Polar ecosystems are experiencing amongst the most rapid rates of regional warming on
Earth. Here, we discuss 'omics' approaches to investigate polar biodiversity, including the …

Ancient genomes provide a tool to investigate the genetic basis of adaptations in extinct
organisms. However, the identification of species-specific fixed genetic variants requires the …

Pathways to extinction start long before the death of the last individual. However, causes of
early stage population declines and the susceptibility of small residual populations to …

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 …

Woolly mammoths in mainland Alaska overlapped with the region's first people for at least a
millennium. However, it is unclear how mammoths used the space shared with people …

A number of species have recently recovered from near-extinction. Although these species
have avoided the immediate extinction threat, their long-term viability remains precarious …

The rapid development of ancient DNA analysis in the last decades has induced a paradigm
shift in ecology and evolution. Driven by a combination of breakthroughs in DNA isolation …

Interest continues to grow in Arctic megafaunal ecological engineering, but, since the mass
extinction of megafauna~ 12–15 ka, key physiographic variables and available forage …

Starting four decades ago, studies have examined the ecology and evolutionary dynamics of
populations and species using short mitochondrial DNA fragments and stable isotopes …

This paper describes the results of research at Volchia Griva, the largest site in Asia
containing mammoth fauna in situ. It is situated in the south of the West Siberian Plain in the …