Human activities have extensively altered landscapes throughout the world and further
changes are expected in the future. Anthropogenic impacts such as land use change …

Mauritia flexuosa Lf is one of the more widely distributed neotropical palms and is
intensively used by humans. This palm can grow in tropical rainforests or can develop a …

Anthropogenic climate change driven by increased carbon emissions is leading to more
severe fire seasons and increasing the frequency of mega-fires in the Amazon. This has the …

Models aimed at understanding C4-savannah distribution for Australia, Africa and South
America support transition to forest at high mean annual precipitation (MAP), and savannah …

Amazonia is the world's largest tropical forest and is globally important in terms of its
ecosystem services and extraordinarily high levels of biodiversity. The origin of this …

Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) are microfossils other than pollen and spores from plants
found within samples prepared for pollen analyses. Their utility as paleoecological …

Long-term palaeoecological records are needed to test ecological hypotheses involving
time, as short-term observations are of insufficient duration to capture natural variability. In …

Descriptions and photomicrographs of pollen grains from 245 angiosperm species
commonly found in contemporary plant communities of the upland savannas of Guayana …

Here we document a 1000-year fungal record from the raised-field region of the Llanos de
Moxos, a seasonally inundated forest-savanna mosaic in the Bolivian Amazon. Fungi are …

There is a major concern for the fate of Amazonia over the coming century in the face of
anthropogenic climate change. A key area of uncertainty is the scale of rainforest dieback to …