Fossil pollen records are well-established indicators of past vegetation changes. The
prevalence of pollen across environmental settings including lakes, wetlands, and marine …

We review progress in our understanding of the importance of waterbirds as dispersal
vectors of other organisms, and identify priorities for further research. Waterbirds are …

陈鸿明, 侯光良, 文德卓玛, 乔虹, 高靖易, 金孙梅. 末次冰盛期与全新世青藏高原松属植被分布及
其演变[J]. 第四纪研究, 2023, 43 (5): 1211-1224. doi: 10.11928/j. issn. 1001-7410.2023 …

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

Islands are among the last regions on Earth settled and transformed by human activities,
and they provide replicated model systems for analysis of how people affect ecological …

Plants are critical mediators of terrestrial mass and energy fluxes, and their structural and
functional traits have profound impacts on local and global climate, biogeochemistry …

Background There are conflicting views between palaeobotanists and plant systematists/
evolutionary biologists regarding the occurrence of plant speciation in the Quaternary …

While the ubiquity and rising abundance of microplastic contamination is becoming
increasingly well-known, there is very little empirical data for the scale of their historical …

Fungal spores that grew on the faeces of herbivores in the past can be extracted from
sediments and used to identify the presence of herbivores in former ecosystems. This …

Although sedimentary ancient DNA (sed aDNA) has been increasingly used to study
paleoecological dynamics, the approach has rarely been compared with the traditional …