Publications

Publications

Abstracts, figures and full text for some of the recent publications (as of 2002) are available via links in the references below.

Books and Special Issues of Journals

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Geoarchaeology
Vegetation Dynamics
Past Environment and Model Testing
Climate Modeling
Future Global Change: Implications from the Past
Coastal Studies and Hurricane History
Paleohydrology

Books and Special Issues of Journals
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Webb, T. III and J.-M. Dubois (eds.). 1985. Tendances climatiques à l'Holocène en Amérique du Nord. Géographie physique et Quaternaire 39, no. 2:113-226.
Huntley, B. and T. Webb III (eds.). 1988. Vegetation History. Vol. 7 in Handbook of Vegetation Science. Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht, The Netherlands, (803 p.).
Wright, H.E., Jr., J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein (eds.). 1993. Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. (569 p.).
Webb, T. III (ed.). 1998. Late Quaternary Climates: Data Syntheses and Model Experiments. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, Nos. 6-7: 465-688.
Webb, T. III and J.E. Kutzbach. 1998. An Introduction to Late Quaternary Climates: Data Syntheses and Model Experiments. Quaternary Science Reviews. 17:465-471.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Geoarchaeology

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Suter, S. 1985. Late-Glacial and Holocene Vegetation History in Southeastern Massachusetts: A 14,000 Year Pollen Record. Current Research in the Pleistocene 2: 87-89.
Gaudreau, D. C., and Webb, T., III. 1985. Late-Quaternary Pollen stratigraphy and isochrone maps for the northeastern United States. In “Pollen Records of Late Quaternary North American Sediments” (V. M. Bryant, Jr. and R. G. Holloway, Eds.), pp. 245-280. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation.
Gaudreau, D.C. 1988. The Distribution of Late-Quaternary Forest Regions in the Northeast: Pollen Data, Physiography, and the Prehistoric Record. In “Holocene Human Ecology in Northeastern North America” (G. P. Nicholas, Ed.), Plenum Press, New York.
Thorson, R. M., and Webb, R. S. 1991. Postglacial history of a cedar swamp in southeastern Connecticut. Journal of Paleolimnology 6: 17-35.
Tsedakis, P.C. 1992. Effects of Soils on the Holocene History of Forest Communities, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Geographie physique et Quaternaire, 46(1): 113-124.
Webb, R. S., Anderson, K. A., and Webb, T., III. 1993. Pollen response-surface estimates of Late-Quaternary changes in the moisture balance of the northeastern United States. Quaternary Research 40, 213-227.
Newby, P. and Webb, T., III. 1994. Radiocarbon-Dated Pollen and Sediment Records From Near the Boylston Street Fishweir Site in Boston, Massachusetts. Quaternary Research 41: 214-224.
Newby, P. 1997. Vegetation History, Fire Activity, and Prehistoric Land-Use on Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Evaluating the Evidence. Society for American Archaeology Abstract, 1996.
Newby, P., P. Killoran, M. R. Waldorf, T. Webb III, R.S. Webb. 2000. 14,000 years of sediment, vegetation, and water level changes at Makepeace Cedar Swamp, southeastern Massachusetts. Quaternary Research. 53:352-368.

Vegetation Dynamics

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Webb, T. III. 1986. Is vegetation in equilibrium with climate? How to interpret Late-Quaternary pollen data. Vegetation 67: 75-91.
Webb, T. III. 1987. The appearance and disappearance of major vegetational assemblages: long-term vegetational dynamics in eastern North America. Vegetation 69: 177-187.
Dexter, F., H. T. Banks, and T. Webb III. 1987. Modeling Holocene changes in the location and abundance of beech populations in eastern North America. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 50:273-292.
Jacobson, G. L., Jr., T. Webb III, and E. C. Grimm. 1987. Patterns and rates of vegetation change during deglaciation of eastern North America. In W. F. Ruddiman and H. E. Wright, Jr. (eds.). North America and Adjacent Oceans during the Last Deglaciation, Decade of North American Geology, G.S.A., Boulder, CO, pp. 277-288.
Webb, T. III. 1988. Eastern North America. In B. Huntley and T. Webb III (eds.) Vegetation History. Vol. VII in Handbook of Vegetation Science, Kluwer Academic Publ., Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 385-414.
Huntley, B. and T. Webb III. 1989. Migration: species' response to climatic variations caused by changes in the earth's orbit. Journal of Biogeography 16: 5-19.
Johnson, W.C. and T. Webb III. 1989. The role of blue jays in the postglacial dispersal of Fagaceous trees in eastern North America. Journal of Biogeography 16: 561-571.
McDowell, P. F., T. Webb III, and P. J. Bartlein. 1990. Long-term environmental change. In B. L. Turner II, W.C. Clark, R.W. Kates, J.F. Richards, J.T. Mathews, and W.B. Meyer (eds.) The Earth Transformed by Human Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., pp. 143-162.
Prentice, I.C., P.J Bartlein, and T. Webb III. 1991. Vegetational climate change in eastern North America since the last glacial maximum. Ecology 72: 2038-2056.
Overpeck, J.T., RS Webb, and T. Webb III. 1992. Mapping eastern North American vegetation change over the past 18,000 years: no-analogs and the future. Geology 20: 1071-1074.
Webb, T. III. 1995. Introduction to "Long-term Environmental Change." in T.M. Powell and J.H. Steele (eds.). Ecological Time Series. Chapman and Hall, London pp. 327-329.
Webb, T. III. 1995. Clues to global change: carbon exchange anomalies. Geotimes 40:19-20.
Williams, T.C. And T. Webb III. 1996. Bird migration during the ice ages: constant heading orientation. Auk 113: 105-118.
Melillo, J.M., IC Prentice, G.D. Farquhar, E.-D. Schulze, O.E. Sala, P.J. Bartlein, T. Webb III et. al. 1996. Terrestrial biotic responses to environmental change and feedbacks to climate. In J.T Houghton, L.G. Meira Filho, B.A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg and K Maskell (eds.) Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p 445-481.
Clark, J., C. Fastie, G. Hurtt, S.J. Jackson, W.C. Johnson, G. King, M. Lewis, J. Lynch, S. Pacala, IC Prentice, E. Schupp, T. Webb III, P. Wychoff. 1997. Dispersal theory offers solutions to Reidís Paradox of rapid plant migration. Bioscience 48: 13-24.
Jackson S.T, R.S. Webb, K.H. Anderson, J.T. Overpeck, T. Webb III, J.W. Williams, and B.C.S. Hansen. 2000. Vegetation and environment in eastern North America during the last glacial maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 19: 489-508.
Webb, T. III. 2000. Exploration of biogeographic databases: zoom lenses, space travel, and scientific imagination. Journal of Biogeography 27: 7-9.
Williams, J. W., Webb III, T., Shuman, B. N., and Bartlein, P. J. 2000. Do low CO₂ concentrations affect pollen-based reconstructions of LGM climates? A response to "Physiological significance of low atmospheric CO₂ for plant-climate interactions" by Cowling and Sykes. Quaternary Research 53: 402-404.
Webb, T. III. 2001. Paleoecology. In S. Levine (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Vol. 4. Academic Press, New York pp. 451-462.
Williams, J. W., B.N. Shuman, T. Webb III. 2001. Dissimilarity analyses of late-Quaternary vegetation and climate in eastern North America. Ecology 82: 3346-3362.
Shuman, B., T. Webb III, P. Bartlein and J. W. Williams. 2002. The anatomy of a climatic oscillation: vegetation change in eastern North America during the Younger Dryas chronozone. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 1763-1916.
Shuman, B., P. Bartlein, N. Logar, P. Newby and T. Webb III. 2002. Parallel climate and vegetation responses to the early Holocene collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 1793-1805.

Past Environments and Model Testing

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Wright, H.E., Jr., J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein (eds.). 1993. Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. (569 p.).
Webb, T. III., P.J. Bartlein, S.P. Harrison, and K.H. Anderson. 1993. Vegetation, lake level, and climate change in eastern North America. In H.E. Wright, Jr., J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein (eds.) Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp. 415-467.
Webb, T. III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, V. Markgraf, J.E. Kutzbach, P.J. Bartlein, H.E. Wright, Jr., and W.L. Prell. 1993. Climatic changes during the past 18,000 years: regional syntheses, mechanisms, and causes. In H.E. Wright, Jr., J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein (eds.) Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp. 514-535.
Kutzbach, J.E. And T. Webb III. 1993. Conceptual understanding of climate change. In H.E. Wright, Jr., J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein (eds.) Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp. 5-11.
Kutzbach, J.E., P.J. Bartlein, IC Prentice, W.F. Ruddiman, T. Webb III, and H.E. Wright, Jr. 1993. Epilogue. In H.E. Wright, Jr., J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein (eds.) Global Climates Since the Last Glacial Maximum. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, pp. 536-542.
Webb, RS, K.H. Anderson, and T. Webb III. 1993. Pollen response-surface estimates of late-Quaternary changes in the moisture balance of the northeastern United States. Quaternary Research 40:213-227.
Webb, T. III (ed.). 1998. Late Quaternary Climates: Data Syntheses and Model Experiments. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, Nos. 6-7: 465-688.
Bartlein, P.J., P.M. Anderson, K.H. Anderson, M.E. Edwards, RS Thompson, RS Webb, T. Webb III, and C. Whitlock. 1998. Paleoclimate simulations for North America for the past 21,000 years: features of the simulated climate and comparisons with paleoenvironmental data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17: 549-585.
Williams, J.W., R.L. Summers, and T. Webb III. 1998. Applying plant functional types to construct biome maps from eastern North American pollen data: comparisons with model results. Quaternary Science Reviews. 17:607-627.
Webb, T. III, K.H. Anderson, R. S. Webb, and P.J. Bartlein. 1998. Late Quaternary climate changes in eastern North America: a comparison of pollen-derived estimates with climate model results. Quaternary Science Reviews 17:587-606.
Tarasov, P., T. Webb III et al. 1998. Present-day and mid-Holocene Biomes Reconstructed from Pollen and Plant Macrofossil Data from the Former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Journal of Biogeography 25: 1029-1053.
Prentice IC and T. Webb III. 1998. BIOME 6000: global paleovegetation maps and testing global biome models. Journal of Biogeography 25:997-1005.
Tarasov, P.E., V.S. Volkova, T. Webb III, J. Guiot, A.A. Andreev, L.G. Bezusko, T.V. Bezusko, G.V. Bykova, N.I. Dorofeyuk, E.V. Kvavadze, I.M. Osipova, N.K. Panova, D.V. Sevastyanov. 2000. Last glacial maximum biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia. Journal of Biogeography.
Williams, J.W., T. Webb III, P.J.H. Richard, and P. Newby. 2000. Late Quaternary biomes of Canada and the eastern United States. Journal of Biogeography.
Prentice, IC, D. Jolly, and BIOME 6000 participants (among them, T. Webb III). 2000. Mid-Holocene and glacial-maximum vegetation geography of the northern continents and Africa. Journal of Biogeography.
Williams, J.W., P.J. Bartlein, and T. Webb III. 2000. Data-model comparisons for eastern North America: inferred biomes and climate values from pollen data. In P. Braconnot (ed.) PMIP, 2000: Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). Proceedings of the Third PMIP workshop, Canada, 4-8 October 1999. WCRP-111, WMO/TD-No. 1007, pp. 77-86.
Webb, T. III. 2001. Climate - Quaternary vegetation in D. Briggs (ed.) Palaeobiology II. Blackwell Science Ltd., Oxford, UK. 485-486.
Perry, J. and T. Webb III. 2001. Natural Records of Past Climates. In M. MacCracken, J. Perry, and J. Fogg. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Global Change, Academic Press, London.
Webb, T. III, B.N. Shuman, P. Newby, P. Leduc, and N.G. Miller. 2003. Late Quaternary climate history of western New York State, Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences (in press).

Climate Modeling

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COHMAP Members. 1988. Climatic changes of the last 18,000 years: observations and model simulations. Science 241: 1043-1052.
Felzer, B., Oglesby, R.J., H. Shao, T. Webb III, D. Hyman, W. L. Prell, and J.E. Kutzbach. 1995. A systematic study of GCM sensitivity to latitudinal changes in solar radiation. Journal of Climate 8:877-887.
Kutzbach, J.E., P.J. Bartlein, J. Foley, S. Harrison, S. Hostetler, Z. Liu, I. C. Prentice, and T. Webb III. 1996. The potential role of vegetation feedback in the climate sensitivity of high-latitude regions: a case study at 6000 years before present. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10:727-736.
Felzer, B., R. J. Oglesby, T. Webb III, and D. E. Hyman. 1996. Sensitivity of a general circulation model to changes in northern hemisphere ice sheets. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres 101:19,077-19,092.
Webb, T. III and J.E. Kutzbach. 1998. An Introduction to Late Quaternary Climates: Data Syntheses and Model Experiments. Quaternary Science Reviews. 17:465-471.
Felzer, B., T. Webb III, and R.J. Oglesby. 1998. The impact of ice sheets, CO₂, and orbital insolation on late Quaternary climates: sensitivity experiments with a general circulation model. Quaternary Science Reviews 17:507-534.
Bartlein, P.J., P.M. Anderson, K.H. Anderson, ME Edwards, RS Thompson, RS Webb, T. Webb III, and C. Whitlock. 1998. Paleoclimate simulations for North America for the past 21,000 years: features of the simulated climate and comparisons with paleoenvironmental data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17: 549-585.
Webb, T. III, K.H. Anderson, R. S. Webb, and P.J. Bartlein. 1998. Late Quaternary climate changes in eastern North America: a comparison of pollen-derived estimates with climate model results. Quaternary Science Reviews 17:587-606.
Felzer, B., T. Webb III, and R.J. Oglesby. 1999. Climate modeling experiments to illustrate model sensitivity to changes in boundary conditions during the last glacial maximum. Paleoclimate: Data and Modeling.

Future Global Change: Implications from the Past

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Overpeck, J.T., P.J. Bartlein, and T. Webb III. 1991. Potential magnitude of future vegetation change in eastern North America: comparisons with the past, Science 252: 692-695.
Webb, T. III. 1992. Past changes in vegetation and climate: lessons for the future. In R. Peters and T. Lovejoy (eds.) Consequences of Global Warming for Biological Diversity. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, pp. 59-75.
Webb, T. III, T.J.Crowley, B. Frenzel, A.-K. Gleimeroth, L. Labeyrie, IC Prentice, D. Rind, W.F. Ruddiman, M. Sarnthein, A. Zwick. 1993. Use of paleoclimatic data as analogs for understanding future global changes. In J. Eddy and H. Oeschger (eds.) Global Changes in the Perspective of the Past. J. Wiley and Sons Ltd., London, pp. 51-71.
Webb, T. III. 1995. Postglacial magnitudes and rates of vegetation change in eastern North America: implications for the future. In E. Folk, G. Carmichael, and J. Schnoor (eds.). Preparing for Global Change: A Midwestern Perspective. SBP Academic Publishing bv, Amsterdam, pp. 155-169.
Webb, T. III. 1996. Spatial response of plant taxa to climate change: a palaeoecological perspective. In B. Huntley, W. Cramer, A.V. Morgan, H.C. Prentice, and J.R.M. Allen (eds.) Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes: The Spatial and Evolutionary Responses of Terrestrial Biota. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 55-71.
Kutzbach, J.E. And T. Webb III. 2001. Climate and climate history in the region of Chesapeake Bay. In P.D. Curtin, G.S. Brush, and G.W. Fisher (eds.) Discovering the Chesapeake: The History of an Ecosystem. Johns Hopkins University Press pp. 15-39.

Coastal Studies and Hurricane History

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Donnelly, J.P., T. Webb III, W.L. Prell. 1999. The influence of accelerated sea-level rise, human modification and storms on a New England salt marsh. Current Topics in Wetland Biogeochemistry 3: 152-160.
Donnelly, JP, S.S. Bryant, J. Butler, J. Dowling, L. Fan, N. Hausmann, P. Newby, B. Shuman, J. Stern, K. Westover, and T. Webb III. 2001. A 700-year sedimentary record of intense hurricane landfalls in southern New England. Geological Society of America Bulletin 113: 714-727.
Donnelly, JP, S. Roll, M. Wengren, J. Butler, R. Lederer, and T. Webb III. 2001. Sedimentary evidence of intense hurricane strikes from New Jersey. Geology 29: 615-618.
Murnane, R.J., C. Barton, E. Collins, J. Donnelly, J. Elsner, K. Emanuel, I. Ginis, S. Howard, C. Landsea, K-b. Liu, D. Malmquist, M. McKay, A. Michaels, N. Nelson, J. OíBrien, D. Scott, T. Webb III. 2000. Model Estimates Hurricane Wind Speed Probabilities. Eos 81: 433, 438.

Paleohydrology

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Newby, P., P. Killoran, M. R. Waldorf, T. Webb III, R.S. Webb. 2000. 14,000 years of sediment, vegetation, and water level changes at Makepeace Cedar Swamp, southeastern Massachusetts. Quaternary Research. 53:352-368.
Shuman, B., J. Bravo, J. Lynch, J. Kaye, P. Newby, and T. Webb III. 2001. Late Quaternary water level variations and vegetation history at Crooked Pond, southeastern Massachusetts. Quaternary Research 56: 401-410.
Shuman, B., T. Webb III, P. Bartlein and J. W. Williams. 2002. The anatomy of a climatic oscillation: vegetation change in eastern North America during the Younger Dryas chronozone. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 1763-1916.
Shuman, B., P. Bartlein, N. Logar, P. Newby and T. Webb III. 2002. Parallel climate and vegetation responses to the early Holocene collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 1793-1805.
Huang, Y., B.N. Shuman, Y. Yang, and T. Webb III. 2003. Hydrogen isotope ratios of palmitic acid in lacustrine sediments record late Quaternary climate variations. Geology (in press).