Megafauna (animals≥ 45 kg) have probably shaped the Earth's terrestrial ecosystems for
millions of years with pronounced impacts on biogeochemistry, vegetation, ecological …

Human-induced global changes, including anthropogenic climate change, biotic
globalization, trophic downgrading and pervasive land-use intensification, are transforming …

Trophic rewilding is gaining rapid momentum as a means of restoration across the world.
Advances in research are elucidating the wide‐ranging effects of trophic rewilding and …

European bison (Bison bonasus) were widespread throughout Europe during the late
Pleistocene. However, the contributions of environmental change and humans to their near …

Species life-history traits, paleoenvironment, and biotic interactions likely influence
speciation and extinction rates, affecting species richness over time. Birth-death models …

Across the last~ 50,000 years (the late Quaternary) terrestrial vertebrate faunas have
experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in …

The longstanding debate over human contribution to Pleistocene megafauna extinctions
motivates our examination of plausible hunting behaviors that may have impacted prey …

In this paper we study the relationships between plants and extinct megafauna by examining
the characteristics of the vegetation in the central region of Argentina (ie Espinal, Monte, and …

In the global carbon cycle, atmospheric carbon emissions, both 'natural'and anthropogenic,
are balanced by carbon uptake (ie, sequestration) that mostly occurs via photosynthesis …

More than halfway between their proposal and the 2030 deadline for their achievement,
none of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is on track to be attained. Meanwhile …