For hundreds of millions of years, large vertebrates (megafauna) have inhabited most of the
ecosystems on our planet. During the late Quaternary, notably during the Late P leistocene …

The discovery and colonization of islands by humans has invariably resulted in their
widespread ecological transformation. The small and isolated populations of many island …

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

The extinction of iconic species such as the dodo and the deforestation of Easter Island are
emblematic of the transformative impact of human colonization of many oceanic islands …

Temporal couplings, such as historical interactions between deforestation and soil loss, are
responsible for the current state of a wide range of ecosystem services of the social …

The Dodo and its extinct sister species, the Solitaire, are iconic exemplars of the destructive
capabilities of humanity. These secondarily terrestrial columbids became extinct within a …

The colonization of Mauritius exemplifies the role played by humans in altering the
ecosystems of remote oceanic islands. This paper focuses on how we study those islands …

We used proteomic profiling to taxonomically classify extinct, alongside extant bird species
using mass spectrometry on ancient bone-derived collagen chains COL1A1 and COL1A2 …

Fire was rare on Mauritius prior to human arrival (AD 1598); subsequently three phases of
elevated fire activity occurred: ca 1630–1747, 1787–1833, and 1950–modern. Elevated fire …

This is the first scholarly series devoted to the study of the Indian Ocean world from early
times to the present day. Encouraging interdisciplinarity, it incorporates and contributes to …