Simple Summary Climate change and extreme weather events have a major impact on crop
production and agricultural pests. As generally adaptable organisms, insect pests respond …

Great progress has been made in addressing global undernutrition over the past several
decades, in part because of large increases in food production from agricultural expansion …

Background Grasslands are a major part of the global ecosystem, covering 37% of the
earth's terrestrial area. For a variety of reasons, mostly related to overgrazing and the …

The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

Grasslands are a widespread vegetation type that once comprised 42% of the plant cover on
earth's surface. Features commonly shared among grasslands are climates with periodic …

Present article sketches out major climate induced changes in marine, aquatic and terrestrial
life. Few important biomarkers such as ecological, meteorological, socioeconomic, thermal …

Grasses with the C3 photosynthetic pathway are commonly considered to be more nutritious
host plants than C4 grasses, but the nutritional quality of C3 grasses is also more greatly …

Summary During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; 18 000–20 000 yr ago) and previous
glacial periods, atmospheric [CO2] dropped to 180–190 ppm, which is among the lowest …

Recent reviews confirm and extend previous observations that elevated carbon dioxide
(CO2) concentrations stimulate photosynthesis, leading to increased plant productivity …

This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human
evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these …