Background Climate change is one of the great challenges of our time. The consequences
of climate change on exposed biological subjects, as well as on vulnerable societies, are a …

Converging data would indicate the existence of possible relationships between climate
change, environmental pollution and epidemics/pandemics, such as the current one due to …

With ever-growing data availability and computational power at our disposal, we now have
the capacity to use process-explicit models more widely to reveal the ecological and …

What drives ecosystem buildup, diversity, and stability? We assess species arrival and
ecosystem changes across 16 millennia by combining regional-scale plant sedimentary …

Metacommunity ecology combines local (eg, environmental filtering and biotic interactions)
and regional (eg, dispersal and heterogeneity) processes to understand patterns of species …

BACKGROUND Effects of recent global warming have been documented in every biome on
Earth. Safeguarding biodiversity and ecosystem services against future impacts requires …

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

Human-mediated changes to natural ecosystems have consequences for both ecosystem
and human health. Historically, efforts to preserve or restore 'biodiversity'can seem to be in …

The origin, distribution, and function of biological diversity are fundamental themes of
ecology and evolutionary biology. Research on birds has played a major role in the history …

The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hotspot already affected by climate-driven
biodiversity collapses. Its highly endemic fauna is at further risk if global warming triggers an …