Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Today's biodiversity crisis fundamentally threatens the habitability of the planet, thus ranking
among the primary human challenges of our time. Much emphasis is currently placed on the …

The extent of vegetation openness in past European landscapes is widely debated. In
particular, the temperate forest biome has traditionally been defined as dense, closed …

Forest fires (FF) in tropical seasonal forests impact ecosystem. Addressing FF in tropical
ecosystems has become a priority to mitigate impacts on biodiversity loss and climate …

Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have
harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of …

Straight-tusked elephants (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) were the largest terrestrial mammals of
the Pleistocene, present in Eurasian landscapes between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago …

Late Pleistocene hominins co-evolved with non-analogue assemblages of carnivores and
carnivorous omnivores. Although previous work has carefully examined the ecological and …

Neanderthals hunted and butchered straight-tusked elephants, the largest terrestrial
mammals of the Pleistocene, in a lake landscape on the North European plain, 125,000 …

We review palaeoenvironmental proxies and combinations of these relevant for
understanding hunter-gatherer niche construction activities in pre-agricultural Europe. Our …

Abstract The earlier Gravettian of Southern Moravia—the Pavlovian—is notable for the many
raven bones (Corvus corax) documented in its faunal assemblages. On the basis of the rich …