Climate change in the past has led to significant changes in species' distributions. However,
how individual species respond to climate change depends largely on their adaptations and …

An appreciation of the scale and frequency of climatic oscillations in the past few million
years is modifying our views on how evolution proceeds. Such major events caused …

Glacial cycles have played a dominant role in shaping the genetic structure and distribution
of biota in northwestern North America. The two major ice age refugia of Beringia and the …

DNA techniques, analytical methods and palaeoclimatic studies are greatly advancing our
knowledge of the global distribution of genetic diversity, and how it evolved. Such …

Up to the 1960s, there was nearly complete consensus that disjunctions and endemism in
the North Atlantic cannot be explained without in situ survival during the glaciations (the" …

Yamal, translates as the'end of the land'in the language of its native Nenets population. The
setting of this anthropological monograph, Yamal is home to the world's largest domestic …

Hybridisation and gene introgression are important sources of diversification, the relevance
of which in the evolutionary processes is well recognised. Their fitness consequences in …

The circumpolar arctic fox Alopex lagopus thrives in cold climates and has a high migration
rate involving long-distance movements. Thus, it differs from many temperate taxa that were …

Although there is little doubt that the domestication of mammals was instrumental for the
modernization of human societies, even basic features of the path towards domestication …

Parasites play an important role in the structure and function of arctic ecosystems, systems
that are currently experiencing an unprecedented rate of change due to various …