Palaeoclimate

Michela, Margherita and Andrea recently published a preprint presenting tidysdm , an R package to perform Species Distribution modelling with tidymodels. In the right column are linked a few resources to familiarise with it. Michela Leonardi, Margherita Colucci, Andrea Manica (2023), tidysdm: leveraging the flexibility of...

Michela, Robert, Mario and Andrea, together with Emily Hallett from Loyola University, just published in Ecography the paper presenting pastclim , an R package to easily access and use paleoclimatic reconstructions. In the right column are linked a few resources to familiarise with it. Michela Leonardi, Emily Y. Hallett...

Michela and Andrea just published in Communications Biology their new paper about the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum on the ecological niche and the distribution of horses, deers, aurochs and wild boars. Michela Leonardi, Francesco Boschin, Paolo Boscato, Andrea Manica (2022) Following the niche: the differential...

Andrea took part in a paper just published in Scientific Reports in which they use paleoclimate to find out which habitats were inhabited during the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa. Lucy Timbrell, Matt Grove, Andrea Manica, Stephen Rucina, James Blinkhorn (2022) A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework...

Andrea took part in a paper just out in Ecology Letters investigating the processes leading to the extinction of the woolly mammoths. Damien A. Fordham, Stuart C. Brown, H. Reşit Akçakaya, Barry W. Brook, Sean Haythorne, Andrea Manica, Kevin T. Shoemaker, Jeremy J. Austin, Benjamin Blonder, Julia Pilowsky, Carsten Rahbek...

Mario, Robert and Andrea just published in Scientific Data a high-resolution palaeoclimatic dataset for the last 800,000 years. In the right column, there is the link to the data. Mario Krapp, Robert M. Beyer, Stephen L. Edmundson, Paul J. Valdes, Andrea Manica (2021) A statistics-based reconstruction of high-resolution...

Is now out in Nature Communications our new paper that estimates when, and along which geographic paths, expansions out of Africa would have been climatically feasible. Robert M. Beyer, Mario Krapp, Anders Eriksson, Andrea Manica (2021) Climatic windows for human migration out of Africa in the past 300,000 years Nat Commun...

It just came out in Nature Communications our new paper studying how climate drove the evolution of body and brain size in the genus Homo during the last million years. Manuel Will, Mario Krapp, Jay T. Stock, Andrea Manica (2021) Different environmental variables predict body and brain size evolution in Homo Nature...

Robert, Mario and Andrea just published in Scientific Data a high-resolution palaeoclimatic dataset for the last 120,000 years. In the right column, there is the link to the data. Robert M. Beyer, Mario Krapp, Andrea Manica (2020) High-resolution terrestrial climate, bioclimate and vegetation for the last 120,000 years ...

Our group just published a new paper in Nature Human Behaviour . It analyses radiocarbon dates, palaeoclimatic reconstructions and ancient DNA to show how climate shaped the expansion of Neolithic farmers in Europe and their interaction with local hunter-gatherers. Lia Betti, Robert M. Beyer, Eppie R. Jones, Anders...