Jenny McGuire

Jenny McGuire's research integrates fossil records with modern ecological data to study how mammal communities have responded to past climate changes. Her work focuses particularly on the Quaternary period, examining long-term patterns of community assembly and species distributions.

Jenny McGuire is an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She leads research bridging paleontology, ecology, and conservation biology at this institution.

The Quaternary period spans roughly the last 2.6 million years and includes the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. McGuire examines how mammal communities responded to the dramatic glacial-interglacial climate cycles during this timeframe to better predict future ecological responses.

McGuire's research integrates data from the fossil record with contemporary ecological datasets to identify long-term patterns in how species and communities respond to environmental change. This approach helps researchers predict how current ecosystems might react to ongoing and future climate shifts.