This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

In recent years, it has become clear that frugivory and seed dispersal (FSD) by turtles and
tortoises is much more common than previously thought. We here review published and …

The Caribbean archipelago is a hotspot of biodiversity characterized by a high rate of
extinction. Recent studies have examined these losses, but the causes of the Antillean Late …

Islands have long been recognized as distinctive evolutionary arenas leading to
morphologically divergent species, such as dwarfs and giants. We assessed how body size …

Starting in the late 1970s, ecologists began unraveling the role of recently extinct large
vertebrates in evolutionary ecology and ecosystem dynamics. Three decades later …

Humans did not arrive on most of the world's islands until relatively recently, making islands
favorable places for disentangling the timing and magnitude of natural and anthropogenic …

Most Atlantic hurricanes form in the Main Development Region between 9° N to 20° N along
the northern edge of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Previous research has …

We provide a first checklist and review of all recognized taxa of the world's extinct
Pleistocene and Holocene (Quaternary) turtles and tortoises that existed during the early …

Quaternary climate and sea-level research in coastal karst basins (caves, cenotes,
sinkholes, blueholes, etc.) generally focuses on analyzing isotopes in speleothems, or …

Ancient DNA of extinct species from the Pleistocene and Holocene has provided valuable
evolutionary insights. However, these are largely restricted to mammals and high latitudes …