Using paleo-archives to safeguard biodiversity under climate change

Climate change, ecosystems and abrupt change: science priorities

(2020) Monica G. Turner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Persistent Quaternary climate refugia are hospices for biodiversity in the Anthropocene

(2020) Stuart C. Brown et al.   Nature Climate Change

A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

(2020) Darrell Kaufman et al.   Scientific Data

The Genomic Footprints of the Fall and Recovery of the Crested Ibis

(2019) Shaohong Feng et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Multiscale climate change impacts on plant diversity in the Atacama Desert

(2019) Francisca P. Díaz et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The potential role of intrinsic processes in generating abrupt and quasi‐synchronous tree declines during the Holocene

(2019) Tanjona Ramiadantsoa et al.   ECOLOGY

Tracking Five Millennia of Horse Management with Extensive Ancient Genome Time Series

(2019) Antoine Fages et al.   CELL

Quantifying trends and uncertainty in prehistoric forest composition in the upper Midwestern United States

(2019) Andria Dawson et al.   ECOLOGY

Insights from the past: unique opportunity or foreign country?

(2019) Samuel T. Turvey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using historical and palaeoecological data to inform ambitious species recovery targets

(2019) Molly Grace et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Plant controls on Late Quaternary whole ecosystem structure and function

(2018) Elizabeth S. Jeffers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Indicators of transitions in biological systems

(2018) Christopher F. Clements et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

(2018) Hubertus Fischer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

(2018) Thiago F. Rangel et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying Temporal Genomic Erosion in Endangered Species

(2018) David Díez-del-Molino et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

New evidence of megafaunal bone damage indicates late colonization of Madagascar

(2018) Atholl Anderson et al.   PLoS One

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene

(2018) Will Steffen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change

(2018) Connor Nolan et al.   SCIENCE

Cracking the Code of Biodiversity Responses to Past Climate Change

(2018) David Nogués-Bravo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Mechanistic modeling of environmental drivers of woolly mammoth carrying capacity declines on St. Paul Island

(2018) Yue Wang et al.   ECOLOGY

Long-distance pollen dispersal during recent colonization favors a rapid but partial recovery of genetic diversity in Picea sitchensis

(2018) Joane S. Elleouet et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates

(2018) K. D. Burke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental DNA Time Series in Ecology

(2018) Miklós Bálint et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecological history of a long-lived conifer in a disjunct population

(2017) Erin M. Herring et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene

(2017) Christopher N. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being

(2017) Gretta T. Pecl et al.   SCIENCE

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

(2017) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   SCIENCE

Estimating Age-Dependent Extinction: Contrasting Evidence from Fossils and Phylogenies

(2017) Oskar Hagen et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Tree biomass reconstruction shows no lag in postglacial afforestation of eastern Canada

(2016) Olivier Blarquez et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Late Pleistocene climate drivers of early human migration

(2016) Axel Timmermann et al.   NATURE

Body size distributions signal a regime shift in a lake ecosystem

(2016) Trisha L. Spanbauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dispersal events of the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) in Central Europe in response to the climatic fluctuations in MIS 2 and the early part of MIS 1

(2016) Adam Nadachowski et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change

(2016) M. C. Urban et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

(2016) Frédérik Saltré et al.   Nature Communications

Predicting and mitigating future biodiversity loss using long-term ecological proxies

(2016) Damien A. Fordham et al.   Nature Climate Change

Conservation Paleobiology: Leveraging Knowledge of the Past to Inform Conservation and Restoration

(2015) Gregory P. Dietl et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth

(2015) Eleftheria Palkopoulou et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Global nutrient transport in a world of giants

(2015) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

(2015) Susan M. Kidwell   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Community ecology in a changing environment: Perspectives from the Quaternary

(2015) Stephen T. Jackson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tracking the origins of Yakutian horses and the genetic basis for their fast adaptation to subarctic environments

(2015) Pablo Librado et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of palaeoecological records in assessing ecosystem services

(2015) Elizabeth S. Jeffers et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance

(2015) C. I. Millar et al.   SCIENCE

Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover

(2015) A. Cooper et al.   SCIENCE

The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems: Motivations, Challenges, and Applications

(2015) David A. Keith et al.   Conservation Letters

Evaluation of CMIP5 palaeo-simulations to improve climate projections

(2015) S. P. Harrison et al.   Nature Climate Change

Life in an extreme environment: a historical perspective on the influence of temperature on the ecology and evolution of woodrats

(2015) Felisa A. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

(2014) Eske Willerslev et al.   NATURE

A Paleogenomic Perspective on Evolution and Gene Function: New Insights from Ancient DNA

(2014) B. Shapiro et al.   SCIENCE

Better forecasts of range dynamics using genetic data

(2014) Damien A. Fordham et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator–prey interactions in Holocene Australia

(2013) Thomas A. A. Prowse et al.   ECOLOGY

Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

(2013) Wendy B. Foden et al.   PLoS One

Dynamics of Green Sahara Periods and Their Role in Hominin Evolution

(2013) Juan C. Larrasoaña et al.   PLoS One

Efficient mitigation of founder effects during the establishment of a leading-edge oak population

(2013) A. Hampe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bayesian age-depth modelling of Late Quaternary deposits from Wet and Blanche Caves, Naracoorte, South Australia: A framework for comparative faunal analyses

(2013) Amy C. Macken et al.   Quaternary Geochronology

Essential Biodiversity Variables

(2013) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Decomposing the mid-HoloceneTsugadecline in eastern North America

(2012) Robert K. Booth et al.   ECOLOGY

Contributions of long-distance dispersal to population growth in colonisingPinus ponderosapopulations

(2012) Mark R. Lesser et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation

(2012) Jeremy D. Shakun et al.   NATURE

Late Pleistocene climate change and the global expansion of anatomically modern humans

(2012) A. Eriksson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

(2012) P. U. Clark et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid climate change and no-analog vegetation in lowland Central America during the last 86,000 years

(2012) Alexander Correa-Metrio et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Global characterization of the Holocene Thermal Maximum

(2012) H. Renssen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

An Update of Wallace's Zoogeographic Regions of the World

(2012) B. G. Holt et al.   SCIENCE

An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design

(2011) Karl E. Taylor et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The representative concentration pathways: an overview

(2011) Detlef P. van Vuuren et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

The Community Climate System Model Version 4

(2011) Peter R. Gent et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

Beyond Predictions: Biodiversity Conservation in a Changing Climate

(2011) T. P. Dawson et al.   SCIENCE

Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change

(2010) Jessica L. Blois et al.   NATURE

Divergent trends in land and ocean temperature in the Southern Ocean over the past 18,000 years

(2010) Matt S. McGlone et al.   Nature Geoscience

High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia

(2010) Janet M. Wilmshurst et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tephrochronology and its application: A review

(2010) David J. Lowe   Quaternary Geochronology

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Plant migration and plant communities at the time of the “green Sahara”

(2009) Julie Watrin et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Ecology and the ratchet of events: Climate variability, niche dimensions, and species distributions

(2009) S. T. Jackson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America

(2009) J. L. Gill et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid responses of the prairie-forest ecotone to early Holocene aridity in mid-continental North America

(2008) John W. Williams et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

A new global biome reconstruction and data-model comparison for the Middle Pliocene

(2008) U. Salzmann et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Slowing down as an early warning signal for abrupt climate change

(2008) V. Dakos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural Variability of Greenland Climate, Vegetation, and Ice Volume During the Past Million Years

(2008) A. de Vernal et al.   SCIENCE

High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years

(2008) J. P. Steffensen et al.   SCIENCE