Diane L. Delany People Profile - Research USDA Forest Service

Diane L. Delany

Biological Sciences Laboratory Technician
800 Buchanan Street
Albany, CA 94710
510-883-8822
diane.delany@usda.gov

Research
Education & Experience
Publications & Products

current research

I work as a member of a team with Connie Millar and Bob Westfall. Our research concerns changes over time in tree communities at population and landscape levels.

Education

University of Washington Forest Genetics M.S. 1986
University of California Forestry B.S. 1977

Publications

Millar, Constance I; Delany, Diane L.; Westfall, Robert D. 2020 From treeline to species line: Thermal patterns and growth relationships across the krummholz zone of whitebark pine, Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Millar, Constance I; Delany, Diane L. 2019 Interaction between mountain pine beetle-caused tree mortality and fire behavior in subalpine whitebark pine forests, eastern Sierra Nevada, CA; Retrospective observations
Millar, Constance I; Charlet, David A.; Delany, Diane L.; King, John C.; Westfall, Robert D. 2019 Shifts of demography and growth in limber pine forests of the Great Basin, USA, across 4000 yr of climate variability
Millar, Constance I.; Delany, Diane L.; Hersey, Kimberly A.; Jeffress, Mackenzie R.; Smith, Andrew T.; Van Gunst, K. Jane; Westfall, Robert D. 2018 Distribution, climatic relationships, and status of American pikas (Ochotona princeps) in the Great Basin, USA
Millar, Constance I; Charlet, David A.; Westfall, Robert D.; King, John C.; Delany, Diane L.; Flint, Alan L.; Flint, Lorraine E. 2018 Do low-elevation ravines provide climate refugia for subalpine limber pine (Pinus flexilis) in the Great Basin, USA?
Millar, Connie; Westfall, Bob; Delany, Diane L. 2016 Thermal components of American pika habitat—How does a small lagomorph encounter climate?
Millar, Constance I.; Westfall, Robert D.; Evenden, Angela; Holmquist, Jeffrey G.; Schmidt-Gengenbach, Jutta; Franklin, Rebecca S.; Nachlinger, Jan; Delany, Diane L. 2015 Potential climatic refugia in semi-arid, temperate mountains: plant and arthropod assemblages associated with rock glaciers, talus slopes, and their forefield wetlands, Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Millar, Constance I.; Westfall, Robert D.; Delany, Diane L.; Flint, Alan L.; Flint, Lorraine E. 2015 Recruitment patterns and growth of high-elevation pines in response to climatic variability (1883–2013), in the western Great Basin, USA
Millar, Constance I.; Heckman, Katherine; Swanston, Christopher; Schmidt, Karena; Westfall, Robert D.; Delany, Diane L. 2014 Radiocarbon dating of American pika fecal pellets provides insights into population extirpations and climate refugia
Millar, Constance I; Westfall, Robert D.; Delany, Diane L. 2014 Thermal regimes and snowpack relations of periglacial talus slopes, Sierra Nevada, California, USA.
Millar, Constance I.; Westfall, Robert D.; Delany, Diane L. 2013 New records of marginal locations for American pika (Ochotona princeps) in the Western Great Basin
Millar, Constance I.; Westfall, Robert D.; Delany, Diane L. 2013 Thermal and hydrologic attributes of rock glaciers and periglacial talus landforms: Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Millar, Constance I.; Westfall, Robert D.; Delany, Diane L.; Bokach, Matthew J.; Flint, Alan L.; Flint, Lorraine E. 2012 Forest mortality in high-elevation whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests of eastern California, USA; influence of environmental context, bark beetles, climatic water deficit, and warming
Millar, Constance I.; Westfall, Robert D.; Delany, Diane L. 2007 Response of high-elevation limber pine (Pinus flexilis) to multiyear droughts and 20th-century warming, Sierra Nevada, California, USA
Millar, Constance I.; King, John C.; Westfall, Robert D.; Alden, Harry A.; Delany, Diane L. 2006 Late Holocene forest dynamics, volcanism, and climate change at Whitewing Mountain and San Joaquin Ridge, Mono County, Sierra Nevada, CA, USA
Millar, Constance I.; Westfall, Robert D.; Delany, Diane L.; King, John C.; Graumlich, Lisa J. 2004 Response of Subalpine Conifers in the Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.A., to 20th-Century Warming and Decadal Climate Variability
Riggs, Lawrence A.; Millar, Constance I.; Delany, Diane L. 1991 Genetic Variation Sampled in Three California Oaks
Millar, Constance I.; Delany, Diane L.; Riggs, Lawrence A. 1990 Genetic variation in California oaks

R&D Affiliations

Ecosystem Function and Health Program (PSW)