Climate change poses serious threats to the protection and preservation of cultural heritage
and resources. Despite a high level of scholarly interest in climate change impacts on …

The term 'Anthropocene'was first used in the year 2000 to refer to the current time period in
which human impacts are at least as important as natural processes. It is currently being …

This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority
research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews …

Sea-level rise during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene inundated nearshore areas in
many parts of the world, producing drastic changes in local ecosystems and obscuring …

With rising sea levels at the end of the Pleistocene, land-bridge or continental islands were
formed around the world. Many of these islands have been extensively studied from a …

Abstract The Pacific Islands—consisting of culturally diverse Melanesia, Micronesia, and
Polynesia—is the ideal region to investigate the development of prehistoric fishing studies …

The progressive expansion of human activities is causing unprecedented changes to marine
ecosystems. In some cases, the extent of these changes may be so large as to generate …

Historical ecology provides information needed to understand contemporary conditions and
make science-based resource management decisions. Gaps in historical records, however …

Ecological impacts associated with ant introductions have received considerable attention,
but most studies that report on these impacts contrast species assemblages between …

The human communities and ecosystems of island and coastal southeast Africa face
significant and linked ecological threats. Socioecological conditions of concern to …