Biomass burning and resulting fire regimes are major drivers of vegetation changes and of
ecosystem dynamics. Understanding past fire dynamics and their relationship to these …

Our understanding of the timing and pathway of human arrival to the Americas remains an
important and polarizing topic of debate in archaeology and anthropology. Traditional …

Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching
ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for …

High-quality data from appropriate archives are needed for the continuing improvement of
radiocarbon calibration curves. We discuss here the basic assumptions behind 14C dating …

Water level changes result from a variety of geological, biological or climatic processes.
Many of these changes occur over long periods of time; however, some may be rapid or …

Recent climatic warming has resulted in pronounced environmental changes in the Arctic,
including shrub cover expansion and sea ice shrinkage. These changes foreshadow more …

Although the carbon-reservoir problem with bulk-sediment radiocarbon dates from lakes has
long been recognized, many synoptic studies continue to use chronologies derived from …

The collapse of the steppe-tundra biome (mammoth steppe) at the end of the Pleistocene is
used as an important example of top-down ecosystem cascades, where human hunting of …

We present an n-alkane and compound-specific carbon isotope record of the past 9 ka from
the annually laminated sedimentary sequence of Lake Xiaolongwan, northeastern China …

Heikkilä, M. & Seppä, H. 2010: Holocene climate dynamics in Latvia, eastern Baltic region: a
pollen‐based summer temperature reconstruction and regional comparison. Boreas, Vol …