Northern peatlands store globally-important amounts of carbon in the form of partly
decomposed plant detritus. Drying associated with climate and land-use change may lead to …

Background The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating
serious consequences for human health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains …

Abstract The Upper Orkhon Valley, located in the Khangai Mountains of Central Mongolia, is
mainly covered by a forest-steppe ecosystem. This is an interesting area to study because its …

Testate amoebae are a polyphyletic and highly diverse group of unicellular protists,
inhabiting various habitats and successfully used as indicators of property of environmental …

Detailed palaeogeographical studies of the accumulative fan in the Serteyka River valley in
W Russia and underlying biogenic deposits were carried out. The base of a representative …

Peatlands cover only~ 3% of global land area (Xu et al., 2018), but the carbon they store is
equivalent to around twice that of global forests (Pan et al., 2011). Peatlands have …

The global human footprint has fundamentally altered wildfire regimes, creating serious
consequences for human health, biodiversity, and climate. However, it remains difficult to …