I am an evolutionary palaeoecologist with broad research interests encompassing the use of faunas in reconstructing Pleistocene and Holocene ecologies (and increasingly from the Neogene), understanding the nature, timing and location of ice age refugia for species, and building and testing molecular biogeographical hypotheses on how species respond to environmental change (in collaboration with ancient DNA practitioners). I am also interested in the relationship between species and subspecies level evolution and extinction during the Quaternary; and more recently the use of Quaternary data in conservation biology.
Publications
Journal articles
Allen, P.J., Wiener, J.M., Gatzidis, C., Stringer, C.B. and Stewart, J.R., 2019. Investigating the Effect of the Environment on Prey Detection Ability in Humans. Scientific Reports, 9 (1).
Stewart, J.R., 2016. Synchronous genetic turnovers across Western Eurasia in Late Pleistocene collared lemmings. Global Change Biology, 22 (5), 1710-1721.
Stewart, J.R. and Jacobi, R.M., 2015. The Long Term Response of Birds to Climate Change: New Results from a Cold Stage Avifauna in Northern England. PLOS ONE, 10 (5), 1-40.
López-García, J.M., Blain, H.A., Sánchez-Bandera, C., Cohen, J., Lebreton, L., Montuire, S., Stewart, J.R. and Desclaux, E., 2021. Multi-method approach using small vertebrate assemblages to reconstruct the Marine Isotope Stage 6 climate and environment of the Lazaret cave sequence (Maritime Alps, Nice, France). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 577.
García-Rodríguez, O., Hardouin, E.A., Hambleton, E., Monteith, J., Randall, C., Richards, M.B., Edwards, C.J. and Stewart, J.R., 2021. Ancient mitochondrial DNA connects house mice in the British Isles to trade across Europe over three millennia. BMC ecology and evolution, 21 (1), 9.
Books
Stewart, J., Carrion, J.S. and Lalueza-Fox, C., 2019, Neanderthals: Ecology and Evolution, Elsevier.
Stewart, J., Carrion, J.S. and Lalueza-Fox, C., 2019, Neanderthals: Ecology and Evolution, Elsevier.
Stewart, J., Miller, R., Zwyns, N., Otte, M. and Noiret, P., 2005, Le site Prehistorique du Trou Al'Wesse a Modave, Service de Prehistoire, Universite de Liege.
Stewart, J., Miller, R. and Otte, M., 2014, Le site prehistorique du Trou Al'Wesse, Modave, Origines, Services de Prehistoire, University de Liege.
2002, Proceedings of the 4th meeting of the ICAZ Bird Working Group, Krakow, Poland, 11-15 September, 2001., Krakow: Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Chapters
Louchart, A., Bibi, F. and Stewart, J.R., 2022. The birds of the late Miocene Baynunah Formation, Abu Dhabi Emirate. In: Bibi, F., Kratz, B., Beech, M. and Hill, A., eds. Sands of time: late Miocene fossils from the Baynunah Formation, U.A.E. Cham (Switzerland): Springer.
Pirson, S., Draily, C., Bovy, B., Cornet, Y., Court-Picon, M., Damblon, F., Debenham, N., Demoulin, A., De Wilde, B., Haesaerts, P., Juvigné, E., La Grappe, P., Parfitt, S.A., Pirouelle, F., Renson, V., Stewart, J.R., Udrescu, M., Van Neer, W., Wouters, W. and Toussaint, M., 2011. Contexte chronostratigraphique et paléoenvironnemental de la séquence de la grotte Walou: synthèse et perspectives. In: Draily, C., Pirson, S. and Toussaint, M., eds. La Grotte Walou a Trooz (Belgique). Fouilles de 1996 a 2004. Les Sciences de la Vie et les datations. Namur, Belgium: Departement du Patrimoine et l'Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 214-233.
Stewart, J.R. and Parfitt, S.A., 2011. Late Quatermary environmental change at Walou Cave: evidence from a preliminary analysis of the small mammals. In: Draily, C., Pirson, S. and Toussaint, M., eds. La Grotte Walou a Trooz (Belgique). Namur, Belgium: Departement du Patrimoine et l'Institut du Patrimoine Wallon, 38-59.
Stewart, J.R., 2010. Understanding evolutionary processes during past Quaternary climatic cycles: Can it be applied to the future? In: Grant, F., Mergeay, J., Santamaria, L., Young, J. and Watt, A.D., eds. Evolution and Biodiversity: The evolutionary basis of biodiversity and its potential for adaptation to global change. Report of an e. Mallorca, Spain: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, INBO, IMEDA, CSIC-UIB.
Stewart, J.R., 2010. The Bird Bones from H3. In: Carter, R. and Crawford, H., eds. Maritime Interactions in the Arabian Neolithic: Evidence from H3, As-Sabiyah, an Unbaid-Related Site in Kuwait. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 157-161.
Grants
Grants
- Taphonomic comparison between cave bear remains from recently excavated Trou Al'Wesse with those from other Belgian caves already analysed (Goyet). (European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant - Synthesis Grant., 2015). Completed
- A DNA barcode approach to identify palaeontological bird remains. (European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant - Synthesis Grant., 2013). Completed
- The Ecological Background to Neanderthal Extinction and Evolution. (Santander Scholarships 2011-12, 2012). Awarded
- LATE NEANDERTAL ADAPTATION IN NORTH-WEST EUROPE:. (Leakey Foundation, 2018). Awarded
- The historic peat record: A guide to restoration of blanket bog. (Natural England, 1 October 2014). Completed
- The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition at Trou Al'Wesse (Belgium). (Leakey Foundation, 2016). Completed
- The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition at Trou Al'Wesse (Belgium). (Leakey Foundation, 2015). Completed
- Taphonomic comparison between cave bear remains from recently excavated Trou Al'Wesse with those from other Belgian caves already analysed (Goyet). (European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant - Synthesis Grant., 2015). Completed
- A DNA barcode approach to identify palaeontological bird remains. (European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant - Synthesis Grant., 2013). Completed
- On the trail of the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Northeast Asia: the Tolbor 16 site (Northern Mongolia). (Leakey Foundation, 2013). Completed
- PALEOFLORA IBÉRICA EN UN CONTEXTO DE BIOCOMPLEJIDAD: INTERACCIONES FISIOGRÁFICAS, ECOLÓGICAS Y EVOLUTIVAS. (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spanish National Grant), 2013). Completed
- ArcheoNIR: Archaeological and archaeometric applications of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) and Hyperspectral Chemical Imaging (HCI): Analysis of the Pleistocene and Holocene fauna at Trou Al'Wesse (Belgium). (FNRS-FRFC grant 2.4621.12, 2012). Completed
- Investigating the relationship between the Initial Upper Palaeolithic from Gorny-Altai and Mongolia: excavation at Tolbor 16 and Tolbor 17. (Leakey Foundation, 2010). Completed
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