Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause
substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental …

Part 1 of this review synthesizes recent research on status and climate vulnerability of
freshwater and saltwater wetlands, and their contribution to addressing climate change …

Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the
future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the …

The exhibition of increasingly intensive and complex niche construction behaviors through
time is a key feature of human evolution, culminating in the advanced capacity for ecosystem …

Many ecosystems around the world are rapidly deteriorating due to both local and global
pressures, and perhaps none so precipitously as coral reefs. Management of coral reefs …

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a community-curated data resource that supports
interdisciplinary global change research by enabling broad-scale studies of taxon and …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

The rate of biodiversity loss is not slowing despite global commitments, and the depletion of
animal species can reduce the stability of ecological communities. Despite this continued …

Throughout human history, Indigenous and local communities have stewarded nature. In the
present article, we revisit the ancestral principle of reciprocity between people and nature …

The topics assessed in this chapter were last assessed by the IPCC in 2007, principally in
WGII AR4 Chapters 3 (Kundzewicz et al., 2007) and 4 (Fischlin et al., 2007), but also in WGII …