Both climate change and anthropogenic disturbance affect vegetation composition, but it is
difficult to separate these drivers of vegetation change from one another. A better …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Complex geosites represent important georesources as components of the geoheritage of a
region. Regardless, their management in terms of promotion and geoconservation may be …

Characterization of land cover change in the past is fundamental to understand the evolution
and present state of the Earth system, the amount of carbon and nutrient stocks in terrestrial …

Global change potentially increases forest vulnerability. Different abiotic and biotic factors
may interact to cause forest decline and accelerated tree mortality. We studied a mixed …

In the context of global decline in old‐growth forest, historical ecology is a valuable tool to
derive insights into vegetation legacies and dynamics and develop new conservation and …

Disentangling the effects of climate and human impact on the long-term evolution of the
Earth Critical Zone is crucial to understand the array of its potential responses to the ongoing …

Tree lines are supposed to react sensitively to the current global change. However, the lack
of a long‐term (millennial) perspective on tree line shifts in the Pyrenees prevents …

Questions Long‐term legacies of historical human activities in temperate forests are
increasingly recognised as an important driver of vegetation diversity and composition. To …

Sedimentary archives at or near the timberline ecotone in Alpine glaciated areas contain
records to study Holocene climate change and the interplay between climate, ecosystems …