Visiting Scholar working with Robert Peet
Email: jeott@email.unc.edu
I have been working on methods of vegetation
analysis that incorporate phylogenetic information, and applying them towards
understanding broad-scale vegetation patterns in the Southeast. I am also studying geographic range and
climatic niche patterns of New World plants as part of the Botanical
Information and Ecology Network (BIEN) at the National Center
for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
EDUCATION
PhD Biology, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 2010
Dissertation:
Individualistic and Phylogenetic Perspectives on Plant Community Patterns
M.S. Botany, Brigham Young University,
2001
Thesis:
Vegetation of Chained and Non-chained Rangelands Following Wildfire and
Rehabilitation in West-central Utah
B.S. Conservation Biology, Brigham Young University,
1998, Summa Cum Laude
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Ott, J.E, E.D. McArthur and S.C.
Sanderson. 2011. Vegetation
dynamics at a Mojave Desert restoration site,
1992-2007. p. 105-120 In Wambolt, C.L., S.G. Kitchen, M.R. Frisina,
B. Sowell, R.B. Keigley, P. Palacios, and J.
Robinson, compliers. Proceedings of the 15th Wildland
Shrub Symposium: Wildlands and Wildlife Habitats. Natural Resources and Environmental Issues, Volume XVI. S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney Natural
Resources Research Library, Logan,
Utah.
Sanderson, S.C., J.E. Ott,
E.D. McArthur, and K.T. Harper.
2006. RCLUS, a new program for clustering associated species: a demonstration
using a Mojave Desert plant community dataset.
Western North American Naturalist 66:285-297.
Ott, J.E., E.D. McArthur, and B.A.
Roundy. 2003. Vegetation of
chained and non-chained seedings after wildfire in Utah. Journal of Range
Management 56:81-91.
Ott, J.E., S.C. Sanderson, and E.D.
McArthur. 2001. Plant community
dynamics of burned and unburned sites in the sagebrush and pinyon-juniper
zones of the Great Basin. p.
177-191 In McArthur, E.D., and D.J.
Fairbanks, compilers. Proceedings of the 11th Wildland
Shrub Symposium: Shrubland Ecosystem Genetics and Biodiversity. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, Utah.
PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
Phylogenetic niche overlap in plant
communities of Zion
National Park. Oral presentation, 53rd Annual Symposium of the International
Association for Vegetation Science, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, Apr.
18-23, 2010.
Sharpening the focus of community
patterns by adjusting phylogenetic scale. Poster presentation, 51st Annual Symposium of the International
Association for Vegetation Science, Stellenbosch, South Africa, Sep. 7-12,
2008.
Vegetation dynamics at a Mojave
Desert restoration site, 1992-2007. Oral
presentation, 15th Wildland Shrub Symposium, Bozeman, MT,
June 17-19, 2008.
A comparative study of plant niches at Zion National
Park. Poster presentation, 9th Biennial
Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, Flagstaff, AZ, Oct. 29-Nov. 1,
2007.
Coalition clustering of plant communities at Zion National Park, Utah . Poster presention, 91st Annual Meeting of
the Ecological Society of America, Memphis,
TN, Aug. 6-11, 2006.
Plant community dynamics of burned
and unburned sites in the sagebrush and pinyon-juniper
zones of the Great Basin. Oral presentation, 11th Wildland Shrub Symposium, Provo, UT,
June 13-15, 2000.
Wildfire rehabilitation on public
lands of the Great Basin. Oral presentation, Society for
Ecological Restoration Conference, San
Francisco, CA, Sep.
23-25, 1999.
Comparisons of rehabilitation
treatments of 1996 rangeland fires.
Oral presentation, 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for
Range Management, Omaha, NE, Feb. 21-26, 1999.