Rising greenhouse gases are changing the Earth's climate and adversely affecting
ecosystems that currently provide a suite of invaluable benefits, from cleaning water to …

This review provides a synthesis of current knowledge on the morphological and functional
traits of testate amoebae, a polyphyletic group of protists commonly used as proxies of past …

Wildfire-mediated changes to forests have prompted numerous studies on post-fire forest
recovery of coniferous forests. Given climate change, a growing body of work demonstrates …

Wildfires are an integral part of most terrestrial ecosystems. Paleofire records composed of
charcoal, soot, and other combustion products deposited in lake and marine sediments …

Disturbances play an important role in forest dynamics. The determination of long-term
spatiotemporal characteristics of disturbance regimes is essential for understanding forest …

Aim Palaeoecological data are crucial for comprehending large‐scale biodiversity patterns
and the natural and anthropogenic drivers that influence them over time. Over the last …

Palaeoecology involves analysis of fossil and sub-fossil evidence preserved within
sediments to understand past species distributions, habitats and ecosystems. However …

Over the last 50 years, access to new data and analytical tools has expanded the study of
analytical paleobiology, contributing to innovative analyses of biodiversity dynamics over …

Context In fire-excluded forests across western North America, recent intense wildfire
seasons starkly contrast with fire regimes of the past. The last 100 years mark a transition …

Rodent middens provide a fine-scale spatiotemporal record of plant and animal
communities over the late Quaternary. In the Americas, middens have offered insight into …