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Selected Publications

Books

· Gido, K.B and D.A Jackson. 2010. (editors) Community Ecology of Stream Fishes: Concepts, Approaches, and Techniques. American Fisheries Society. 664 pages.

Refereed Articles

· Brown, C., Arbour, J. and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Testing of the effect of missing data estimation and distribution in morphometric multivariate data analyses. Systematic Biology doi:10.1093/sysbio/sys04

· Neff, M.R. and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Geology as a structuring mechanism of stream fish communities. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 141:962-974.

· Poos, M.S. and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Addressing the removal of rare species in multivariate bioassessments: the impact of methodological choices. Ecological Indicators 18: 82-90.

· Poos, M.S. and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Impact of species-specific dispersal and regional stochasticity on estimates of population viability in stream metapopulations. Landscape Ecology 27:405-416.

· Walker, S.C. and D.A. Jackson. 2011. Random-effects ordination: describing and predictive multivariate correlations and co-occurrences. Ecological Monographs 81:635-663.

· Strecker, A.L., J.M. Casselman, M.-J. Fortin, D.A. Jackson, M.S. Ridgway, P.A. Abrams, and B.J. Shuter. 2011. A Multi-scale comparison of trait linkages to environmental and spatial variables in fish communities across a large freshwater lake. Oecologia 166:819-831.

· French, T.D., S. Petro, E.J. Reiner, S.P. Bhavsar, and D.A. Jackson. 2011. Thirty-year time series of PCB concentrations in a small invertivorous fish (Notropis hudsonius): An examination of post-1990 trajectory shifts in the lower Great Lakes. Ecosystems 14:415-429.

· Edwards, B.A., D.A. Jackson, and K.M. Somers. 2009. Multi-species crayfish declines in lakes: implications for species distributions and richness. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 28:719-732.

Extended List of Publications

Books

· Gido, K.B and D.A Jackson. 2010. (editors) Community Ecology of Stream Fishes: Concepts, Approaches, and Techniques. American Fisheries Society. 664 pages.

Refereed Articles

· Neff, M.R., S.P. Bhavsar, G.B. Arhonditsis, R. Fletcher, and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Long-term changes in fish mercury levels in historically impacted English-Wabigoon River system (Canada). Journal of Environmental Monitoring (in press).

· Neff, M.R. and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Geology as a structuring mechanism of stream fish communities. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 141:962-974.

· Poos, M.S. and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Addressing the removal of rare species in multivariate bioassessments: the impact of methodological choices. Ecological Indicators 18: 82-90.

· Poos, M.S. and D.A. Jackson. 2012. Impact of species-specific dispersal and regional stochasticity on estimates of population viability in stream metapopulations. Landscape Ecology 27:405-416.

· Poos, M., Lawrie, D., Tu, C., D.A. Jackson, and N.E. Mandrak. 2012. Estimating local and regional population sizes for an endangered minnow, redside dace (Clinostomus elongatus), in Canada. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 22:47-57.

· Gewurtz, S.B., S.P. Bhavsar, D.A. Jackson, E. Awad, J.G. Winter, E.J. Reiner, R. Moody, and R. Fletcher. 2011. Trends of legacy and emerging-issue contaminants in Lake Simcoe fishes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 36:100-112.

· Neff, M.R. and D.A. Jackson. 2011. Effects of broad-scale geological changes on patterns in macroinvertebrate assemblages. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30:459-473.

· Schwalb, A.N., K. Cottenie, K., M.S. Poos, and J. Ackerman. 2011. Dispersal limitation in unionid mussels and implications for their recovery. Freshwater 56:1509-1518.

· Scott, C.E., K.M. Alofs, and B.A. Edwards. 2011. Putting dark diversity in the spotlight. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 26:263-264.

· Stanfield, L.W. and D.A. Jackson. 2011. Understanding the factors that influence headwater stream flows in response to storm events. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 47:315-336.

· Timms, L.L., Walker, S.C. and S.M Smith. 2011. Establishment and dominance of an introduced herbivore has limited impact on native host-parasitoid food webs. Biological Invasions. 14:299-244.

· Walker, S.C. and D.A. Jackson. 2011. Random-effects ordination: describing and predictive multivariate correlations and co-occurrences. Ecological Monographs 81:635-663.

· Wang, L. and D.A. Jackson. 2011. Modeling the establishment of invasive species: Habitat and biotic interactions influencing the establishment of Bythotrephes longimanus. Biological Invasions 13:2499-2512.

· Gerwurtz, S.B., S.P. Bhavsar, D.A. Jackson, R. Fletcher, E. Awad, R. Moody, and E.J. Reiner. 2010. Temporal and Spatial Trends of Organochlorines and Mercury in Fishes from the St. Clair River/Lake St. Clair Corridor, Canada. Journal of Great Lakes Research 36: 100-112.

· Jackson, D.A., S.C. Walker, and M.S. Poos. 2010. Cluster analysis of fish community data: “New” tools for determining meaningful groups of sites and species assemblages. Pages 503-527 In Community Ecology of Stream Fishes: Concepts, Approaches, and Techniques. K.B. Gido and D.A. Jackson (eds) American Fisheries Society.

· Biernaskie, J.M., S.C. Walker, and R.J. Gegear. 2009. Bumblebees learn to forage like Bayesians. American Naturalist 174:413-423.

· Neff, M.R. and D.A. Jackson 2009. Communication and cohesion in aquatic science literature. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 701-712.

· Poos, M., A.J. Dextrase, A.N. Schwalb, and J.D. Ackerman. 2009. Secondary invasion of the round goby into high diversity Great Lakes tributaries and species at risk hotspots: potential new concerns for endangered freshwater species. Biological Invasions 12:1269-1284.

· Poos, M.S., S.C. Walker and D.A. Jackson. 2009. Functional-diversity indices can be driven by methodological choices and species richness. Ecology 90:341-347.

· Rising, J.D., D.A. Jackson, and H.B. Fokidis. 2009. Geographic variation in plumage pattern and coloration of Savannah Sparrow. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 121:253-264.

· Sharma, S., D.A. Jackson, and C.K. Minns. 2009. Quantifying the potential effects of climate change and the invasion of smallmouth bass on native lake trout populations across Canadian lakes. Ecography 32:517-525.

· Bhavsar, S.P., A. Hayton, and D.A. Jackson. 2008. Uncertainty analysis of dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls-related toxic equivalents in fish. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 27:997-1005.

· Walker, S.C., M.S. Poos, and D.A. Jackson 2008. Functional rarefaction: estimating functional diversity from field data. Oikos 117:286-296.

· Sharma, S. and D.A. Jackson. 2008. Predicting smallmouth bass incidence across North America: A comparison of statistical approaches. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:471-481.

· Sharma, S. S.C. Walker, and D.A. Jackson. 2008. Empirical modeling of lake water temperature relationships: A comparison of predictive modeling approaches. Freshwater Biology 53:897-911.

· Zhao, Y., B.J. Shuter, and D.A. Jackson. 2008. Life history variation parallels phylogeographical patterns in North American walleye (Sander vitreus) populations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:198-211.

· Caron, J.B., and D.A. Jackson. 2008. Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 258:222-256.

· Bhavsar, S., D.A. Jackson, A. Hayton, E. Reiner, T. Chen and J. Bodnar. 2007. Are PCB levels in fish from the Canadian Great Lakes still declining? Journal of Great Lakes Research 33:592-605.

· Sharma, S., D.A. Jackson, C.K. Minns and B.J. Shuter. 2007. Will northern fish populations be in hot water because of climate change? Global Change Biology 13:2052-2064.

· Hirst, C.N. and D.A. Jackson. 2007. Reconstructing community relationships: the impact of sampling error, ordination approach, and gradient length. Diversity and Distributions 13:361-371.

· Bhavsar, S.P., Fletcher, R., Hayton, A., Reiner, E.J., and D.A. Jackson. 2007. Composition of dioxin-line PCBs in fish: an application for risk assessment. Environmental Science and Technology 41:3096-3102.

· Bhavsar, S.P,, Hayton, A., Reiner, E.J., and D.A. Jackson. 2007. Estimating dioxin-line polychlorinated biphenyl toxic equivalents from total polychlorinated biphenyl measurements in fish. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26:1622-1628.

· Sharma, S., and D.A. Jackson. 2007. Fish assemblages and environmental conditions in the lower reaches of northeastern Lake Erie tributaries. Journal of Great Lakes Research 33: 15-27.

· Caron, J.B., and D.A. Jackson. 2006. Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed Community, Burgess Shale. Palaois 21:451-465.

· French, T.D., Campbell, L.M., Jackson, D.A., Casselman, J.M., Scheider, W.A., and A. Hayton. 2006. Persistent organic pollutants in Lake Ontario salmon: Changes linked to source control, trophodynamics, and a warming climate. Limnology and Oceanography 51:2794-2807.

· MacRae, P.S.D., and D.A. Jackson. 2006. Characterizing north-temperature lake littoral fish communities: a comparison between distance sampling and minnow traps. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:558-569.

· Mayo, J.S. and D.A. Jackson. 2006. Quantifying littoral vertical habitat structure and fish community associations using underwater visual census. Environmental Biology of Fishes 75:395-407.

· Mills, A.M., Rising, J.D. and D.A. Jackson. 2006. Conspecific attraction during establishment of Least Flycatcher aggregations. Journal of Field Ornithology 77:34-38.

· Paavola, R., Muotka, T., Virtanen, R., Heino, J., Jackson, D. and A. Maki-Petays. 2006. Spatial scale affects community concordance among fishes, benthic macroinvertebrates and bryophytes in boreal streams. Ecological Applications 16:368-379.

· Wilson, K.A., Howell, E.T., and D.A. Jackson. 2006. Replacement of zebra mussels by quagga mussels in the Canadian nearshore of Lake Ontario: The importance of substrate, round goby abundance, and upwelling frequency. Journal of Great Lakes Research 32:11-28.

· Peres-Neto, P.R., D.A. Jackson, and K.M. Somers. 2005. How many principal components? Stopping rules for determining the number of non-trivial axes revisited. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 49:974-997.

· Jackson, D.A. and Y. Chen. 2004. Robust principal component analysis and outlier detection with ecological data. Environmetrics 15:129-139.

· Peres-Neto, P.R., Jackson , D.A. and K.M. Somers. 2003. Giving meaningful interpretation to ordination axes: assessing loading significance in principal component analysis. Ecology 84:2347-2363.

· Olden, J.D. and D.A. Jackson. 2002. A comparison of statistical models for modelling fish species distributions. Freshwater Biology 47:1976-1995.

· Jackson, D.A. and N.E Mandrak. 2002. Changing fish biodiversity: predicting the loss of cyprinid biodiversity due to global climate change. Pages 89-98 In Fisheries in a Changing Climate. N.A. McGinn (ed). American Fisheries Society Symposium 32. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda MD.

· Jackson, D.A. 2002. Ecological impacts of Micropterus introductions: the dark side of black bass. Pages 221-234 In Black Bass: Ecology, Conservation and Management. D. Phillip and M. Ridway ( eds). American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

· Olden, J.D., and D.A. Jackson. 2002. Illuminating the 'black box': Understanding variable contributions in artificial neural networks. Ecological Modeling 154:135-150.

· Olden, J.D., Jackson, D.A., and P.R. Peres-Neto. 2002. Predictive models of fish species distributions: a comment on proper validation and chance predictions. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 131: 329-336.

· Wilkinson, M., Peres-Neto, P.R. Foster, P., and Mocriff, C. 2002. Type I error rates of the parsimony PTP test. Systematic Biology 51:524-527.

· Chen, Y. and D.A. Jackson. 2001. An empirical study on estimators for linear regression analyses in fisheries. Fisheries Research 49:193-206.

· Jackson , D.A., Peres-Neto, P.R., and J.D. Olden. 2001. What controls who is where in freshwater fish communities: the roles of biotic, abiotic and spatial factors? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58:157-170.

· MacRae , P.S.D. and D.A. Jackson. 2001. The influence of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) predation and habitat complexity on the structure of littoral-zone fish assemblages. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58:342-351.

· Olden, J.D., and D.A. Jackson. 2001. Fish habitat relationships in lakes: gaining predictive and explanatory insight by using artificial neural networks. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 130:878-897.

· Olden, J.D., and B.D. Neff. 2001. Cross correlation bias in lag analysis of aquatic time series. Marine Biology 138: 1063-1070.

· Olden, J.D., Jackson, D.A., and P.R. Peres-Neto. 2001. Spatial isolation and fish communities in drainage lakes. Oecologia 127:572-585.

· Peres-Neto, P.R., and D.A. Jackson. 2001. The importance of scaling of multivariate analyses in ecological studies. Ecoscience 8:522-526.

· Peres-Neto, P.R., and J.D. Olden. 2001. Assessing the robustness of randomization tests: examples from behavioural studies. Animal Behaviour 61: 79-86.

· Peres-Neto, P.R., Olden, J.D., and D.A Jackson. 2001. Environmentally constrained null models: site suitability as occupancy criterion. Oikos 93:110-120.

· Mehranvar, L. and D.A. Jackson. 2000. History and taxonomy: their roles in the core-satellite hypothesis. Oecologia 127:131-142.

· Olden, J.D. 2000. An artificial neural network approach for studying phytoplankton succession. Hydrobiologia 436: 131-143.

· Olden, J.D., and D.A. Jackson. 2000. Torturing the data for the sake of generality: how valid are our regression models? Ecoscience 7:501-510.

· Peres-Neto, P.R., and F. Marques. 2000. When are random data not random, or is the PTP test useful? Cladistics 16:420-424.

· Saint-Jacques, N., Harvey, H.H., and D.A. Jackson. 2000. Selective foraging in the white sucker (Catostomus commersoni). Canadian Journal of Zoology 78:1320-1331.

· King, J.R. and D.A. Jackson. 1999. Variable selection with principal components analysis of environmental data . Environmetrics 10:67-77.

· Peres-Neto, P.R. 1999. How many statistical methods are too many? The problem of conducting multiple inferences revisited. Marine Ecology Progress Series 176: 303-306.

· Jackson, D.A. 1997. Compositional data in community ecology: the paradigm or peril of proportions . Ecology 78:929-940.

· Jackson, D.A. and H.H. Harvey. 1997. Qualitative and quantitative sampling of lake fish communities. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54:2807-2813.

· Jackson, D.A. and H.H. Harvey. 1996. Gradual reduction and extinction of fish populations in acid lakes. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 85:389-394.

· Harvey, H.H. and D.A. Jackson. 1996. Acid stress and extinction of a spring-spawning fish population. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 85:383-388.

· Rundle, H.D. and D.A. Jackson. 1996. Spatial and temporal variation in littoral-zone fish communities. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53:2167-2176.

· Jackson, D.A. 1995. PROTEST: a PROcrustean Randomization TEST of community environment concordance. Ecoscience 2:297-303.

· Chen, Y. and D.A. Jackson. 1995. Robust estimation of mean and variance in fisheries. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124:401- 412.

· Jackson, D.A. 1995. Reflecting on principal components analysis - A reply to Mehlman et al. Ecology 76:644-645.

· Chen, Y., D.A. Jackson, and J.E. Paloheimo. 1994. Robust regression approach to analyzing fisheries data. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51:1420-1429.

· Jackson, D.A. 1993. Multivariate analysis of benthic invertebrate communities: the implication of choosing particular data standardizations, measures of associations, and ordination methods. Hydrobiologia 268:9-26.

· Jackson, D.A. 1993. Stopping rules in principal components analysis: a comparison of heuristical and statistical approaches. Ecology 74:2204-2214.

· Jackson, D.A. and H.H. Harvey. 1993. Fish and benthic invertebrates: community concordance and community-environment relationships. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50:2641-2651.

· Somers, K.M. and D.A. Jackson. 1993. Adjusting mercury concentration for fish-size covariation: a multivariate alternative to bivariate regression. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 50:2388-2396.

· Jackson, D.A., K.M. Somers, and H.H. Harvey. 1992. Null models and fish communities: evidence of nonrandom patterns. American Naturalist 139:930-951.

· Chen, Y., D.A. Jackson, and H.H. Harvey. 1992. A comparison for von Bertalanffy and polynomial functions in modelling fish growth data. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 49:1228-1235.

· Jackson, D.A. and K.M. Somers. 1991. Putting things in order: the ups and downs of detrended correspondence analysis. American Naturalist 137:704-712.

· Jackson, D.A. and K.M. Somers. 1991. The spectre of ‘spurious’ correlations. Oecologia 86:147-151.

· Jackson, D.A., H.H. Harvey, and K.M. Somers. 1990. Ratios in aquatic sciences: statistical shortcomings with mean depth and the morphoedaphic index. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 47:1788-1795.

· Jackson, D.A. and H.H. Harvey. 1989. Biogeographic associations in fish assemblages: local versus regional processes. Ecology 70:1472-1484.

· Jackson, D.A. and K.M. Somers. 1989. Are probability estimates from the permutation model of Mantel's test stable? Canadian Journal of Zoology 67:766-769.

· Jackson, D.A., K.M. Somers, and H.H. Harvey. 1989. Similarity coefficients: measures of co-occurrence and association or simply measures of occurrence? American Naturalist 133:436-453.