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Gajewski, K and GM MacDonald. 2005. Palynology of Arctic Lakes. In: R Pienitz, M Douglas and J Smol. Long-term environmental change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes. in (ed) Pienitz R, Douglas, M. S. V. & Smol J.P. 'Long-term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes' DPER Volume 8 book 'Long-term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes'. Kluwer.

MacDonald, G. M., Edwards, T. W. D., Gervais, B., Laing, T. E., Pisaric, M. F. J., Porinchu, D. E., Snyder J. A., Solovieva, N., Tarasov, P., Wolfe, B. B. 2005 Palaeolimnological research from northern Russian Eurasia in (ed) Pienitz R, Douglas, M. S. V. & Smol J.P. 'Long-term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes' DPER Volume 8 book 'Long-term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes'. Kluwer.

MacDonald, G.M. 2002. The boreal forest in The Physical Geography of North America, A.R. Orme (ed.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, 270-290.

MacDonald, G.M. 2001 Conifer stomata. in Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments, J.P. Smol, H.J.B. Birks and W.M. Last (eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 33-47.

Kremenetski, K.V., Liu, Kam-Biu and MacDonald, G.M. 1998. The late Quaternary history of pines in northern Asia. in The Pines, D. Richardson (ed.): Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 95-106.

MacDonald, G.M., Cwynar, L.C. and Whitlock, C. 1998. The late Quaternary history of pines in northern North America. in The Pines, D. Richardson (ed.): Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 122-136

Scott, P.A., Lavoie, C., MacDonald, G.M., Sveinbjornsson, and Wein, R.W. 1997. Climate change and the future position of the arctic treeline. in Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems, W. Oechel et al. (eds.). Springer, Berlin, 245-265.

Sugita, S., MacDonald, G.M. and Larsen, C.P.S. 1997. Reconstruction of fire disturbance and forest succession from fossil pollen in lake sediments: potential and limitations. in Sediment records of biomass burning, J. Clark et al. (eds.). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 387-412.

MacDonald, G.M., 1996. Quaternary palynology in Stratigraphic Palynology, J. Jansonius and D.C. McGregor (eds.); American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologist, Houston, Texas, 879-910.

MacDonald, G.M. and Gajewski, K., 1992. The northern treeline of Canada in Geographical Snapshots of North America, D.G. Janelle (ed); Guilford Press, New York, 34 37.

Clague, J.J. and MacDonald, G.M., 1989: Paleoecology and paleoclimatology (Canadian Cordillera); in Chapter 1 of Quaternary Geology of Canada and Greenland, R.J. Fulton (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada, no. 1 (also Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, v. K 1).

MacDonald, G.M., 1987. Forests of the Hamilton region: Past, present and future in Steel City: A Geography of Hamilton and Region, M.J. Dear, J.J. Drake and L.G. Reeds (eds.); University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 65 84.

Journal Articles

MacDonald, G.M., Beilman, D.W., Kremenetski, K.V., Sheng, Y., Smith, L.C. and Velichko, A.A. 2006. Rapid early development of the circumarctic peatlands and atmospheric CH4 and CO2 variations. Science, 314: 385-388.

Potito, A.P., Porinchu, D.F., MacDonald, G.M, and Moser, K.A. 2006. A late Quaternary chironomid-inferred temperature record from the Sierra Nevada, California, with connections to northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures, Quaternary Research, 66: 356-363

CAPE-Last Interglacial Project Members - (MacDonald listed as CAPE LIGP Member). 2006. Last Interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change, Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 1383-1400

Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Marshall, S.J., Overpeck, J.T., Miller, G.H., Hu, A. and CAPE Last Interglacial Project Members - (MacDonald listed as CAPE LIGP Member). 2006. Simulating Arctic Climate Warmth and Icefield Retreat in the Last Interglaciation. Science 311: 1751-1753.

MacDonald, G.M. and Case, R.A. 2005. Variations in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation over the past millennium. Geophysical Research Letters. 32: L08703, doi10.1029/2005GL022478.

Overpeck, J.T. and 20 other authors including MacDonald, G.M. 2005. Arctic system on trajectory to new state. EOS 86: 309, 312-313.

MacDonald, G.M. and R.A. Case, 2005. Variations in the Pacific Oscillation over the Past Millennium. Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L08703,doi:10.1029/2005GL022478.

L. C. Smith, L.C., Y. Sheng, T., MacDonald, G.M. and Hinzman, L.D. 2005. Disappearing Arctic lakes. Science 3 June 2005; 308: 1429 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1108142]

Solovieva, N, Tarasov, P. E. and MacDonald G. 2005. Quantitative reconstruction of Holocene climate from the Chuna Lake pollen record, Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia. The Holocene, 15(1): 141-148.

Huang, C. MacDonald, G.M. and Cwynar, L.C. 2004. Holocene landscape development and climatic change in the Low Arctic, Northwest Territories, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 205: 221-234.

Kaufman, D.S., Ager, T.A., Anderson, N.J., Anderson, P.M., Andrews, J.T., Bartelein, P.J., Burbaker, L.B., Coats, L.L., Cwynar, L.C., Duval, M.L., Dyke, A.S., Edwards, M.E., Eiser, W.R., Gajewski, K., Geisodottir, A., Hu, F.S., Jennings, A.E., Kaplan, M.R., Kewin, M.W., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Miller, G.H., Mock, C.J., Oswald, W.W., Otto-Blisner, B.L., Porinchu, D.F., Rühland, K., Smol, J.P., Steig, E.J., Wolfe, B.B., 2004, Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0-180° W). Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 529-560 .

Kremenetski, K. V., Boettger, T., MacDonald, G. M., Vaschalova, T., Sulerzhitsky, L., Hiller, A. 2004. Medieval climate warming and aridity as indicated by multiproxy evidence from the Kola Peninsula, Russia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 209: 113-125

Kremenetski, K.V., MacDonald, G.M., Gervais, B.R., Borisova, O.K., Snyder, J.A. 2004. Holocene vegetation history and climate change on the northern Kola Peninsula, Russia: a case study from a small tundra lake. Quaternary International 122: 57-68.

Sheng, Y., Smith,L.C., MacDonald,G.M., Kremenetski, K.V., Frey, K.E., Velichko, A.A., Lee, M., Beilman, D.W. and Dubinin, P. 2004. A high-resolution GIS-based inventory of the west Siberian peat carbon pool. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18 (GB3004, doi:10.1029/2003GB002190): 1-14.

Smith, L.C., MacDonald, G.M., Velichko, A.A., Beilman, D.W., Borisova, O.K., Frey, K.A., Kremenetski, K.V., and Sheng, Y. 2004. Siberian peatlands a net carbon sink and global methane sourse since the early Holocene. Science 303: 353-356.

Bloom, A.M., Moser, K.A., Porinchu, D,F. and MacDonald, G.M. 2003. Diatom inference models for surface water temperature and salinity from a 57-lake calibration set from the Sierra Nevada, California. Journal of Paleolimnology 29: 235-255.

Case, R.A. and MacDonald, G.M. 2003. Tree ring reconstructions of streamflow for three Canadian Prairie rivers. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 39: 703-716.

Case, R.A. and MacDonald, G.M. 2003. Dendrochronological analysis of the response of tamarack (Larix laricina) to climate and larch sawfly (Pristiphora erichsonii) infestations in central Saskatchewan. Ecosience 10: 380-388.

Kremenetski, K.V., Velichko, A.A., Borisova, O.K., MacDonald, G.M., Smith, L.C., Frey, K.E. and Orlova, L.A. 2003. Peatlands of the Western Siberian lowlands: current knowledge on zonation, carbon content and Late Quaternary History. Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 703-723.

MacDonald, G., Kaufman, D., Duvall, M, and Coates, L. 2003. PARCS: Paleoenvironmental Arctic Sciences - taking the long view. Arctic Research of the United States 17: 50-58.

Porinchu, D.F. and MacDonald, G.M. 2003. The use and application of freshwater midges (Chironomidae: Insecta: Diptera) in geographical research. Progress in Physical Geography 27: 378-422.

Porinchu, D.F., MacDonald, G.M., Bloom, A.M. and Moser, K.A. 2003.Late Pleistocene and early Holocene climate and limnological changes in the Sierra Nevada California inferred from fossil midges (Insects: Diptera: Chironomidae. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 198: 403-422

Seppa, H., Cwynar, L.C., and MacDonald, G.M. 2003. Post-glacial vegetation reconstruction and a possible 8200 cal. Yr BP event from the low arctic of continental Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Quaternary Science 18: 621-629.

Weckström, J., Snyder, J.A., Korhola, A., Laing; T.E., and MacDonald, G.M. 2003 Diatom Inferred Acidity History Of 32 Lakes On The Kola Peninsula, Russia Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 149: 339-361.

Wolfe, B.B., Edwards, T.W.D., Jian, H., MacDonald, G.M., Gervais, B.R., and Snyder, J.A. 2003. Effect of varying oceanicity on early- to late-Holocene paleohydrology, Kola Peninsula, Russia: isotopic evidence from treeline lakes. Holocene 13: 153-160.

Gervais, B.R. and MacDonald, G.M. 2002. Pinus sylvestris treeline development and movement on the Kola Peninsula of Russia: pollen and stomate evidence. Journal of Ecology.

Moser, K.A., Smol, J.P., MacDonald, G.M. and Larsen, C.P.S. 2002 19th century eutrophication of a remote boreal lake: a consequence of climatic warming? Journal of Paleolimnology 28: 269-281.

Porinchu, D.F., MacDonald, G.M., Bloom, A.M. and Moser, K.A. 2002. The modern distribution of chironomid subfossils (Insecta: Diptera) in the Sierra Nevada, California: potential for paleoclimatic reconstructions. Journal of Paleolimnology 28: 255-275.

CAPE Project Members 2001. Holocene paleoclimate data from the Arctic: testing models of global climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 1275-1287.

Gervais, B.R. and MacDonald, G.M. 2001. Modern pollen and stomate deposition in lake surface sediments from across the treeline on the Kola Peninsula, Russia. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 114: 223-237.

Gervais B.R. and MacDonald G.M. 2001Tree-ring and summer-temperature response to volcanic aerosol forcing at the northern tree-line, Kola Peninsula, Russia. The Holocene 11: 499-505.

Hidalgo, H.G., Dracup, J.A., MacDonald, G.M. and King, J.A. 2001. Comparison of tree species sensitivity to high and low extreme hydrologic events. Physical Geography 22: 115-134.

Pisaric, M.F.J., MacDonald, G.M., Cwynar, L.C., and Velichko, A.A. 2001. Modern pollen and conifer stomates from north-central Siberian lake sediments: their usage in interpreting late Quaternary fossil pollen assemblages. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 33: 19-27.

Pisaric, M.F.J., MacDonald, G.M., Velichko, A.A. and Cwynar, L.C. 2001. The late-glacial and postglacial vegetation history of the of the northwestern limits of Beringia, from pollen, stomates and macrofossil evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 235-245.

Szeicz, J.M. and MacDonald, G.M. 2001. Montane climate and vegetation dynamics in easternmost Beringia during the Late Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 247-257.

Wolfe, S.A., Huntley, D.J., David, P.P., Ollerhead, J., Sauchyn, D.J. and MacDonald, G.M. 2001. Late 18th century drought-induced sand dune activity, Great Sand Hills, Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 38: 105-117.

Edwards, M.E., Anderson, P.M., Brubaker, L.B., Ager, T.A., Andreev, A.A., Bigelos, N.HZ., Cwynar, L.C., Eisner, W.R., Harrison, S.P., Hu, F-S., Jolly, D., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Mock., C.J., Ritchie, J.C., Sher, A.V., Spear, R.W., Williams, J.W., and Yu, G. 2000. Pollen-based biomes for Beringia 18,000, 6000 and 0 14C yr BP. Journal of Biogeography 25: 521-554.

Gervais, B.R. and MacDonald, G.M. 2000. A 403-year record of of July temperatures and treeline dynamics of Pinus sylvestris from the Kola Peninsula, northwest Russia. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 32: 295-302.

Larsen, C.P.S., Morris, W.A. and MacDonald, G.M. 2000. Records of geomagnetic secular variation since 1200 AD and the potential for chronological control of lake sediments in northern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 12: 1711-1722.

MacDonald, G.M. and Case, R.A. 2000. Biological evidence of multiple temporal and spatial scales of hydrological variation in the western interior of Canada. Quaternary International 67: 133-142.

MacDonald, G.M., Felzer, B., Finney, B.P. and Forman, S.L. 2000. Holocene lake sediment records of Arctic hydrology. Journal of Paleolimnology 24: 1-14.

MacDonald, G.M., Gervais, B.R., Snyder, J.A., Tarasov, G.A. and Borisova, O.K. 2000 Radiocarbon dated Pinus sylvestris L. wood from beyond treeline on the Kola Peninsula, Russia. The Holocene 10: 143-147.

MacDonald, G.M., Velichko, A.A., Kremenetski, C.V., Borisova, O.K., Goleva, A.A., Andreev, A.A., Cwynar, L.C., Riding, R.T., Forman, S.L., Edwards, T.W.D., Aravena, R., Hammarlund, D., Szeicz, J.M., Gattaulin, V.N. 2000. Holocene treeline history and climate change across northern Eurasia, Quaternary Research 53: 302-311.

Smith, L.E., MacDonald, G.M., Frey, K.E., Velichko, A.A., Kremenetski, K.V., Borisova, O.K., Dubinin, P., and Forster, R. 2000. U.S.-Russian venture probes Siberian peatlands sensitivity to climate. EOS 81: 497-504.

Snyder, J.A., MacDonald, G.M., Forman, S.L., Tarasov, G.A. and Mode, W.N. 2000. Postglacial climate and vegetation history, north-central Kola Peninsula, Russia: pollen and diatom records from Lake Yarnyshnoe-3. Boreas 29: 261-271.

Wolfe, B.B., Edwards, T.W.D. Aravena, Forman, S.L., Warner, B.G., Velichko, A.A., and MacDonald, G.M. 2000. Holocene Paleohydrology and Paleoclimate at Treeline, North-Central Russia, Inferred from Oxygen Isotope Records in Lake Sediment Cellulose. Quaternary Research 53:319-329.

Blom, T., Korhola, A., Weckstrom, J., Laing, T., Synder, J., MacDonald, G. and Smol. J. 1999. Physical and chemical characterisation of small subarctic headwater lakes in Finnish Lapland and the Kola Peninsula. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnology 27: 1-5.

Pienitz, R., Smol, J.P. and MacDonald, G.M. 1999. Paleolimnological reconstruction of Holocene climatic trends from two boreal treeline lakes, Northwest Territories, Canada. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 31: 82-93.

Larsen, C.P.S. and MacDonald, G.M. 1998. A 840-year record of fire and vegetation in a boreal white spruce forest. Ecology, 79: 106-118.

MacDonald, G.M., Case, R.A. and Szeicz, J.M. 1998. A 538-year record of climate and treeline dynamics from the lower Lena River region of northern Siberia, Russia. Arctic and Alpine Research 30: 334-339.

MacDonald, G.M., Szeicz, J.M., Claricoates, J. and Dale, K.A. 1998. Response of the central Canadian treeline to recent climatic changes. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88: 183-208.

Moser, K.A., Smol, J.P., Lean, D.R.S. and MacDonald, G.M. 1998. Physical and chemical limnology of northern boreal lakes, Wood Buffalo national Park, northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories, Canada. Hydrobiologia 377: 25-43.

Reed, W.J., Larsen, C.P.S., Johnson, E.A. and MacDonald, G.M. 1998. Estimation of temporal variations in historical fire frequency from time-since-fire map data. Forest Science 44: 465-475.

Clayden, S. L., Cwynar, L. C., MacDonald, G. M., Velichko, A. A. 1997. Holocene pollen and stomates from a forest-tundra site on the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. Arctic and Alpine Research, 29, 327-333.

McLeod, T.K. and MacDonald, G.M. 1997. Postglacial range expansion and population growth of Picea mariana, Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana in the western interior of Canada. Journal of Biogeography, 24:

Overpeck, J, Hughen, K., Hardy, D., Bradley, R., Case, R., Douglas, M., Finney, B., Gajewski, K., Jacoby, G. Jennings, A., Lamoureux, S., Lasca, A., MacDonald, G., Moore, J., Retelle, M., Smith, S., Wolfe, A. and Zielinski, G. 1997. Arctic environmental change of the last four centuries. Science, 278: 1251-1256.

Edwards, T.W.D., Wolfe, B.B. and MacDonald, G.M. 1996. Influences of changing atmospheric circulation on precipitation 18O-temperature relations in Canada during the Holocene. Quaternary Research 46: 211-218.

Szeicz, J.M. and MacDonald, G.M. 1996. A 930-year ring-width chronology from moisture sensitive white spruce (Picea glauca Moench) from northwestern Canada. Holocene, 6:345-351.

Claydon, S., Cwynar, L.C. and MacDonald, G.M., 1996. Modern pollen and stomates from the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. Canadian Journal of Botany, 74:1009-1015.

Hansen, B.C.S., MacDonald, G.M. and Moser, K.A., 1996. Identifying the tundra-forest border in the stomate record: analysis of lake surface samples in the Yellowknife area, Northwest Territories, Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany, 74:796-800.

MacDonald, G.M. and McLeod, T.K., 1996. The Holocene closing of the 'Ice-Free' Corridor. Quaternary International, 32:87-95.

Moser, K.A., MacDonald, G.M. and Smol, J.P., 1996. Application of freshwater diatoms to Geographical research. Progress in Physical Geography, 20:21-52.

Wolfe, B.B., Edwards, T.W.D., Aravena, R. and MacDonald, G.M., 1996. Rapid Holocene hydrologic change along boreal treeline, Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology, 15:171-181.

Case, R.A. and MacDonald, G.M. 1995. A dendroclimatic reconstruction of annual precipitation on the western Canadian Prairies since A.D. 1505 from Pinus flexilis James. Quaternary Research, 44: 267-275.

Larsen, C.P.S. and MacDonald, G.M. 1995. Relations between tree ring widths, climate and annual area burned in the boreal forest of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 25: 1746-1755.

MacDonald, G.M. 1995. Vegetation of the continental Northwest Territories at 6ka Geographie physique at Quaternaire 49: 37-43.

Szeicz, J.M. and MacDonald, G.M. 1995. Dendroclimatic Reconstruction of Summer Temperatures in Northwestern Canada Since A.D. 1638 based on Age Dependent Modelling. Quaternary Research, 44: 257-266.

Szeicz, J.M. and MacDonald, G.M. 1995. Recent white spruce dynamics at the subarctic alpine treeline of northwestern Canada. Journal of Ecology. 83: 873-885.

Szeicz, J.M., MacDonald, G.M. and Duk Rodkin, A. 1995. Late Quaternary vegetation history of the central Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeocology 113: 351 371.

Walker, I.R. and MacDonald, G.M. 1995. Distributions of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) and other freshwater midges with respect to tree line, Northwest Territories, Canada, Arctic and Alpine Research, 27: 258 263.

Hutton, M., MacDonald, G.M. and Mott, R.J. 1994. Postglacial vegetation history of the Mariana Lake region, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 31: 418 425.

Szeicz, J.M. and MacDonald, G.M. 1994. Age dependent tree ring growth response of subarctic white spruce to climate. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 24, 120 132

Larsen, C.P.S. and MacDonald, G.M. 1993. Lake morphometry, sediment mixing and the selection of sites for fine resolution palaeocological studies. Quaternary Science Reviews, 12: 781 792.

MacDonald, G.M. 1993. Methodological falsification and the interpretation of palaeoecological records: the cause of the early Holocene birch decline in western Canada. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 79, 83 97.

MacDonald, G.M. 1993. Reconstructing plant invasions using fossil pollen analysis. Advances in Ecological Research 24, 67 110.

MacDonald, G.M., Edwards, T.W.D., Moser, K.A., Pienitz, R. and Smol, J.P. 1993. Rapid response of treeline vegetation and lakes to past climate warming. Nature 361, 243 246.

MacDonald, G.M. 1992. Long term monitoring of boreal forests using fossil pollen records. Unasylva 43, 14 21.

Aravena, R., Warner, B.G., MacDonald, G.M., and Hanf, K.I., 1992. Carbon isotope composition of lake sediments in relation to lake productivity and radiocarbon dating. Quaternary Research, 37, 333 345.

Edwards, K.J. and MacDonald, G.M., 1991. Holocene palynology II. Human influence and vegetation change. Progress in Physical Geography, 15, 364 391.

MacDonald, G.M. and Cwynar, L.C. 1991. Postglacial population growth rates of Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia in western Canada. Journal of Ecology, 79, 417 429.

MacDonald, G.M. and Edwards, K.J., 1991. Holocene palynology I. Principles, palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology. Progress in Physical Geography, 15, 261 289.

MacDonald, G.M., Beukens, R.P. and Kieser, W.E., 1991. Radiocarbon dating of limnic sediments: a comparative analysis and discussion. Ecology, 72, 1150 1155.

MacDonald, G.M., Larsen, C.P.S., Szeicz, J.M. and Moser, K.A. 1991. The reconstruction of boreal forest fire history from lake sediments: a comparison of charcoal, pollen, sedimentological, and geochemical indices. Quaternary Science Reviews, 10, 53 71.

Szeicz, J.M. and MacDonald, G.M., 1991. Postglacial vegetation history of oak savanna in southern Ontario, Canadian Journal of Botany, 69, 1507 1519.

Moser, K.A. and MacDonald, G.M. 1990, Holocene vegetation change at treeline Northwest Territories, Canada. Quaternary Research, 34, 227 239.

MacDonald, G.M. 1989, Postglacial paleoecology of the subalpine forest grassland ecotone of southwestern Alberta: new insights on vegetation and climatic change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and adjacent Foothills. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 73, 155 173.

MacDonald, G.M. and Reid, R.T. 1989, Pollen Climate distance surfaces and the interpretation of fossil pollen assemblages from the western interior of Canada. Journal of Biogeography. 16, 403 412.

Kostaschuk, R.A., MacDonald, G.M., and Jackson, L.E. Jr. 1988, Rocky Mountain alluvial fans, Canadian Geographer 31, 366 368.

MacDonald, G.M. 1988, Methods in Quaternary ecology: palynology. Geoscience Canada, 15, 29 42.

MacDonald, G.M. and Waters, N.M. 1988, The use of most predictable surfaces for the  classification and mapping of taxon assemblages. Vegetatio, 74, 125 135.

Cwynar, L.C. and MacDonald, G.M. 1987, Geographical variation of lodgepole pine in relation to population history. The American Naturalist, 129, 463 469.

Jackson, L.E. Jr., Kostaschuk, R.A. and MacDonald, G.M. 1987, Identification of debris flow hazard on alluvial fans in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Geological Society of American Reviews in Engineering Geology 7, 115 124.

Kostaschuk, R.A. and MacDonald, G.M. 1987, Multi track surveying of large bedforms. Geomarine Letters, 8, 57 62.

MacDonald, G.M. 1987. Postglacial development of the subalpine boreal transition forest. Journal of Ecology 75, 303 320.

MacDonald, G.M. 1987, Postglacial vegetation history of the Mackenzie River Basin. Quaternary Research 28, 245 262.

MacDonald, G.M., Beukens, R.P., Kieser, W.E., and Vitt, D.H. 1987, Comparative radiocarbon dating of terrestrial plant macrofossils and aquatic moss from the ice free corridor of western Canada. Geology 15, 837 840.

MacDonald, G.M. and Waters, N.M. 1987, An evaluation of quantitative mapping algorithms for analysis of palynological data. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 51, 289 307.

Kostaschuk, R.A., MacDonald, G.M. and Putnam, P.E. 1986, Depositional process and alluvial fan drainage basin morphometric relationships near Banff, Alberta, Canada. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 11, 471 484.

MacDonald, G.M. and Ritchie, J.C. 1986, Modern pollen spectra from the western interior of Canada and the interpretation of late Quaternary vegetation development. New Phytologist 103, 245 268.

Ritchie, J.C. and MacDonald, G.M. 1986, Patterns of postglacial spread of white spruce. Journal of Biogeography 13, 527 540.

MacDonald, G.M. and Cwynar, L.C. 1985, A fossil pollen based reconstruction of the late Quaternary history of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta spp. latifolia) in the western interior of  Canada. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 15, 1039 1044.

MacDonald, G.M. 1983, Holocene vegetation history of the upper Natla River area, Northeast Territories, Canada. Arctic and Alpine Research, 15, pp. 169 180.

Jackson, L.E. Jr., MacDonald, G.M. and Wilson, M.C. 1982, Periglacial origin for terraced river sediments in Bow Valley, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Science, 19, pp. 2219 2231.

MacDonald, G.M. 1982, Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the Morley Flats and Kananaskis Valley of southwestern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 19, pp. 23 25.

Jackson, L.E. Jr., and MacDonald, G.M., 1980, Movement of an ice cored rock glacier, Tungsten, N.W.T., Canada, 1963 1980. Arctic, 373, pp. 842 847.