In September 2016, the annual meeting of the International Union for Quaternary Research's
Loess and Pedostratigraphy Focus Group, traditionally referred to as a LoessFest, met in …

Steppe‐tundra is considered to have been a dominant ecosystem across northern Eurasia
during the Last Glacial Maximum. As the fossil record is insufficient for understanding the …

Knowledge of present‐day communities and ecosystems resembling those reconstructed
from the fossil record can help improve our understanding of historical distribution patterns …

We document global phylogenetic pattern in the pupillid land snail genus Vertigo by
analyses of nDNA (ITS1 and ITS2) and mtDNA (CytB and 16S) sequence from 424 …

Terrestrial gastropod inventories can be improved, both in scope and thoroughness, by
including species observations made by citizen scientists. Few citizen science projects …

Accurate ecological assemblage analysis requires that underlying taxonomic divisions
reflect biological reality. However, the validity of many taxonomic hypotheses have never …

Using the Pupilla faunas of Europe, North America, the Altai region of central Asia and
eastern Asia, we consider whether the existing taxonomy based primarily on shell apertural …

Established alien land snail species that were introduced into the Western Palaearctic
Region from other regions and their spread in the Western Palaearctic are reviewed …

Issue Lot accession information from natural history collections represents a potentially vital
source of large datasets to test biodiversity, biogeography and macroecology hypotheses …

A revised database of terrestrial gastropods from North America north of Mexico was
assembled in the spring of 2012, which included not only all likely species-level entities …