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Roger-del Moral

Roger del Moral
Professor Emeritus
moral@uw.edu
226 HCK
(206) 543-6341
Roger del Moral's Web Site
Not accepting graduate students
Fields of interest
Conservation Biology, Ecology, Evolution & Systematics

Roger studies how vegetation recovers from major disturbances. Since 1980, he has developed one of the most comprehensive programs to study primary succession, focused on Mount St. Helens. He has studied primary succession on volcanoes throughout the world, as well as other forms of succession on dunes and glacial forelands. These studies led to the publication of \"Primary Succession and Ecosystem Rehabilitation\"" with L. R. Walker. They have demonstrated the importance of stochastic factors and landscape effects on the course of succession and have important implications for restoration of damaged ecosystems."

Roger studied at the University of California (Ph. D. 1968) and has been at the UW ever since. His graduate work involved detailed studies of allelopathy, studies that he continued in Washington and in Australia. He had conducted pioneering vegetation ecology studies in forests, marshes, and subalpine meadows before the eruption of Mount St. Helens compelled him to undertake research that has dominated his career. This research has taken him to Australia, England, Japan, Russia, Iceland, and Sicily. He has published over 100 papers and has collaborated with colleagues from Russia, Japan, China, India, The Netherlands, Norway, Iceland and Italy, as well as from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. His work continues to be funded by the National Science Foundation, most recently with a 5-year LTREB grant (2006-2010) and an OPUS grant (2011-2014). The Mount St. Helens permanent plot study is now the longest continuous study of primary succession in the world and has provided many valuable insights for restoration.

Roger will retire soon and is not accepting graduate students.

Primary succession trajectories on pumice at Mount St. Helens, Washington, del Moral, R., Lindsay A. Thomason, Anthony C. Wenke, Lozanoff Natasha, and Abata Mario D. , Journal of Vegetation Science, Volume 23, p.73-85, (2012)
Primary succession trajectories on a barren plain, Mount St. Helens, Washington, del Moral, R., Saura J. M., and Emenegger J. N. , 2010, Volume 21, Issue 5, p. - -867, (2010)
Dispersal and establishment both limit colonization during primary succession on a glacier foreland, Jones, C. C., and del Moral R. , 2009, Volume 204, Issue 2, p. - -230, (2009)
Increasing deterministic control of primary succession on Mount St. Helens, Washington, del Moral, R. , 2009, Volume 20, Issue 6, p. - -1154, (2009)
Spatial factors affecting primary succession on the Muddy River Lahar, Mount St. Helens, Washington, del Moral, R., Sandler J. E., and Muerdter C. P. , 2009, Volume 202, Issue 1, p. - -190, (2009)
Lessons from primary succession for restoration of severely damaged habitats, Walker, L. R., and del Moral R. , 2009, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. - -67, (2009)
Limits to convergence of vegetation during early primary succession, del Moral, R. , 2007, Volume 18, Issue 4, p. - -488, (2007)
Long-term effects of Lupinus lepidus on vegetation dynamics at Mount St. Helens, del Moral, R., and Rozzell L. R. , 2005, Volume 181, Issue 2, p. - -215, (2005)
Vegetation patterns 25 years after the eruption of Mount St. Helens Washington, USA, del Moral, R., and Lacher I. L. , 2005, Volume 92, Issue 12, p. - -1956, (2005)