Apart from the current human-induced climate change, the Holocene is notable for its stable
climate. In contrast, the preceding age, the Pleistocene, was a time of intensive climatic …

Multiple episodes of rapid and gradual climatic changes influenced the evolution and
ecology of mammalian species and communities throughout the Cenozoic. Climatic change …

The establishment of agricultural economies based upon domestic animals began
independently in many parts of the world and led to both increases in human population size …

Population-genomic studies can shed new light on the effect of past demographic processes
on contemporary population structure. We reassessed phylogeographical patterns of a …

About 100 km east of Rome, in the central Apennine Mountains, a critically endangered
population of∼ 50 brown bears live in complete isolation. Mating outside this population is …

Methods developed over the past decade have made it possible to estimate molecular
demographic parameters such as effective population size, divergence time, and gene flow …

This review provides an up-to-date synthesis of the matrilineal phylogeography of a uniquely
well-studied Holarctic mammal, the brown bear. We extend current knowledge by presenting …

We present a short synthesis of the Pleistocene distribution dynamics and phylogeographic
recolonization hypotheses for two temperate European mammal species, the red deer …

Palaeogenetic investigations in three geographically close caves (Hohle Fels,
Geißenklösterle, and Sirgenstein) in the Ach Valley near Blaubeuren (Swabian Jura) …

Recent human expansion into the Pacific initiated a dramatic avian extinction crisis, and
surviving taxa are typically interpreted as declining remnants of previously abundant …