The York System: An integrated zooarchaeological database for research and teaching
Internet Archaeology, 2003 This article presents the York System, a database used for recording animal bones. It is based on the recording protocol used at the Department of Archaeology, University of York, and incorporates that used at the former Environmental Archaeology Unit ...
Jennifer F. Harland +4 more
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Reconstructing Cenozoic vegetation from proxy data and models – A NECLIME synthesis (Editorial) [PDF]
, 2017 [No abstract ...
Bruch, Angela A. +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Observation of high-resolution terrestrial palaeoecological series can decipher relationships between past climatic transitions, their effects on ecosystems and wildfire cyclicity. Here we present a new radiocarbon dated record from Lake Fimon (NE-Italy)
Federica Badino +9 more
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Roots, Tissues, Cells and Fragments—How to Characterize Peat from Drained and Rewetted Fens
Soil Systems, 2020 We present analyses of macroscopic and microscopic remains as a tool to characterise sedge fen peats. We use it to describe peat composition and stages of peat decomposition, to assess the success of rewetting of a formerly drained fen, and to understand
Dierk Michaelis +2 more
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Eastern Beringia and beyond: Late Wisconsinan and Holocene landscape dynamics along the Yukon Coastal Plain, Canada [PDF]
, 2012 Terrestrial permafrost archives along the Yukon Coastal Plain (northwest Canada) have recorded landscape development and environmental change since the Late Wisconsinan at the interface of unglaciated Beringia (i.e.
Fritz, Michael +6 more
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Severe Plane-Form Enamel Hypoplasia in a Dentition from Roman Britain
Dental Anthropology, 2017 Enamel defects can provide insight into the life histories of past individuals and populations, including information on a wide range of disturbances during childhood.
Ian Towle +3 more
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Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Pterosaurs were a unique clade of flying reptiles that were contemporaries of dinosaurs in Mesozoic ecosystems. The Pterodactyloidea as the most species-diverse group of pterosaurs dominated the sky during Cretaceous time, but earlier phases of their ...
Chang-Fu Zhou +5 more
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Ascertaining the nature and timing of mire degradation : using palaeoecology to assist future conservation management in Northern England [PDF]
, 2017 This study was initiated under contract VT0419 from English Nature (Natural England) to CECQR. In 2015, additional funding was provided by the Yorkshire Peat Partnership, for 210Pb dating, to refine age–depth estimates.
Alistair Crowle +9 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 263-304., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jessica H. Whiteside +3 more
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Functional diversity of marine ecosystems after the Late Permian mass extinction event [PDF]
, 2014 Article can be accessed from http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v7/n3/full/ngeo2079.htmlThe Late Permian mass extinction event was the most severe such crisis of the past 500 million years and occurred during an episode of global warming.
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