Brian Buma, Assistant Professor of Integrated Biology, and colleagues recently published “The value of linking short and long-term perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience.” in Landscape Ecology (Buma B, Harvey B, Gavin D, Kelly R, Loboda T, McNeil B, Marlon J, Meddens AJH, Morris JL, Raffa K, Shuman B, Smithwick E, McLauchlan K). Traditional ecology is quite adept at determining mechanisms and explaining phenomena, but not well suited to thinking about non-contemporary climate situations or looking across really long time scales (1000 years +).  Linking with paleo ecologists is a good way to alleviate those shortcomings.  In this paper, the team suggests various ways for those links to be made intentionally and proactively and ways to push interdisciplinary partnerships.