Biology Department

John Campbell, Ph. D.

Retired December 2016

Previous Teaching Responsibilities

• Biology 1000 Principles of Biology (Online and Traditonal classroom)
• Biology 1080 Environmental Biology
• Biology 1010 General Biology I: Principles
• Botany 2050 Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
• Botany 2100 Forest Management
• Biology 2310 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• Biology 2395 Biological Research - A Capstone Course
• Biology 2400 General Ecology
• Biology 2450 Field Ecology
• Biology 2490 Biology of Plants and Fungi

Education and Work History

• 1985-2016 Northwest College
• 1996 One semester sabbatical in Burlington, Vermont
• 1984-1985 Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Stewart Rood, University of Lethbridge
• 1981-1984 AOSTRA Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. E.C. Pielou, University of Lethbridge
• 1983 PhD, Botany, University of Alberta
• 1976 M.A., Ecology and Systematic Biology, San Francisco State University
• 1971 B.A., Biology, Albion College

Research Interests

• Arctic and Alpine plant ecology

• Plant community patterns at treeline

• Genetic diversity in populations of Geum rossii, an alpine avens.

• Energy allocation in dwarf shrubs

• Ecology of Populus species

• Land use, urban development and the nature of small western communities

Publications

• Campbell, J.S. 1997. North American Alpine Ecosystems. In F.E. Wielgolaski (ed). Polar and Alpine Tundra. pp. 211-261. Elsevier Publishers. Amsterdam.

• Campbell, J.S., John M. Mahoney, and Stewart B. Rood. 1993. A lack of heterosis in natural poplar hybrids from southern Alberta. Can. J. Bot. 71: 37-43.
  

• Rood, S.B., J.S. Campbell, and Terese Despain. 1986. Natural poplar hybrids. I. Continuous variation of foliar characteristics. Can. J. Bot. 64: 1382-1388.

• Pielou, E.C., J.S. Campbell, and V.J. Lieffers. 1986. Comparison of the structures of even-aged aspen stands in three geographic regions. Can. J. Bot. 64: 122-129.

• Campbell, J.S. 1986. Filters Against Folly - A Review. Environments.

• Campbell, J.S., Victor J. Lieffers, and E.C. Pielou. 1985. Regression equations for estimating single tree biomass of trembling aspen: assessing their applicability to more than one population. Forest Ecology and Management 11: 283-295.

• Campbell, J.S. 1985. Altitudinal vegetation zones. In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 1:441-444. McGraw-Hill, New York.

• Lieffers, V.J., and J.S. Campbell. 1984. Biomass and growth of Populus tremuloides in northeastern Alberta: estimates using hierarchy in tree size. Can. J. of Forest Research 64: 610-616.

Theses

• Campbell, John Sinclair. 1983. Growth, biomass partitioning, and carbon allocation of three dwarf shrubs in the Canadian low arctic. PhD thesis, University of Alberta.

• Campbell, John Sinclair. 1976. Phytosociology of herbaceous timberline vegetation in the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming. M.A. thesis. San Francisco State University.