Many terrestrial ecosystems are fire prone, such that their composition and structure are
largely due to their fire regime. Regions subject to regular fire have exceptionally high levels …

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

Temperate mountain forests have experienced an increase in frequency and severity of
natural disturbances (eg, droughts, fires, windstorms and insect outbreaks) in recent …

Biodiversity plays an important role in ecosystem functioning, habitat recovery following
disturbance and resilience to global environmental change. Long‐term ecological records …

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 …

Herbivory plays a significant role in regulating many contemporary terrestrial plant
ecosystems, but remains an imperfectly understood component of past ecosystem dynamics …

Natural disturbances change forest habitat quality for many species. As the extent and
intensity of natural disturbances may increase under climate change, it is unclear how this …

Mitigating the effects of global change on biodiversity requires its understanding in the past.
The main proxy of plant diversity, fossil pollen record, has a complex relationship to …

Primarily occurring at the cold and high-elevation end of the climatic spectrum,
gymnosperms could be especially vulnerable to climate change. Here, we assessed the …

Aim In recent decades, a surge in the number of significant and uncontrolled wildfires has
occurred worldwide. Global warming may amplify this trend and threaten most ecosystems …