Climate refugia, locations where taxa survive periods of regionally adverse climate, are
thought to be critical for maintaining biodiversity through the glacial–interglacial climate …

The fossil record is the primary source of information on how biodiversity has varied in deep
time, providing unique insight on the long-term dynamics of diversification and their drivers …

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a community-curated data resource that supports
interdisciplinary global change research by enabling broad-scale studies of taxon and …

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

Ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) data are close to enabling insights into past global-
scale biodiversity dynamics at unprecedented taxonomic extent and resolution. However …

There is an urgent need to understand species and community responses to climatic and
ecological changes to predict biodiversity patterns given anticipated global change. The …

The Paleobiology Database (PBDB; https://paleobiodb. org) consists of geographically and
temporally explicit, taxonomically identified fossil occurrence data. The taxonomy utilized by …

Current patterns of biological diversity are influenced by both historical and present-day
factors, yet research in ecology and evolution is largely split between paleontological and …

The relative weights of physical forcing and biotic interaction as drivers of evolutionary
change have been debated in evolutionary theory. The recent finding that species, genera …

Paleoecological data are integral to ecological and evolutionary analyses. First, they provide
an opportunity to study ecological and evolutionary interactions between communities and …