Historical DNA (hDNA), obtained from museum and herbarium specimens, has yielded
spectacular new insights into the history of organisms. This includes documenting historical …

Effective population size, Ne, is a key evolutionary parameter that determines the levels of
genetic variation and efficacy of selection. Estimation and interpretation of Ne are essential …

Anthropogenic climate change is causing observable changes in Antarctica and the
Southern Ocean including increased air and ocean temperatures, glacial melt leading to sea …

Overharvest can severely reduce the abundance and distribution of a species and thereby
impact its genetic diversity and threaten its future viability. Overharvest remains an ongoing …

The extinction of a species is a key demographic event often signalling major climatic,
ecological and/or evolutionary shifts that can be investigated using the fossil record. In that …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) has played a major role in our understanding of the past. Important
advances in the sequencing and analysis of aDNA from a range of organisms have enabled …

The field of paleolimnology has made tremendous progress in reconstructing past biotic and
abiotic environmental conditions of aquatic ecosystems based on sediment records. This …

The pre-human Aotearoa New Zealand fauna was dominated by avian and reptilian
species. Prior to first human settlement by East Polynesian colonists, the top predators were …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) approaches have been successfully used to infer the long-term
impacts of climate change, domestication, and human exploitation in a range of terrestrial …

The Cypriot pygmy hippopotamus is an extinct Mediterranean species that inhabited the
island of Cyprus during the Late Pleistocene. This iconic species last appears at the …