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  • 2004 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Dissimilarity analyses of Late-Quaternary vegetation and climate in eastern North America. Ecology 82:3346-3362.

Overview

Bryan N. Shuman is affiliated with the University of Wyoming in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Anthropology, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The scientist's work covers various topics related to geology, paleoclimatology, and ecology. Key research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Climate variability and models
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Landslides and related hazards

Among their recent papers are notable publications such as:

  • "Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "A global Bayesian temperature calibration for lacustrine brGDGTs," 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Rocky Mountain subalpine forests now burning more than any time in recent millennia," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The quest for absolute abundance: The use of internal standards for DNA-based community ecology," 2020, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • "Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England," 2020, Nature Sustainability

Bryan N. Shuman frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Ioana C. Stefanescu
  • W. Wyatt Oswald
  • David R. Foster
  • Jessica E. Tierney
  • Philip E. Higuera

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • Quaternary Research
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Bryan N. Shuman received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2004 for research involving dissimilarity analyses of Late-Quaternary vegetation and climate in eastern North America.

Best Publications

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: A global synthesis

    Patrick J Bartlein;S P Harrison;S P Harrison;S Brewer;Simon Connor

  • LATE‐QUATERNARY VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN NORTH AMERICA: SCALING FROM TAXA TO BIOMES

    John W. Williams;Bryan N. Shuman;Thompson Webb;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Reconciling divergent trends and millennial variations in Holocene temperatures

    Jeremiah Marsicek;Bryan N. Shuman;Patrick J. Bartlein;Sarah L. Shafer

  • Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities.

    Monica G. Turner;W. John Calder;Graeme S. Cumming;Terry P. Hughes

  • 700 yr sedimentary record of intense hurricane landfalls in southern New England

    Jeffrey P. Donnelly;Sarah Smith Bryant;Jessica Butler;Jennifer Dowling

  • DISSIMILARITY ANALYSES OF LATE-QUATERNARY VEGETATION AND CLIMATE IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

    John W. Williams;Bryan N. Shuman;Thompson Webb

  • Hydrogen isotope ratios of individual lipids in lake sediments as novel tracers of climatic and environmental change: a surface sediment test

    Yongsong Huang;Bryan Shuman;Yi Wang;Thompson Webb

  • Modern pollen data from North America and Greenland for multi-scale paleoenvironmental applications

    J. Whitmore;K. Gajewski;M. Sawada;J.W. Williams

  • Mid-latitude net precipitation decreased with Arctic warming during the Holocene.

    Cody C. Routson;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Michael P. Erb

  • Hydrogen isotope ratios of palmitic acid in lacustrine sediments record late Quaternary climate variations

    Yongsong Huang;Bryan Shuman;Yi Wang;Thompson Webb

  • The anatomy of a climatic oscillation: vegetation change in eastern North America during the Younger Dryas chronozone

    Bryan Shuman;Thompson Webb;Patrick Bartlein;John W. Williams

  • EVIDENCE FOR THE CLOSE CLIMATIC CONTROL OF NEW ENGLAND VEGETATION HISTORY

    Bryan Shuman;Paige Newby;Yongsong Huang;Thompson Webb

  • Obtaining accurate and precise environmental reconstructions from the modern analog technique and North American surface pollen dataset

    J.W. Williams;B. Shuman

  • Parallel climate and vegetation responses to the early Holocene collapse of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

    Bryan Shuman;Patrick Bartlein;Nathaniel Logar;Paige Newby

  • Extrinsic and intrinsic forcing of abrupt ecological change: case studies from the late Quaternary

    John W. Williams;Jessica L. Blois;Bryan N. Shuman

  • The structure of Holocene climate change in mid-latitude North America

    Bryan N. Shuman;Jeremiah Marsicek

  • A global Bayesian temperature calibration for lacustrine brGDGTs

    Pablo Martínez-Sosa;Jessica E. Tierney;Ioana C. Stefanescu;Emily Dearing Crampton-Flood

  • A continuous climatic impact on Holocene human population in the Rocky Mountains

    Robert L. Kelly;Todd A. Surovell;Bryan N. Shuman;Geoffrey M. Smith

  • Holocene lake-level trends in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A.

    Bryan Shuman;Anna K. Henderson;Steven M. Colman;Jeffery R. Stone

  • Rapid responses of the prairie-forest ecotone to early Holocene aridity in mid-continental North America

    John W. Williams;Bryan Shuman;Patrick J. Bartlein

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Williams
John W. Williams University of Wisconsin–Madison
David R. Foster
David R. Foster Harvard University
Patrick J. Bartlein
Patrick J. Bartlein University of Oregon
Thompson Webb
Thompson Webb Brown University
Yongsong Huang
Yongsong Huang Brown University
Jeffrey P. Donnelly
Jeffrey P. Donnelly Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Philip E. Higuera
Philip E. Higuera University of Montana
Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey
Juzhi Hou
Juzhi Hou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer University of Utah

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