Climate change can have a marked effect on the distribution and abundance of some
species, as well as their interspecific interactions. In 1992, before ecological effects of …

Global climate changes during the Quaternary reveal much about broader evolutionary
effects of environmental change. Detailed regional studies reveal how evolutionary lineages …

The cestode Echinococcus multilocularis is the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis,
a fatal zoonotic parasitic disease of the northern hemisphere. Red foxes are the main …

Widely distributed taxa provide an opportunity to compare biogeographic responses to
climatic fluctuations on multiple continents and to investigate speciation. We conducted the …

In the first continent-wide study of the golden jackal (Canis aureus), we characterised its
population genetic structure and attempted to identify the origin of European populations …

The Pleistocene was an epoch of extreme climatic and environmental changes. How
individual species responded to the repeated cycles of warm and cold stages is a major …

The ornate dog tick (Dermacentor reticulatus) shows a recently expanding geographic
distribution. Knowledge on its intraspecific variability, population structure, rate of genetic …

Foxes and cats are the most abundant medium‐sized urban carnivores. To date, however,
there has been a lack of effort to synthesize data on the spatial and trophic resources used …

Background Many boreo-temperate mammals have a Pleistocene fossil record throughout
Eurasia and North America, but only few have a contemporary distribution that spans this …

Carnivores tend to exhibit a lack of (or less pronounced) genetic structure at continental
scales in both a geographic and temporal sense and this can confound the identification of …