Current interest and debate on pollen-assemblage richness as a proxy for past plant
richness have prompted us to review recent developments in assessing whether modern …

The Dead Sea, located at the deepest place on continent and between the subtropical
Mediterranean zone and the desert, reflects in its water composition and levels, and …

Britain's landscapes were substantially transformed as a result of prehistoric agricultural
clearance and deforestation. This process began in the Neolithic and is recorded in multiple …

Plant traits link environmental factors, individuals and ecosystem structure and functions as
plants respond and adapt to the environment. This review introduces worldwide …

Modern pollen samples provide an invaluable research tool for hel** to interpret the
quaternary fossil pollen record, allowing investigation of the relationship between pollen as …

摘要植物性状反映了植物对生长环境的响应和适应, 将环境, 植物个体和生态系统结构,
过程与功能联系起来(所谓的“植物功能性状”). 该文介绍了植物功能性状的分类体系 …

We consider the problem of reconstructing prehistoric climates by using fossil data that have
been extracted from lake sediment cores. Such reconstructions promise to provide one of …

Question: What are the correlations between the degree of drought stress and temperature,
and the adoption of specific adaptive strategies by plants in the Mediterranean region …

The transformation of natural landscapes in Middle Europe began in the Neolithic as a result
of the introduction of food-producing economies. This paper examines the relation between …

To assess quantitatively the age of the modern vegetated landscape of Europe and western
Asia Minor, and to reconstruct Holocene dynamics in biomes and landscape openness, we …