Conservation Science at The Nature Conservancy

People

Ron Myers
Latin America and the Caribbean Fire Director

Contact Information
Tall Timbers Research Station
13093 Henry Beadel Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32312

Phone: (850) 668-0827
Fax: (850) 668-7781
E-mail: rmyers@tnc.org
http://www.tncfire.org
http://www.tnc-ecomanagement.org/IntlFire

Brief Biography
Ronald L. Myers was Director of Fire Management for The Nature Conservancy from 1986 to 2002 responsible for developing and coordinating TNC's fire management activities. He and his staff oversaw TNC's ecological prescribed fire training, fire management standards and procedures, and conservation area fire management planning. He is now Latin America and the Caribbean Fire Director. Ron gained his technical fire experience working for the U. S. National Park Service in Glacier and Everglades national parks, and was a smokejumper for the U. S Forest Service based out of Missoula, MT. He has a bachelor's degree in Forestry from the University of Montana and a master's and Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Florida. He served as an instructor in forestry at the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Forestales in Honduras as a Peace Corps volunteer, and he was staff plant ecologist at Archbold Biological Station in central Florida. His research interests include fire ecology, fire effects at multiple scales, and fire x exotic species & fire x flooding interactions. He is particularly interested in the integration of fire applications and fire science with the ecology of fire. He currently works out of Tall Timbers Research Station in Tallahassee, Florida and devotes most of his time to fire management learning networks in Latin America.

Awards
1999 Stephen Spurr Award for excellence in forest ecology. Society of American Foresters

1982 Austin Award for outstanding research and service in the natural sciences. Florida State Museum Associates

Publications
Myers, R. L., H. A. Belles & J. R. Snyder. 2001. Prescribed fire in the management of Melalueca quinquenervia in subtropical Florida. Tall Timbers Research Station Miscellaneous Publication No. 11:132-140.

Myers, R. L. 2001. Regímenes de fuego y la conservación de la biodiversidad. In:
Rodríguez-Trejo, D. A. Memoria del Foro de Análisis sobre la Problemática de los Incendios en las Areas Naturales del Sur de México. Tuxla Gutiérrez, Chiapas.

Myers, R. L. 2000. Fire in tropical and subtropical ecosystems. Pages 161-174. In: Brown, J. K. and J. K. Smith. Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on flora. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42, vol 2. USDA Forest Service, Ogden, UT.

Myers, R. L. 2000. Physical setting. Pages 10-19, In: Wunderlin, R. P. & B. F. Hanson.
Flora of Florida, Volume 1: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Myers, R. L. 2000. Vegetation of Florida. Pages 20-34, In: Wunderlin, R. P. & B. F.
Hanson. Flora of Florida, Volume 1: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.

Hermann, S.M., T. Van Hook, R.W. Flowers, L.A. Brennan, J.S. Glitzenstein, D.R. Streng, J.L. Walker and R.L. Myers. 1998. Fire and biodiversity: studies of vegetation and arthropods. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 63:384-401.

Myers, R. L. & H. A. Belles. 1995. Studies to develop melaleuca control tactics using fire and herbicides. Project Report Florida Nongame Wildlife Program GFC-87- 035. Tallahassee, FL. 119 pp.

Robbins, L. E. & R. L. Myers. 1990. Seasonal effects of prescribed burning in Florida. Tall Timbers Research Station Miscellaneous Publication No. 8. Tallahassee, FL.

Myers, R. L. & J. J. Ewel (eds). 1990. Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando, FL. 765 pp.

Myers, R. L. 1990. Scrub and High Pine. Pages 150-193, In: R. L. Myers & J. J. Ewel. Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press. Orlando, FL.

Myers, R. L. & J. J. Ewel. 1990. Problems, prospects and strategies for conservation. Pages 619-632, In: R. L. Myers & J. J. Ewel. Ecosystems of Florida. University Central Florida Press. Orlando, FL.

Myers, R. L. 1990. Palm Swamps. Pages 267-286. In: A. E. Lugo, M. Brinson & S. Brown (eds.). Forested Wetlands. Elsevier Press, New York.

Seamon, P. A., R. L. Myers, L. E. Robbins & G. S. Seamon. 1989. Wiregrass reproduction and community restoration. Natural Areas Journal 9:264-265.

Myers, R. L. & D. L. White. 1987. Landscape history and changes in sandhill vegetation in north-central and south-central Florida. Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club 114:21- 32 .

Duever, M. J., J. E. Carlson, J. F. Meeder, L. C. Duever, L. H. Gunderson, L. A. Riopelle, T. R. Alexander, R. L. Myers & D. P. Spangler. 1986. The Big Cypress National Preserve. Research Report No. 8. National Audubon Society. New York.

Myers, R. L. 1986. Florida's freezes: an analog of short-duration nuclear winter events in the tropics. Florida Scientist 49:104-115.

Myers, R. L. 1985. Fire and the dynamic relationship between Florida sandhill and sand pine scrub vegetation. Bulletin Torrey Botanical Club 112:241-252.

Harwell, M. A., T. C. Hutchinson, W. P. Cropper, C. C. Harwell, H. D. Grover, L. C. Bliss, J. K. Detling, H. D. Grover, J. D. Hanson, A. Keast, G. J. Kelly, J. R. Kelly, S. J. McNaughton, R. L. Myers, S. Pacenka, V. M. Ponomarev, M. J. Salinger, D. W. H. Walton. 1985. Vulnerability of ecological systems to climatic effects of nuclear war. Pages 81-172. In: H. A. Harwell & T. C. Hutchinson. Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War: Vol. II Ecological and Agricultural Effects. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Harwell, M. A., W. P. Cropper, J. A. Clark, C. C. Harwell, R. Herrera, R. L. Myers, D. Pimentel, J. Porter, S. J. Risch, T. Sinclair, R. B. Stewart, P. B. Tinker, Z. Uchijima, M. H. Unsworth, M. Verstraete. 1985. Potential effects of nuclear war on agricultural productivity. Pages 271-358. In: H. A. Harwell & T. C. Hutchinson. Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War: Vol. II, Ecological and Agricultural Effects. John Wiley & Sons, New York.

Myers, R. L. 1984. Ecological compression of Taxodium distichum var.nutans by Melaleuca quinquenervia in southern Florida. Pages 358-364, In: K. C. Ewel & H. T. Odum (eds.). Cypress Swamps. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, FL.

Myers, R. L. 1984. Growth form, growth characteristics, and phenology of Raphia taedigera in Costa Rican palm swamps. Principes 28:64-72.

Myers, R. L. 1983. Site susceptibility to invasion by the exotic tree Melaleuca quinquenervia in southern Florida. Journal of Applied Ecology 20:645-658.

Myers, R. L. & P. A. Peroni. 1983. Approaches to determining aboriginal fire use and its impact on vegetation. Bulletin Ecological Society Am. 64:217-218

Capehart, B. L., J. J. Ewel, B. Sedlik & R. L. Myers. 1977. Remote sensing survey of Melaleuca. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 43:187-206.