They may influence us as individuals by their encouragement and guidance; they may affect
their community through their untiring commitment to service and the greater good; or they …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Abstract Changes in key drivers (eg, climate, disturbance regimes and land use) may affect
the sustainability of forest landscapes and set the stage for increased tension among …

The urban forest provides our communities with a host of benefits through the delivery of
ecosystem services. To properly quantify and sustain these benefits, we require a strong …

The structure and functioning of temperate forests are shifting due to changes in climate.
Foreseeing the trajectory of such changes is critical to implementing adequate management …

Context Predicting ecosystem resilience is a challenge, especially as climate change alters
disturbance regimes and conditions for recovery. Recent research has highlighted the …

Climate change is causing fire regime shifts in ecosystems worldwide. Plant species with
regeneration strategies strongly linked to a fire regime, such as obligate seeders, may be …

Ethnographic accounts document widespread use of low-intensity surface fires by
California's Native Americans to manage terrestrial resources, yet the effects of such …

Anthropogenic deforestation has shaped ecosystems worldwide. In subarctic ecosystems,
primarily inhabited by native peoples, deforestation is generally considered to be mainly …

Disturbances are integral to ecological systems and affect landscapes across a wide range
of scales. The causes of disturbance, the patterns and dynamics they produce, their …