Some 290 species of squids comprise the order Teuthida that belongs to the molluscan
Class Cephalopoda. Of these, about 30–40 squid species have substantial commercial …

Sulphur isotope analysis of archaeological materials provides information on past
ecosystems, palaeo-diets, migration and mobility. This review covers the geochemical …

The exhibition of increasingly intensive and complex niche construction behaviors through
time is a key feature of human evolution, culminating in the advanced capacity for ecosystem …

Human–wildlife interactions, including human–wildlife conflict, are increasingly common as
expanding urbanization worldwide creates more opportunities for people to encounter …

Recent studies have shown that coastal and shelf cephalopod populations have increased
globally over the last six decades. Although cephalopod landings are dominated by the …

Foundation species define the ecosystems they live in, but ecologists have often
characterized dominant plants as foundational without supporting evidence. Giant kelp has …

The search for novel approaches to establishing ecological baselines (reference conditions)
is constrained by the fact that most ecological studies span the past few decades, at most …

Maintaining food production while sustaining productive ecosystems is among the central
challenges of our time, yet, it has been for millennia. Ancient clam gardens, intertidal rock …

In the last decades, a number of studies based on historical records revealed the diversity
loss in the oceans and human-induced changes to marine ecosystems. These studies have …

Due to our intensive subsistence and habitat-modification strategies—including broad-
spectrum harvesting and predation, widespread landscape burning, settlement construction …