R. Beyer

pastclim: an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions

pastclim provides an R package to access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions for the last 120,000 and 800,000 years, simplifying data extraction and analysis for researchers.

Post-glacial expansion dynamics, not refugial isolation, shaped the genetic structure of a migratory bird, the yellow warbler

The paper uses climate-informed spatial genetic modeling to show that post-glacial expansion dynamics, not refugial isolation, shaped the genetic structure of the yellow warbler.

Range sizes of the world's mammals, birds andamphibians from 5,000 BC to 2100 AD

The paper maps historical and future range changes of 16,511 mammal, bird, and amphibian species, finding significant range loss and variation across species and scenarios.

Windows out of Africa: A 300,000-year chronology of climatically plausible human contact with Eurasia

This paper estimates the timing and routes of human migration out of Africa over 300,000 years by linking climatic conditions to human dispersal.

mtDNA-based reconstructions of change in effective population sizes of Holarctic birds do not agree with their reconstructed range sizes based on paleoclimates

The paper uses mitochondrial DNA and bioclimatic models to compare changes in effective population size and range size in Holarctic birds, finding no correlation between the two.