Palaeoecology

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 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...

It is now out in PLOS Biology a paper showing that early animals formed complex ecological communities more than 550 million years ago, setting the evolutionary stage for the Cambrian explosion. Rebecca Eden, Andrea Manica, Emily G. Mitchell (2022) Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation...

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...

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...

Michela, Robert, Mario and Andrea published in Science Advances an article detailing the palaeoecology of the horse through the last 44 thousand years. Michela Leonardi, Francesco Boschin, Konstantinos Giampoudakis, Robert M. Beyer, Mario Krapp, Robin Bendrey, Robert Sommer, Paolo Boscato, Andrea Manica, David Nogues-Bravo...

Andrea contributed to an opinion piece discussing the importance of population structure in Africa for human evolution, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution . Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mark G. Thomas, Andrea Manica, Philipp Gunz, Jay T. Stock, Chris Stringer, Matt Grove, Huw S. Groucutt, Axel Timmermann, G. Philip...