Space‐for‐time substitutions in climate change ecology and evolution

RSL Lovell, S Collins, SH Martin, AL Pigot… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In an epoch of rapid environmental change, understanding and predicting how biodiversity
will respond to a changing climate is an urgent challenge. Since we seldom have sufficient …

pastclim 1.2: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions

M Leonardi, EY Hallett, R Beyer, M Krapp… - Ecography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recent development of continuous paleoclimatic reconstructions covering hundreds of
thousands of years paved the way for a large number of studies from disciplines ranging …

Influence of Pleistocene climate fluctuations on the demographic history and distribution of the critically endangered Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)

S Wei, S Sun, H Dou, F An, H Gao, C Guo, Y Hua - BMC zoology, 2022 - Springer
Background Pleistocene climate fluctuations have strongly modified species genetic
diversity and distributions. The Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) has been recognized …

Multilocus phylogeography, population genetics and niche evolution of Australian brown and black-tailed treecreepers (Aves: Climacteris)

SV Edwards, JFR Tonini, N Mcinerney… - Biological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The Carpentarian barrier across north-eastern Australia is a major biogeographic barrier
and a generator of biodiversity within the Australian Monsoonal Tropics. Here we present a …

Genetic evidence for widespread population size expansion in North American boreal birds prior to the Last Glacial Maximum

AA Kimmitt, TM Pegan, AW Jones… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Pleistocene climate cycles are well documented to have shaped contemporary species
distributions and genetic diversity. Northward range expansions in response to deglaciation …

tidysdm: Leveraging the flexibility of tidymodels for species distribution modelling in R

M Leonardi, M Colucci, AV Pozzi… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In species distribution modelling (SDM), it is common practice to explore multiple machine
learning (ML) algorithms and combine their results into ensembles. In R, many …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial genome analysis across different populations reveals the intraspecific variation and phylogeography of the Caucasian soft tick relapsing fever …

S Filatov, AR Kneubehl, A Krishnavajhala… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Territories in southern parts of Eastern Europe and in the Caucasus are endemic for tick-
borne relapsing fever (TBRF), caused by Borrelia caucasica. This spirochete is transmitted …

Demographic expansions and the emergence of host specialization in genetically distinct ecotypes of the tick-transmitted bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum

ML Aardema, NV Bates, QE Archer… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
In Europe, genetically distinct ecotypes of the tick-vectored bacterium Anaplasma
phagocytophilum circulate among mammals in three discrete enzootic cycles. To date …

Species‐Specific Traits Shape Genetic Diversity During an Expansion–Contraction Cycle and Bias Demographic History Reconstruction

R Vishwakarma, GM Sgarlata… - Molecular …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Species ranges are dynamic, experiencing expansions, contractions or shifts in response to
habitat changes driven by extrinsic factors such as climate change or human activities. While …

Post-glacial expansion dynamics, not refugial isolation, shaped the genetic structure of a migratory bird, the yellow warbler

EF Miller, M Leonardi, Z Xue, R Beyer, M Krapp… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
During the glacial periods of the Pleistocene, swathes of the Northern Hemisphere were
covered by ice sheets, tundra, and permafrost, leaving large areas uninhabitable for …