BACKGROUND Effects of recent global warming have been documented in every biome on
Earth. Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services against future impacts requires …

• Premise of the study: Near‐future climate changes are likely to elicit major vegetation
changes. Disequilibrium dynamics, which occur when vegetation comes out of equilibrium …

Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by
ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred …

Rapid and ongoing change creates novelty in ecosystems everywhere, both when
comparing contemporary systems to their historical baselines, and predicted future systems …

There is an urgent need for more ecologically realistic models for better predicting the effects
of climate change on species' potential geographic distributions. Here we build ecological …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Community ecology and paleoecology are both concerned with the composition and
structure of biotic assemblages but are largely disconnected. Community ecology focuses …

Because of differences in craniofacial morphology and dentition between the earliest
American skeletons and modern Native Americans, separate origins have been postulated …

Evidence for climatic change across the North American Monsoon (NAM) and adjacent
areas is reviewed, drawing on continental and marine records and the application of climate …

Assuming that co‐distributed species are exposed to similar environmental conditions,
ecological niche models (ENM s) of bird and plant species inhabiting tropical dry forests …