Abstract The Danube River drainage basin is the second largest river catchment in Europe
and contains a significant and extensive region of thick loess deposits that preserve a record …

Loess deposits are recorders of aeolian activity during past glaciations. Since the size
distribution of loess deposits depends on distance to the dust source, and environmental …

Worldwide reforestation has been recommended as a landscape restoration strategy to
mitigate climate change in areas where the climate can sustain forest. This approach may …

Two speleothem stable isotope records from East-Central Europe demonstrate that
Greenland Stadial 12 (GS12) and GS10—at 44.3–43.3 and 40.8–40.2 ka—were prominent …

Among abundant reconstructions of Holocene climate in Europe, only a handful has
addressed winter conditions, and most of these are restricted in length and/or resolution …

Abstract The European Alps and their forelands provide a range of different archives and
climate proxies for develo** climate records in the time interval 60–8 thousand years (ka) …

The post-glacial fate of central European grasslands has stimulated palaeoecological
debates for a century. Some argued for the continuous survival of open land, while others …

The expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia marked a major milestone in human
evolution that would eventually lead to our species being found across every continent …

Wildfire occurrence is influenced by climate, vegetation and human activities. A key
challenge for understanding the risk of fires is quantifying the mediating effect of vegetation …

Laminated sediment records from several maar lakes and dry maar lakes of the Eifel
(Germany) reveal the history of climate, weather, environment, vegetation, and land use in …