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D-Index
71
Citations
24156
World Ranking
1283
National Ranking
472

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1962 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John W. Williams is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling.

Williams' work covers several key topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities" (2020) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Global acceleration in rates of vegetation change over the past 18,000 years" (2021) in Science
  • "Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system" (2021) in Nature Geoscience
  • "A unifying framework for studying and managing climate-driven rates of ecological change" (2020) in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "BioDeepTime: A database of biodiversity time series for modern and fossil assemblages" (2023) in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Frequent coauthors in their body of work include Simon Goring, David Fastovich, Jessica L. Blois, Jansen A. Smith, and María Dornelas.

Williams has published extensively in venues such as Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Science, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and Quaternary Science Reviews.

In recognition of their contributions, Williams was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1962.

Best Publications

  • Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Jordi Bascompte;Eric L. Berlow

  • Novel climates, no‐analog communities, and ecological surprises

    John W. Williams;Stephen T. Jackson

  • Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD

    John W. Williams;Stephen T. Jackson;John E. Kutzbach

  • Space can substitute for time in predicting climate-change effects on biodiversity

    Jessica L. Blois;John W. Williams;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Stephen T. Jackson

  • Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: A global synthesis

    Patrick J Bartlein;S P Harrison;S P Harrison;S Brewer;Simon Connor

  • Pleistocene megafaunal collapse, novel plant communities, and enhanced fire regimes in North America.

    Jacquelyn L. Gill;John W. Williams;Stephen T. Jackson;Katherine B. Lininger

  • LATE‐QUATERNARY VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN NORTH AMERICA: SCALING FROM TAXA TO BIOMES

    John W. Williams;Bryan N. Shuman;Thompson Webb;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

    Peter U. Clark;Jeremy D. Shakun;Paul A. Baker;Patrick J. Bartlein

  • Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates.

    Kevin Burke;John Williams;Mark Chandler;Alan Haywood

  • MODERN ANALOGS IN QUATERNARY PALEOECOLOGY: Here Today, Gone Yesterday, Gone Tomorrow?

    Stephen T. Jackson;John W. Williams

  • Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

    Daniel G. Gavin;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Paul F. Gugger;Katy D. Heath

  • The Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a multiproxy, international, community-curated data resource

    John W. Williams;Eric C. Grimm;Jessica L. Blois;Donald F. Charles

  • Vegetation and environment in Eastern North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Stephen T. Jackson;Robert S. Webb;Katharine H. Anderson;Jonathan T. Overpeck;Jonathan T. Overpeck

  • Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities.

    Monica G. Turner;W. John Calder;Graeme S. Cumming;Terry P. Hughes

  • No-analog climates and shifting realized niches during the late quaternary: implications for 21st-century predictions by species distribution models

    Samuel D. Veloz;John W. Williams;Jessica L. Blois;Feng He

  • Situating Ecology as a Big-Data Science: Current Advances, Challenges, and Solutions

    Scott S Farley;Andria Dawson;Simon J Goring;John W Williams

  • DISSIMILARITY ANALYSES OF LATE-QUATERNARY VEGETATION AND CLIMATE IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

    John W. Williams;Bryan N. Shuman;Thompson Webb

  • Abrupt Change in Ecological Systems: Inference and Diagnosis

    Zak Ratajczak;Stephen R. Carpenter;Anthony R. Ives;Christopher J. Kucharik

  • Modern pollen data from North America and Greenland for multi-scale paleoenvironmental applications

    J. Whitmore;K. Gajewski;M. Sawada;J.W. Williams

  • Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges

    Mark W. Schwartz;Jessica J. Hellmann;Jason M. McLachlan;Dov F. Sax

  • Looking forward through the past: Identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology

    Alistair W. R. Seddon;Alistair W. R. Seddon;Anson W. Mackay;Ambroise G. Baker;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Projected Distributions of Novel and Disappearing Climates by 2100AD

    J. W. Williams;S. T. Jackson;J. E. Kutzbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey
Bryan N. Shuman
Bryan N. Shuman University of Wyoming
Patrick J. Bartlein
Patrick J. Bartlein University of Oregon
Alejandro Ordonez
Alejandro Ordonez Aarhus University
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick
Matthew C. Fitzpatrick University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Thompson Webb
Thompson Webb Brown University
Simon Brewer
Simon Brewer University of Utah
Michael Notaro
Michael Notaro University of Wisconsin–Madison
Zhengyu Liu
Zhengyu Liu The Ohio State University

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