Weston Roundtable: Professor Jack Williams

These are exciting times for ecologists who use the recent geological record to study species and community responses to climate change and early human impacts. This renaissance is powered by the development of new proxies (e.g. ancient DNA) and more accurate dating techniques. These include the growth of community-curated data repositories that enable large-scale biogeographic syntheses, and new methods for the rigorous synthesis of paleoecological data with ecological forecasting models.