Jonathan Bakker

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    • Jonathan Bakker

    • Professor

    Research areas

    My research focuses on:

    • Restoration and management of prairies, savannas, and forests
    • Long-term vegetation dynamics
    • Statistical methods for community ecology

    B.A., Biology and Environmental Studies, Dordt University
    M.Sc., Plant Ecology, University of Regina
    Ph.D., Ecosystem Science (Forestry), Northern Arizona University

    Autumn 2026 Admissions: Jon Bakker is currently accepting graduate students for the 2026-27 school year, though space is dependent in part on successful research grant proposals. Prospective students should review this page on his website before contacting him.

    Courses

    • ESRM 362 / ENVIR 362 / SEFS 530 | Introduction to Restoration Ecology (5) - Autumn
    • ESRM 412 | Native Plant Production (3) - Spring
    • SEFS 502 | Analytical Techniques for Community Ecology (4) - Winter

    Current sponsored projects

    • Tinian forest restoration and Tinian monarch research

    • Developing strategies to enhance Wenatchee Mountains Checker-mallow populations

    • Native plant production for climate adaptation in the eastern Mediterranean

    • Advancing Puget Sound native plant propagation

    • Research to increase effectiveness of Paradise meadow restoration

    • Fuel treatment longevity in the interior Pacific Northwest

    Selected publications

    Bakker, J.D. 2024. Applied Multivariate Analyses in R. University of Washington, Seattle, WA. https://uw.pressbooks.pub/appliedmultivariatestatistics/

    Radcliffe, D.C., J.D. Bakker, D.J. Churchill, R. Van Pelt, and B.J. Harvey. 2025. Perspectives: Six opportunities to improve understanding of fuel treatment longevity in historically frequent-fire forests. Forest Ecology and Management 592:122761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122761.

    Chen, Q., S.A. Blowes, W.S. Harpole, E. Ladoucer, E.T. Borer, A. MacDougall, J.P. Martina, J.D. Bakker, P.M. Tognetti, E.W. Seabloom, P. Daleo, S. Power, C. Roscher, P.B. Adler, I. Donohue, G. Wheeler, C. Stevens, G.F.C. Veen, A.C. Risch, G.M. Wardle, Y. Hautier, C. Estrada, E. Hersch-Green, Y. Niu, P.L. Peri, A. Eskelinen, D.S. Gruner, H. Olde Venterink, C. D’Antonio, M.W. Cadotte, S. Haider, N. Eisenhauer, J. Catford, R. Virtanen, J.W. Morgan, M. Tedder, S. Bagchi, M.C. Caldeira, M.N. Bugalho, J.M.H. Knops, C.R. Dickman, N. Hagenah, A. Jentsch, P. Macek, B.B. Osborne, L. Laanisto, and J.M. Chase. 2025. Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands. Nature Communications 16:4903. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59166-7.

    Bakker, J.D., J.N. Price, J.A. Henning, E.E. Batzer, T.J. Ohlert, C.E. Wainwright, P.B. Adler, J. Alberti, C.A. Arnillas, L.A. Biederman, E.T. Borer, L.A. Brudvig, Y.M. Buckley, M.N. Bugalho, M.W. Cadotte, M.C. Caldeira, J.A. Catford, Q. Chen, M.J. Crawley, P. Daleo, C.R. Dickman, I. Donohue, M.E. DuPre, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, P.A. Fay, D.S. Gruner, S. Haider, Y. Hautier, A. Jentsch, K. Kirkman, J.M.H. Knops, L.S. Lannes, A.S. MacDougall, R.L. McCulley, R.M. Mitchell, J.L. Moore, J.W. Morgan, B. Mortensen, H. Olde Venterink, P.L. Peri, S.A. Power, S.M. Prober, C. Roscher, M. Sankaran, E.W. Seabloom, M.D. Smith, C. Stevens, L.L. Sullivan, M. Tedder, G.F. Veen, R. Virtanen, and G.M. Wardle. 2023. Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere 14(6):e4542. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4542.

    Bakker, J.D., E.G. Delvin, and P.W. Dunwiddie. 2018. Staged-scale restoration: refining adaptive management to improve restoration effectiveness. Journal of Applied Ecology 55: 1126-1132.  https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13050.

    These and other publications are available through ResearchGate.