Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

Over the past decade, focus groups and group interviews have reemerged as a popular
technique for gathering qualitative data, both among sociologists and across a wide range of …

The genetic effects of pleistocene ice ages are approached by deduction from
paleoenvironmental information, by induction from the genetic structure of populations and …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

Population structure is the result of both present processes and past history. Molecular
markers are proving of great value in describing the former, and it is important to similarly …

Written by a world-respected scientist on the subject of the book, this is an advanced text for
students of ecology, population biology and evolution, as well as professional ecologists …

No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

Deciphering the evolution of global climate from the end of the Last Glacial Maximum
approximately 19 ka to the early Holocene 11 ka presents an outstanding opportunity for …

It is a widely held belief that a climax vegetation of closed forest systems covered the
lowlands of Central and Western Europe before humans intervened in prehistoric times to …

Wally Broecker is one of the world's leading authorities on abrupt global climate change.
More than two decades ago, he discovered the link between ocean circulation and climate …