John W. (Jack) Williams

Publications

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 421 Science Hall
550 North Park St
Madison, WI 53706
jww@geography.wisc.edu
608-265-5537

Williams, J. W. (in press) Quaternary Vegetation Distributions.  Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments. Edited by V. Gornitz. Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Preprint)

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.