Stephen T. Jackson

Professor and Director of Program in Ecology

Specialization: Paleoecology

Office: Williams Conservatory, B3A
Phone: 307-766-2819
E-mail: jackson@uwyo.edu

Education

1983 PhD. Indiana University, Bloomington
   Major: Ecology and Evolunionary Biology
   Minor: Plant Sciences
1978 M.S. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
   Major: Botany
1977 B.A. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
   Major: Botany
   Minor: Geology

Courses

History and Philosophy of Ecology

Research Emphasis

Vegetation and climate change
 

Current Research Projects

Selected Publications

Anderson-Carpenter, L.L., J.S. McLachlan, S.T. Jackson, M. Kuch, C. Lumibao & H.N. Poinar.  2011.  Ancient DNA from lake sediment materials: bridging the gap between paleoecology and genetics.  BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011 11:30.  ( doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-30).

Blois, J.L., J.W. Williams, E.C. Grimm, S.T. Jackson & R.W. Graham.  2011.  A methodological framework for assessing and reducing temporal uncertainty in paleovegetation mapping from late-Quaternary pollen records.  Quaternary Science Reviews (in press).

Dawson, T.P., S.T. Jackson, J. House, I.C. Prentice & G.M. Mace.  2011.  Beyond predictions: biodiversity conservation under climate change.  Science 332:53-58.

Jackson, S.T.  2011.  Conservation and land management in a changing world: Extending historical range-of-variability beyond the baseline.  J. Wiens, C. Regan, G. Hayward & H. Safford (editors). Historical Environmental Variation in Conservation and Natural Resource Management.  Springer.  (in press).

Lesser, M.R. & S.T. Jackson.  2011.  Reliability of macrofossils in woodrat (Neotoma) middens for detecting low-density tree populations.  Paleobiology (in press).

Jackson, S.T. & D. Sax.  2010.  Balancing biodiversity in a changing environment: extinction debt, immigration credit, and species turnover.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25:153-160.

Kaye, M.W., C.A. Woodhouse & S.T. Jackson.  2010.  Persistence and expansion of Ponderosa pine woodlands in the west-central Great Plains during the past two centuries.  Journal of Biogeography 37:1668-1683.

Liu, Y., S.T. Jackson, S. Brewer & J.W. Williams.  2010.  Assessing antiquity and turnover of terrestrial ecosystems in eastern North America using fossil pollen data: A preliminary study .  IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 9 012005.  doi:10.1088/1755-1315/9/1/012005.

Nichols, J., R.K. Booth, S.T. Jackson, E.G. Pendall & Y. Huang.  2010. Differential hydrogen isotopic ratios of Sphagnum and vascular plant biomarkers in ombrotrophic peatlands as a quantitative proxy for precipitation-evaporation balance.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74:1407-1416.

Gill, J.L., J.W. Williams, S.T. Jackson, K.B. Lininger & G.S. Robinson.  2009.  Pleistocene megafaunal collapse, novel plant communities, and enhanced fire regimes in North America.  Science 326:1100-1103.

Jackson, S.T., J.L. Betancourt, R.K. Booth & S.T. Gray.  2009.  Ecology and the ratchet of events: climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 19685-19692.

Jackson, S.T., S.T. Gray & B.N. Shuman.  2009.  Paleoecology and resource management in a dynamic landscape: case studies from the Rocky Mountain headwaters region. Pages 61-80 in Conservation Paleobiology (G. Dietl & K.W. Flessa, editors).  Paleontological Society Papers Volume 15.

Jackson, S.T. & R.J. Hobbs.  2009.  Ecological restoration in the light of ecological history.  Science 325:567-569.

MacDonald, G.M., K.D. Bennett, S.T. Jackson, L. Parducci, F.A. Smith, J.P. Smol & K.J. Willis.  2008.  Impacts of climate change on species, populations and communities: palaeobiogeographical insights and frontiers.  Progress in Physical Geography 32:139-172.

Williams, J.W. & S.T. Jackson.  2007.  Novel climates, no-analog communities, and ecological surprises.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:475-482.

Williams, J.W., S.T. Jackson, & J.E. Kutzbach.  2007.  Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:5738-5742.