Abstract The Ecological Security Pattern (ESP) has emerged as a prominent area of focus in
global ecosystem research, offering valuable scientific insights for reconciling ecological …

Since the 21st century, China has shown dramatic rural depopulation and rapid
urbanization, and surface vegetation has been affected by this urban–rural development …

Cultural land-use is an important driver of ecosystem change, influencing the composition of
species across landscapes and through time. Recent research in northwestern North …

Here we describe the LegacyPollen 1.0, a dataset of 2831 fossil pollen records with
metadata, a harmonized taxonomy, and standardized chronologies. A total of 1032 records …

It is evident that the origin, development, and expansion of agriculture and animal
husbandry during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods across Eurasia facilitated the …

Indigenous peoples' legacies of plant cultivation and management can have profound
effects on contemporary forest structure and species composition long after cultivation has …

Commensal relationships between wild plants and their dispersers play a key ecological
and evolutionary role in community structure and function. While non-human dispersers are …

The environmental impacts of human societies are generally assumed to correlate with
factors such as population size, whether they are industrialized, and the intensity of their …

Australia has a diverse and unique native flora with thousands of edible plant taxa, many of
which are wild relatives of important food crops. These have the potential to diversify and …

Identifying when agricultural expansion has occurred and how it altered the landscape is
critical for understanding human social survival strategies as well as current ecological …