Jonathan Adams

Assistant Professor, Rutgers

Contact Info

Office: 410 Boyden Hall
Office Phone: (973) 353-1008
Lab: 436 Boyden Hall
Lab Phone:
E-mail: jonadams@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Personal/Lab Web Sites

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~biosci/AdamsLab.htm

Educational Background

Research Interests

I am interested mainly by broad scale patterns and processes in the natural world. Much of my work has been on the earth system of the Quaternary, especially the carbon cycle. I am also interested in the biogeography of invasive species, and latitudinal patterns in diversity, plant defenses and in insect coloration patterns. (See more details in my personal web page)

Current projects are:

• The comparative ecology of the invasive Norway maple (Acer platanoides) in Europe and North America .
• Simulation of dust-climate-vegetation feedbacks during the late Quaternary (with Charlie Zender of U C Irvine).
• Latitudinal gradients in plant defensive chemistry in eastern North America (with Claus Holzapfel of Rutgers ).
• Latitudinal gradients in insect colourfulness (with Frank Shih, NJIT).

Selected Publications

• Adams J.M. and Woodward F.I. (1989). Patterns in tree species richness as a test of the glacial extinction hypothesis. Nature v.339 p.699-701.
• Adams J.M. (1989). Productivity and tree species diversity. Plants Today v.2 p.85-91.
• Adams J.M., Faure H., Faure-Denard L., McGlade J.M. & Woodward F.I., (1990). Increases in terrestrial carbon storage from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. Nature v.348 p.711-714.
• Adams J.M. & Woodward F.I. (1992) The Past as a Key to the Future; the use of palaeoenvironmental understanding to predict the effects of Man on the biosphere. Advances in Ecological Research v.22 p.257-314.
• Adams J.M., Faure H. & Petit-Maire N. (1992) Methane and Milankovitch cycles. Nature v.355 p.214.
• Adams J.M. (1993). Caliche carbonate and the carbon cycle. Nature v.361 p.213-214.
• Adams J.M. (1993) "A Doomsday Book for life on Earth". Book review of Global Biodiversity (WCMC, ed; B. Groombridge 1992). July 1993. Journal of Biogeography / Biodiversity Letters .
• Velichko A.A., Borisova O., Zelikson E.M., Faure H., Adams J.M., Branchu P. & Faure-Denard L. (1993). Greenhouse warming and the Eurasian biota; are there any lessons from the past? Global and Planetary Change. v.7, p.51-68.
• Maslin M., Adams J.M., Thomas E., Faure H. & Haines-Young R. (1994) The carbon transfer between oceans, atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere since the Last Glacial Maximum a review of two contrasting methods of estimation. Terra Nova v.7 p.358-366.
• Adams J.M. (1995) Weathering and Glacial Cycles. Nature v.373 p.110.
• Adams J.M (1995). Towards a better vegetation system for global mapping and monitoring. Journal of Biogeography/Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters v.5 p.3-6.
• Faure H., Adams J.M., Debenay J.P., Faure-Denard L., Grant D.R., Pirazzoli P.A., Thomassin B., Velichko A.A. & Zazo C. (1996). Carbon storage and continental land surface change during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews v.15 p.1-7.
• Adams J.M. & Faure H. (1996). Changes in moisture balance between glacial and interglacial conditions influence on carbon cycle processes. In Branson J., Brown A.G. & Gregory K.J. (Eds). Global Continental Changes the context of Palaeohydrology, Geological Society Special Publication 115 . pp.27-42. (chapter in published book).
• Adams J.M. & Faure H. (1997). Palaeovegetation maps of the Earth during the Last Glacial Maximum, and the early and mid Holocene an aid to archaeological research. Journal of Archaeological Science. v.24 p.623-647.
• Adams J.M. & Faure H. (1998). A new estimate of changing carbon storage on land since the last glacial maximum, based on global land ecosystem reconstruction. Global and Planetary Change. v.16 p.3-24.
• H. Faure, Adams J.M. & Faure-Denard L. (1998). Quaternary carbon cycle changes an introduction to future studies. Global and Planetary Change. v.16 p.1-2.
• Lioubimtseva E.U., Simon B., Faure H., Faure-Denard L. & Adams J.M. (1998). Carbon storage changes in the Sahara-Gobi desert belt. Global and Planetary Change. v.16 p.95-106
• Steele T.J., Adams J.M. & Slukin T. (1998). Modelling paleoindian dispersals. World Archaeology. v.30 p.286-305
• Adams J.M. (1998). A new proposed scheme for local and global scale mapping and monitoring of vegetation. Environmental Management. v.23 p.1-13.
• Adams J.M. & Otte M. (1999) Did Indo-European languages spread before farming? Current Anthropology. v.40 p.73-77.
• Adams J.M., Maslin M. & Thomas E. (1999) Sudden climate transitions during the Quaternary. Progress in Physical Geography. v.23 p.1-36.
• Adams J.M & Post W.M. (1999), An estimate of the changing size of the caliche carbonate reservoir on land since the Last Glacial Maximum. Global and Planetary Change. v. 20 (4) p. 243-256.
• Adams J.M. & Lioubimtseva E.U. (1999) Some key uncertainties in the global distribution of soil and peat carbon. Advances in Soil Science. p.459-469. In Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil. ,Eds J.M. Kimble, R. Lal, and R.F. Follett. CRC Press Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton , London , New York , Washington DC , 512 pp.
• Lioubimtseva E.U. and Adams J.M. (1999). Impacts of environmental policies and land-use planning on carbon budget in the deserts of Central Asia . p.409-256. In Agricultural Practices and Policies for Carbon Sequestration in Soil. Eds J.M. Kimble, R. Lal, and R.F. Follett. CRC Press Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton , London , New York , Washington DC , 512 pp.
• Adams J.M., Faure H. & Federoff N. (1999). The carbon cycle and the numeric-modelling culture. Progress in Environmental Science. v. 1 p.237-256.
• Piovesan G. & J.M. Adams (2000). Carbon balance gradient in European forests interpreting EUROFLUX. Journal of Vegetation Science. v.11 p.923-926
• Adams J.M., Constable J., Guenther P. & Zimmerman P. (2001). Estimate of total VOC emission from global vegetation at the Last Glacial Maximum, compared to the Holocene. Chemosphere - Global Change Science. v.3 p. 73-91
• Adams J.M., Foote G.R. & Otte M. (2001) Could humans have existed undetected in North America before the LGM? An inter-regional comparison. Current Anthropology v.42 p.563-565.
• Piovesan G. & Adams J.M. (2001) Relation between beech masting events and climate fluctuations the role of drought. Canadian Journal of Botany, 79 1039-1047.
• Selas V., Piovesan G, & Adams J.M. (2001) Climatic factors controlling reproduction and growth of Norway spruce in southern Norway . Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 32 217-225.
• Bryan , B.A., Adams , J.M. & Liew P.M. (2002). Three-dimensional neurointerpolation of annual mean precipitation and temperature surfaces for China . Geographical Analysis 34(2), pp. 94-111.
• Bryan, B.A. and Adams, J.M. (2001). Quantitative and qualitative assessment of the accuracy of neurointerpolated annual mean precipitation and temperature surfaces for China . Cartography 30(2), pp.1-14.
• Ray, N. and Adams. J.M. (2001). A GIS-based Vegetation Map of the World at the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000-15,000 BP). Internet Archaeology 11.
• Adams J.M. & Piovesan G. (2002) Uncertainties in the role of land vegetation in the carbon cycle. Chemosphere v.45 p.805-819.
• Adams J.M. (2002). Perspectives on the carbon cycle (Editorial introduction to Special Issue on the carbon cycle). Chemosphere v.45 p.775.
• Adams J.M., G. Piovesan, S. Strauss & S. Brown (2002) The case for genetic engineering of native and landscape forest trees against introduced pests and diseases. Conservation Biology v.16 p.874-879.
• Lioubimtseva E. and Adams J.M. (2004) Effects of future climate and CO2 change on the world's deserts.(in press). Environmental Management.
• Lioubimtseva E., Kapustin G., Adams J. M., & Cole R. (2004) Impacts of climate and land-cover changes in arid lands of Central Asia . (in press). Journal of Arid Environments.
• Piovesan, G. and Adams, J.M. (2005). The evolutionary ecology of masting: Does the environmental prediction hypothesis also have a role in mesic temperate forests? Ecological Research. In Press.
• Adams J.M. and Piovesan G. (in press) Long series relationships between global interannual CO2 increment and climate: Evidence for stability and change in role of the tropical and boreal-temperate zones. In press. Chemosphere.