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Comparative phylogeography highlights the double-edged sword of climate change faced by arctic- and alpine-adapted mammals.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Lanier Hayley C, Gunderson Aren M, Weksler Marcelo, Fedorov Vadim B, Olson Link E
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Recent studies suggest that alpine and arctic organisms may have distinctly different phylogeographic histories from temperate or tropical taxa, with recent range contraction into interglacial refugia as opposed to post-glacial expansion out of refugia. We use a combination of phylogeographic inference, demographic reconstructions, and hierarchical Approximate Bayesian Computation to test for phylodemographic...
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