Patrick Murphy  - Projects

Volunteer (>>> Scroll down for Work Projects)

- Native Species Pocket Park

- Colorado Native Plant Society (CoNPS) - I do book sales for the Boulder Chapter.   This link will take you to the CoNPS book store.  Any Questions - call me at 303-444-4358.

- Colorado Rare Plant Guide - this is just a link, I wasn't involved in the production of this excellent work.

- Harrington - Manual of the Plants of Colorado

- Weeds & Bugs

- Dog Impacts

- Boulder Climate Diagrams 1893-2007+

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Work

-Eldorado Fire at Walker Ranch - Vegetation Reestablishment Monitoring - Boulder County, Colorado - 2002.   Funded by Boulder County Small Grants 2002 Program.  (Complete Report Adobe .pdf 15 Mb)

- Prairie Dogs
    Revegetation experiment with native species in an active prairie dog town.  Funded by Boulder County Small Grants 2000 Program. Adobe Acrobat .pdf file (Complete Report 3.8 Mb) 
    Second Year Monitoring Report - Includes seedling density and species composition. Funded by Boulder County Small Grants 2001 Program. (Complete Report 5.9 Mb)

- Boulder City Open Space Forest Understory Classification and Ordination.
    Adobe Acrobat .pdf file (580 Kb)

- Wetlands - Wetland creation, enhancement and protection project in southeast Idaho.

- Vegetation Mapping - Colorado State Parks - Mueller, Spinney, San Luis Lakes, Navajo, Mancos.

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- Prepared a Keyword index for the International Erosion Control Association that allows access for all of the proceedings from the last 11 years

- Masters Thesis
    Forest Vegetation of the Lost Creek Scenic Area In the Southern Front Range Colorado. 1982.
    Adobe Acrobat .pdf file (10.8M)

PUBLICATION

Odasz-Albrigtsen, A.M., Tømmervik, H., Murphy P.H. 2000.(4Mb adobe .pdf file may take 20 minutes to download) Decreased photosynthetic efficiency in plant species exposed to multiple airborne pollutants along the Russian-Norwegian border. Canadian Journal of Botany 78:1021-1033.

- Rare Plants
    Colorado Rare Plant Guide - this is just a link, I wasn't involved in the production of this excellent work.

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    Definition of Ecotone - a transition zone between two ecological communities usually exhibiting competition between organisms common to both.  In terms of biological communities, these "in between" areas are typically the most productive and diverse zones on the landscape.