The study of Quaternary environmental change is directly applicable to on-going issues of
global conservation. Palaeoecological research techniques provide the tools to address …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Conservation benefits from understanding how adaptability and threat interact to determine
a taxon's vulnerability. Recognizing how interactions with humans have shaped taxa such …

ABSTRACT Quaternary (last 2.6 million years) botany involves studying plant megafossils
(eg tree stumps), macrofossils (eg seeds, leaves), and microfossils (eg pollen, spores) …

Even the recent observations of freshening in the North Atlantic (15)(a reduction of salinity
due to the addition of freshwater) appear to be consistent with the projections of perhaps the …

Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

Fire is one of the main causes of environmental and ecosystem change. Geospatial data,
derived from satellite images and surveying observations, are a useful tool in managing land …

Ancient seeds from archaeological sites can provide clues that are crucial for understanding
and characterizing subsistence strategies. This in turn contributes to our understanding of …

Dark‐colored phytoliths are often found preserved in paleosols and archaeological
sediments. Some practitioners believe these darkened phytoliths provide evidence of fire …

Reconstruction of the environmental history of mainland Southeast Asia from the late
Pleistocene is a relatively recent endeavor. Beginning in the mid-1990s, lacustrine …