Current interest and debate on pollen-assemblage richness as a proxy for past plant
richness have prompted us to review recent developments in assessing whether modern …

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

This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …

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

Over the last two decades, macroecology–the analysis of large‐scale, multi‐species
ecological patterns and processes–has established itself as a major line of biological …

The accurate and consistent identification of fossil pollen is essential to allow robust
inferences to be drawn with regard to past climate and vegetation change. Identifications are …

In palynology, the visual classification of pollen grains from different species is a hard task
which is usually tackled by human operators using microscopes. Many industries, including …

In China, and elsewhere, long-term economic development and poverty alleviation need to
be balanced against the likelihood of ecological failure. Here, we show how …

The effective humidity, resulting from the balance between evapotranspiration and
precipitation, largely controls the environmental conditions under the highly continental …

We present pollen-based reconstructions of the spatio-temporal dynamics of northern
European regional vegetation abundance through the Holocene. We apply the Regional …