Contents Summary 669 I. Model clades for the study and integration of ecology and
evolution 670 II. Oaks: an important model clade 671 III. Insights from the history of the …

Glacial–interglacial climate cycles are known to have triggered migrations and
reassortments of tropical biota. Although long-term precessionally-driven changes in …

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 …

During the last ice age, the Northern Hemisphere experienced a series of abrupt millennial-
scale climatic changes linked to variations in the strength of the Atlantic Meridional …

Evolutionary Community Ecology develops a unified framework for understanding the
structure of ecological communities and the dynamics of natural selection that shape the …

Diatom-based transfer functions for salinity, precipitation and temperature were developed
using a training set that included data from 40 sites along central Mexico. These transfer …

Tropical hydroclimatic events, characterized by extreme regional rainfall anomalies, were a
recurrent feature of marine isotope stages 2–4 and involved some of the most abrupt and …

The last 85,000 years were characterized by high climate and environmental variability on
the Yucatán Peninsula. Heinrich stadials are examples of abrupt climate transitions that …

Late Pleistocene sloths were widely distributed and present in a diversity of habitats in
South, Central, and North America and some Caribbean Islands. Late Pleistocene sloths …