Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

Climate change is predicted to become a major threat to biodiversity in the 21st century, but
accurate predictions and effective solutions have proved difficult to formulate. Alarming …

Gene sequences sampled at different points in time can be used to infer molecular
phylogenies on a natural timescale of months or years, provided that the sequences in …

Our understanding of how global climatic changes are translated into ice-sheet fluctuations
and sea-level change is currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the configuration of ice …

Data needed for macroecological analyses are difficult to compile and often hidden away in
supplementary material under non-standardized formats. Phylogenies, range data, and trait …

Time-calibrated species phylogenies are critical for addressing a wide range of questions in
evolutionary biology, such as those that elucidate historical biogeography or uncover …

Background The evolutionary analysis of molecular sequence variation is a statistical
enterprise. This is reflected in the increased use of probabilistic models for phylogenetic …

Localized ecological systems are known to shift abruptly and irreversibly from one state to
another when they are forced across critical thresholds. Here we review evidence that the …

Climate change in the past has led to significant changes in species' distributions. However,
how individual species respond to climate change depends largely on their adaptations and …

Effective population size is fundamental in population genetics and characterizes genetic
diversity. To infer past population dynamics from molecular sequence data, coalescent …