Applications of species distribution modeling to paleobiology

JC Svenning, C Fløjgaard, KA Marske… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Species distribution modeling (SDM: statistical and/or mechanistic approaches to the
assessment of range determinants and prediction of species occurrence) offers new …

Predicting thermal adaptation by looking into populations' genomic past

AJ Cortés, F López-Hernández… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Molecular evolution offers an insightful theory to interpret the genomic consequences of
thermal adaptation to previous events of climate change beyond range shifts. However …

Postglacial migration supplements climate in determining plant species ranges in Europe

S Normand, RE Ricklefs, F Skov… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The influence of dispersal limitation on species ranges remains controversial. Considering
the dramatic impacts of the last glaciation in Europe, species might not have tracked climate …

Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants

IG Alsos, D Ehrich, W Thuiller… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate change will lead to loss of range for many species, and thus to loss of genetic
diversity crucial for their long-term persistence. We analysed range-wide genetic diversity …

Molecular data and ecological niche modelling reveal a highly dynamic evolutionary history of the East Asian Tertiary relict Cercidiphyllum (Cercidiphyllaceae)

XS Qi, C Chen, HP Comes, S Sakaguchi… - New …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
East Asia's temperate deciduous forests served as sanctuary for Tertiary relict trees, but their
ages and response to past climate change remain largely unknown. To address this issue …

Genetic roadmap of the Arctic: plant dispersal highways, traffic barriers and capitals of diversity

PB Eidesen, D Ehrich, V Bakkestuen, IG Alsos… - New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We provide the first comparative multispecies analysis of spatial genetic structure and
diversity in the circumpolar Arctic using a common strategy for sampling and genetic …

Cannabis is indigenous to Europe and cultivation began during the Copper or Bronze age: a probabilistic synthesis of fossil pollen studies

JM McPartland, GW Guy, W Hegman - Vegetation History and …, 2018 - Springer
Conventional wisdom states Cannabis sativa originated in Asia and its dispersal to Europe
depended upon human transport. Various Neolithic or Bronze age groups have been …

Biogeography of high‐mountain plants in the Carpathians: An emerging phylogeographical perspective

M Ronikier - Taxon, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The Carpathians belong to the main elements of the European Alpine System and have an
important biogeographical location between the Balkan ranges in the South, the Alps in the …

Plants on the move: The role of seed dispersal and initial population establishment for climate-driven range expansions

A Hampe - Acta Oecologica, 2011 - Elsevier
Recent climate change will presumably allow many plant species to expand their
geographical range up to several hundred kilometres towards the poles within a few …

Glacial survival may matter after all: Nunatak signatures in the rare European populations of two west‐arctic species

KB Westergaard, IG Alsos, M Popp… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Biogeographers claimed for more than a century that arctic plants survived glaciations in ice‐
free refugia within the limits of the North European ice sheets. Molecular studies have …