Past land use, particularly fire, affects modern tropical forests. Charcoal from lake sediments
is commonly used to estimate past fire parameters such as burn severity and frequency, but …

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

The mid-elevation settings of the Andes are important biodiversity hotspots, yet little is
known of their long-term ecology or environmental change. Here, we assess 30,000 years of …

Humans have been present in Amazonia throughout the Holocene, with the earliest
archaeological sites dating to 12 000 years ago. The earliest inhabitants began managing …

Humid montane forests are challenging environments for human habitation. We used high-
resolution fossil pollen, charcoal, diatom and sediment chemistry data from the iconic …

The South American summer monsoon (SASM) profoundly influences tropical South
America's climate, yet understanding its low-frequency variability has been challenging …

We present a 2000-year high-resolution diatom record from Bosten Lake (Yanqi Basin,
Xinjiang), which is the largest inland freshwater lake in China. Our aims were to investigate …

Lakes are water bodies that play an essential role as water sources for humanity, as they
provide a wide range of ecosystem services. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate Lake …

Tota is an Andean lake located in the Altiplano of the Eastern Andes of Colombia where
socio-politically hierarchical societies of the Herrera and Muisca, flourished for millennia. To …

Humans have been present in the Andes since about 12,000 calibrated years before
present (cal yr BP), transitioning from hunter-gatherers to agropastoralist societies in the mid …