About the Authors

David Nogués-Bravo

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: davidnogues@mncn.csic.es

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain

Jesús Rodríguez

Affiliation National Research Center on Human Evolution, Centro Nacional De Investigación Sobre La Evolución Humana, Burgos, Spain

Joaquín Hortal

Affiliation Natural Environment Research Council Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Persaram Batra

Affiliation Department of Earth and Environment, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States of America

Miguel B Araújo

Affiliation Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

DNB conceived the manuscript. DNB and JR designed the experiments and analyzed the data. PB worked on the paleoclimatic data. All authors discussed the methods, results, and commented on the manuscript. DNB wrote the final version of the manuscript.