Consideration of a range of evidence from geomorphology, palynology, biogeography and
vegetation/climate modelling suggests that a north-south 'savanna corridor'did exist through …

Significant human impacts on tropical forests have been considered the preserve of recent
societies, linked to large-scale deforestation, extensive and intensive agriculture, resource …

Roughly 3% of the Earth's land surface burns annually, representing a critical exchange of
energy and matter between the land and atmosphere via combustion. Fires range from slow …

Fire activity varies substantially at global scales because of the influence of climate, but at
broad spatiotemporal scales, the possible effects of herbivory on fire activity are unknown …

Changes in the strength and position of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during the
Last Glacial cycle have been invoked to explain both millennial and glacial–interglacial …

The Asian monsoon is comprised of the Indian and East Asian subsystems. These two
components are linked to one another in varying degrees by regions of strong sensible …

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …

We have compiled 223 sedimentary charcoal records from Australasia in order to examine
the temporal and spatial variability of fire regimes during the Late Quaternary. While some of …

The tropics are the major source of heat and moisture for the Australasian region.
Determining the tropics' response over time to changes in climate forcing mechanisms, such …

The South China Sea is the largest low‐latitude marginal sea on the globe. For a long time,
researchers from various fields have been curious about the sea. For instance, geologists …