Publications
(underlined authors are/were students in the lab)
Smith M. D., K. Wilkins and 170 co-authors, including J. L. Williams. 2024. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 121 (4), published online January 8, 2024. https://10.1073/pnas.2309881120
Nikkel, E. K., D. R. Clements, D. Anderson and J. L. Williams. 2023. Regional habitat suitability for aquatic and terrestrial invasive plant species may expand or contract with climate change. Biological Invasions, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03139-8
Lustenhouwer, N., F. Moerman, F. Altermatt, R. Bassar, G. Bocedi, D. Bonte, S. Dey; E.A. Fronhofer, E. Garcez de Rocha, A. Giometto, L. Lancaster, R. Prather Jr., M. Saastamoinen, J. Travis, C. Urquhart, C. Weiss-Lehman, J.L. Williams, L. Börger, D. Berger. 2023. Experimental evolution of dispersal: unifying theory, experiments and natural systems. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 1113-1123.
J. L. Williams and E. M. West. 2023. Implications of climate change for biocontrol efficacy across the northern range of the invasive plant Linaria dalmatica. Biological Control, 179: 105174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2023.105174
Smith, L. J. and J. L. Williams. 2023. Plant and herbivorous insect communities respond in complex ways to rainfall manipulation in an oak savanna grassland. Journal of Ecology 111: 655-665. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14053
Urquhart, C. A. and J. L. Williams. 2021. Trait correlations and landscape fragmentation jointly alter expansion speed via evolution at the leading edge in simulated range expansions. Theoretical Ecology
Srivastava, D. S.., L. Coristine, A. L. Angert, M. Bontrager, S. L. Amundrud, J. L. Williams, A. C. Y. Young, D. R. de Zwaan, P. L. Thompson, S. N. Aitken, J. M. Sunday, M. I. O’Connor, J. Whitton, N. E. M. Brown, C. D. MacLeod, L. W. Parfrey, J. R. Bernhardt, J. Carillo, C. D. G. Harley, P. T. Martone, B. G. Freeman, M. Tseng, S. D. Donner. 2021. Wild cards in climate change biology. Ecological Monographs 91:e01471.
Duncan, S. S. and J. L. Williams. 2020. Life history variation in an invasive plant is associated with climate and recent colonization of a specialist herbivore. American Journal of Botany 107:1-9. Monthly journal highlight story here
Johnson, J, and J. L. Williams 2020. A native annual forb locally excludes a closely related introduced species that co-occurs in oak-savanna habitat remnants. AoB Plants 12: plaa045
Miller, T. E. X., A. L. Angert, C. Brown, J. Lee-Yaw, M. Lewis, F. Lutscher, N. Marculis, B. Melbourne, A. Shaw, M. Szucs, O. Tabares, T. Usui, T. Weiss-Lehman, J. L. Williams. 2020. Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion. Ecology 101: e03139
Williams, J. L., R. A. Hufbauer and T. E. X. Miller. 2019. How evolution modifies the variability of range expansion. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34: 903-913.
Iler, A., A. Compagnoni, D. W. Inouye, J. L. Williams, P. J. CaraDonna, A. Anderson and T. E. X. Miller. 2019. Reproductive losses due to climate-change induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb. Journal of Ecology 107: 1931-1943.
Loughnan, D. E. E. and J. L. Williams. 2019. Climate and leaf traits, not latitude, explain variation in plant-herbivore interactions across a species’ range. Journal of Ecology 107: 913-922.
Lustenhouwer, N., J. L. Williams, and J. M. Levine. 2019. Evolution during population spread affects plant performance in stressful environments. Journal of Ecology 107: 396-406.
Williams, J. L. and J. M. Levine. 2018. Experimental evidence that density dependence plays a strong role in plant invasions through fragmented landscapes. Ecology 99: 876 – 884.
Germain, R. M., J. L. Williams, D. Schluter, and A. L. Angert. 2018. Moving character displacement beyond characters using contemporary coexistence theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33: 74-84.
Lustenhouwer, N., R. A. Wilschut, J. L. Williams, W. H. van der Putten, and J. M. Levine. 2018. Rapid evolution of phenology during range expansion with recent climate change. Global Change Biology 24: e534-e544.
Sargent, R. D., A. L. Angert and J. L. Williams. 2017. When are species invasions useful for addressing fundamental questions in plant biology? American Journal of Botany 104: 797-799.
Trowbridge, C. C., A. Stanley, T. N. Kaye, P. Dunwiddie and J. L. Williams. 2017. Long-term effects of prairie restoration on plant community structure and native population dynamics. Restoration Ecology 25: 559-568.
Williams, J. L., B. E. Kendall, and J. M. Levine. 2016. Rapid evolution accelerates plant population spread in fragmented experimental landscapes. Science 353: 482-485.
[Awarded Ecological Society of America (ESA) George Mercer Award (2017) for outstanding paper by a younger scientist. Read more about our paper: UBC press release, Vancouver Sun, ClimateWire (pdf), Faculty of 1000 Recommendation, or listen to an interview on Roundhouse Radio]
Williams, J. L., R. E. Snyder, and J. M. Levine. 2016. The influence of evolution on population spread through patchy landscapes. American Naturalist 188: 15-26. pdf
Williams, J. L. H. Jacquemyn, B. Ochocki, R. Brys and T. E. X. Miller. 2015. Life history evolution under climate change and its influence on the population dynamics of a long-lived plant. Journal of Ecology (Special Feature) 103: 798-808.
Williams, J. L. and L. Fishman. 2014. Genetic evidence for founder effects in the introduced range of houndstongue (Cynoglossum officinale). Biological Invasions 16: 205-216. (DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0514-z)
Crone, E. E., M. M. Ellis, W. F. Morris, A. Stanley, T. Bell, P. Bierzychudek, J. Ehrlén, T. N. Kaye, T. M. Knight, P. Lesica, G. Oostermeijer, P. F. Quintana-Ascencio, T. Ticktin, T. Valverde, J. L. Williams, D. F. Doak, R. Ganesan, K. McEachern, A. S. Thorpe, E. S. Menges. 2013. Ability of matrix models to explain the past and predict the future of plant populations. Conservation Biology 27: 968-978. (DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12049)
Williams, J. L., T. E. X. Miller and S. P. Ellner. 2012. Avoiding unintentional eviction from integral projection models. Ecology 93: 2008 - 2014.
Miller, T. E. X., J. L. Williams, E. Jongejans, R. Brys and H. Jacquemyn. 2012. Evolutionary demography of iteroparous plants: incorporating non-lethal costs of reproduction into integral projection models. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 2831-2840. (DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0326)
Ellis, M. M., J. L. Williams, P. Lesica, T. J. Bell, P. Bierzychudek, M. Bowles, E. E. Crone, D. F. Doak, J. Ehrlén, A. Ellis-Adam, K. McEachern, R. Ganesan, P. Latham, S. Luijten, T. N. Kaye, T. M. Knight, E. S. Menges, W. F. Morris, H. den Nijs, G. Oostermeijer, P. F. Quintana-Ascencio, J. S. Shelly, A. Stanley, A. Thorpe, T. Ticktin, T. Valverd, C. Weekley. 2012. Matrix population models from 20 studies of perennial plant populations. Ecology 93: 951.
Williams, J. L., M. M. Ellis, M. C. Bricker, J. Brodie, and E. Parsons. 2011. Distance to stable stage distribution in plant populations and implications for near-term population projections. Journal of Ecology 99: 1171-1178. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01845.x)
[Awarded ESA Plant Population Ecology Postdoctoral Excellence Award. Listen to a podcast about the article on the Journal of Ecology’s blog]
Crone, E. E., E. S. Menges, M. E. Ellis, T. M. Knight, P. Lesica, T. Bell, P. Bierzychudek, J. Ehrlén, T. Kaye, W. F. Morris, G. Oostermeijer, P. F. Quintana-Ascencio, A. Stanley, T. Ticktin, T. Valverde, and J. L. Williams. 2011. How do plant ecologists use matrix population models? Ecology Letters 14: 1-8. pdf
[Evaluated as a 'Must Read' on Faculty of 1000 by Kirk Moloney.]
Williams, J. L., H. Auge, and J. L. Maron. 2010. Testing hypotheses for exotic plant success: parallel experiments in the native and introduced ranges. Ecology 91:1355-1366. pdf
Maron, J. L, C. Horvitz, and J. L. Williams. 2010. Using experiments, demography and population models to estimate interaction strength based on transient and asymptotic dynamics. Journal of Ecology (Special Feature) 98: 290-301. pdf
Williams, J. L. 2009. Flowering life history strategies differ between the native and introduced ranges of a monocarpic perennial. American Naturalist 174: 660-672. pdf
Williams, J. L., H. Auge and J. L. Maron. 2008. Different gardens, different results: native and introduced populations exhibit contrasting phenotypes across common gardens. Oecologia 157: 239-248. pdf
Williams, J. L. and E. E. Crone. 2006. Impacts of invasive grasses on the population growth of Anemone patens, a long-lived forb. Ecology 87: 3200-3208. pdf
Williams, J. L. and J. M. Levine. 2004. Small-scale variation in growing season length affects size structure of scarlet monkeyflower. Oikos 106: 131-137.
Williams, J. L. 2002. The effects of a tropical freshwater shrimp on leaf litter decomposition. Biotropica 34: 616-619.
Williams, J. L. and J. K. Conner. 2001. Sources of phenotypic variation in floral traits in wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 88: 1577-1581.
Nikkel, E. K., D. R. Clements, D. Anderson and J. L. Williams. 2023. Regional habitat suitability for aquatic and terrestrial invasive plant species may expand or contract with climate change. Biological Invasions, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03139-8
Lustenhouwer, N., F. Moerman, F. Altermatt, R. Bassar, G. Bocedi, D. Bonte, S. Dey; E.A. Fronhofer, E. Garcez de Rocha, A. Giometto, L. Lancaster, R. Prather Jr., M. Saastamoinen, J. Travis, C. Urquhart, C. Weiss-Lehman, J.L. Williams, L. Börger, D. Berger. 2023. Experimental evolution of dispersal: unifying theory, experiments and natural systems. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 1113-1123.
J. L. Williams and E. M. West. 2023. Implications of climate change for biocontrol efficacy across the northern range of the invasive plant Linaria dalmatica. Biological Control, 179: 105174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2023.105174
Smith, L. J. and J. L. Williams. 2023. Plant and herbivorous insect communities respond in complex ways to rainfall manipulation in an oak savanna grassland. Journal of Ecology 111: 655-665. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14053
Urquhart, C. A. and J. L. Williams. 2021. Trait correlations and landscape fragmentation jointly alter expansion speed via evolution at the leading edge in simulated range expansions. Theoretical Ecology
Srivastava, D. S.., L. Coristine, A. L. Angert, M. Bontrager, S. L. Amundrud, J. L. Williams, A. C. Y. Young, D. R. de Zwaan, P. L. Thompson, S. N. Aitken, J. M. Sunday, M. I. O’Connor, J. Whitton, N. E. M. Brown, C. D. MacLeod, L. W. Parfrey, J. R. Bernhardt, J. Carillo, C. D. G. Harley, P. T. Martone, B. G. Freeman, M. Tseng, S. D. Donner. 2021. Wild cards in climate change biology. Ecological Monographs 91:e01471.
Duncan, S. S. and J. L. Williams. 2020. Life history variation in an invasive plant is associated with climate and recent colonization of a specialist herbivore. American Journal of Botany 107:1-9. Monthly journal highlight story here
Johnson, J, and J. L. Williams 2020. A native annual forb locally excludes a closely related introduced species that co-occurs in oak-savanna habitat remnants. AoB Plants 12: plaa045
Miller, T. E. X., A. L. Angert, C. Brown, J. Lee-Yaw, M. Lewis, F. Lutscher, N. Marculis, B. Melbourne, A. Shaw, M. Szucs, O. Tabares, T. Usui, T. Weiss-Lehman, J. L. Williams. 2020. Eco-evolutionary dynamics of range expansion. Ecology 101: e03139
Williams, J. L., R. A. Hufbauer and T. E. X. Miller. 2019. How evolution modifies the variability of range expansion. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 34: 903-913.
Iler, A., A. Compagnoni, D. W. Inouye, J. L. Williams, P. J. CaraDonna, A. Anderson and T. E. X. Miller. 2019. Reproductive losses due to climate-change induced earlier flowering are not the primary threat to plant population viability in a perennial herb. Journal of Ecology 107: 1931-1943.
Loughnan, D. E. E. and J. L. Williams. 2019. Climate and leaf traits, not latitude, explain variation in plant-herbivore interactions across a species’ range. Journal of Ecology 107: 913-922.
Lustenhouwer, N., J. L. Williams, and J. M. Levine. 2019. Evolution during population spread affects plant performance in stressful environments. Journal of Ecology 107: 396-406.
Williams, J. L. and J. M. Levine. 2018. Experimental evidence that density dependence plays a strong role in plant invasions through fragmented landscapes. Ecology 99: 876 – 884.
Germain, R. M., J. L. Williams, D. Schluter, and A. L. Angert. 2018. Moving character displacement beyond characters using contemporary coexistence theory. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33: 74-84.
Lustenhouwer, N., R. A. Wilschut, J. L. Williams, W. H. van der Putten, and J. M. Levine. 2018. Rapid evolution of phenology during range expansion with recent climate change. Global Change Biology 24: e534-e544.
Sargent, R. D., A. L. Angert and J. L. Williams. 2017. When are species invasions useful for addressing fundamental questions in plant biology? American Journal of Botany 104: 797-799.
Trowbridge, C. C., A. Stanley, T. N. Kaye, P. Dunwiddie and J. L. Williams. 2017. Long-term effects of prairie restoration on plant community structure and native population dynamics. Restoration Ecology 25: 559-568.
Williams, J. L., B. E. Kendall, and J. M. Levine. 2016. Rapid evolution accelerates plant population spread in fragmented experimental landscapes. Science 353: 482-485.
[Awarded Ecological Society of America (ESA) George Mercer Award (2017) for outstanding paper by a younger scientist. Read more about our paper: UBC press release, Vancouver Sun, ClimateWire (pdf), Faculty of 1000 Recommendation, or listen to an interview on Roundhouse Radio]
Williams, J. L., R. E. Snyder, and J. M. Levine. 2016. The influence of evolution on population spread through patchy landscapes. American Naturalist 188: 15-26. pdf
Williams, J. L. H. Jacquemyn, B. Ochocki, R. Brys and T. E. X. Miller. 2015. Life history evolution under climate change and its influence on the population dynamics of a long-lived plant. Journal of Ecology (Special Feature) 103: 798-808.
Williams, J. L. and L. Fishman. 2014. Genetic evidence for founder effects in the introduced range of houndstongue (Cynoglossum officinale). Biological Invasions 16: 205-216. (DOI: 10.1007/s10530-013-0514-z)
Crone, E. E., M. M. Ellis, W. F. Morris, A. Stanley, T. Bell, P. Bierzychudek, J. Ehrlén, T. N. Kaye, T. M. Knight, P. Lesica, G. Oostermeijer, P. F. Quintana-Ascencio, T. Ticktin, T. Valverde, J. L. Williams, D. F. Doak, R. Ganesan, K. McEachern, A. S. Thorpe, E. S. Menges. 2013. Ability of matrix models to explain the past and predict the future of plant populations. Conservation Biology 27: 968-978. (DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12049)
Williams, J. L., T. E. X. Miller and S. P. Ellner. 2012. Avoiding unintentional eviction from integral projection models. Ecology 93: 2008 - 2014.
Miller, T. E. X., J. L. Williams, E. Jongejans, R. Brys and H. Jacquemyn. 2012. Evolutionary demography of iteroparous plants: incorporating non-lethal costs of reproduction into integral projection models. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279: 2831-2840. (DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0326)
Ellis, M. M., J. L. Williams, P. Lesica, T. J. Bell, P. Bierzychudek, M. Bowles, E. E. Crone, D. F. Doak, J. Ehrlén, A. Ellis-Adam, K. McEachern, R. Ganesan, P. Latham, S. Luijten, T. N. Kaye, T. M. Knight, E. S. Menges, W. F. Morris, H. den Nijs, G. Oostermeijer, P. F. Quintana-Ascencio, J. S. Shelly, A. Stanley, A. Thorpe, T. Ticktin, T. Valverd, C. Weekley. 2012. Matrix population models from 20 studies of perennial plant populations. Ecology 93: 951.
Williams, J. L., M. M. Ellis, M. C. Bricker, J. Brodie, and E. Parsons. 2011. Distance to stable stage distribution in plant populations and implications for near-term population projections. Journal of Ecology 99: 1171-1178. (DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01845.x)
[Awarded ESA Plant Population Ecology Postdoctoral Excellence Award. Listen to a podcast about the article on the Journal of Ecology’s blog]
Crone, E. E., E. S. Menges, M. E. Ellis, T. M. Knight, P. Lesica, T. Bell, P. Bierzychudek, J. Ehrlén, T. Kaye, W. F. Morris, G. Oostermeijer, P. F. Quintana-Ascencio, A. Stanley, T. Ticktin, T. Valverde, and J. L. Williams. 2011. How do plant ecologists use matrix population models? Ecology Letters 14: 1-8. pdf
[Evaluated as a 'Must Read' on Faculty of 1000 by Kirk Moloney.]
Williams, J. L., H. Auge, and J. L. Maron. 2010. Testing hypotheses for exotic plant success: parallel experiments in the native and introduced ranges. Ecology 91:1355-1366. pdf
Maron, J. L, C. Horvitz, and J. L. Williams. 2010. Using experiments, demography and population models to estimate interaction strength based on transient and asymptotic dynamics. Journal of Ecology (Special Feature) 98: 290-301. pdf
Williams, J. L. 2009. Flowering life history strategies differ between the native and introduced ranges of a monocarpic perennial. American Naturalist 174: 660-672. pdf
Williams, J. L., H. Auge and J. L. Maron. 2008. Different gardens, different results: native and introduced populations exhibit contrasting phenotypes across common gardens. Oecologia 157: 239-248. pdf
Williams, J. L. and E. E. Crone. 2006. Impacts of invasive grasses on the population growth of Anemone patens, a long-lived forb. Ecology 87: 3200-3208. pdf
Williams, J. L. and J. M. Levine. 2004. Small-scale variation in growing season length affects size structure of scarlet monkeyflower. Oikos 106: 131-137.
Williams, J. L. 2002. The effects of a tropical freshwater shrimp on leaf litter decomposition. Biotropica 34: 616-619.
Williams, J. L. and J. K. Conner. 2001. Sources of phenotypic variation in floral traits in wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum (Brassicaceae). American Journal of Botany 88: 1577-1581.
