The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and
aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely …

The importance of herbivory as a long-term driver of ecosystem change is a topic that has
been hotly debated over the past few years. An understanding of the interaction between …

The reconstruction of human-driven, Earth-shaping dynamics is important for understanding
past human/environment interactions and for helping human societies that currently face …

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

What are the long-term consequences of invasive species? After invasion, how long do
ecosystems require to reach a new equilibrium? Answering these questions requires long …

Megaherbivores likely had important influences on past vegetation dynamics, just as they do
in modern ecosystems. The exact nature of megaherbivores' role can be studied using a …

Fungal spores that grew on the faeces of herbivores in the past can be extracted from
sediments and used to identify the presence of herbivores in former ecosystems. This …

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 …

Abstract The Younger Dryas (YD) impact hypothesis posits that fragments of a large,
disintegrating asteroid/comet struck North America, South America, Europe, and western …

The use of spores of coprophilous fungi from sedimentary sequences as proxy evidence for
large herbivore abundance has garnered pronounced attention and scrutiny over the past …