Ecosystems today are under growing pressure, with human domination at many scales. It is
difficult, however, to gauge what has changed or been lost–and why–in the absence of data …

Biologists increasingly appreciate the importance of community-level attributes in the
functioning and temporal turnover of ecosystems, but data other than species richness are …

了解印度季风和西风对该区环境的影响程度及变化历史对认识青藏高原与全球变化的关系具有
重要意义. 本研究以青藏高原中部赤布张错湖泊5.48 m 沉积岩芯中的介形虫为研究对象 …

We selected a sediment core of a proglacial lake (Chibuzhang Co) to elucidate the
relationships between glacial melt water and lake changes during past 13 ka BP period …

Community structure is determined by a variety of ecological mechanisms, including
environmental control, dispersal, and historical contingency. Recently, many studies have …

Comparisons between death assemblages and their source living communities are among
the most common actualistic methods of evaluating the preservation of compositional and …

A 15-year time-series of data on benthic community response to rapid climate change at a
biomass 'hotspot'in the northern Bering Sea, Alaska, provides an exceptional opportunity to …

Understanding the properties of time averaging (age mixing) in a stratigraphic layer is
essential for properly interpreting the paleofauna preserved in the geologic record. This …

Naturally time-averaged accumulations of skeletal remains—death assemblages—provide
reliable, albeit temporally coarse, information on the species composition and structure of …

Surface sediments of the mesotrophic dimictic Lake Valdayskoye (Novgorod region, Russia)
were studied by analysing microscopic remains of algae, cladocerans, and other …