A sequence of long-term and rapid changes during the Holocene appears in a network of 40
well-resolved paleoclimate datasets from mid-latitude North America, including records of …

The Boreal Plains Ecozone (BPE) in Western Canada is expected to be an area of maximum
ecological sensitivity in the 21st century. Successful climate adaptation and sustainable …

It is widely accepted, based on data from the last few decades and on model simulations,
that anthropogenic climate change will cause increased fire activity. However, less attention …

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

Understanding the time scales and pathways for response and recovery of rivers and
floodplains to episodic changes in erosion and sedimentation has been a long standing …

We reviewed literature in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, ethnobotany, palynology
and ecology to try to determine the impacts of Native Americans as active and passive …

For millennia, natural disturbance regimes, including anthropogenic fire and hunting
practices, have led to forest regeneration patterns that created a diversity of forest lands …

Abrupt changes and regime shifts are common phenomena in terrestrial ecological records
spanning centuries to millennia, thus offering a rich opportunity to study the patterns and …

Grasslands are globally extensive; they exist in many different climates, at high and low
elevations, on nutrient‐rich and nutrient‐poor soils. Grassland distributions today are closely …

Many high-latitude fluvial systems are adjusting to base-level changes since the last
glaciation. Channels that experienced base-level fall may still be incising, often through …