Publications
Kaufman, D. M. and Williams, J. W. (accepted, in revision) Latitudinal gradients of diversity, past and present: plants in eastern North America for the last 16,000 years. Journal of Biogeography.
Williams, J. W. (in press) Quaternary Vegetation Distributions. Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Edited by V. Gornitz. Kluwer Academic Publishers. (pre-print).
Gonzales, L.M., Williams, J.W, and Kaplan, J.O. (2008) Variations in leaf area index in northern and eastern North America over the past 21 000 years: A data-model comparison. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27: 1453-1466.
Williams, J.W., Gonzales, L.M., Kaplan, J.O., (2008) Leaf area index for northern and eastern North America at the Last Glacial Maximum: a data-model comparison. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 17: 122-134. (PDF (subscription required))
Williams, J. W. and Jackson, S. T. (2007) Novel Climates, No-Analog Plant Communities, and Ecological Surprises: Past and Future. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 5: 475-482. doi:10.1890/070037. (PDF)
Williams, J. W., Jackson, S. T., Kutzbach, J. E. (2007) Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100AD. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 5738-5742. (PDF) (Suppl. Figures) (Suppl. Tables) (Powerpoint Slides)
Williams, J. W., B. Shuman, P. J. Bartlein, J. Whitmore, K. Gajewski, M. Sawada, T. Minckley, S. Shafer, A. E. Viau, T. Webb, III, P. M. Anderson, L. B. Brubaker, C. Whitlock, and O. K. Davis. (2006). An Atlas of Pollen-Vegetation-Climate Relationships for the United States and Canada. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas, TX, 293p.
Diffenbaugh, N. S., Ashfaq, M., Shuman, B., Williams, J. W., Bartlein, P. J. (2006). Summer aridity in the United States: Response to Mid-Holocene changes in insolation and sea surface temperature. Geophysical Research Letters 33, DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028012 (PDF)
Seabloom, E. W., Williams, J. W., Slayback, D., Stoms, D. M., Viers, J. H., Dobson, A. P. (2006) Human impacts, plant invasion, and imperiled species in California. Ecological Applications 16: 1338-1350.
Notaro, M., Liu, Z., and Williams, J. W. (2006) Observed vegetation-climate feedbacks in the United States. Journal of Climate 19: 763-786. (PDF)
Kutzbach, J. E., Williams, J. W., and Vavrus, S. J. (2005) Simulated 21st century changes in regional water balance of the Great Lakes region and links to changes in global temperature and poleward moisture transport. Geophysical Research Letters 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023506. (PDF)
Jennings, M. D., Williams, J. W., Stromberg, M. R. (2005) Diversity and productivity across plant communities of the inland northwest, USA. Oecologia 143/144: 607-618. (PDF)
Williams, J. W., Seabloom, E. W., Slayback, D., Stoms, D. M., Viers, J. H. (2005) Anthropogenic impacts upon plant species richness and net primary productivity in California. Ecology Letters 8: 127-137. (PDF)
Whitmore, J., Gajewski, K., Sawada, M., Williams, J. W., Shuman, B., Bartlein, P. J., Minckley, T., Viau, A. E., Webb, T., III, Anderson, P. M., and Brubaker, L. B. (2005). North American and Greenland modern pollen data for multi-scale paleoecological and paleoclimatic applications. Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 1828-1848. (PDF)
Jennings, M. D., Williams, J. W., Stromberg, M. R. (2005) Diversity and productivity across plant communities of the inland northwest, USA. Oecologia 143/144: 607-618. (PDF)
Jackson, S. T. and Williams, J. W. (2004) Modern analogs in Quaternary paleoecology: Here today, gone yesterday, gone tomorrow? Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 32: 495-537. (PDF)
Webb, T., Shuman, B. N., Williams, J. W. (2004) Climatically forced vegetation dynamics in eastern North America during the late Quaternary period. The Quaternary Period in the United States. Edited by Gillespie, A. R., Porter, S. C., Atwater, B. F. Elsevier, pp. 459-478. (PDF)
Williams, J. W., Shuman, B. N., Webb, T., III, Bartlein, P. J., Leduc, P.(2004) Quaternary vegetation dynamics in North America: Scaling from taxa to biomes. Ecological Monographs 74: 309-334. (Abstract and Figure PDFs) (PDF)
Chalcraft, D. R., Williams, J. W., Smith, M. D., Willig, M. R. (2004) Scale dependence in the relationship between diversity and productivity: assessing the role of spatial and temporal turnover. Ecology 85: 2701-2708. (PDF)
Gavin, D. G., Oswald, W. W., Wahl, E. R., Williams, J. W. (2003) A statistical approach to evaluating distance metrics and analog assignments for pollen records. Quaternary Research 60: 356-367. (Abstract) (PDF)
Williams, J. W. and Jackson, S. T. (2003) Palynological and AVHRR observations of modern vegetational gradients in eastern North America. The Holocene 13: 485-497. (Abstract) (PDF)
Williams, J. W. (2003) Needleleaved and broadleaved tree cover distributions in North America since the Last Glacial Maximum. Global and Planetary Change 35: 1-23. (Abstract and Figure PDFs) (PDF)
Williams, J. W., Post, D. M., Cwynar, L. C., Lotter, A. F., Levesque, A. J. (2002) Rapid vegetation responses to past climate change. Geology 30: 971-974. (Abstract) (PDF)
Shuman, B. N., Webb III, T., Bartlein, P. J., Williams, J. W. (2002) The anatomy of a climatic oscillation: Vegetation change in eastern North America during the Younger Dryas chronozone. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 1777-1791. (PDF)
Williams, J. W., Shuman, B. N., Webb III, T. (2001) No-analog conditions and rates of change in the climate and vegetation of eastern North America. Ecology 82: 3346-3362. (Abstract and Figure PDFs) (PDF)
Williams, J. W., Webb III, T., Richard, P. J. H., and Newby, P. (2000) Late Quaternary biomes of Canada and the eastern United States. Journal of Biogeography 27: 585-607. (Abstract) (PDF)
Edwards, M. E., Anderson, P. M., Brubaker, L. B., Ager, T., Andreev, A. A., Bigelow, N. H., Cwynar, L. C., Eisner, W. R., Harrison, S. P., Hu, F.-S., Jolly, D., Lozhkin, A. V., McDonald, 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. B.P. Journal of Biogeography 27: 521-554.
Williams, J. W., Webb III, T., Shuman, B. N., and Bartlein, P. J. (2000) Do low CO2 concentrations affect pollen-based reconstructions of LGM climates? A response to ‘Physiological significance of low atmospheric CO2 for plant-climate interactions’ by Cowling and Sykes. Quaternary Research 53: 402-404. (PDF)
Williams, J. W., Bartlein, P. J., and Webb III, T. (2000) Data-model comparisons for eastern North America - inferred biomes and climate values from pollen data. Proceedings of the Third Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project Workshop, Oct. 4-8, 1999. Montreal, Canada. Edited by P. Braconnot. WCRP-111, WMO/TD-No. 1007. (PDF)
Jackson, S. T., Webb, R. S., Anderson, K. H., Overpeck, J. T., Webb III, T., Williams, J. W., and Hansen, B. C. S. (2000) Vegetation and environment in eastern North America during the last glacial maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 19: 489-508. (PDF)
Williams, J. W., Summers, R., and Webb III, T. (1998) Applying plant functional types to construct biome maps from eastern North American pollen data: comparisons with model results. Quaternary Science Reviews 17: 607-627. (Abstract) (PDF)
Leduc, P. L., Williams, J. W., and Webb III, T. (1998) Programs for site selection, tabular display, and interpolation of data from Paradox-based pollen databases. INQUA Newsletter 17.
Williams, J. W. (1995) Factors controlling the formation of fossiliferous beds in the Devonian Columbus limestone at Marblehead Quarry, Marblehead, Ohio. Ohio Journal of Sciences 95: 325-330.
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