Fungal spores that grew on the faeces of herbivores in the past can be extracted from
sediments and used to identify the presence of herbivores in former ecosystems. This …

Ecological thresholds comprise relatively fast changes in ecological conditions, with respect
to time or external drivers, and are an attractive concept in both scientific and policy arenas …

Southwestern China, a biodiversity hotspot, underwent dramatic climate change following
the Last Glacial Maximum and intensive human activity also exerted a major impact since …

Conflicting, even opposite interpretations on the evolution of the Southern Westerly Winds
(SWW) are evident in paleoenvironmental records from southwestern Patagonia since the …

Climate changes had major impacts on the vegetation of East Asia during the last
deglaciation. However, the rate and pattern of vegetation succession in response to large …

We examine the temporal and spatial structure of wildfires and rates of vegetation change in
the Pacific sector of northwestern Patagonia (40°-44° S) over the last∼ 18,000 years …

Climate change is expected to increase wildfire activity in boreal ecosystems, thus
threatening the carbon stocks of these forests, which are currently the largest terrestrial …

Motivation Rapid climate change is altering plant communities around the globe
fundamentally. Despite progress in understanding how plants respond to these climate …

Over the last 50 years, access to new data and analytical tools has expanded the study of
analytical paleobiology, contributing to innovative analyses of biodiversity dynamics over …

Abstract The western South Atlantic along the Brazilian margin is an important region for the
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) because surface currents in this area …