Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

Current interest and debate on pollen-assemblage richness as a proxy for past plant
richness have prompted us to review recent developments in assessing whether modern …

Humans have caused growing levels of ecosystem and diversity changes at a global scale
in recent centuries but longer-term diversity trends and how they are affected by human …

Fungal spores that grew on the faeces of herbivores in the past can be extracted from
sediments and used to identify the presence of herbivores in former ecosystems. This …

Understanding human impact on the vegetation of the Tibetan Plateau through the
Holocene is important for develo** strategies for sustainable ecosystem management in …

Sedimentary pollen offers excellent opportunities to reconstruct vegetation changes over
past millennia. Number of different pollen taxa or pollen richness is used to characterise past …

There is a rapidly emerging interest in detecting and understanding biodiversity trends
during the 'Anthropocene'in response to human stressors and climate change. Surprisingly …

Determining the diversity of past floras helps with interpreting both the history and predicting
the future of vegetation change. For global-scale and regional-scale diversity studies …

Tracking changes in biodiversity through time requires an understanding of the relationship
between modern diversity and how this diversity is preserved in the fossil record. Fossil …

The need for long-term studies to understand ecological dynamics is widely recognized but
has not been satisfactorily addressed to date. The development of “long-term”(LT) …