Range Mapper Videos

Short videos showcasing Range Mapper, a new set of online interactive and animated visualizations of plant taxon range shifts in North America, Europe, and Oceania since the Last Glacial Maximum. These animated maps of taxa distributions since the last deglaciation, based upon spatiotemporal networks of fossil occurrences, offer adaptable visualizations of species range shifts in response to past climate and other environmental changes. They are designed to be useful both for experts for quick-look insights into past patterns and processes at broad scales and for educators and science communicators interested in sharing knowledge about how species adapt to changing climates. The videos show oak and spruce, hemlock, and spruce in North America, spruce and beech in Europe, and eucalyptus and nothofagus in Oceania.

See our paper for more information: George, A.K., Roth, R.E., Widell, S., and Williams, J.W.. (in revision). Range Mapper: An Adaptable Process for Making and Using Interactive, Animated Web Maps of Late-Quaternary Open Paleoecological Data. Open Quaternary.