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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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.