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Stuart K. Allison
Watson Bartlett Professor of Biology and Conservation
Director, Green Oaks Field Study Center
Department of Biology
Knox College
Galesburg, Illinois 60401
USA
309-341-7185
sallison@knox.edu
Courses Taught
Current Research Projects
I am fascinated by how plant communities recover from disturbance, in
particular from human disturbance. As a result I have become interested in
the restoration and reconstruction of badly damaged plant communities.
Tallgrass prairies are one of the most badly disturbed ecosystems in the
world. About 99.9% of the original tallgrass prairie in Illinois has been
lost. The only way we will ever have more tallgrass prairie is if we grow
it. I am currently studying the reconstructed prairies at Green
Oaks, Knox's biological field station. The prairie reconstructions
were initiated by the late Paul Shepard in 1954 and continued by Peter
Schramm. My prairie research is mostly dedicated to studying and
monitoring changes in the prairies at Green Oaks. I have also developed a
long-term study examining the demography of tree species at Green Oaks.
More recently I have become fascinated by the ethics of ecological
restoration and have been trying to develop an ethical system that permits
restoration while still respecting the natural world. Developing that
ethical system is proving to be surprisingly difficult to do.
Professional Affliations
Ecological Society of America
Education Section of the Ecological Society of America
The Society for Conservation Biology
The Society for Ecological Restoration
Board of Editors of Restoration Ecology, published by the Society
for Ecological Restoration
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research
Society
Recent Publications
Allison, S.K. 2024. Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change: Renewing Damaged Ecosystems 2nd Edition. Publishers webpage for the book.
Allison and Murphy (editors). 2017. Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration. Publishers website for the book
Allison, S.K. 2017. Ecological restoration and environmental change pp. 485-494. In Allison and Murphy (editors) Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration. Publishers website for the book
Murphy and Allison. 2017. Introduction: What next for restoration ecology? pp. 1-3. In Allison and Murphy (editors) Routledge Handbook of Ecological and Environmental Restoration. Publishers website for the book
Hanberry, Noss, Safford, Allison and Dey. 2015. Restoration is preparation for the future. Journal of Forestry. Publishers website for the article
Allison, S.K. 2012. Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change: Renewing Damaged Ecosystems. Earthscan Press/Routledge. Abingdon, UK. 252 pp. Publishers website for the book
Allison, S.K. 2011. The paradox of invasive species: Do restorationists worry about them too much or too little? pp. 265-275. In I.D. Rotherham and R. Lambert (editors) Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals: Human Perceptions, Attitudes, and Approaches to Management. Earthscan Press, London, UK. PDF of final draft
Allison, S.K. 2008. Differences in the effects of drought upon restored and remnant prairies. Ecological Restoration 26:95-97. PDF of manuscript
Allison, S.K. 2007. You can't not choose: Embracing the role of choice in ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology 15:601-605. PDF of manuscript
Allison, S.K. 2004. What do we mean when we talk about ecological restoration? Ecological Restoration 22:281-286. PDF of manuscript
Allison, S.K. 2002. When is a restoration successful? Results from a 45 year-old tallgrass prairie restoration. Ecological Restoration 20:10-17. PDF of manuscript
Meyer, M.J., J.A. Crawford, and S.K. Allison. 2002. Geographic distribution. Hemidactylium scutatum. Herpetological Review. 33:217.
Allison, S.K. and J. Ehrenfeld. 1999. The influence of microhabitat variation on seedling recruitment of Atlantic white cedar and red maple. Wetlands 19:383-393. PDF of manuscript
Allison, S.K. 1996. Recruitment and establishment of salt marsh plants following disturbance by flooding. The American Midland Naturalist 136:232-247.
Allison, S.K. 1995. Recovery from small scale anthropogenic disturbances by northern California salt marsh plant assemblages. Ecological Applications 5:693-702.
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