Geral McDonald
Former Employee
Scientist Emeritus
Treesearch Publications
- Jane E. Stewart, Mee-Sook Kim, Marcus V. Warwell, John W. Hanna, Paul J. Zambino, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2024. Assessing historical and contemporary rates of white pine blister rust incidence in naturally regenerated stands of western white pine for the prioritization of restoration sites under changing climate
- John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, Patrick I. Bennett, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2024. Bioclimatic modeling of Armillaria altimontana in western North America
- Mee-Sook Kim, John W. Hanna, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2023. Armillaria altimontana in North America: Biology and ecology
- Mee-Sook Kim, John W. Hanna, Jane E. Stewart, Marcus V. Warwell, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2021. Predicting present and future suitable climate spaces (potential distributions) for an Armillaria root disease pathogen (Armillaria solidipes) and its host, Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), under changing climates
- Marcus V. Warwell, John W. Hanna, Geral McDonald, Mee-Sook Kim, Bradley M. Lalande, Jane E. Stewart, Benjamin C. Bright, Andrew T. Hudak, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2020. Armillaria altimontana, a potential natural biological control against Armillaria root disease
- Marcus V. Warwell, John W. Hanna, Geral McDonald, Mee-Sook Kim, Bradley M. Lalande, Jane E. Stewart, Ben C. Bright, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2019. Armillaria altimontana is not associated with reduced growth or survival of western white pine (Pinus monticola) planted in northern Idaho
- John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, Amy C. Ramsey, Dan W. Omdal, Robin L. Mulvey, Betsy Goodrich, Brennan A. Ferguson, Josh J. Bronson, Kristen L. Chadwick, Jane E. Stewart, Helen M. Maffei, Geral McDonald, Eric W. I Pitman, Marcus V. Warwell, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2019. Assessing potential Armillaria spp. distributions in western Oregon, western Washington, and Alaska
- Marcus V. Warwell, Geral McDonald, John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, Bradley M. Lalande, Jane E. Stewart, Andrew T. Hudak, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2019. Armillaria altimontana is associated with healthy western white pine (Pinus monticola): Potential in situ biological control of the Armillaria root disease pathogen, A. solidipes
- John N. King, Jeff DeBell, Angelia Kegley, Richard A. Sniezko, Geral McDonald, Nicholas Ukrainetz. 2018. Provenance variation in western white pine (Pinus monticola): The impact of white pine blister rust
- Ned B. Klopfenstein, Jane E. Stewart, Yuko Ota, John W. Hanna, Bryce A. Richardson, Amy Ross-Davis, Ruben D. Elias-Roman, Kari Korhonen, Nenad Keca, Eugenia Iturritxa, Dionicio Alvarado-Rosales, Halvor Solheim, Nicholas J. Brazee, Piotr Lakomy, Michelle R. Cleary, Eri Hasegawa, Taisei Kikuchi, Fortunato Garza-Ocanas, Panaghiotis Tsopelas, Daniel Rigling, Simone Prospero, Tetyana Tsykun, Jean A. Berube, Franck O. P. Stefani, Saeideh Jafarpour, Vladimir Antonin, Michal Tomsovsky, Geral McDonald, Stephen Woodward, Mee-Sook Kim. 2017. Insights into the phylogeny of Northern Hemisphere Armillaria: Neighbor-net and Bayesian analyses of translation elongation factor 1-α gene sequences
- Amy Ross-Davis, Jane E. Stewart, John W. Hanna, Marcus V. Warwell, Paul J. Zambino, Christy Cleaver, Geral McDonald, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Bruce Moltzan, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Mee-Sook Kim. 2016. Can metagenetic studies of soil microbial communities provide insights toward developing novel management approaches for Armillaria root disease?
- John W. Hanna, M. V. Warwell, H. Maffei, M. L. Fairweather, J. T. Blodgett, P. J. Zambino, J. Worrall, K. S. Burns, J. J. Jacobs, S. M. Ashiglar, J. E. Lundquist, M. -S. Kim, Amy Ross-Davis, C. Hoffman, R. Mathiasen, R. Hofstetter, John D. Shaw, E. W. I. Pitman, E. V. Nelson, Geral McDonald, M. R. Cleary, S. Brar, B. Richardson, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2016. Bioclimatic modeling predicts potential distribution of Armillaria solidipes and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir) under contemporary and changing climates in the interior western U.S.A
- R. James Cook, Robert L. Edmonds, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Willis Littke, Geral McDonald, Daniel Omdahl, Karen Ripley, Charles Shaw, Rona Sturrock, Paul Zambino. 2013. Opportunities for addressing laminated root rot caused by Phellinus sulphuracens in Washington's forests: A Report from the Washington State Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources
- John W. Hanna, Sara Ashiglar, Anna Case, Mary Lou Fairweather, Chris Hoffman, Mee-Sook Kim, Helen Maffei, Robert Mathiasen, Geral McDonald, Erik Nelson, Amy Ross-Davis, John D. Shaw, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2012. Armillaria root disease in the western USA
- Geral McDonald. 2012. Is stumping a wise solution for the long-term: The problem of phenotype-environmental mismatch
- Jane E. Stewart, John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, Rich C. Cronn, Amy L. Ross-Davis, Hardeep S. Rai, Bryce A. Richardson, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2012. De novo assembly and transcriptome characterization of an Armillaria solidipes mycelial fan
- Ned B. Klopfenstein, Mee-Sook Kim, John W. Hanna, Amy L. Ross-Davis, Sara M. Ashiglar, Geral McDonald. 2012. Armillaria species: Primary drivers of forest ecosystem processes and potential impacts of climate change
- Geral McDonald. 2011. After 100 years, is coevolution relevant?
- Geral McDonald, John W. Hanna, Aaron L. Smith, Helen M. Maffei, Mee-Sook Kim, Amy L. Ross-Davis, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2011. Preliminary report on the ecology of Armillaria in the East Cascades of Oregon
- Mee-Sook Kim, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Geral McDonald. 2010. Effects of forest management practices and environment on occurrence of Armillaria species
- Bryce A. Richardson, Marcus V. Warwell, Mee-Sook Kim, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Geral McDonald. 2010. Integration of population genetic structure and plant response to climate change: sustaining genetic resources through evaluation of projected threats
- A. C. Koehn, Geral McDonald, David Turner, D. L. Adams. 2010. Dynamic phenotypic plasticity in photosynthesis and biomass patterns in Douglas-fir seedlings
- Ned B. Klopfenstein, J. E. Lundquist, John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, Geral McDonald. 2009. First report of Armillaria sinapina, a cause of armillaria root disease, associated with a variety of forest tree hosts on sites with diverse climates in Alaska
- Alan E. Harvey, James W. Byler, Geral McDonald, Leon F. Neuenschwander, Jonalea Tonn. 2008. Death of an ecosystem: perspectives on western white pine ecosystems of North America at the end of the twentieth century
- Paul J. Zambino, Bryce A. Richardson, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Mee-Sook Kim. 2007. A paradigm shift for white pine blister rust: Non-Ribes alternate hosts for Cronartium ribicola in North America
- Bryce A. Richardson, Paul J. Zambino, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Geral McDonald, Lori M. Carris. 2007. Assessing host specialization among aecial and telial hosts of the white pine blister rust fungus, Cronartium ribicola
- Paul J. Zambino, Bryce A. Richardson, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Mee-Sook Kim. 2006. Non-Ribes alternate hosts of white pine blister rust: What this discovery means to whitebark pine
- Geral McDonald, Bryce A. Richardson, Paul J. Zambino, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Mee-Sook Kim. 2006. Pedicularis and Castilleja are natural hosts of Cronartium ribicola in North America: A first report
- Geral McDonald, Paul J. Zambino, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2005. Naturalization of host-dependent microbes after introduction into terrestrial ecosystems [Chapter 5]
- Geral McDonald, Philip D. Tanimoto, Thomas M. Rice, David E. Hall, Jane E. Stewart, Paul J. Zambino, Jonalea Tonn, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Mee-Sook Kim. 2005. Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; environmental consequences fact sheet 13: Root Disease Analyzer-Armillaria Response Tool (ART)
- Jill A. Hoff, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Jonalea Tonn, Geral McDonald, Paul J. Zambino, Jack D. Rogers, Tobin L. Peever, Lori M. Carris. 2004. Roles of Woody Root-Associated Fungi in Forest Ecosystem Processes: Recent Advances in Fungal Identification
- J. A. Hoff, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Geral McDonald, Jonalea Tonn, Mee-Sook Kim, Paul J. Zambino, Paul F. Hessburg, J. D. Rodgers, T. L. Peever, L. M. Carris. 2004. Fungal endophytes in woody roots of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
- Mee-Sook Kim, S. J. Brunsfeld, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2003. Effect of white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) and rust-resistance breeding on genetic variation in western white pine Pinus monticola)
- Raymond J. Hoff, Dennis Ferguson, Geral McDonald, Robert E. Keane. 2001. Strategies for managing whitebark pine in the presence of white pine blister rust [Chapter 17]
- Lauren Fins, James Byler, Dennis Ferguson, Al Harvey, Mary Francis Mahalovich, Geral McDonald, Dan Miller, John Schwandt, Art Zack. 2001. Return of the giants: Restoring white pine ecosystems by breeding and aggressive planting of blister rust-resistant white pines
- Mee-Sook Kim, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Geral McDonald, Kathiravetpillai Arumuganathan. 2001. Use of flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, and PCR-based techniques to assess intraspecific and interspecific matings of Armillaria species
- Geral McDonald, A. E. Harvey, J. R. Tonn. 2000. Fire, competition and forest pests: landscape treatment to sustain ecosystem function
- Leon F. Neuenschwander, James W. Byler, Alan E. Harvey, Geral McDonald, Denise S. Ortiz, Harold L. Osborne, Gerry C. Snyder, Arthur Zack. 1999. White pine in the American West: A vanishing species - can we save it?
- Susan K. Hagle, Geral McDonald, Eugene A. Norby. 1989. White pine blister rust in northern ldaho and western Montana: alternatives for integrated management
- Geral McDonald. 1983. Douglas-fir Progeny Testing for Resistance to Western Spruce Budworm
- Geral McDonald, Raymond J. Hoff, William R. Wykoff. 1981. Computer simulation of white pine blister rust epidemics
- Richard T. Bingham, Raymond J. Hoff, Geral McDonald. 1972. Biology of rust resistance in forest trees: Proceedings of a NATO-IUFRO Advanced Study Institute; August 17-24, 1969
- Ramond J. Hoff, Geral McDonald. 1968. Rooting of needle fascicles from western white pine seedlings
Last updated March 10, 2026