The horse was essential to past human societies but became a recreational animal during
the twentieth century as the world became increasingly mechanized. As the author reviews …

The equid family contains only one single extant genus, Equus, including seven living
species grouped into horses on the one hand and zebras and asses on the other. In …

Even the most sophisticated global climate models are known to have significant biases in
the way they simulate the climate system. Correcting model biases is therefore an essential …

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 …

Predicting the effects of future global changes on species requires a better understanding of
the ecological niche dynamics in response to climate; the large climatic fluctuations of the …

The domestication of the horse some 5,500 years ago followed those of dogs, sheep, goats,
cattle, and pigs by∼ 2,500–10,000 years. By providing fast transportation and transforming …

This chapter describes the history of mammal species and their zoogeographical patterns
during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. The scientific results of the past 20 years on …

Horses are gaining importance in European nature conservation management, for which
usually so-called primitive breeds are favored due to their claimed robustness. An …

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 …

The great importance of the domestic horse in human history and culture has long made it a
significant subject of research. The historical role of the horse and new studies and …