Genetic diversity provides the basic substrate for evolution, yet few studies assess the
impacts of global climate change (GCC) on intraspecific genetic variation. In this review, we …

This paper provides an overview of the contentious issue of global megafaunal extinctions in
the Late Quaternary. The main proposed causes are 'overkill', environmental change or a …

Abstract The European honeybee (Apis mellifera) is a key pollinator and has in the last
decades suffered significant population decline. A combination of factors, including …

Despite the widespread use of bones in ancient DNA (aDNA) studies, relatively little
concrete information exists in regard to how the DNA in mineralised collagen degrades, or …

Abstract Pleistocene Mammoth Faunas were the most successful, cold-adapted large
mammal assemblages in the history of the Earth. However, the causes for their emergence …

The Columbia River and its tributaries provide essential spawning and rearing habitat for
many salmonid species, including Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Chinook …

In recent decades, Saiga antelope (Saiga t. tatarica) mass die-offs have become more
common. The mass die-off of 2015 in central Kazakhstan, recorded 140,000 individual …

High-throughput sequencing methods have facilitated obtaining large amounts of data from
degraded DNA, thus resulting in a dramatic increase in destructive sampling requests to …

Clovis groups in Late Pleistocene North America occasionally hunted several now extinct
large mammals. But whether their hunting drove 37 genera of animals to extinction has been …

There is growing consensus that we have entered the Anthropocene, a geologic epoch
characterized by human domination of the ecosystems of the Earth. With the future …