Paleoecological inference rests on a foundation of processes and relationships that lie
between the target variables of interest and the proxy data extracted from the fossil record …

Body size plays a critical role in mammalian ecology and physiology. Previous research has
shown that many mammals became smaller during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal …

Rodent middens provide a fine-scale spatiotemporal record of plant and animal
communities over the late Quaternary. In the Americas, middens have offered insight into …

Understanding climate change and its potential impact on species, populations and
communities is one of the most pressing questions of twenty-first-century conservation …

Many organisms leave evidence of their former occurrence, such as scat, abandoned
burrows, middens, ancient eDNA or fossils, which indicate areas from which a species has …

During climate change, species are often assumed to shift their geographic distributions
(geographic ranges) in order to track environmental conditions–niches–to which they are …

Anthropogenic climate change is the most prominent conservation issue of our time.
Expectations are that the Earth's climate will warm~ 2.5–6.5° within the next century. The …

The heterogeneous topography of the Great Basin province leads to one of the most
climatically variable regions in the Northern Hemisphere. Along the southwestern edge lies …

What can the interactions of ancient mammals and their environments tell us about the
present—and the future? Classic paleontology has focused on the study of fossils and the …

Understanding how species have responded to past climate change may help refine
projections of how species and biotic communities will respond to future change. Here, we …