Allison is a paleoecologist with a background in Quaternary mammals of North America. She uses paleontological and neontological datasets to understand how species respond to environmental change through time, and is interested in how spatial dynamics influence temporal dynamics in biodiversity, and vice versa. As a member of the ACES group, she is studying species and community dynamics recorded in fossil pollen datasets.
CV: Stegner-FULLCV
Representative Publications:
Stegner MA, Karp D, Rominger A, Hadly EA. 2017. Can protected areas really maintain mammalian diversity? Insights from a nestedness analysis of the Colorado Plateau Biological Conservation. 209C: 546-553. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.03.021
Barnosky A.D., Hadly E.A., Gonzalez P., Ackerly D., Alex K., Biber E., Blois J., Brashares J., Ceballos G., Davis E., Dietl G., Dirzo R., Doremus H., Eronen J., Fortelius M., Greene H., Head J., Hellmann J., Hickler T., Jackson S., Kemp M., Koch P., Kremen C., Lawing M., Lindsey E., Looy C., Marshall C., Mendenhall C., Mulch A., Mychaljliw A., Nowak C., Polly P.D., Ramakrishnan U., Schnitzler J., Das Shrestha K., Solari K., Stegner L., Stegner M.A., Chr. Stenseth N., Wake M., Zhang Z. 2017. Merging Paleontology With Conservation Biology to Guide the Future of Terrestrial Ecosystems. Science 355: 594-604.
Stegner, M. A. 2016. Stasis and change in Holocene small mammal diversity during a period of aridification in southeastern Utah. The Holocene 26: 1005-1019.
Stegner, M. A. 2015. The Mescal Cave fauna (San Bernardino County, California): Testing assumptions of habitat fidelity in the quaternary fossil record. Quaternary Research 83: 582-587.
Barnosky, A. D., M. Holmes, R. Kirchholtes, E. Lindsey, K. C. Maguire, A. W. Poust, M. A. Stegner, J. Sunseri, B. Swartz, J. Swift, N. A. Villavicencio, and G. O. U. Wogan. 2014. Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two newly-defined North American land-mammal ages. The Anthropocene Review 1: 225-242.
Stegner, M. A., and M. Holmes. 2013. Using paleontological data to assess mammalian community structure: Potential aid in conservation planning. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 372: 138-146.
Contact:
email: allison.stegner-AT-gmail.com
website: allisonstegner.com
twitter: @allison_stegner
office: 434 Birge Hall