Peat depositional environments, the sites where and conditions under which peat
accumulates, significantly influence a resultant coal's physical properties, chemical …

Changes in the strength and position of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds during the
Last Glacial cycle have been invoked to explain both millennial and glacial–interglacial …

The tropics are the major source of heat and moisture for the Australasian region.
Determining the tropics' response over time to changes in climate forcing mechanisms, such …

Pollen data from three off-site records and twenty-six on-site (archaeological) sites are
reviewed to investigate the development of cultural landscapes through the history of the …

Over 1000 marine and terrestrial pollen diagrams and some hundreds of vertebrate faunal
sequences have been studied in the Austral-Asian region bisected by the PEPII transect …

Publisher Summary Peatlands are terrestrial wetland ecosystems in which the production of
organic matter exceeds its decomposition and a net accumulation results. Several factors …

The extent of Dipterocarp rainforests on the emergent Sundaland landmass in Southeast
Asia during Quaternary glaciations remains a key question. A better understanding of the …

Current portrayals of Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) over the past 5,000 years are dominated
by discussion of the Austronesian “farming/language dispersal,” with associated linguistic …

Aim The environments that existed in south‐east Asian islands during the last glacial are
poorly known, limiting our understanding of mammalian biogeography in the region. The …

The Sunda region of south-east Asia comprises the Malay Peninsula and the islands of
Java, Sumatra and Borneo, all of which lie on a shallow continental shelf projecting from …