and USDA Competitive Grants program; various years from 1969 to present. Member of Editorial Boards for University of California Press, 1995-00; Journal of Vegetation Science, 1997-; Folia Geobotanica, 1997-; Ecology, 1985-8; American Midland Naturalist, 1985-7; Madrono, 1974-6. Vice Chair and Chair, Vegetation Section of the Ecological Society of America, 1993-5 and of the NA Chapter of International Association of Vegetation Science, 1999-2001. Founding member, ESA National Panel on vegetation Classification. Chair, Botany Department, University of California, Davis, 1982-5.

SOCIETIES American Inst. Biological Science, Botanical Soc. America, British Ecological Soc., California Botanical Soc., California Native Plant Soc., Ecological Soc.America, International Assoc. Vegetation Science, Phi Beta Phi honorary, Sigma Xi honorary.

RESEARCH Plant autecology and synecology of maritime strand, salt marsh, desert scrub, and montane conifer forests in Alta and Baja California, along the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico coasts, and in Argentina, Australia, Israel, and Spain.

TEACHING Undergraduate courses in general plant biology, plant ecology, vegetation of California, and forests of North America for majors and non-majors; graduate course in the concept and measurement of the plant community. Co-author or co-editor of standard textbooks for introductory plant biology, plant ecology, vegetation of California, and vegetation of North America.

CONSULTING

1. Founding Chair, Vegetation Committee of the California Native Plant Society 1991-5: recommendations on standards for vegetation sampling and classification have been adopted by state and federal agencies who manage land in California.
2. Founding member, Panel on North American Vegetation of the Ecological Society of America, 1995-: recomendations on standards for vegetation sampling and classification at the national level have been adopted by the Vegetation Subcommittee of the Federal Geographic Data Committee.

(3) One of 18 core scientists who wrote a 4-vol. assessment of the Sierra Nevada ecosystem for the USDA Forest Service and Congress (1992-1996).

(4) Member of science review panels for CALFED (1997), Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund (1994-), National Park Service (1998), and a Lake Tahoe Watershed Assessment Science Team for the USDA Forest Service (1998-).

LANGUAGES: Reading ability in English, French, Hebrew, Russian, and Spanish.

Barbour, M.G., N.H. Berg, T.G.F. Kittel, and M.E. Kunz. 1991. Snowpack and the distribution of a major vegetation ecotone in the Sierra Nevada of California. Journal of Biogeography 18:141-149.

Minnich, R.A., M.G. Barbour, J.H. Burk, and R.F. Fernau. 1995. Sixty years of change in California conifer forests of the San Bernardino Mountains. Conservation Biology 9:902-914.

Barbour, M.G., R.F. Fernau, J.M. Rey Benayas, N. Jurjavcic, and E.B. Royce. 1998. Tree regeneration following clearcut logging in red fir forests of California. Forest Ecology and Management 104:101-111.

Barbour, M.G, J.H. Burk, W.D. Pitts, M.W. Schwartz, and F. Gilliam. 1998. Terrestrial plant ecology, 3rd ed. Addison Wesley Longman, Menlo Park, CA.

Barbour, M.G. and W.D. Billings (eds.). 1999. North American terrestrial vegetation, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.

Barbour, M.G. and R.A. Minnich. 2000. Californian upland forests and woodlands, pp 159-200 in: M.G. Barbour and W.D. Billings (eds.), North American terrestrial vegetation, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.

Minnich, R.A., M.G. Barbour, J.H. Burk, and J. Sosa-Ramirez. 2000. Californian mixed-conifer forests under unmanaged fir regimes in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico. Journal of Biogeography (in press, to appear in June).