Author names in bold are Blois Paleoecology Lab members. ✝ indicates student co-author. * indicates co-first authors
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Boria, R.B.✝ and J.L. Blois. (in press). Phylogeography within the Peromyscus maniculatus species group: Understanding past distribution of genetic diversity and areas of refugia in western North America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. ➤
Fox, N.S.✝, Southon, J.R., Howard, C.M., Takeuchi, G.T., Potze, S., Farrell, A.B., Lindsey, E.L., and J.L. Blois. (in press). Millennial-scale drivers of small mammal isotopic niche dynamics in southern California. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (pre-print) ➤
Balk, Meghan et al. (including J.L. Blois). (2022). A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data. iScience 25(10): 105101. ➤
✝Brock, KM, Chelini, MC, Ayton, C, Madden, IE, Ramos, C, Blois, JL, Pafilis, P, Edwards, DL. (2022). Colour morph predicts social behaviour and contest outcomes in a polymorphic lizard (Podarcis erhardii). Animal Behavior 191: 91-103. ➤
Nieto-Lugilde, D., Blois, J.L., Bonet-Garcia, F.J., Giesecke, T., Gil-Romera, G., and A. Seddon. (2021). Time to better integrate paleo- and neoecological research infrastructures to improve understanding of biodiversity long-term dynamics and to inform future conservation. Environmental Research Letters 16: 095005. ➤
Lawing, A.M., Blois, J.L., Maguire, K.C., Wang, Y., Goring, S., and J.L. McGuire. (2021). Occupancy models reveal regional differences in detectability and improve relative abundance estimations in fossil pollen assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews 253: 106747. ➤
Boria, R.B.✝, Brown, S.K.✝, Matocq, M., and J.L. Blois. (2021). Genome-wide genetic variation coupled with demographic and ecological niche modeling of the dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) reveal patterns of deep divergence and widespread Holocene expansion across northern California. Heredity 126:521–536 ➤; SRA data
Pineda‐Munoz, Silvia, Jukar, Advait M., Tóth, Anikó B., Fraser, Danielle, Du, Andrew, Barr, W. Andrew, Amatangelo, Kathryn L., Balk, Meghan A., Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Blois, Jessica, Davis, Matt, Eronen, Jussi T., Gotelli, Nicholas J., Looy, Cindy, Miller, Joshua H., Shupinski, Alexandria B., Soul, Laura C., Villaseñor, Amelia, Wing, Scott, and S. Kathleen Lyons. (2021) Body mass‐related changes in mammal community assembly patterns during the late Quaternary of North America. Ecography 44(1):56-66 ➤
Fox, N.S.✝, Veneracion, J.✝, and J.L. Blois. (2020) Are geometric morphometric analyses replicable? Evaluating landmark measurement error and its impact on extant and fossil Microtus classification. Ecology and Evolution 10: 3260-3275. ➤
Knight, C.✝, Blois, J.L., Blonder, B., Macias-Fauria, M., Ordonez, A., and J-C Svenning. (2019). Quantifying environmental mismatch and filtering in North American pollen assemblages since the Last Glacial Maximum. The American Naturalist 195:166-180 ➤
Fox, N.S.✝, Takeuchi, G., Farrell, A., and J.L. Blois. (2019) A protocol for differentiating late Quaternary leporid species in southern California with remarks on Project 23 lagomorphs at Rancho La Brea. PaleoBios 36:1-20 ➤
Tóth, A.✝et al. (including J.L. Blois). (2019). Reorganization of surviving mammalian communities after the end-Pleistocene mass extinction. Science 365: 1305-1308 ➤
Rapacciuolo, G. and J.L. Blois. (2019). Understanding ecological change across large spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales: integrating data and methods in light of theory. Ecography 42: 1247-1266 ➤
Rapacciuolo, G., Rominger, A., Morueta-Holme, N. and J.L. Blois. (2019). Editorial: Ecological Non-equilibrium in the Anthropocene. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:428 ➤
Sachs,J. P., Blois, J.L., McGee, T., Wolhowe, M., Haberle, S., Clark, G. and P. Atahan. (2018). Southward shift of the Pacific ITCZ during the Holocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 33(12): 1383-1395 ➤
Boria, R.✝ and J.L. Blois. (2018). The effect of large sample sizes on ecological niche models: Analysis using a North American rodent, Peromyscus maniculatus. Ecological Modelling 386: 83-88 ➤
Williams, J.E.✝ and J.L. Blois. (2018). Range shifts in response to past and future climate change: Can climate velocities and species’ dispersal capabilities explain variation in mammalian range shifts? J. Biogeography 45(9): 2175-2189 ➤
Fitzpatrick, M.C.*, Blois, J.L.*, Williams, J.W., Nieto-Lugilde, D., Maguire, K.C., Lorenz, D. (2018). How will climate novelty influence ecological forecasts? Using the Quaternary to assess future reliability. Global Change Biology 24(8): 3575-3586 ➤
Williams, J.W., Grimm, E.C., Blois, J.L., Charles, D.F., Davis, E., et al. (2018) The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource. Quaternary Research 89(1):156-177 ➤
Nieto-Lugilde, D., Maguire, K.C., Blois, J.L.,Williams, J.W. and M.C. Fitzpatrick (2018). Multiresponse algorithms for community-level modelling: Review of theory, applications, and comparison to species distribution models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9(4): 834-848 ➤
Barnosky, A.D., Hadly, E.A., Gonzalez, P., Head, J., Polly, P.D., Lawing, A.M., Eronen, J.T., Ackerly, D.D., Alex, K., Biber, E., Blois, J., Brashares, J., Ceballos, G., Davis, E., Dietl, G.P., Dirzo, H., Doremus, H., Fortelius, M., Greene, H., Hellmann, J., Hickler, T., Jackson, S.T., Kemp, M., Koch, P.L., Kremen, C., Lindsey, E.L., Looy, C., Marshall, C.R., Mendenhall, C., Mulch, A., Mychajliw, A.M., Nowak, C., Ramakrishnan, U., Schnitzler, J., Das Shrestha, K., Solari, K., Stegner, L., Stegner, M.A., Stenseth, N.C., Wake, M.H., and Z. Zhang (2017). Merging Paleobiology With Conservation Biology to Guide the Future of Terrestrial Ecosystems. Science 355:eaah4787 ➤
Blonder, B., Moulton, D., Blois, J., Enquist, B., Graae, B., Macias-Fauria, M., McGill, B., Nogué, S., Ordonez, A., Sandel, B., and J.-C. Svenning (2017). Predictability in community dynamics. Ecology Letters 20: 293-306 ➤
Lawing, A.M.*, Eronen, J.T.*, Blois, J.L.*, Graham, C., and P.D. Polly (2017). Community functional trait composition and the effects of non-ecological processes. Ecography 40(5): 651-663 ➤
- The base data are publicly available via Dryad.
Brown, S.K. and J.L. Blois (2016). Ecological insights from ancient DNA. In: eLS. pp. 1-7. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ➤
Brown, S.K. and J.L. Blois (2016). The complete mitochondrial genome of the dusky-footed woodrat (Neotoma fuscipes) (Rodentia, Cricetidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 1:1, 728-729 ➤
Dawson, M.N, Axmacher, J.C, Beierkuhnlein, C., Blois, J.L., Bradley, B.A., Cord, A.F., Dengler, J., He, K.S., Heaney, L.S., Jansson, R., Mahecha, M.D., Myers, C., Nogués-Bravo, D., Papadoupoulou, A., Reu, B., Rodríguez-Sánchez, F., Steinbauer, M.J., and A. Stigall (2016). A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen. Frontiers of Biogeography 8.4: e29770 ➤
Lorenz, D.J., Nieto-Lugilde, D., Blois, J.L., Fitzpatrick, M.C., and J.W. Williams (2016). Downscaled and debiased climate simulations for North America from 21,000 years ago to 2100AD. Scientific Data 3: 160048 ➤
- The base data are publicly available via Dryad.
Maguire, K.C.*, Nieto-Lugilde, D.*, Blois, J.L., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Williams, J.W., Ferrier, S. and D.J. Lorenz (2016). Controlled comparison of species- and community-level models across novel climates and communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283(1826): 20152817 ➤
- The base data are publicly available via Dryad.
Lyons, S.K., Amatangelo, K.L., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Bercovici, A., Blois, J.L., Davis, M., DiMichele, W.A., Du, A., Eronen, J.T., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Jud, N., Labandeira, C., Looy, C.V., McGill, B., Miller, J.H., Patterson, D., Pineda-Munoz, S., Potts, R., Riddle, B., Terry, R., Tóth, A., Ulrich, W., Villaseñor, A., Wing, S., Anderson, H., Anderson, J., Waller, D. and N. J. Gotelli (2016). Holocene shifts in the assembly of terrestrial plant and animal communities implicate increasing human impacts. Nature 529: 80-83 ➤
Listen to Jessica’s interview about this study on Tom Willey’s Down on the Farm radio show here. It’s the Feb 5th, 2016 episode.
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Correspondence about the paper:
& (2016). Questioning Holocene community shifts. Nature 537: E4–E5
Lyons, S.K., Miller, J.H., Tóth, A., Amatangelo, K.L., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Bercovici, A., Blois, J.L., Davis, M., DiMichele, W.A., Du, A., Eronen, J.T., Faith, J.T., Graves, G.R., Jud, N., Labandeira, C., Looy, C.V., McGill, B., Patterson, D., Pineda-Munoz, S., Potts, R., Riddle, B., Terry, R., Ulrich, W., Villaseñor, A., Wing, S., Anderson, H., Anderson, J., and N. J. Gotelli (2016). Lyons et al. reply. Nature 537: E5–E6 ➤
2015
Maguire, K.C., Nieto Lugilde, D., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Williams, J.W., and J.L. Blois (2015). Modeling species and community responses to past, present, and future episodes of climatic and ecological change. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 46: 343-368 ➤
Nieto Lugilde, D., Maguire, K.C., Blois, J.L., Williams, J.W., Fitzpatrick, M.C. (2015). Close agreement between pollen-based and forest inventory-based models of vegetation turnover. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24(8): 905-916 ➤
Gill, J.L., Blois, J.L., Benito, B., Dobrowski, S., Hunter Jr., M.L., and J.L. McGuire (2015). Conserving the stage for 10,000 years: a paleoecological perspective on coarse-filter strategies. Conservation Biology 29: 640–648 ➤
Jackson, S.T. and J.L. Blois (2015). Community ecology in a changing environment: perspectives from the Quaternary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 4915–4921 ➤
Blois, J.L., Gotelli, N., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Faith, J.T., Lyons, S.K., Williams, J.W., Amatangelo, K.L., Bercovici, A., Du, A., Eronen, J.T., Graves, G.R., Jud, N., Labandeira, C., Looy, C.V., McGill, B., Patterson, D., Potts, R., Riddle, B., Terry, R.C., Tóth, A., Villaseñor, A., and S. Wing. (2014). A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen species associations across the late Quaternary. Ecography 37: 1095-1108 ➤
- The base data are publicly available via Figshare.
Gavin, D.G., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Gugger, P.F., Heath, K.D., Rodríguez-Sánchez, F., Dobrowski, Hampe, A., Hu, F.S., S., Ashcroft, M.B., Bartlein, P.J., Blois, J.L., Carstens, B.C., Davis, E., de Lafontaine, G., Edwards, M.E., Fernandez, M., Henne, P.D., Herring, E.M., Holden, Z.A., Kong, W., Liu, J., Magri, D., Matzke, N.J., McGlone, M.S., Saltré, F., Stigall, A.L., Tsai, Y.E., Williams, J.W. (2014). Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography. New Phytologist 204:37-54 ➤
Blois, J.L., Zarnetske, P.L., Fitzpatrick, M.C., and S. Finnegan (2013). Climate change and the past, present, and future of biotic interactions. Science 341: 499-504 Abstract | Full Text | Reprint
- Podcast (my part from 13:48 to 22:12)
- Press coverage: UC Merced, NSF, Yale, and ScienceDaily
Williams, J.W., Blois, J.L., Gill, J.L., Gonzalez, L.M., Grimm, E.C., Jackson, S.T., Ordonez, A., Shuman, B., and S.D. Veloz (2013). Model systems for a no-analog future: Species associations and climates during the last deglaciation. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1297: 29-43 ➤
Blois, J.L., Williams, J.W., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Jackson, S.T., and S. Ferrier (2013). Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:9374-9379 ➤
- Press coverage: UW Madison, Science Daily, UC Merced, Merced Sun Star, Sacramento Bee
- Link to data and code in Dryad
Blois, JL, Williams, JW, Fitzpatrick, MC, Ferrier, S, Veloz, S, He, F, Liu, Z, Manion, G, and B Otto-Bliesner (2013). Modeling the climatic drivers of spatial patterns in vegetation composition since the Last Glacial Maximum. Ecography 36:460-473. ➤
- The downscaled paleoclimate simulations are publicly available here.
- Featured article on the Ecography facebook page!
Uhen, MD, Barnosky, AD, Bills, B, Blois, JL, Carrasco, MA, Carrano, MT, Erickson, GM, Eronen, J, Fortelius, M, Graham, RW, Grimm, EC, O’Leary, M, Mast, A, Piel, W, Polly, PD, and LK Säilä (2013). From cards catalogs to computers: Databases in vertebrate paleontology. J. Vertebrate Paleontology 33: 13-28. ➤
Goring, SJ, Williams, JW, Blois, JL, Jackson, ST, Paciorek, CJ, Booth, RK, Marlon, JR, Blaauw, M and JA Christen (2012). Deposition times in the northeastern United States during the Holocene: establishing valid priors for Bayesian age models. Quaternary Science Reviews 48: 54-60 ➤
Veloz, S, Williams, JW, Blois, JL, He, F, Otto-Bliesner, B, and Z Liu (2012). No-analog climates and shifting realized niches during the late Quaternary: implications for 21st-century predictions by species distribution models. Global Change Biology 18: 1698-1713 ➤
Clark, PU, Shakun, JD, Baker, PA, Bartlein, PJ, Brewer, S, Brook, EJ, Carlson, AE, Cheng, H, Kaufman, DS, Liu, Z, Marchitto, TM, Mix, AC, Morrill, C, Otto-Bliesner, B, Pahnke, K, Russell, JM, Whitlock, C, Adkins, JF, Blois, JL, Clark, J, Colman, SC, Curry, WB, Flower, BP, He, F, Johnson, TC, Lynch-Stieglitz, J, Markgraf, V, McManus, JF, Mitrovica, JX, Moreno, PI, and JW Williams (2012). Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109: E1134-42 ➤
Blois, JL, Williams, JW, Grimm, EC, Jackson, ST, & RW Graham (2011). A methodological framework for assessing and reducing temporal uncertainty in paleovegetation mapping from late-Quaternary pollen records. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 1926-1939 ➤
Williams, JW, Blois, JL, & BN Shuman (2011). Extrinsic and intrinsic forcing of abrupt ecological change: case studies from the late Quaternary. Journal of Ecology 99: 664-677 ➤
Blois, JL, McGuire, JL, & EA Hadly (2010). Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change. Nature 465: 771-774 ➤
- Press: Nature News, Stanford, NY Times, SF Chronicle, Discover, ScienceDaily, CNN
Blois, JL & EA Hadly (2009). Mammalian response to Cenozoic climatic change. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 37: 181-208 ➤
Blois, JL, Feranec, RS & EA Hadly (2008). Environmental influences on spatial and temporal patterns of body size variation in California ground squirrels (Spermophilus beecheyi). Journal of Biogeography 35:602-613 ➤
Feranec, RS, Hadly, EA, Blois, JL, Barnosky, AD & A Paytan (2007). Radiocarbon dates from the Pleistocene fossil deposits of Samwel Cave, Shasta County, California, USA. Radiocarbon (49): 117-121 ➤
Blois, JL & BS Arbogast (2006). Conservation genetics of the Sonoma tree vole (Arborimus pomo) based on mitochondrial and AFLP markers. Journal of Mammalogy 87(5): 950-960 ➤
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Blois, J.L. and J.E. Williams (2016). Quaternary biogeography and climate change. In: Kliman, R.M. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. vol. 3, pp. 395-405. Oxford: Academic Press ➤
DeNeve Weeks, D.✝, Nye, J.✝, and J.L. Blois (2015). Monotypic species and extinction risk: looking at Lagomorphs. Frontiers of Biogeography 7.2: 35-37 ➤
Blois, J.L. and E.A. Hadly (2015). Fossils Predict Biological Responses to Future Climate Change. In T. L. Root , K. R. Hall, M. Herzog, and C. A. Howell, editors. Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: Linking Science and Management in Conservation. University of California Press ➤
Blois, JL (2013). Narrowing the estimates of species migration rates. Frontiers of Biogeography 5(3): 171-172. ➤
Blois, JL (2012). Stemming “ignorance creep” in paleoecology and biogeography. Frontiers of Biogeography 4(3): 93-94. ➤
Blois, JL (2012). Recent advances in using species distributional models to understand past distributions. Frontiers of Biogeography 3(4): 123-124.➤
Gill, JL, Blois, JL, Goring, S, Marlon, JR, Bartlein, PJ, Nicoll, K, Scott, AC, and C Whitlock (2012). Letter to the Editor: Paleoecological changes at Lake Cuitzeo were not consistent with an extraterrestrial impact. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109(34): E2243.➤
Blois, JL (2012). Once and Future Giants. What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth’s Largest Animals by Sharon Levy. Invited book review, Quarterly Review of Biology 87(1): 53-54.
Blois, JL, Goring, S, & A Smith (2011). Integrating paleoecological databases. Eos 92(6): 4
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