Tony Lambard Burgess
Curriculum Vitae

Present Employment

Supervisor of Biome Management (3/4 time)
SBV, Oracle AZ (602) 825-6400

Assistant Staff Scientist / Adjunct Lecturer (1/4 time)
University of Arizona Desert Laboratory
Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, (602) 629-9455

1988 Ph.D. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Univ of Arizona.
Thesis: Relationship between climate and leaf shape in the Agave cerulata complex. Advs: C.E. Mason, R.M. Turner, T.R. Van Devender.

1977 M.S. Botany, Texas Tech University
Thesis: Phenetic structure of selected Agave populations in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. Advs: D.K. Northington, J.R. Goodin, R.J. Baker.

1971 B.S. Biology with honors, University of Arizona, Tucson.

1966 High School Diploma with honors, Pascal H.S., Ft Worth TX

Mar 1994 Tour Leader, Intl Symp Landscape Ecology, Tucson
1991-1993 Program Coordinator, Desert Laboratory, Univ. of AZ
1985-1994 Consulting Ecologist for Biosphere 2 Project, Space Biospheres
Ventures, Tucson
1978-1992 Botanist, U.S. Geological Survey, Ecohydrology Project, Deser Laboratory, Tucson
1991 Member of Friends of the Earth Field Research Team to Assess Gulf War Damages, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
1983-1984 Consulting Ecologist, Caravan of Dreams Desert Dome Project, Fort Worth
1977-1978 Teaching Assistant, University of Arizona
1977 Botanist Consultant, Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute, Alpine, Texas
1976-1977 Consulting Botanist, Dept of Anthropology, Southern Methodist Univ.
1973-1976 Teaching Asst and Res Asst, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Burgess, T. L. 1973. Mammals of the Canyon de Chelly Region, Apache County, Arizona. Arizona Academy of Science 8:21-25.

Burgess, T. L., and D. K. Northington. 1975. Desert vegetation in the Guadalupe Mountains Region. Pp. 229-242 IN R. H. Wauer and D. H. Riskind (eds.), Transactions of the symposium on the biological resources of the Chihuahuan Desert Region, United States and Mexico. (National Park Services Proceedings and Transactions Series No. 3). U. S. National Park Service, Washington, D. C.

Burgess, T. L. 1979. Agave-complex of the Guadalupe Mountains National Park; Putative hybridization between members of different subgenera. Pp. 79-89 IN H. H. Genoways and R. J. Baker (eds.), Biological investigations in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. (National Park Service Proceedings and Transactions Series No. 4). U. S. National Park Service, Washington, D. C.

Robbins, R. L., T. L. Burgess, and D. K. Northington. 1980. The Yucca carnerosana-faxoniana complex in West Texas and Mexico. Pp 21-34 IN Yucca. Centro de Investigacion en Quimica Aplicada, Serie el Desierto v. 3, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

Burgess, T. L. 1985. Agave adaptation to aridity. Desert Plants 7:39-50.

Van Devender, T. R., and T. L. Burgess. 1985. Late Pleistocene woodlands in the Bolson de Mapimi: A refugium for the Chihuahuan Desert biota? Quaternary Research 24:346-353.

Burgess, T. L., and M. A. Burgess. 1986. Clouds, spires & spines. Pp. 103-124 IN Tucson: A Short History, SMRC, Univ AZ Press, Tucson.

Burgess, T. L., and A. Shmida. 1988. Succulent growth-forms in arid environments. Pp. 383-395 IN E. E. Whitehead, C. F. Hutchinson, B. N. Timmermann, and R. G. Verity (eds.), Arid Lands Today and Tomorrow, Proceedings of an international research and developments conference. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado.

Shmida, A., and T. L. Burgess. 1988. Plant growth-form strategies and vegetation types in arid environments. Pp. 211-241 IN N. J. A. Werger, P. J. M. Van der Aart, H. J. During, and J. T. A. Verhoeven (eds.), Plant form and vegetation structure. S. P. B. Publishers, The Hague.

Van Devender, T. R., L. J. Toolin, and T. L. Burgess. 1990. The ecology and paleoecology of grasses in selected Sonoran Desert plant communities. Pp. 326-349 IN J. L. Betancourt, T. R. Van Devender, and P. S. Martin (eds.), Packrat middens: The last 40,000 years of biotic change. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Van Devender, T. R., T. L. Burgess, R. S. Felger, and R. M. Turner. 1990. Holocene vegetation of the Hornaday Mountains of northwestern Sonora, Mexico. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History 2:1-19.

Burgess, T. L., J. E. Bowers, and R. M. Turner. 1991. Exotic plants at the Desert Laboratory, Tucson, Arizona. Madrono 38:96-114.

Nelson, M., T. L. Burgess, A. Ailling, N. Alvarez-Romo, W. F. Dempster, R. L. Walford, and J. P. Allen. 1993. Using a closed ecological system to study Earth's biosphere. BioScience 43(4):225-236.

Van Devender, T. R., T. L. Burgess, J. C. Peper, and R. M. Turner. 1994. Paleoclimatic implications of Holocene plant remains from the Sierra Bacha, Sonora, Mexico. Quaternary Research 41:99-108.

Burgess, T. L. 1995. Desert grassland, mixed shrub savanna, shrub steppe, or semidesert scrub?: The dilemma of coexisting growth forms. pp. 31-67 IN M. P. McClaran and T. R. Van Devender (eds.). The Desert Grassland. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Turner, R.M., J.E. Bowers and T.L. Burgess. 1995. Sonoran Desert Plants: An Ecological Atlas, Univ AZ Press, Tucson. 504 pp.

Burgess, T. L., J. L. Betancourt, and J. R. Busby. 1995. Geographic variation in plant species richness: Lessons from the Sonoran Desert, U.S.A. and Mexico, and Northern Territory, Australia. pp. 84-90 IN DeBano, L. F., P. F. Ffolliott, A. Ortega-Rubio, G. J. Gottfried, R. H. Hamre and C. B. Edminster, tech, coords. Biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago: The sky islands of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. General Technical Report RM-GTR-264. Fort Collins, CO: U.S.Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

McAuliffe, J. R., and T. L. Burgess. 1995. Landscape complexity, soil development, and vegetational diversity within a sky island piedmont: A field trip guide to Mt. Lemmon and San Pedro Valley. pp. 91-108 IN DeBano, L. F., P. F. Ffolliott, A. Ortega-Rubio, G. J. Gottfried, R. H. Hamre and C. B. Edminster, tech, coords. Biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago: The sky islands of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. General Technical Report RM-GTR-264. Fort Collins, CO: U.S.Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station.

From Biosphere to Noosphere: a case study in cultural values and
biodiversity in the Biosphere 2

Terrestrial Wilderness Biomes. (with Linda
Leigh). Society of Ethnobotany 18th Annual Conference, 17 March 1995,
Tucson.