Bruce McCune explained

Bruce Pettit McCune (born 1952) is an American lichenologist, botanist, plant ecologist, and software developer for analysis of ecological data.

Biography

McCune grew up in Cincinnati. He completed his freshman year of college at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and then transferred to the University of Montana in the autumn of 1971. There he graduated in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in botany. From 1971 to 1974 McCune and his then girlfriend, Patricia S. Muir, spent considerable time on Mount Sentinel, where they investigated lichens, mosses, and other plants. From 1974 to 1975 he travelled and also worked for two summers in Montana for the Bureau of Land Management. From 1976 to 1979 he was a graduate student at the University of Montana, where he graduated with a master's degree.^[3] In August 1979 he married Patricia Muir. She graduated in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Montana.^[4] In 1979 the couple matriculated as graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There he received in 1982 his Ph.D. with a dissertation on forest ecology^[3] and she received in 1984 her Ph.D. with a dissertation on plant ecology.^[4] In 1984 he became a postdoc in Indianapolis.^[3] At Oregon State University he was from 1987 to 1993 an assistant professor, from 1993 to 1999 an associate professor, and from 1999 to the present a full professor.^{[2] [5]} Patricia Muir also obtained a professorship at Oregon State University.^{[4] [6]}

The genus Bruceomyces is named in honor of Bruce McCune. Since 2012 he has been a member of the editorial board of The Bryologist.^[2]

He and his wife have two daughters.^[3]

Selected publications

Articles

• 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1988.tb13450.x. Ecological Diversity in North American Pines. 1988. McCune. Bruce. American Journal of Botany. 75. 3. 353–368. 7159465.
• 10.1139/b91-222. Differences in lichen and bryophyte communities between old-growth and managed second-growth forests in the Swan Valley, Montana. 1991. Lesica. Peter. McCune. Bruce. Cooper. Stephen V.. Hong. Won Shic. Canadian Journal of Botany. 69. 8. 1745–1755.
• 3243870. Gradients in Epiphyte Biomass in Three Pseudotsuga-Tsuga Forests of Different Ages in Western Oregon and Washington. McCune. Bruce. The Bryologist. 1993. 96. 3. 405–411. 10.2307/3243870.
• 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2617:IONEDO]2.0.CO;2. 0012-9658. 1997. 78. 2617. Influence of Noisy Environmental Data on Canonical Correspondence Analysis. McCune. Bruce. Ecology. 8.
• 3244043. Regional Gradients in Lichen Communities of the Southeast United States. McCune. Bruce. Dey. Jonathan. Peck. Jeri. Heiman. Karin. Will-Wolf. Susan. The Bryologist. 1997. 100. 2. 145–158. 10.1639/0007-2745(1997)100[145:RGILCO]2.0.CO;2.
• 3244385. Repeatability of Community Data: Species Richness versus Gradient Scores in Large-Scale Lichen Studies. McCune. Bruce. Dey. Jonathan P.. Peck. Jerilynn E.. Cassell. David. Heiman. Karin. Will-Wolf. Susan. Neitlich. Peter N.. The Bryologist. 1997. 100. 1. 40–46. 10.1639/0007-2745(1997)100[40:ROCDSR]2.0.CO;2.
• 3244162. Lichen Communities as Indicators of Forest Health. McCune. Bruce. The Bryologist. 2000. 103. 2. 353–356. 10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0353:LCAIOF]2.0.CO;2. 85678375 .
• 10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0417:EHIAOC]2.0.CO;2. 0007-2745. 2000. 103. 417. Epiphyte Habitats in an Old Conifer Forest in Western Washington, U.S.A.. McCune. Bruce. Rosentreter. Roger. Ponzetti. Jeanne M.. Shaw. David C.. The Bryologist. 3. 20259878 .
• 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0789:DLOELR]2.0.CO;2. 1051-0761. 2000. 10. 789. Dispersal Limitations of Epiphytic Lichens Result in Species Dependent on Old-Growth Forests. Sillett. Stephen C.. McCune. Bruce. Peck. Jerilynn E.. Rambo. Thomas R.. Ruchty. Andrea. Ecological Applications. 3.
• 10.1639/0007-2745(2001)104[0212:BSCOOS]2.0.CO;2. 0007-2745. 2001. 104. 212. Biotic Soil Crusts of Oregon's Shrub Steppe: Community Composition in Relation to Soil Chemistry, Climate, and Livestock Activity. Ponzetti. Jeanne M.. McCune. Bruce P.. The Bryologist. 2. 36446687 .
• 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2002.tb02087.x. Equations for potential annual direct incident radiation and heat load. 2002. McCune. Bruce. Keon. Dylan. Journal of Vegetation Science. 13. 4. 603–606. 2002JVegS..13..603M .
• 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2004.tb02310.x. Decline of arctic-alpine plants at the southern margin of their range following a decade of climatic warming. 2004. Lesica. P.. McCune. B.. Journal of Vegetation Science. 15. 5. 679–690. 2004JVegS..15..679L .
• McCune, B.. 2006. Nonparametric multiplicative regression for habitat modeling. . .
• 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2006.tb02505.x. Non-parametric habitat models with automatic interactions. 2006. McCune. Bruce. Journal of Vegetation Science. 17. 6. 819–830.
• 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02590.x. Improved estimates of incident radiation and heat load using non- parametric regression against topographic variables. 2007. McCune. Bruce. Journal of Vegetation Science. 18. 5. 751–754. 2007JVegS..18..751M .

Books

• with Trevor Goward & Del Meininger: Book: The Lichens of British Columbia, Part 1. 1994.
• with Trevor Goward: Book: Macrolichens of the Northern Rocky Mountains. 1995.
• with Linda Geiser: Book: Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest. 1997.
• with James Grace: Book: Analysis of Ecological Communities. 2002.
• with Roger Rosentreter: Book: Biotic Soil Crust Lichens of the Columbia Basin. 2007.
• with several others: Book: Montana Lichens: An Annotated List. 2014.

References

1. 43519133. PC-ORD: An Integrated System for Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data. McCune. Bruce. Abstracta Botanica. 1986. 10. 2. 221–225.
2. Web site: Crittenden, Peter. Bruce McCune, Acharius Medallists. International Association for Lichenology (lichenology.org).
3. ....Bruce McCune More than Vascular at MONTU. Pipp, Andrea. 1 & 7–8. Friends of the University of Montana Herbarium Newsletter. Spring 2012.
4. Web site: Curriculum Vitae for Patricia S. Muir. 2013.
5. Web site: Bruce McCune. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University.
6. Web site: Patricia S. Muir. College of Forestry, Western Forestry Graduate Research Symposium, Oregon State University.