There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

Australia's biota is species rich, with high rates of endemism. This natural legacy has rapidly
diminished since European colonization. The impacts of invasive species, habitat loss …

Geological archives record multiple reversals of Earth's magnetic poles, but the global
impacts of these events, if any, remain unclear. Uncertain radiocarbon calibration has limited …

Fire activity varies substantially at global scales because of the influence of climate, but at
broad spatiotemporal scales, the possible effects of herbivory on fire activity are unknown …

The peopling of Sahul (the combined continent of Australia and New Guinea) represents the
earliest continental migration and settlement event of solely anatomically modern humans …

Most terrestrial large mammals went extinct on different continents at the end of the
Pleistocene, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. Besides the loss in species diversity …

The ability of our ancestors to switch food sources and to migrate to more favourable
environments enabled the rapid global expansion of anatomically modern humans beyond …

We propose defining a field of research called 'archaeoecology'that examines the past~ 60
000 years of interactions between humans and ecosystems to better understand the human …

The extinction of a species is a key demographic event often signalling major climatic,
ecological and/or evolutionary shifts that can be investigated using the fossil record. In that …

The antiquity of human dispersal into Mediterranean islands and ensuing coastal adaptation
have remained largely unexplored due to the prevailing assumption that the sea was a …