Species distribution modeling (SDM) is a methodology that has been widely used in the past
two decades for developing quantitative, empirical, predictive models of species …

Species distribution modeling (SDM: statistical and/or mechanistic approaches to the
assessment of range determinants and prediction of species occurrence) offers new …

The increasing interest in the effects of climate changes on species distributions has been
followed by the development of Species Distribution Models (SDMs). Although these …

Reconstructing paleoenvironments has long been considered a vital component for
understanding community structure of extinct organisms, as well as patterns that guide …

Niche-based models, such as transfer functions, are commonly used in a wide variety of
ecological systems for quantitative reconstruction of past environments. Recent ecological …

Accurately reconstructing past human population dynamics is critical for explaining major
patterns in the human past. Demand for demographic proxies has driven hopeful interest in …

Paleoecological inference rests on a foundation of processes and relationships that lie
between the target variables of interest and the proxy data extracted from the fossil record …

Numerous simple measures are available for integrating both archaeological plant and
animal data. It is difficult to provide a complete coverage of all these measures in this …

Paleozoologists have long used taxa represented by ancient faunal remains to reconstruct
paleoenvironments. Those ancient environments were the selective contexts in which …

This volume focuses on the reconstruction of past ecosystems and provides a
comprehensive review of current techniques and their application in exemplar studies. The …