Biography:Bruce Pettit McCune

Short description: American botanist and lichenologist

Bruce McCune
Born	(1952-01-30) January 30, 1952
Alma mater	University of Montana University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known for	PC-ORD
Spouse(s)	Patricia S. Muir
Awards	Acharius Medal (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Lichenology Botany
Institutions	Oregon State University
Author abbrev. (botany)	McCune

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. In August 1979 he married Patricia Muir. She graduated in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in botany from the University of Montana. 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 and she received in 1984 her Ph.D. with a dissertation on plant ecology. In 1984 he became a postdoc in Indianapolis. 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. Patricia Muir also obtained a professorship at Oregon State University.

Bruce has published prolifically in journals and books. ... His lichen research spans ecology, floristics, conservation, response to pollution, growth and development, and taxonomy. Bruce has described many new species, especially in the genus Hypogymnia, on which he is a world authority, but also in Bactrospora, Hypotrachyna, Letharia, Pseudocyphellaria, Rhizocarpon, Rinodina and Trapeliopsis. ... He is an expert on ecological analysis methods and modeling ... Throughout his career, Bruce has been an avid formal collector of plants, bryophytes and lichens with over 37000 accession numbers to his name. These specimens are largely deposited in the Oregon State University Herbarium or in Bruce’s private herbarium.

He works on biodiversity and ecology of lichens and bryophytes as well as tools for analysis of multivariate ecological data.

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

He and his wife have two daughters.

Selected publications

Articles

• McCune, Bruce (1988). "Ecological Diversity in North American Pines". American Journal of Botany 75 (3): 353–368. doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1988.tb13450.x. 
• Lesica, Peter; McCune, Bruce; Cooper, Stephen V.; Hong, Won Shic (1991). "Differences in lichen and bryophyte communities between old-growth and managed second-growth forests in the Swan Valley, Montana". Canadian Journal of Botany 69 (8): 1745–1755. doi:10.1139/b91-222. 
• McCune, Bruce (1993). "Gradients in Epiphyte Biomass in Three Pseudotsuga-Tsuga Forests of Different Ages in Western Oregon and Washington". The Bryologist 96 (3): 405–411. doi:10.2307/3243870. 
• McCune, Bruce (1997). "Influence of Noisy Environmental Data on Canonical Correspondence Analysis". Ecology 78 (8): 2617. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2617:IONEDO2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0012-9658. 
• McCune, Bruce; Dey, Jonathan; Peck, Jeri; Heiman, Karin; Will-Wolf, Susan (1997). "Regional Gradients in Lichen Communities of the Southeast United States". The Bryologist 100 (2): 145–158. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(1997)100[145:RGILCO2.0.CO;2]. 
• McCune, Bruce; Dey, Jonathan P.; Peck, Jerilynn E.; Cassell, David; Heiman, Karin; Will-Wolf, Susan; Neitlich, Peter N. (1997). "Repeatability of Community Data: Species Richness versus Gradient Scores in Large-Scale Lichen Studies". The Bryologist 100 (1): 40–46. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(1997)100[40:ROCDSR2.0.CO;2]. 
• McCune, Bruce (2000). "Lichen Communities as Indicators of Forest Health". The Bryologist 103 (2): 353–356. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0353:LCAIOF2.0.CO;2]. 
• McCune, Bruce; Rosentreter, Roger; Ponzetti, Jeanne M.; Shaw, David C. (2000). "Epiphyte Habitats in an Old Conifer Forest in Western Washington, U.S.A.". The Bryologist 103 (3): 417. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2000)103[0417:EHIAOC2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0007-2745. 
• Sillett, Stephen C.; McCune, Bruce; Peck, Jerilynn E.; Rambo, Thomas R.; Ruchty, Andrea (2000). "Dispersal Limitations of Epiphytic Lichens Result in Species Dependent on Old-Growth Forests". Ecological Applications 10 (3): 789. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0789:DLOELR2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 1051-0761. 
• Ponzetti, Jeanne M.; McCune, Bruce P. (2001). "Biotic Soil Crusts of Oregon's Shrub Steppe: Community Composition in Relation to Soil Chemistry, Climate, and Livestock Activity". The Bryologist 104 (2): 212. doi:10.1639/0007-2745(2001)104[0212:BSCOOS2.0.CO;2]. ISSN 0007-2745. 
• McCune, Bruce; Keon, Dylan (2002). "Equations for potential annual direct incident radiation and heat load". Journal of Vegetation Science 13 (4): 603–606. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2002.tb02087.x. 
• Lesica, P.; McCune, B. (2004). "Decline of arctic‐alpine plants at the southern margin of their range following a decade of climatic warming". Journal of Vegetation Science 15 (5): 679–690. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2004.tb02310.x. 
• McCune, B. (2006). Nonparametric multiplicative regression for habitat modeling. (Report). Oregon State University. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58f588c93e00be17785ced5d/t/5bcce48be79c7058b9843855/1540154511992/NPMRintro.pdf. 
• McCune, Bruce (2006). "Non-parametric habitat models with automatic interactions". Journal of Vegetation Science 17 (6): 819–830. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2006.tb02505.x. 
• McCune, Bruce (2007). "Improved estimates of incident radiation and heat load using non- parametric regression against topographic variables". Journal of Vegetation Science 18 (5): 751–754. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2007.tb02590.x. 

Books

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