Pyrogenic carbon (PyC; includes soot, char, black carbon, and biochar) is produced by the
incomplete combustion of organic matter accompanying biomass burning and fossil fuel …

Contemporary interdisciplinary research on human-induced global environmental change
recognizes two broad and overlap** fields of study (67). That of industrial metabolism …

At the time of European arrival on the Australian continent, sophisticated Indigenous
societies practiced land management across Australia's extensive tropical savannahs. Fire …

This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes
a holistic view of human-animal relations in the past. Until recently, archaeological analysis …

This review highlights the ubiquity of black carbon (BC) produced by incomplete combustion
of plant material and fossil fuels in peats, soils, and lacustrine and marine sediments. We …

Large regions of the world are regularly burnt either deliberately or naturally. However,
despite the widespread occurrence of such fire-prone ecosystems, and considerable body of …

This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity-what it is, how it
arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to …

This article highlights how the loose definition of the term 'refugia'has led to discrepancies in
methods used to assess the vulnerability of species to the current trend of rising global …

Giant vertebrates dominated many Pleistocene ecosystems. Many were herbivores, and
their sudden extinction in prehistory could have had large ecological impacts. We used a …

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years,
almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions …