IKIP: Biographies: Bliss

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LAWRENCE C. BLISS

TITLES:

Professor, Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195.

EDUCATION:

B.S. Botany/Geography, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1951.

Ph.D. Botany/Forest Soils, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1973.

POSITIONS:

Instructor, Department of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1957-1958.

Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1958-1961.

Associate Professor, Department of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1961-1966.

Professor, Department of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1966-1968.

Professor, Department of Botany, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1968-1978.

Professor and Chairperson, Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1978-1987.

Professor, Department of Botany, University of Washington, Seattle, 1987-present.

HONORS:

President, Ecological Society of America; Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America; Member, Executive Committee. American Institute of Biological Sciences; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

More than 40 years of field experience in Arctic and Alpine regions of North America and New Zealand.

PUBLICATIONS:

Editor of three books on the Arctic, and author or co-author of about 115 scientific papers on Arctic and Alpine plant ecology: patterning of plant communities, life history and ecophysiological studies of vascular plants, ecosy stem studies, etc.

Five titles most relevant to the present proposal:

BLISS, L. C., and J. Svoboda. 1984. Plant communities and plant production in the in the western Queen Elizabeth Islands. Holarctic Ecology, 7:325-344.
BLISS, L. C. 1991. Arctic ecosystems: patterns of change in response to disturbance. pp. 347-366, In: G. M. Woodwell (ed.), The Earth in Transition: Patterns and Processes of Biotic Impoverishment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge a nd New York.
BLISS, L. C., and N. V. Matveyeva. 1992. Circumpolar arctic vegetation. pp. 59-89, In: F. S. Chapin III, R. L. Jefferies, J. F. Reynolds, G. R. Shaver, and J. Svoboda (eds.), Arctic Ecosystems in a Changing Climate: An Ecophysiological Perspec tive. Academic Press, Orlando, Florida.
BLISS, L. C., and W. Gold. 1994. The patterning of plant communities and edaphic factors along a high Arctic coastline: implications for succession. Can. Jour. Bot., 72: in press.
BLISS, L. C., G. H. R. Henry, J. Svoboda, and D. I. Bliss. 1994. Patterns of plant distribution within two polar desert regions. Arct. Alp. Res., 26:46-55.

Five other significant publications:

BLISS, L. C., J. Svoboda, and D. I. Bliss. 1984. Polar deserts, their plant cover and plant production in the Canadian High Arctic. Holarctic Ecology, 7:305-324.
BLISS, L. C. 1987. Arctic tundra and polar desert. pp. 1-32, In: M. Barbour and W. D. Billings (eds.), North American Terrestrial Vegetation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.
BLISS, L. C. 1990. High Arctic ecosystems: how they develop and are maintained. pp. 350-385, In: C. R. Harington (ed.), Canada's Missing Dimension: Science and History in the Canadian Arctic Islands. Canadian Museum of Nature, 1.
BLISS, L. C., and K. M. Peterson. 1992. Plant succession, competition, and the physiological constraints of species in the Arctic. pp. 111-133, In: F. S. Chapin III, R. L. Jefferies, J. F. Reynolds, G. R. Shaver, and J. Svoboda (eds.), Arctic E cosystems in a Changing Climate: An Ecophysiological Perspective. Academic Press, Orlando, Florida.
BLISS, L. C. 1993. Arctic coastal ecosystems. pp. 15-22, In: Dry Coastal Ecosystems, Polar Regions and Europe. Ecosystems of the World. Elsevier Science Publications Co., New York, New York.