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Inferring responses to climate dynamics from historical demography in neotropical forest lizards.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 19 Jul 2016
Prates Ivan, Xue Alexander T, Brown Jason L, Alvarado-Serrano Diego F, Rodrigues Miguel T, Hickerson Michael J, Carnaval Ana C
Abstract excerpt
We apply a comparative framework to test for concerted demographic changes in response to climate shifts in the neotropical lowland forests, learning from the past to inform projections of the future. Using reduced genomic (SNP) data from three lizard species codistributed in Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest (Anolis punctatus, Anolis ortonii, and Polychrus marmoratus), we first reconstruct former population...
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