Hernán A. Burbano

TL;DR: Using geo-environmental models, the authors predicted that Central European, but not Mediterranean, populations might lag behind in adaptation by the end of the twenty-first century and predicted the future genetic maladaptation of Central European populations.

TL;DR: The fundamental concepts and theoretical framework of microbial archaeology are introduced, then applied methodologies for pathogen identification and microbiome characterization from archaeological samples are discussed, with special attention to the process of identifying, validating, and authenticating ancient microbes using high-throughput DNA sequencing data.

TL;DR: How herbarium specimens so far have been used in global change research are summarized, future opportunities and challenges posed by the nature of these data are discussed, and an intensified use of these ‘windows into the past’ for global changeResearch and beyond are advocated.

TL;DR: The predicted increase in frequency of droughts and rising temperatures in Europe will lead core populations of a temperate plant to an evolutionary dead-end unless they acquire genetic alleles that are present only in extreme edge Mediterranean, Scandinavian, or Siberian populations.

TL;DR: This work showcases how, by applying genomics methods to a combination of modern and historic samples from colonizing lineages, it can directly study new mutations and their potential evolutionary relevance.