John W. Williams

University of Wisconsin–Madison — United States

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

70h-index24.4kcitations491works2.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(147), Tree-ring climate responses(71), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(70), Species Distribution and Climate Change(69), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(34)

Publications489 total

Advancing ecology and evolution through continental scientific drilling
Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2025
Holocene land cover change in North America: continental trends, regional drivers, and implications for vegetation–atmosphere feedbacks
Climate of the past·2025Open Access
Fossils for Future: the billion-dollar case for paleontology’s digital infrastructure
2025Open Access
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales
Science·2025· 11 citedOpen Access
Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Functional Ecology·2025· 9 citedOpen Access
Comment on essd-2025-130
2025Open Access
Patterns and drivers of Holocene moisture variability in mid-latitude eastern North America
Nature Communications·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases
Eos·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Toward Long-Term Data Stewardship: Merging The Speleothem Database SISAL into Neotoma, the Palaeoecological “Database of Databases”
2025Open Access
A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Ecological Novelty
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The Indo–Pacific Pollen Database – a Neotoma constituent database
Climate of the past·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Design, development, and implementation of IsoBank: A centralized repository for isotopic data
PLoS ONE·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Are ecotonal systems more sensitive to climate change? Past ecotonal dynamics and rates of vegetation change in Michigan
2024Open Access
User-centered design and evaluation of the neotoma paleoecology open software ecosystem
International Journal of Digital Earth·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Climate outweighs human effects on vegetation properties during the early-to-mid Holocene
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Comment on cp-2024-44
2024Open Access
The Indo-Pacific Pollen Database – a Neotoma constituent database
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Supplementary material to "The Indo-Pacific Pollen Database – a Neotoma constituent database"
2024Open Access
Databases and their application
Elsevier eBooks·2024· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Stephen T. Jackson(11), Bryan N. Shuman(10), Patrick J. Bartlein(7), Jessica L. Blois(7), Jacquelyn L. Gill(5), Zhengyu Liu(4), Thompson Webb(4), Simon Goring(4), Simon Brewer(3), Matthew C. Fitzpatrick(3), Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner(3), Alistair W. R. Seddon(3), Nicholas J. Matzke(2), Sandy P. Harrison(2), Konrad Gajewski(2), Hai Cheng(2), Darrell S. Kaufman(2), Feng He(2), Jerry F McManus(2), K. Burke(2)